Consensus, an AI-enabled tutorial search engine for scientific analysis, raised $11.5 million in a Sequence A funding spherical led by Union Sq. Ventures.
Perplexity lead traders Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman participated within the spherical alongside former Seed traders Kevin Carter, Draper Associates, Alumni Ventures and Path Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
The corporate is constructing an AI-powered search engine to make scientific analysis papers discoverable, consumable and accessible.
The consumer gives a immediate with a query to the AI after which receives literature with solutions pertaining to the inquiry. It additionally synthesizes insights throughout literature and extracts info associated to the precise analysis discovered, comparable to pattern measurement and inhabitants.
Boston-based Consensus will use the funds to increase its workforce, spend money on progress experiments and velocity up product growth.
“We deeply worth analysis and proof, however we have by no means had the abilities nor consideration span to comb by way of the analysis ourselves. We wished to use our backgrounds in client tech to scientific analysis, and attempt to make this wonderful content material extra accessible and consumable, irrespective of your background,” Consensus CEO Eric Olson mentioned in a press release.
MARKET SNAPSHOT
Different corporations utilizing AI to sift by way of scientific analysis embody Dimensions, which presents linked analysis information and AI functions supposed to speed up analysis discovery.
Semantic Scholar presents a free AI-enabled analysis software for scientific literature aimed toward serving to researchers extract which means and determine connections between papers.
