Consensus

Consensus is an AI-powered search engine designed to make searching for and consuming scientific research papers easier. Our product was launched in the winter of 2022 and we currently serve millions of students, researchers, doctors and consumers alike from across the world.

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Consensus

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HQUS

Team Size43

Open Jobs2

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: AI-powered search engine that indexes and synthesizes scientific research

Founding year: 2021

Founders / leadership: Christian Salem (Co‑founder, CPO) and Eric Olson (Co‑founder, CEO)

Corpus size: 200M+ research documents indexed

Business model: Consumer search app with paid Pro tiers and developer APIs

Reported funding: $110M round (reported) and total disclosed funding around $139M

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Scientific and academic literature search and synthesis

Founded

2021

Industry

Search / Research tools

Tech Stack

Language models / AI

Search indexing

APIs (developer-facing)

Funding Track Record

Reported $110M round- March 8, 2023

$110M

Reported by press as a large round; reported total after the round cited at about $139M

Seed- April 25, 2023

$3M

Company announcement listed participating investors including Kevin Carter, Brian Pokorny, Nomad Capital, Alumni Ventures, Winklevoss Capital and others

Series A- 2024

$11.5M

Company announcement listed participation from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and prior investors

Founders

What we do

TL;DR

Company Overview

Funding Track Record

Founders

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Consensus

consensus.app

Consensus

consensus.app

HQUS

Team Size43

Open Jobs2

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: AI-powered search engine that indexes and synthesizes scientific research

Founding year: 2021

Founders / leadership: Christian Salem (Co‑founder, CPO) and Eric Olson (Co‑founder, CEO)

Corpus size: 200M+ research documents indexed

Business model: Consumer search app with paid Pro tiers and developer APIs

Reported funding: $110M round (reported) and total disclosed funding around $139M

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