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Consensus

Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that finds and synthesizes answers from scientific research papers.

consensus.app · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·CONSENSUS·26
StageSeries BMay 2026 · led by GreatPoint Ventures[5]
Raised$16Mdisclosed rounds[8]
Headcount26as of Apr 2026[8]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2021[3][8]
Money

Raised $16M across disclosed rounds.[8]

Series B closed May 2026, led by GreatPoint Ventures.[5]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include GreatPoint Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Draper Associates, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Kevin Carter, Path Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Brian Pokorny, Nomad Capital, Winklevoss Capital.[1][2][3][5][7]

People

Eric Olson, Co-Founder & CEO[3][6][10][15][17][8][16]

Christian Salem, Co-Founder & CPO[3][6][10][15][17][8][16]

Aaron Sarnoff, Head of Engineering[8][16]

Karthik Nagarajan, Head of GTM[8][16]

Brett Nebeker, Head of Machine Learning[8][16]

Signals
Jun 23 2026launchLaunch Week Spring 2026 company claim, not independently confirmed[19]
Jun 23 2026newsConsensus uses GPT-5 and the Responses API to complete weeks of research in minutes | OpenAI[20]
May 18 2026newsIntroducing Consensus Research Agent for Efficient Research Workflows | Consensus posted on the.[21]
May 13 2026launchConsensus MCP live in Claude, ChatGPT, and via API company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
May 12 2026launchConsensus launches Research Agent for multi-step research tasks company claim, not independently confirmed[8]
May 11 2026fundingConsensus raises $30M Series B to build the AI OS for Researchers company claim, not independently confirmed[5]
Comps

Semantic Scholar · semanticscholar.org · Same buyer (researchers), same workflow (literature search), and Consensus uses Semantic Scholar's corpus of 200M papers.[2][4]

Dimensions · dimensions.ai · Same buyer (researchers), same workflow (scientific literature search and discovery).[2]

Perplexity · perplexity.ai · Overlapping investor set (Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross) and similar AI answer-engine approach, but Perplexity is general-purpose while Consensus is vertical on scientific research.[2][9]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[19]

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Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that finds and synthesizes answers from scientific research papers.

consensus.app · San Francisco

StageSeries B
Raised$16M
Headcount26
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2021
CompsSemantic Scholar +2

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