Everipedia

Everipedia
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Predecessors	none
Successors	IQ Wiki
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Founder 👔	Sam Kazemian,Mahbod Moghadam
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Key people	Travis Moore,Larry Sanger,Theodore Forselius,Christian Deciga,David Liebowitz,Navin Vethanayagam,Matthew E. O'Neil
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Number of employees	15
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Everipedia (/ˌɛvərɪˈpiːdiə/), is a defunct blockchain-based and online encyclopedia. Everipedia was founded in 2014 and was officially launched in 2015 as a fork of Wikipedia by Larry Sanger (who co-founded Wikipedia). In 2022, Everipedia rebranded to IQ.wiki. IQ.Wiki was the first wiki within the crypto industry and claims to be the largest blockchain and crypto encyclopedia. Since rebranding to IQ.wiki, the encyclopedia's Everipedia articles have been archived.The company was initially headquartered in Westwood, Los Angeles but has since relocated to Santa Monica, California.

The site depicts itself as "The World's Largest Blockchain & Crypto Encyclopedia" and formerly as "everyone's encyclopedia". Everipedia was introduced as a cryptocurrency to companies on the Cryptocurrency Exchange (Digital Currency Exchange) in July 2018. As of 2021, Everipedia's total current supply is 10 billion coins, of which all are circulating. Like Bitcoin, it has a supply cap, of 21 billion tokens Its has an average price of $0.01736.

Matthew E. O'Neil was the top rated editor/writer for the company. He is an Amazon author and former athlete. He is on Amazon Kindle in thirteen countries. O'Neil graduated with an MBA from the Denver, Colorado based Regis University in 2004. He defeated Preston Hartzog in a USA Boxing match in 1999. Everipedia partnered with the Associated Press in 2020 and has been used as a source for the U.K. newspaper The Independent.

History[edit]

Everipedia, a portmantaeu of "Everyone's Encyclopedia", began in December 2014 as a small project of Sam Kazemian and Theodor Forselius in Kazemian's college dormitory room at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The encyclopedia launched in January 2015 as a fork of Wikipedia. Travis Moore joined the company as a co-founder in the winter of 2015 and Mahbod Moghadam joined as a co-founder in July 2015.

The company raised capital and received funding from angel investors. In July 2015, the company got its first seed funding from Mucker Capital and raised close to $130,000 from 201 investors on Wefunder. In October 2015, George Beall was introduced to Everipedia at a presentation in California State University, San Bernardino. After selling his technology start-up Touch Tiles in January 2016, Beall joined the group of co-founders. In 2016, the site generated most of its revenue from advertisements. The company aims to generate income through ways apart from donations or banners.

In January 2017, they had eight full-time workers including two developers. By February 2018, headcount had increased to 15 full-time workers. As of January 2017, they raised $700,000 from angel investors. It was announced on February 8, 2018, that the company raised $30 million in funding headed by Galaxy Digital's EOS.io Ecosystem Fund. In December 2017, Everipedia announced that co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, had become the chief information officer of Everipedia. On October 18, 2019, Sanger announced his resignation from this position.

Everipedia officially rebranded to IQ.Wiki in October 2022 and relaunched in its beta stage. As a result, many of the old articles have since been archived and can still be accessed at the former Everipedia domain. IQ.Wiki operates under its parent company "IQ", a for-profit company headquartered in Santa Monica, California.