Mawdoo3
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Type of site | Internet content publisher |
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Available in | Arabic |
Owners | Mohammad Jaber and Rami Al Qawasmi |
Revenue | $289,000 (2018) |
URL | mawdoo3 |
Commercial | Yes |
Current status | Active |
Written in | wiki |
Mawdoo3 (in
The company expanded its online content with over 140k articles to date.
In March 2018, Mawdoo3 also launched a speaking digital assistant called Salma.[4]
History
Establishment
Mohammed Jaber, who, when he was studying at the
In 2010, Jaber and Rami al-Qawasmi founded Mawdoo3 with their private money and that of family and friends. The startup won the first prize for the Queen Rania Business Plan Competition Award in 2011, while the founders were students. It was launched in 2010.[3]
Investments and partnerships
In August 2015, Mawdoo3 announced that it had received US$1.5 million in
In addition, Mawdoo3 entered into partnerships with a number of publishers and institutions to provide them with high quality content, such as
In July 2018, Mawdoo3 announced that it had received $13.5 million in their series B round of funding, led by U.K.-based Kingsway along with U.S. based Endure Capital.[9] In 2018, Mawdoo3 generated $289,000 in revenue.[10]
Growth
In early 2016, with approximately 17 Million users, Mawdoo3 became the most popular website in Arabic.[11]
In early 2017, Mawdoo3 AI was founded, A fine-tech division of Mawdoo3 with a mission of creating an Arabic speaking conversational agent that answers factoid questions.
In 2018, Mawdoo3 announced reaching 45 million[9] unique users, achieving a growth rate of approximately 43% of what they have in 2016.[2]
AI
In March 2018, Mawdoo3 launched its beta web services of the most comprehensive Arabic NLP toolkit for developers (ai.mawdoo3.com). The API-based developer library exceeds state of the art accuracy in most of the NLP tasks including but not limited to: Automatic diacritization,
Mawdoo3 NLP toolkit was designed to serve as building components of Mawdoo3 Arabic speaking digital assistant, Salma, that answers factoid questions from Mawdoo3 platform. Salma is planned also to be provided as an Arabic voice interface service for enterprises in sectors like travel, automobile, telecom and electronics.[4]
Functionality
Mawdoo3 uses the wiki system. Mawdoo3.com adopts a centralized operation model to create and upload content. The team is composed of 20 full-time employees, as well as hundreds of writers divided into paid experts and contributors, who write on specific topics according to special content strategy. It publishes original informational articles and rejects opinion, news, and promotional pieces. Prior to publishing, articles are verified and checked for plagiarism.
Statistics
Visitors
According to the
Order | Country | Percent of Visitors |
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1 | Egypt | 20.0% |
2 | Saudi Arabia | 14.3% |
3 | Algeria | 13.1% |
4 | Sudan | 9.2% |
References
- ^ "Company Overview of Mawdoo3". BloombergBusiness. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Mawdoo3 Case Study". Amazon Web Services. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ a b c Lucy Knight (August 19, 2015). "Jordan's Mawdoo3 gets $1.5M in Series A funding". Wamda. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ a b "Move Over Siri, in the Middle East Salma Has Your Number". endeavor. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ "'Mawdoo3' won the first prize for the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Award in 2011". Khaberni (in Arabic). Jordan. September 19, 2011. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ Jane Hosking (September 7, 2015). "Online Encyclopedia Mawdoo3 Receives $1.5 Million in Funding". Venture Magazine. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ a b Alexa: Mawdoo3 Archived 2016-01-20 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Parwine Hamandi (October 1, 2015). "World's Largest Arabic Web Encyclopedia Gets $1.5M Investment". ArabNet. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ a b "Venture capital loves success. Want proof?". ameinfo.com. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/69605
- ^ "Website created by 2 young Jordanians in a coffee shop 6 years ago becomes most popular in Arabic". US News. Retrieved 15 July 2018.