Wowd is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), KPG Ventures, and the Stanford University Engineering Venture Fund.

Steve Jurvetson (DFJ) is a director at Wowd, and shares with the company a deep passion for disruptive technical advancement -- in this case, using a distributed peer-to-peer approach to reinvent search, discovery, and recommendation on a planetary scale.

Dave Hills (KPG Ventures) is a director at Wowd, and brings to the firm a tremendous depth of practical experience in running large-scale search operations. Dave was President and CEO at LookSmart, and President of Media Solutions for 24/7 Real Media.