San Francisco · 2017–2024
We set out to build a self-constructing knowledge graph of the world's information. In 2024, that technology found its home inside ComplyAdvantage — powering financial crime intelligence for over 1,000 enterprises.
The acquisition
Acquired by ComplyAdvantage in 2024.
On 24 April 2024, ComplyAdvantage — the AI-driven financial crime intelligence firm protecting over 1,000 enterprises across 75 countries — acquired Golden.
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Into the ingestion layer
Golden's data extraction and entity-disambiguation methods now feed ComplyAdvantage's ingestion pipeline, sharpening real-time risk insights for regulated institutions.
02
Two teams, united
Golden's AI and large-language-model specialists joined ComplyAdvantage's data science team to build on interconnected data at scale.
03
Founder as advisor
Founder and CEO Jude Gomila joined ComplyAdvantage as a board observer and special advisor. a16z became a top shareholder of the combined company.
The story
A self-constructing knowledge base.
Golden set out to map human knowledge with machine intelligence — automating one of the world's largest knowledge graphs from millions of disparate sources.
Founded · 2017 Golden
Jude Gomila starts Golden in San Francisco to combine artificial and human intelligence into one continuously reconciled record.
Seed · 2019 $5M
a16z, Founders Fund, Gigafund and SV Angel back the first self-constructing knowledge database.
Series A · 2021 $14.5M
Led by a16z; Marc Andreessen joins the board. Golden closes a $1M US Air Force contract.
Series B · 2022 $40M
a16z leads again to scale the graph, bringing Golden's total funding to roughly $59.5M.
Acquired · 2024 ComplyAdvantage
Golden joins ComplyAdvantage to power AI-enriched financial crime intelligence worldwide.
The team
Founder, engineers, and the investors behind them.
Golden was founded by Jude Gomila — a Cambridge engineer who previously co-founded the mobile platform Heyzap (acquired 2016) — and built by a small team of AI, NLP and knowledge-graph specialists.
Founder & CEO Jude Gomila
Set the mission of mapping the world's knowledge; now board observer and special advisor at ComplyAdvantage.
Lead investor a16z
Andreessen Horowitz backed every round; Marc Andreessen served on Golden's board.
Backers Founders Fund
With Gigafund, SV Angel, DCVC and angels — roughly $59.5M raised across seed, Series A and Series B.
The team AI & NLP
Engineers specialising in data extraction, entity disambiguation and large language models — now part of ComplyAdvantage's data science team.