Sumazi Presentation. Sumazi’s iPhone app connects two people with a single touch. Sumazi, a Web application that helps people create new connections for both business and leisure, announced it is launching its iPhone application at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
Sumazi CEO and founder Sumaya Kazi hopes to provide users with a way to directly connect with that “rock-star engineer” that they need for a job opportunity or contract. There are large number of users on social networks — 500 million on Facebook and 75 million on LinkedIn, for example. But any given person makes only four meaningful connections each year, according to a study Kazi cited, limiting the utility of those broad networks for finding someone to recruit. Sumazi, A Connection Recommendation Engine.
Sumazi’s whole schtick is to make relevant introductions, positioning itself as “recommendation engine for professionals that introduces connects you to the people you don’t know but should.”
Sharing the same introductions space as Hashable, Sumazi has the very ambitious goal of being the world’s ultimate super connector. While we were demoing, founder Sumaya Kazi brought up the example of being able to meet a good UX designer through the Sumazi network by signing up for a “Need.” Kazi promises that with just a few clicks of a button Sumazi can help you meet anyone with the skill sets you’re looking for, helping you extend your number of average meaningful connections per year from four to a lot more. The iPhone app leverages the contacts you already have, and doesn’t need the end user to sign up for Sumazi. Sumazi.