Everipedia (2014–2022) 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. In October 2015, George Beall was introduced to Everipedia at a presentation in
California State University, San Bernardino. After selling his technology start-up Touch Tiles in January 2016, Beall joined the group of co-founders. In January 2017, they had eight full-time workers including two developers. , they raised $700,000 from angel investors. It was announced on February 8, 2018, that the company raised $30 million in funding headed by Galaxy Digital's
EOS.io Ecosystem Fund. In December 2017, Everipedia announced that co-founder of Wikipedia,
Larry Sanger, had become the
chief information officer of Everipedia. On October 18, 2019, Sanger announced his resignation from this position. The majority of Everipedia's articles were copied from Wikipedia and promotional material about
cryptocurrency and can still be accessed on the former domain.
Inactivation and archival (2022–present) Everipedia was converted to a read-only archive in October 2022. Its parent company, IQ, has created a new crypto-only encyclopedia called IQ.wiki. ==Products==