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Website: http://www.metaweb.com/

Metaweb Technologies, in stealth mode, was spun out of Applied Minds, Inc. in July, 2005 to build a better infrastructure for the Web. Metaweb was founded by Danny Hillis and funded by Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, Omidyar Network and other prominent investors. It is led by battle-hardened alumni of Netscape, The Internet Archive, Alexa, Tellme, Intel and Broderbund. We're...More»

Address: 631 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Map it »

Phone: 415-546-5700

Email: info@metaweb.com

Founded: 2005

Industry: Consumer Internet

Sub-Industry: Content / Information

Legal Structure: Corporation

Ownership: Private

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Date	Type	Capital Amount	Post-Money Valuation	Investors
01/16/2008	Series B	42.5M	Unknown	Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Millenium Technology Ventures, Omidyar Network

Name:	Freebase
Product URL:	http://www.freebase.com/
Description:	Freebase, created by Metaweb Technologies, is an open database of the world’s information. It’s built by the community and for the community – free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites. Already, Freebase covers millions of topics in hundreds of categories. Drawing from large open data sets like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC archives, it contains structured information on many popular topics, including movies, music, people and locations – all reconciled and freely available via an open API. This information is supplemented by the efforts of a passionate global community of users who are working together to add structured information on everything from philosophy to European railway stations to the chemical properties of common food ingredients. By structuring the world’s data in this manner, the Freebase community is creating a global resource that will one day allow people and machines everywhere to access information far more easily and quickly than they can today.