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San Francisco, California-based company Golden is on a mission to map human knowledge in order to accelerate education and discovery. This is being done by setting up a self-constructing knowledge database built by artificial and human intelligence. Recently, the company announced it raised $5 million in a seed round of funding to build on this mission.
This funding round was from Andreessen Horowitz (led by Marc Andreessen), Gigafund, Founders Fund, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures (Joe Montana), and many angel investors including Aston Motes (Dropbox’s first employee), Christina Brodbeck (YouTube’s first designer), Lee Linden (founder of Tapjoy and Karma), Immad Akhund (Cofounder of Heyzap and CEO of Mercury), Josh Buckley (Mino Games founder), Howie Liu (Airtable CEO), James Smith (Bugsnag CEO), James Tamplin (Firebase founder), Jack Smith (startup advisor), Michael Einziger (musician/guitarist/co-songwriter of Incubus), Sumon Sadhu (CRO of Plato Design), Paul McKellar (Square founding team), and Trip Adler (Scribd CEO).
“I’m super pleased to have such a great array of investors joining us on our mission to upgrade the organization of knowledge available today,” said Golden CEO Jude Gomila in a statement, “Predominantly, we will focus the funding resources on improving our product via our engineering and product team.”
Gomila was previously president and co-founder of Heyzap — which got acquired by Fyber for $45 million in 2016. Gomila has also made more than 100 angel investments in startups.
What does Golden do? It essentially has a knowledge base with a suite of AI tools and a modern editor. With these tools, it can automatically create content — which makes it easier for users to build knowledge more efficiently and effectively. The company will also sell access to tools that allow companies to set up advanced queries and receive alerts on the data in Golden.
This idea has been compared to Wikipedia, but Gomila pointed out that a number of notable companies and technologies do not have entries. This is due to Wikipedia’s “arbitrary notability threshold,” which deletes pages for not being notable enough.
