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Golden

Knowledge database

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Education
  • Deep Tech
  • Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
San Francisco, California

Company mission

Build a “knowledge base” that can fill in Wikipedia’s blind spots, particularly when it comes to emerging technologies and startups.

Our take

In this age of information, there are surprisingly few big names when it comes to finding accurate information and knowledge. Wikipedia especially has many users, despite the inaccuracies that arise from the site’s reliance on community editing.

In contrast, Golden.com, the brainchild of founder Jude Gomila, aims to fill in Wikipedia’s blind spots and act as an alternative to the problem of its ‘arbitrary notability threshold’, where pages that Wikipedia decides aren’t notable enough are removed.

Instead of relying on a community to process and edit its pages, Golden combines human effort with artificial intelligence, gathering data using natural language processing before being curated by human eyes.

Since the site launched in 2019, Golden has secured an impressive round of funding and good-will with its audience. Primarily of which includes private equity firms, hedge funds, VCs, biotech companies, corporate innovation offices and government agencies. Interestingly, its focus is primarily on emerging, innovative tech and startups, giving much more attention to companies just starting out.

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Freddie

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Benefits

  • Health, vision and dental insurance
  • Healthy paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Meaningful equity
  • Latest technology & hardware
  • Flexible work hours and location
  • Company snow trip

Company values

  • Vision
  • Curiosity
  • Shipping culture
  • End-to-end mindset

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2022

$40m

SERIES B

Sep 2020

$14.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $59.5m

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Leadership

Previously the founder and CEO of heyzap, a mobile developer tools platform.