Golden
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Golden was a US-based artificial intelligence company founded by Jude Gomila. It started as an AI-powered knowledge base covering areas where Wikipedia's coverage was thin, particularly emerging technology and startups, extracting information from news, websites and public databases with natural language processing. It later pivoted to a decentralized knowledge protocol that used tokens to incentivize the collection and verification of canonical data, with validators penalized for incorrect information. The protocol ran a testnet with over 35,000 participants ahead of a planned mainnet launch. The company raised about $60 million in total.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Series A
Golden raised $14.5 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with co-founder Marc Andreessen joining its board.
- Series B
Golden closed a $40 million Series B led by a16z crypto, bringing total funding to about $60 million; the protocol was in testnet with a mainnet launch planned for Q2 2023.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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