Endeca was a software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that sold eCommerce search, customer experience management, enterprise search and business intelligence applications.
Endeca was founded in 1999 as Optigrab. It was a privately held company, backed by venture capital investment from Bessemer, DN Capital founders Steve Schlenker and Nenad Marovac, Ampersand, GGV, In-Q-Tel, Intel, SAP and Venrock.
On October 18, 2011, Oracle Corporation announced its acquisition of Endeca for $1.075B.
Endeca's product provided faceted search in the context of electronic commerce and online libraries.