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Golden funding, valuation and investors

Self-constructing knowledge graph for research—acquired by ComplyAdvantage in 2024.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series A

$14.5M · September 2020

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$20M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

acquired

acquired · San Francisco, California

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Andreessen Horowitz

Latest tracked event: Acquired by ComplyAdvantage (April 2024). It is shown separately because it is not counted as disclosed equity funding.

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Golden (Golden Recursion Inc.), founded by Jude Gomila in San Francisco, built a self-constructing knowledge graph that ingests public and private sources to map entities, relationships, and topics for research and analysis. The platform combined human curation with ML/NLP to accelerate discovery—positioned as structured intelligence beyond Wikipedia for professionals. Golden raised roughly $59.5M across seed, Series A, and Series B from Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Gigafund, and others. In April 2024, financial crime intelligence company ComplyAdvantage acquired Golden to enhance its data ingestion, entity resolution, and LLM capabilities for AML and fraud screening. Gomila joined as board observer and special advisor; a16z became a major ComplyAdvantage shareholder through the deal.

Why Golden is interesting

Golden automated entity graphs for due diligence and discovery; ComplyAdvantage bought the team to power AML intelligence while a16z and Founders Fund cap table rolled into the acquirer as shareholders.

Product & use cases

Golden automatically builds and maintains a large knowledge graph linking companies, people, products, and concepts—used for research, due diligence, and education with disambiguation across noisy sources.

  • Analyst and investor research on companies, markets, and technologies
  • Entity resolution and relationship mapping for compliance workflows
  • Structured discovery for teams replacing manual wiki or spreadsheet research

Key facts

  • Raised ~$59.5M total across seed through Series B per Golden site and Finovate
  • Acquired Apr 24, 2024 by ComplyAdvantage; a16z joined acquirer cap table (PR Newswire)
  • Founder Gomila previously sold Heyzap mobile platform before Golden (Golden.com)
  • Golden.com now redirects to ComplyAdvantage acquisition messaging

Funding history (newest first)

Acquired by ComplyAdvantage

2024-04 Not disclosed

Source: https://complyadvantage.com/press-media/complyadvantage-acquires-golden/

Series A

2020-09 $14.5M

Source: https://reg-tech.co/2024/05/12/complyadvantage-acquires-golden-recursion/

Seed

2019-05 $5M

Source: https://golden.com/

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Andreessen Horowitz Founders Fund

Competitive landscape

Edge: Automated graph construction at scale with human-in-the-loop quality—ComplyAdvantage cited Golden's LLM and disambiguation team as additive to financial crime datasets.

Golden sat between consumer reference (Wikipedia) and paid data terminals (PitchBook). Its automated graph thesis attracted a16z and Founders Fund, but standalone monetization in general research proved harder than vertical compliance—ComplyAdvantage acquisition aligned product with paying enterprise buyers in financial crime.

  • Wikipedia / Wikidata alternative

    Free collaborative encyclopedia; Golden targeted richer relationship graphs and pro workflows.

  • PitchBook / Crunchbase adjacent

    Structured private-company data for finance; Golden broader topic coverage beyond startups.

  • Palantir adjacent

    Enterprise graph and analytics for government and finance; heavier implementation than Golden's research UI.

  • ComplyAdvantage direct

    Ultimate acquirer—now integrates Golden's graph tech into AML intelligence products.

Notable stories

  • Gomila and ComplyAdvantage CEO Charlie Delingpole knew each other since 2005—deal framed as long relationship, not auction (ComplyAdvantage press).
  • Golden's site states the graph technology now powers financial crime intelligence for 1,000+ enterprises post-acquisition.
  • Founders Fund and Gigafund backed Golden's "self-constructing knowledge database" seed alongside a16z (Golden.com timeline).

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Enterprise SaaS Fintech

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FAQs about Golden

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Golden built an automated knowledge graph mapping entities and relationships from diverse sources—aimed at professional research, due diligence, and structured discovery.
Andreessen Horowitz (/fund/andreessen-horowitz) led seed and Series A; Founders Fund (/fund/founders-fund) participated in early rounds. Total funding about $59.5M.
ComplyAdvantage acquired Golden in April 2024 to integrate graph and LLM capabilities into AML and fraud intelligence products.
The site states Golden is part of ComplyAdvantage; the consumer research product is not marketed as a standalone company.
Golden focused on structured relationship graphs and pro research automation; Wikipedia is community-edited free reference without the same entity-resolution tooling.
Jude Gomila founded Golden (Golden Recursion Inc.) and joined ComplyAdvantage as board observer after the acquisition.
Financial terms were not disclosed in ComplyAdvantage or PR Newswire announcements reviewed.
To improve entity disambiguation, data ingestion, and AI-enriched financial crime insights using Golden's knowledge graph team and technology.
Yes—a16z became a significant ComplyAdvantage shareholder as part of the acquisition structure per company press releases.
PitchBook sells curated private-market data for finance; Golden automated broader topic graphs for general research before pivoting into compliance via acquisition.
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