Meta (formerly Sciencescape) was a Canadian-founded AI company that used machine learning and natural language processing to analyze and organize the text of scientific literature, surfacing key research, authors and citations across tens of millions of papers. It served academia, publishers, government and industry through its biomedical research discovery platform. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquired Meta in 2017 as its first acquisition and sunset the service in 2022.
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Founded
2010
Employees
350
Total Funding
$7.5M
3 rounds
Latest Valuation
$0.3B
Jun 13, 2016
Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.
Total raised $7.5M across 3 rounds
Last updated 06-20-2026
| Date | Round | Amount Raised | Valuation | Lead Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2016 | Series B TechCrunch | $50M | $0.3B | Horizons Ventures |
| Jan 2015 | Series A | $23M | — | Horizons Ventures, BOE Optoelectronics |
| 2013 | Seed (Y Combinator + Kickstarter) | $194K (Kickstarter) + YC S13 | — | Y Combinator |
Sam Molyneux
Co-Founder & CEO
Amy Molyneux
Co-Founder
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