Medio raises $30 million for mobile search — to battle Google, Jumptap, others

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Founder Brian Lent worked side-by-side with the Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. 1 employee position at Yahoo, as reported by the SeattlePI’s John Cook last year. Medio finds itself in the middle of competitive but growing market: More people are using mobile phones to search for information. Medio is in a race with Jumptap to sign deals with carriers — to earn the coveted spot as default search engine their phones. Medio recently poached Omar Tawakol from Revenue Science — interestingly, another Mohr Davidow portfolio company — to be its chief advertising officer, SeattlePI’s Cook reported recently.

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