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This article is about the company Metaweb Technologies. For the defunct Quicksilver Wiki, previously known as The Metaweb, see Neal Stephenson.
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryData management
FoundedJuly 2005; 21 years ago (2005-07)
FounderVeda Hlubinka-Cook,
Danny Hillis,
John Giannandrea
Fateacquired by Google
in July 2010[1]
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
Key people
Kurt Bollacker
(Chief scientist)
Danny Hillis (Chairman)
Thomas Layton (CEO)[2]
Veda Hlubinka-Cook
EVP, product development
John Giannandrea (CTO)
ProductsFreebase — an online database
Websitewww.metaweb.com

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco–based company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was co-founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea in 2005.[3]

Metaweb was acquired by Google in 2010.[1] Google shut down Freebase in 2016, transferring some of the data that met the required notability criteria to Wikidata.[4][5][6]

Funding

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On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding. Investors included Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Omidyar Network.[7] On January 15, 2008, Metaweb announced a $42.5 million Series B round led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital.[8]

Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital was a member of Metaweb's board of directors.

Acquisition

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On July 16, 2010, Google acquired Metaweb for an undisclosed sum.[9]

References

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  2. ^ Metaweb announces hiring of Thomas Layton, CEO Archived 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
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  8. ^ Metaweb Raises $42.5 Million led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (company press release)
  9. ^ Deeper Understanding with Metaweb Archived 2010-07-18 at the Wayback Machine (company press release)
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