Parse.ly is a technology company that provides web analytics and content optimization software for online publishers.

The technology it uses to do this is natural language processing, and has extracted over 350,000 unique topics from the URLs it has crawled.

[3] In addition to providing site analytics, Dash can show users what topics are resonating with people across the web through their webwide trends interface.

Parse.ly was founded by Sachin Kamdar and Andrew Montalenti out of DreamIt Ventures, an early stage startup accelerator program in Philadelphia and launched its first product, Parse.ly Reader, in September 2009.

In December 2010, Parse.ly received $1.8M in Series A funding from Blumberg Capital, ff Venture Capital, Scott Becker (cofounder of Invite Media), Don Hutchison, Jonathan Axelrod, and Jeffrey Greenblatt.