Taptu is a new search engine, focused on providing the best mobile-friendly results. Since the company was founded in 2005, we’ve been looking for ways to make our own mobile life more interesting, colourful and user-friendly. We crawl the web and create handy little summaries, giving you a snapshot of the results without having to visit the site.

In February 2008, during Mobile World Congress, we received the Mobile Monday Peer Awards’ Community award in the Emerging Startups category, which was a great honour. Then, in April 2008, we were nominated by Red Herring as one of their Top 100 Tech Startups in Europe.

The team

Steve Ives
Steve is the founder of Taptu and man of many great ideas. Previously, he founded Trigenix, which was acquired by Qualcomm Inc in 2004.

Vero Pepperrell
Blogger and keen online marketer, Vero spends most of her life immersed in social networks (”It’s for research purposes, really!”) and buying gadgets. You can find her on her blog, Jaiku, Twitter and Flickr.

Want to find out more?

• More about Taptu
• Taptu whitepaper on Making Search Social
• What you say about us in the media
• Fancy working at Taptu? Check out the jobs page for new openings
• Questions about how Taptu works? Have a look at the FAQ in case we’ve already answered it!

And of course, you can get in touch with us at hello@taptu.com at any time because we love to hear from you.

Credits:

• The blog template was created by pepsmedia
• The taptology phonetic spelling was provided by Will at Linguistic Mystic
• Various images across the site from artists at istockphoto and our own snap-happy team