San Francisco · 2017–2024

Golden is now part of ComplyAdvantage.

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.

2017

Founded

$59.5M

Raised

a16z

Lead backer

2024

Acquired

Headquarters

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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.

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.

Two teams, united

Golden's AI and large-language-model specialists joined ComplyAdvantage's data science team to build on interconnected data at scale.

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.

"Financial crime insights built on interconnected data have been our north star."

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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.