MIPS Project Detail:

RedShred

Semantically enhanced open information extraction

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Company

RedShred

Baltimore

Baltimore City

County

, Maryland

Founded:

2014

Website:

https://www.redshred.com/

Company Description:

RedShred™ builds software that can take complex business documents, like grants and RFPs, quickly extract the information that is most important to you, and give you an efficient way to review opportunities without all the manual intervention. Using a combination of natural language processing, machine learning, and industry-specific knowledge, RedShred™ can match a customer with the opportunities that best fit their profile and then give them the tools to analyze and respond to that opportunity quickly, giving them a competitive advantage. RedShred’s software is delivered on a SaaS/cloud platform.

MIPS Project

Semantically enhanced open information extraction

Project #

5423

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MIPS Round

54 |

Starting Date:

Aug 2014

MIPS Project Challenge:
Researchers planned to develop a method to read and extract critical facts from Requests for Proposals, regardless of industry origin.

Project Scope:
Researchers planned to build an RFP corpus, train lexical models and a semantic similarity service; develop an ontology and KB schema; annotate select RFPs, implement the structure organizer; engage the entity and extraction system; and evaluate results.

MIPS helped our company develop the first components of our underlying offering.

Jeehye Yun, Chief Executive Officer, RedShred

Results:

RedShred now offers its product online. The product offers automated RFP discovery, analysis and pre-qualification, with capabilities to optimize the RFP bidding process, rank opportunities to capability profiles, and extract RFP requirements automatically.

These MIPS projects resulted in one academic paper: Zareen Syed, Lushan Han, Muhammad Rahman, Tim Finin, James Kukla and Jeehye Yun, Querying Large Linked Data Resources, 14th Int. Semantic Web Conference, Oct. 2015.

RedShred received a $100,000 Technology Commercialization Fund grant in 2014. In March, 2015, the company was awarded a $150,000 loan through the Anne Arundel County Volt Fund. In May, 2015, RedShred received a $100,000 small business loan from the Baltimore County Boost Fund. In January, 2016, RedShred received a National Science Foundation Phase I and Phase IB STTR.

Additional Mtech/UMD Programs Utilized:
DC I-Corps

Additional Information:
RedShred was formed from lessons learned at SSG, a commercial and government IT contractor owned by Jeehye Yun. Having experienced the pain of RFP matching and shredding during her time running SSG, Jeehye teamed up with Jim Kukla, an experienced software engineer and former computer science researcher, to build RedShred. During the fall, 2013 DC I-Corps workshop, the founding team validated the value proposition with the market.