Metaweb Technologies, Inc. is a United States company based in San Francisco that is developing Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis and Robert Cook as a spinoff of Applied Minds in July, 2005, and operated in stealth mode until 2007.

Funding

On March 14, 2006, Metaweb received $15 million in funding. Investors included: Benchmark Capital, Millennium Technology Ventures, and Omidyar Network. 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.

See also

• Radar Networks — developers of semantic web applications for the general public
• Web 3.0 & Web 2.0
• Semantic Web

References

External links

• Metaweb Technologies, Inc. — company homepage
• Freebase — Metaweb's online database
• Freebase Blog
• MQL tutorial: simple read queries