Metaweb
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| Private | |
| Industry | Data management |
| Fate | acquired (by Google in July, 2010) |
| Founded | July 2005 |
| Founder | Danny Hillis, Robert Cook |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
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Key people
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Kurt Bollacker, chief scientist Danny Hillis, chairman Thomas Layton, CEO[1] Robert Cook, EVP, product development John Giannandrea, CTO |
| Products | Freebase — an online database |
| Website | www.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, founded by Robert Cook[2] and Danny Hillis in 2005, was acquired by Google in 2010.[3] Although Metaweb no longer exists as a separate corporate entity, Freebase and its associated website freebase.com continue to be provided as an open database under Metaweb's original CC-BY licensing terms. In December 2014, Google announced that it would be closing Freebase in 2015, transferring the data to Wikidata.[4]
Funding
On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding. Investors included: Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Omidyar Network.[5] Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital is a member of Metaweb's board of directors. On January 15, 2008, Metaweb announced a $42.5 million Series B round led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital.[6]
Acquisition
On July 16, 2010, Google acquired Metaweb for an undisclosed sum.[7]
See also
- Radar Networks — developers of semantic web applications for the general public
- DBpedia - community effort to extract semantic information from Wikipedia
- Web 2.0
- Semantic Web
References
- ↑ Metaweb announces hiring of Thomas Layton, CEO
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- ↑ Metaweb Raises $42.5 Million led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital (company press release)
- ↑ Deeper Understanding with Metaweb (company press release)
External links
- Freebase — Metaweb's online database
