Ramus Refer is a Danish entrepreneur and business owner best known for founding the B2B

Business-to-business

Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...

 search engine

Search engine

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

 Masterseek

Masterseek

Masterseek Corp. is a B2B search engine founded in Denmark in 1999. It currently hosts over 83 million worldwide company profiles from 75 countries, and business subscribers are given complete control over their corporate profiles...

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Early life

Refer was born on January 18, 1970 in Copenhagen, Denmark into a family of designers. His education and early career involved marketing development and information management. As a young businessman, he worked in the IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 business world.

Career

Early on, Refer became an early developer of advanced web-crawler software, used to collect and index data from the internet. This made possible a variety of B2B applications. He founded and developed the B2B search engine Masterseek

Masterseek

Masterseek Corp. is a B2B search engine founded in Denmark in 1999. It currently hosts over 83 million worldwide company profiles from 75 countries, and business subscribers are given complete control over their corporate profiles...

 in 1999. He continues to serve as the company's President. In 2008, Refer bought the defunct search engine Accoona

Accoona

Accoona was an internet company having offices in Jersey City, New Jersey and Shanghai, China. Their main product was a search engine that claimed to use artificial intelligence to better understand searches. On June 23, 2005, in the ABC Times Square studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven by a...

, integrating it with Masterseek. As of 2011, Masterseek is the largest B2B search engine worldwide.

Awards

According to Masterseek, Refer has received several industry awards for his contributions in the B2B IT space.

Board member

Refer is a board member and investor in a variety of IT businesses, including several international online newspapers such as the U.S. Business Times and the U.S. Stock Post.

External links

• Rasmus Refer on Twitter
  Twitter
  Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
  
  
• Rasmus Refer on Facebook
  Facebook
  Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...