Metaweb

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. is a U.S. company headquartered in San Francisco, which developed the open-content database Freebase. The company was created by Danny Hillis and Robert Cook as a byproduct of Applied Minds in July 2005 and operated until 2007, excluding the public. Google acquired Metaweb in July 2010.

Financing

On 14 March 2006 Metaweb received U.S. $ 15,000,000 of base funding. The investors included Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures and Omidyar Network. Kevin Harvey of Benchmark Capital is a member of the " Metaweb Board of Directors". January 15, 2008 Metaweb announced a 42.5 million dollar capitalization, led by Goldman Sachs and Benchmark Capital.

Acquisition by Google

On July 16, 2010 Google acquired Metaweb against the payment of a sum not publicly announced.