PASSION FOR INFORMATION WORKER PRODUCTIVITY IN THE POST-PC WORLD
From Daniel Kornev’s first ThinkWeek paper outlining the Post-PC future vision to the project Zet Universe, Zet Universe, Inc. has continued to innovate and work toward the realization of a dream to enable human creativity. We are just started in our great journey to the world where every person will be able to learn upon existing human knowledge and discover the untouched areas of the social and nature sciences, to organize the chaos of information into the sets of beautiful concepts, to build own understanding of the universe to unleash own creativity.
CORPORATE TIMELINE
2015
July 2015
Company's blog had been migrated to the main website and is now available at http://www.zetuniverse.com/blog. Additionally, new Media page has been created, where it accumulated company's press releases and selected media stories featuring Zet Universe.
Zet Universe Insider Program has been formally launched, giving enthusiasts an early look at the Zet Universe technologies.
May 2015
Zet Universe Insiders group have been formed on Facebook to focus company's communications with product fans and enthusiasts in one place. Company's website has been updated following the rebranding of Beta Program into Zet Universe Insider Program.
April 2015
Zet Universe, Inc., has been named as one of the top 10 Massachusetts tech companies gaining online traction.
February 2015
Company website have been updated to reflect latest company changes.
January 2015
Daniel Kornev and Daniel Korablin designed and implemented first version of the pluggable external data sources platform, and moved existing Dropbox and Outlook.com into separate external data source "app packages".
Company's blog had been migrated to the main website and is now available at http://www.zetuniverse.com/blog. Additionally, new Media page has been created, where it accumulated company's press releases and selected media stories featuring Zet Universe.
Zet Universe Insider Program has been formally launched, giving enthusiasts an early look at the Zet Universe technologies.
May 2015
Zet Universe Insiders group have been formed on Facebook to focus company's communications with product fans and enthusiasts in one place. Company's website has been updated following the rebranding of Beta Program into Zet Universe Insider Program.
April 2015
Zet Universe, Inc., has been named as one of the top 10 Massachusetts tech companies gaining online traction.
February 2015
Company website have been updated to reflect latest company changes.
January 2015
Daniel Kornev and Daniel Korablin designed and implemented first version of the pluggable external data sources platform, and moved existing Dropbox and Outlook.com into separate external data source "app packages".
2014
December 2014
Daniel Korablin joined the team as architect to work on data integration platform architecture.
Daniel Kornev and Daniel Korablin designed and implemented first version of the extendable Semantic Pipeline processing technology responsible for transformation, analysis, classification, and integration to enable semi-automatic data consolidation and organization by your projects.
First Beta builds have been provided to the selected list of testers.
November 2014
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov presented Zet Universe at the Eureka Innovation Contest in Moscow, Russia.
Tatiana Pospelova joined the team as advisor on B2B marketing and product launch, and helped to re-pivot the product to target enterprise customers.
July 2014
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov introduced a Semantic Processor technology for centralized data analysis. They also started a series of experiments for improved data storage platform.
March 2014
Daniel Kornev presented an updated product vision to the audience of the Moscow State University's Business Incubator Demo Day.
A new, Beta development milestone, have been started.
Zet Universe is a Project Communications Dashboard integrating information from various data sources.
January 2014
Daniel Kornev and Boris Kogan worked together to introduce new Visual Clusters Indexing algorithm for automatic identification of visual clusters in the company's key visual metaphor, "topographic clusters visualization".
Daniel Korablin joined the team as architect to work on data integration platform architecture.
Daniel Kornev and Daniel Korablin designed and implemented first version of the extendable Semantic Pipeline processing technology responsible for transformation, analysis, classification, and integration to enable semi-automatic data consolidation and organization by your projects.
First Beta builds have been provided to the selected list of testers.
November 2014
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov presented Zet Universe at the Eureka Innovation Contest in Moscow, Russia.
Tatiana Pospelova joined the team as advisor on B2B marketing and product launch, and helped to re-pivot the product to target enterprise customers.
July 2014
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov introduced a Semantic Processor technology for centralized data analysis. They also started a series of experiments for improved data storage platform.
March 2014
Daniel Kornev presented an updated product vision to the audience of the Moscow State University's Business Incubator Demo Day.
A new, Beta development milestone, have been started.
Zet Universe is a Project Communications Dashboard integrating information from various data sources.
January 2014
Daniel Kornev and Boris Kogan worked together to introduce new Visual Clusters Indexing algorithm for automatic identification of visual clusters in the company's key visual metaphor, "topographic clusters visualization".
2013
December 2013
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov interviewed several PMs from Microsoft and T-Mobile to gather updated feedback on product vision.
November 2013
Daniel Kornev participated in the Founders Bootcamp in Silicon Valley. Pre-Beta builds have been distributed among the selected list of testers in Europe and USA.
October 2013
Alexander Popov, Daniel Kornev and Kirill Klokov have prepared a Pre-Beta Demo Video. Second demo video (3 min) have been uploaded to YouTube, featuring the latest goodness of Zet Universe, including the Windows Shell Integration, and revamped user interface.
Juergen Koehler, a MassChallenge 2013 Finalist, joined the team as the UX Designer, and helped the team to gather end user feedback, redesign core product user experience, and rethink product vision. He re-focused team's attention to the importance of project data source new information notifications as the key value for end users.
August 2013
Zet Universe closed pre-seed Investment financing round with LETA Capital Group, Altair.VC and MSU Business Incubator as first round investors. See press-release.
July 2013
Dinesh Chheda, Senior VP at Fidelity Investments, and Rick Rundell, Senior Director at Autodesk, joined Advisory Board.
June 2013
Pavel Kuzmenko left Advisory Board to join Zet Universe in the position of Sales & Marketing Director.
Private launch of Zet Universe Alpha Version had been shipped to the loyal group of the alpha test subscribers on June 13, 2013.
Alexander Popov and Daniel Kornev moved to Boston, MA, USA, to continue building Zet Universe business in the U.S.A.
Zet Universe, Inc., is recognized as a legal entity and corporation under United States law.
May 2013
Zet Universe became a global finalist of the famous MassChallenge startup accelerator and the team will temporarily move to Boston, MA, USA, in the mid-June, to participate in the MassChallenge education program.
April 2013
Pavel Kuzmenko (previously worked at Microsoft Russia as Office Business Group Lead; 14+ years of work experience at Russian and Intl. IT companies) agreed to join Zet Universe Advisory Board in the role of Sales & Marketing Advisor.
Sergey Antipov (15+ years of software engineering; primarily Microsoft technologies) agreed to join Zet Universe Engineering Team in the role of Principal Software Engineer.
Zet Universe, LLC, is registered as a legal entity and limited liability company under Russian law.
First private deployments of Zet Universe have been done to selected customers in Moscow, Russia.
Zet Universe became a proud customer of Gunderson Dettmer law company
March 2013
Zet Universe became a proud resident of the MSU Business Incubator (Moscow State University).
January 2013
Zet Universe software prototype successfully passed the touch testing for the Ultrabooks and our company became an Intel Premier Partner.
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov interviewed several PMs from Microsoft and T-Mobile to gather updated feedback on product vision.
November 2013
Daniel Kornev participated in the Founders Bootcamp in Silicon Valley. Pre-Beta builds have been distributed among the selected list of testers in Europe and USA.
October 2013
Alexander Popov, Daniel Kornev and Kirill Klokov have prepared a Pre-Beta Demo Video. Second demo video (3 min) have been uploaded to YouTube, featuring the latest goodness of Zet Universe, including the Windows Shell Integration, and revamped user interface.
Juergen Koehler, a MassChallenge 2013 Finalist, joined the team as the UX Designer, and helped the team to gather end user feedback, redesign core product user experience, and rethink product vision. He re-focused team's attention to the importance of project data source new information notifications as the key value for end users.
August 2013
Zet Universe closed pre-seed Investment financing round with LETA Capital Group, Altair.VC and MSU Business Incubator as first round investors. See press-release.
July 2013
Dinesh Chheda, Senior VP at Fidelity Investments, and Rick Rundell, Senior Director at Autodesk, joined Advisory Board.
June 2013
Pavel Kuzmenko left Advisory Board to join Zet Universe in the position of Sales & Marketing Director.
Private launch of Zet Universe Alpha Version had been shipped to the loyal group of the alpha test subscribers on June 13, 2013.
Alexander Popov and Daniel Kornev moved to Boston, MA, USA, to continue building Zet Universe business in the U.S.A.
Zet Universe, Inc., is recognized as a legal entity and corporation under United States law.
May 2013
Zet Universe became a global finalist of the famous MassChallenge startup accelerator and the team will temporarily move to Boston, MA, USA, in the mid-June, to participate in the MassChallenge education program.
April 2013
Pavel Kuzmenko (previously worked at Microsoft Russia as Office Business Group Lead; 14+ years of work experience at Russian and Intl. IT companies) agreed to join Zet Universe Advisory Board in the role of Sales & Marketing Advisor.
Sergey Antipov (15+ years of software engineering; primarily Microsoft technologies) agreed to join Zet Universe Engineering Team in the role of Principal Software Engineer.
Zet Universe, LLC, is registered as a legal entity and limited liability company under Russian law.
First private deployments of Zet Universe have been done to selected customers in Moscow, Russia.
Zet Universe became a proud customer of Gunderson Dettmer law company
March 2013
Zet Universe became a proud resident of the MSU Business Incubator (Moscow State University).
January 2013
Zet Universe software prototype successfully passed the touch testing for the Ultrabooks and our company became an Intel Premier Partner.
2012
December 2012
Zet Universe became a member of the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP).
October 2012
Alexander Popov, Daniel's old friend since as early as 2004, left the Advisory Board to join Zet Universe in the role of Director of Program Management. Alexander will be responsible for Program Management, Technology Marketing and Software Engineering.
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov participated in the prestigious European Startup Event "Pioneers Festival" that took place in Vienna, Austria, and presented Zet Universe at the Investors Day. Our company got positive feedback from 3 investors, constructive feedback from one more investor, invitations to 3 accelerators (two in Europe and one in USA).
September 2012
Zet Universe became the Top-50 startup at the prestigious European Startup Event "Pioneers Festival", and will be presented at Investors Day during the "Pioneers Festival" in Vienna, Austria, Oct 28-31, 2012.
Zet Universe became the Top-30 software idea in the Intel's Ultrabook Experience: Software Contest.
August 2012
Development of Zet Universe is coming closer to the end of the M1 (Milestone 1), with the user studies and alpha testing coming after M1 Feature Complete phase.
July 2012
First demo video (5min) has been published to Vimeo, featuring the latest goodness of Zet Universe, including the minimap feature, importance filtering, spatial navigation, early work on the work context preservation and return to it after interruptions, document creation and editing inside Zet Universe, meaningful recommendations retrieval.
Skip Walter, founding CEO & CTO of Attenex (a visual analytics software, sold for $88M to FTI Technologies), joined the Zet Universe Advisory Board as Business & R&D Advisor.
June 2012
"Zet Universe" was officially presented at the June Harvest event and won the 2nd place in the Startup Battle.
April 2012
A new project feature, Visual Search, is integrated into the Zet Universe user experience, aimed to deliver a new, living metaphor of information search across the user's information universe.
March 2012
A landing page of "Zet Universe" project was published at http://www.zetuniverse.com/ along with mailing list for first alpha testers and preliminary overview of product features.
February 2012
Following a rapid prototyping process of new features development for Zet Universe project a list of screenshots was published to the Zet Universe product page.
January 2012
Inception of Zet Universe project. Project Zet Universe was born as an infinite desktop for Post-PC devices.
Zet Universe is Microsoft Partner and a proud member of the Microsoft BizSpark program.
Alexander Popov, Daniel's old friend since as early as 2004 joined the Zet Universe Advisory Board as expert in R&D and Technology Marketing.
Natalia Tylevich (nee Smirnova), CEO of Social Lab, Big Data Analytics expert in enterprise social networks, joined the Zet Universe Advisory Board as Big Data Analytics Advisor.
Zet Universe became a member of the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP).
October 2012
Alexander Popov, Daniel's old friend since as early as 2004, left the Advisory Board to join Zet Universe in the role of Director of Program Management. Alexander will be responsible for Program Management, Technology Marketing and Software Engineering.
Daniel Kornev and Alexander Popov participated in the prestigious European Startup Event "Pioneers Festival" that took place in Vienna, Austria, and presented Zet Universe at the Investors Day. Our company got positive feedback from 3 investors, constructive feedback from one more investor, invitations to 3 accelerators (two in Europe and one in USA).
September 2012
Zet Universe became the Top-50 startup at the prestigious European Startup Event "Pioneers Festival", and will be presented at Investors Day during the "Pioneers Festival" in Vienna, Austria, Oct 28-31, 2012.
Zet Universe became the Top-30 software idea in the Intel's Ultrabook Experience: Software Contest.
August 2012
Development of Zet Universe is coming closer to the end of the M1 (Milestone 1), with the user studies and alpha testing coming after M1 Feature Complete phase.
July 2012
First demo video (5min) has been published to Vimeo, featuring the latest goodness of Zet Universe, including the minimap feature, importance filtering, spatial navigation, early work on the work context preservation and return to it after interruptions, document creation and editing inside Zet Universe, meaningful recommendations retrieval.
Skip Walter, founding CEO & CTO of Attenex (a visual analytics software, sold for $88M to FTI Technologies), joined the Zet Universe Advisory Board as Business & R&D Advisor.
June 2012
"Zet Universe" was officially presented at the June Harvest event and won the 2nd place in the Startup Battle.
April 2012
A new project feature, Visual Search, is integrated into the Zet Universe user experience, aimed to deliver a new, living metaphor of information search across the user's information universe.
March 2012
A landing page of "Zet Universe" project was published at http://www.zetuniverse.com/ along with mailing list for first alpha testers and preliminary overview of product features.
February 2012
Following a rapid prototyping process of new features development for Zet Universe project a list of screenshots was published to the Zet Universe product page.
January 2012
Inception of Zet Universe project. Project Zet Universe was born as an infinite desktop for Post-PC devices.
Zet Universe is Microsoft Partner and a proud member of the Microsoft BizSpark program.
Alexander Popov, Daniel's old friend since as early as 2004 joined the Zet Universe Advisory Board as expert in R&D and Technology Marketing.
Natalia Tylevich (nee Smirnova), CEO of Social Lab, Big Data Analytics expert in enterprise social networks, joined the Zet Universe Advisory Board as Big Data Analytics Advisor.
