Everipedia

Everipedia (/ˌɛvərɪˈpiːdiə/ ), renamed IQ.wiki in 2022, is a blockchain-based online encyclopedia, originally designed as a general purpose reference but has pivoted to focus on the cryptocurrency space. Everipedia was founded in 2014 and was officially launched in 2015, as a fork of Wikipedia. Larry Sanger (who co-founded Wikipedia) joined the company in 2017, and resigned in 2019. The company was initially headquartered in Westwood, Los Angeles but has since relocated to 201 Wilshire Boulevard (suite 314) in Santa Monica, California. The site depicts itself as "The World's Largest Blockchain & Crypto Encyclopedia" and formerly as "everyone's encyclopedia". Everipedia, a portmanteau 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.