Keith Teare (born 27 August 1954, in

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) is an

English-American English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the 2020 American Community Survey, 25.21 million self-identified as being of English origin. The term is distin ...

technology entrepreneur.

Career

Keith Teare has founded or co-founded several IT companies since the early 1980s. He is credited with being part of: * Cyberia,Watch this Cyberspace
/ref> the UK's first

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; *

Easynet Easynet was a managed services provider and delivered integrated networks, hosting and unified communications services to organisations globally. The company was later renamed Easynet Global Services, and a sister company, Easynet Connect, was fo ...

,David Rowe: European Easy Rider
/ref> Europe's first consumer Internet Service Provider; *

RealNames RealNames was a company founded in 1997 by Keith Teare. Its goal was to create a multilingual keyword-based naming system for the Internet that would translate keywords typed into the address bar of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser to ...

, the first multi-lingual addressing system for the Internet; *

Archimedes Ventures LLC Archimedes of Syracuse (;; ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists ...

,Archimedes Ventures LLC
/ref> a vehicle for his incubation, investments and consulting service; *

TechCrunch TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately ...

,The makings of a media mogul: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch
/ref> a technology blog. * Just.me,Can A Messaging App Beat Standalone Social Networking? Khosla-Backed Stealth Startup Just.me Gears Up For Launch With iOS Beta
/ref> an instant messaging service; *chat.center,chat.center Reports Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking Growth
/ref> a web to mobile SaaS messaging service; *Accelerated Digital Ventures.Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd
/ref>

Works

References

External links

Keith Teare's weblog

OpenQuotes from Keith Teare

Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd
* https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/1933457 1954 births Living people People from Scarborough, North Yorkshire {{internet-bio-stub