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Gatfol Announces Successful Closing of Angel Seed Fund Round and EU Collaboration

 


Gatfol optimises search query input into large online industries worldwide through inline, real-time expansion of multiword keyword sets


Luqa, Malta (PRWEB UK) 21 November 2013

As part of its development initiative into Europe, Gatfol today announced the reaching of further milestones:

On reaching set technological programming benchmarks, Gatfol received final funding installments in its initial seed fund round with current investors. Gatfol will utilise the funds to set full EU development- and marketing functionality with Malta as base and operational satellites in New Zealand for Asia-Pacific reach and through government funded programs in South Africa for African continent expansion.

Gatfol founder Carl Greyling explained that development of its cloud-based application took twice as long as envisaged. The complexity of bringing product delivery speeds down to microseconds from the current milliseconds – especially for processing input exceeding gigabytes per second – proved more challenging than expected. Carl re-iterated that “…the team wants to thank our set of investors for their extreme patience and endless advice and guidance through this extended final stretch of the development path….”.

Gatfol is proud to announce finalising of its European expansion through Malta as development base: “…The massive benefits that European resource proximity bring to us – especially given the wide application range of our base technology and limited team size – contributed hugely to successful closing of our investor round as we could present a lean but realistic operational budget to funders – especially through our extremely discounted cloud subscription…” Carl said.

About Gatfol

Gatfol is the culmination of 12 years of work originating in the United Kingdom in 2001. Virtual auditing agents were developed using an intelligent natural language accounting application with neuro-physiological programmatic bases to penetrate, roam in- and report on patterns in financial data. This led to an Innovation in Software award from the European Union in 2006 and formed the basis of the Gatfol algorithms and technology currently in development.

Gatfol’s immediate aims are to improve search using semantic intelligence (meaning in data), both on the Web and in proprietary databases. Gatfol technology was provisionally patented in the USA in April 2011 and received PCT protection in 144 countries worldwide.

It is Gatfol’s vision to eventually enable humans to talk to data through all relevant interfaces and on all possible devices.

Those interested in learning more about Gatfol technology can visit Gatfol Blog http://www.gatfol.com/blog. For more information, contact Carl on Skype: carl_greyling.

Gatfol Language Semantics Announces First Integrated Prototype Installation


Gatfol is a South African origin provisionally patented (USA) Search Technology with built-in human language intelligence

Centurion, South Africa (PRWEB) April 26, 2013

Gatfol serves base technology to provide digital devices with the ability to process human natural language efficiently.

The goal of truly semantic search has not yet fully been realized. The main problem is the enormity of ambiguous word permutations of semantic equivalence in even the simplest of phrases, which up to now has processing-wise required huge structured lexicons and ontologies as guides.

Gatfol is developing its patented technology commercially to massively improve all keyword-based search in the millions of in-house and public online databases worldwide. A first fully integrated prototype has now been installed on a clustered network of twenty seven desktop computers in Centurion South Africa.

Founder and CEO Carl Greyling firmly believes that Gatfol technology is crucially needed by many digital processors worldwide. Without a Gatfol-type solution, further development in many large digital industries is difficult. These include: Online retail (Amazon, Staples, Apple, Walmart), online classified advertising (Craigslist, Junk Mail), online targeted advertising (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo), augmented reality (Google Glass), national security in-stream data scanning (FBI, CIA, most governments worldwide), abuse language filtering in especially child friendly online environments (Habbo Hotel, Woozworld), image- and video auto-tagging for security monitoring (most police forces worldwide), human-to-machine natural language interfaces (all web search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask) and web text simplification for disadvantaged web users.

The Gatfol operational technology comprises multiple redundant local machine-based master and slave software nodes to process input in parallel to ensure extremely high throughput speeds at very large input volumes, regardless of machine- and CPU hardware configurations. This applies to the full production cycle from web RSS-based sourcing to microsecond delivery of output to calling applications. Processing speed increases are proportional to the volume of nodes applied.

Unlike almost all competing technology available today, Gatfol provides robust parallel processing power from even simple desktops or laptops. With all data streams staying local to the processing machine, application of Gatfol technology in especially security-based environments (ie battlefield deployments) is not compromised by networking- and online processing- or data transfer exposure.

With a simulated Hadoop multiple master-and-slave node architecture built around simple but robust Windows™ executable files and with multiple fall back redundancies around both master and slave functions, as well as all nodes individually carrying full word relationship databases, reliability of throughput is ensured – especially critical in large volume streaming functionality.

With a base in ordinary executable files, Gatfol also secures legacy hardware and OS (Windows XP and older) functionality and easy portability in instances of local machine OS upgrades.

The Gatfol standalone footprint can be easily incorporated into wider distributed processing architecture including full Hadoop-, as well as cloud based environments – with corresponding scalability in throughput performance.

RSS sourcing is widely scalable. Throughput has already been successfully tested at nine terabyte of web text per month.

Current best input-output performance of a 50-100 level deep Gatfol semantic crystallization stack on a standalone desktop (Intel Dual 2.93 GHZ 3.21GB RAM Windows XP) for text throughput is 3.6mb/hour for a single Gatfol cluster instance, 11.78mb/hour for a 10-cluster instance and 98mb/hour for a 100-cluster instance.

On a standalone desktop (Intel Quad 3.30 GHZ 2.91GB RAM Windows XP) best text throughput for a 50-100 level stack on a Gatfol 1000-cluster instance is 611mb/hour.

Total text throughput for a 50-100 level stack on an ordinary desktop Microsoft Networks-linked grouping of 20 desktops (Intel Single core 2.8GHZ 768MB RAM Windows XP) each running a Gatfol 100-cluster instance is 1.9GB/hour – giving maximum text output volume of 140GB/hour.

About Gatfol

Gatfol is the culmination of 12 years of work originating in the UK. Virtual auditing agents were developed using an intelligent natural language accounting system with neuro-physiological programmatic bases to penetrate, roam in- and report on patterns in financial data. This led to an EMDA Innovation in Software award from the European Union in 2006 and formed the basis of the Gatfol algorithms and technology currently in development.

Gatfol’s immediate aims are to improve search using semantic intelligence (meaning in data), both on the Web and in proprietary databases. Gatfol technology was provisionally patented in the USA in April 2011 and has PCT protection in 144 countries worldwide.

It is Gatfol’s vision to eventually enable humans to talk to data on all relevant interface devices.

Those interested in learning more about Gatfol technology can visit Gatfol Blog. For more information, contact Carl Greyling at Gatfol on +27 82 590 2993.

Gatfol Startup Announces Second Round of Funding and Massively Scalable Semantic Engine Closed Beta Release


Gatfol aims to be the world’s foremost technology in enabling humans to talk to data on machines

CENTURION, South Africa, eReleases, April 4, 2012

The Gatfol natural language semantic engine — algorithms for changing keyword input into man-to-machine questioning communication — has been in stealth development for over 9 years. With the current announced Beta release, Gatfol technology is now on the verge of providing the promised quantum leap data-access jump that is vital to keep major industries worldwide confidently surfing the information tsunami.

Within two months after announcement of patent filing and initial seed funding, founder and current CEO of Gatfol, Carl Greyling, releases news of the successful outcome of a second round of funding.

As detailed in the Gatfol blog, over twenty industries and Internet fields are now being covered by Gatfol technology, including: Banking, Content Filtering, Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), Image/Video Analysis, Neuro Tech Control, Online Advertising, Online Retail, Robotics, Security, Social Networking and Web Intelligence.

Gatfol attracted strong interest from investors worldwide in the recent funding round, including a funding group in the USA as well as local South African investors.

“We were fortunate in that we had a spread of opportunities to build on our current strong synergy-lined investor pool,” explains Greyling — and added that “It is critical for Gatfol to move within the next three months from the proven prototype technical environment to a full-scale large server outlay, preferably Hadoop cloud based, supported by ‘edge location’ push technology.”

According to Greyling, “With Gatfol Cloud we will be able to provide inline streaming semantic analysis in the millisecond production range, which is critical in helping large sub-second data-critical clients such as banks and search engines. Massive Gatfol Cloud roll-out is therefore where our latest funding will be utilised.”

Current projections are for the Gatfol prototype Beta release to be private for three months, with public Beta to be announced at the end of June 2012. Greyling says, “We would like Gatfol’s first public delivery to be as powerful as possible given available funding and reasonable final launch dates.”

About Gatfol

Conceptual thought around the Gatfol algorithms was initiated roughly 12 years ago in the UK. The Gatfol technology currently in development received an EMDA Innovation in Software award from the European Union in 2006.

While it is Gatfol’s big vision to eventually enable humans to converse with all machines containing or routing data, a more immediate goal encompasses data search, as search is effectively talking to information. Current efforts are concentrated on applying Gatfol’s technology to improve search using semantic intelligence (meaning in data), both on the Web and in proprietary databases. Gatfol technology was provisionally patented in the USA in April 2011 and is in process of being PCT protected in 144 countries worldwide.

Those interested in learning more about Gatfol technology can visit http://gatfol.com/blog.

Gatfol Startup Announces Showcased Technology, Core Algorithm Patent Filing and Seed Funding

Radical new search advance rewrites Shakespeare and Einstein to validate a quantum leap in human-to-machine conversation.


Centurion, South Africa PRWEB January 12, 2012

Gatfol Technology represents a compact, elegant and massively scalable technique for changing keyword search into man-to-machine questioning communication. The technology provides an invisible (to the user) universal tool that acts as interpreter between unsophisticated user input and what application based information “requires” for efficient retrieval.

Founder and CEO Carl Greyling mentions that he believes the Gatfol technology is now so universally powerful that he challenged the development team to apply it beyond search and re-write some of the most iconic literature in the history of mankind. They obliged by providing the almost impossible test – using Gatfol power to re-write sections of Shakespeare, Hitler and Einstein’s main works. “Just imagine what we are going to do for search in 2012 if you take a look at this” Carl proudly proclaims.

As an additional achievement, Carl today announced that seed funding has been obtained from private New Zealand-based investors to fund pre-Beta testing of Gatfol’s free browser technology scheduled for release towards the end of first quarter 2012. Carl says “as we are getting more exposure and interest worldwide as an innovative technological start-up, the right investors have stepped in at the right time to take the Gatfol project forward successfully.”

Carl acknowledges that conceptual thinking around the Gatfol idea has been long in coming, but points out that human-to-machine communication and the resultant commercial search avenue derivatives are the quintessential funding “minefields”, leading to many start-up corpses and investment disasters over the last 40 years.

Carl added that “I see current basic keyword-driven search technology as an extreme disappointment and failure compared to how we have wanted to question computers through natural language since the 1960’s. As opposed to common agreement my view is that after decades computers still cannot see our human world – and we cannot talk to them about it. Current search is still at caveman-speak three keyword level. The difference that our technology makes is that it can analyse everyday word relationships at power levels several magnitudes more subtle than that presently available”.

As to seed funding timing, Carl explains that the algorithm technology was finally patented in the United States in 2011 and together with the advanced state of prototype development, now provides a firm base to present to investors. This led to Carl delivering a talk showcasing the Gatfol technology at the world’s largest semantic intelligence convention SemTech 2011 held annually in San Francisco. “Funding interest after SemTech 2011 has been fairly robust” Carl acknowledges thankfully.

He goes on further to say that the eventual two investors provide a strong match, given the decision-making freedom they allow the Gatfol management. “This is essential in the natural language semantic field as research projections around the ‘messiness’ and ‘greyness’ of language analysis present a multitude of possible development paths at any one time – much more so than in the exact sciences. Funding providers that can understand and accept this are few and far between.”

The investors were also drawn in by the fact that whilst in San Francisco, Carl had discussions with representatives of a large search engine and an agreement was reached whereby Gatfol would present a working prototype for web search enhancement in the first half of 2012, upon which a possible commercial liaison with the search engine could be negotiated.

Those interested in learning more about Gatfol Search Technology can visit http://www.gatfol.com/individuals.html or to see Shakespeare, Hitler and Einstein re-written using Gatfol power, visit http://www.gatfol.com/gatfolpower/strangerthanfiction.html. Gatfol Blog at http://www.gatfol.com/blog. For more information contact Carl Greyling at Gatfol on +27 82 5902993.