Consensus Raises $11.5 Million in Series A Funding to Make the Worlds Scientific Research Discoverable and Consumable
Summary
Consensus aims to change this equation and make humanitys most valuable source of knowledge, scientific research, discoverable, accessible and consumable. Since launching their AI search engine in the Winter of 2022, Consensus has grown to over 400,000 monthly active users and nearly $2M in annualized revenue, growing the latter by over 600% in 2024 alone. Users use Consensus today to supercharge their literature reviews in their studies, find scientific citations for work presentations and even to fact check their friends. Queries into Consensus span from the academically-minded: "Review the literature on the relationship between socioeconomic factors and healthcare outcomes in America", to the simple and straightforward: "is the HPV vaccine safe?" Eric originally pitched the idea of building a science answer engine to Christian nearly a decade ago during their time as classmates at Northwestern University.