
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.

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.
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
Scientific and academic literature search and synthesis
2021
Search / Research tools
$110M
Reported by press as a large round; reported total after the round cited at about $139M
$3M
Company announcement listed participating investors including Kevin Carter, Brian Pokorny, Nomad Capital, Alumni Ventures, Winklevoss Capital and others
$11.5M
Company announcement listed participation from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and prior investors
About Consensus:
Consensus is building the OS for research. Today, our academic search engine helps 8 million students, researchers, and doctors analyze scientific papers and complete literature reviews 10x faster.
Our Series A was led by USV, with major participation from top AI investors, including Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. Consensus has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nature, and a16z as one of today’s most exciting and important AI startups.
Our mission is to empower the world to understand, create, and apply good science. Help us build the future of research.
Role: Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and infrastructure that form the foundation of our product.
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Final offers are determined by multiple factors and may vary from the amounts listed above.
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