London-based Arbolus raises €14.2M to make human knowledge digital; here’s how

London-based Arbolus, a networking platform with a mission to make human knowledge digital, announced on Thursday that it has raised $15M (approximately €14.29M) in its Series A round of funding. The company aims to become the leading disruptor in the expert knowledge industry.

Investors

The round was led by Element Ventures alongside existing investor Fuel Ventures.

Steve Gibson of Element Ventures says, “Arbolus are disrupting one of the largest remaining analogue markets. The early client validation has been nothing short of exceptional. The vision, credibility, expertise and passion provided by founders Sam and Will were compelling from our first meeting.”

According to reports, the investment is supported by Silicon Valley Bank, which will provide a debt facility alongside the equity.

Capital utilisation

Arbolus says that the fresh funds will help the company meet growing customer demand, develop further products, and continue its disruption of knowledge sharing.

Sam Glasswell, CEO and co-founder of Arbolus, says, “The traditional model for knowledge sharing lacks innovation and is cost-prohibitive to scale. At Arbolus we’re building a platform that breaks that framework and gives professionals more autonomy. We are driven by the mission of making the world’s offline knowledge digitally accessible to a wider customer base. We want to index the world’s human knowledge and make that widely searchable for the first time.”

Arbolus reports to have seen its revenue triple in the last year, doubled its team size to 100, witnessed increased customer demand, and expanded its operations into the US, Spain and India.

“Making the world’s human knowledge digital”

Founded in 2017 by Sam Glasswell and Will Leeming, Arbolus develops technology to disrupt conventional approaches to knowledge sharing. “We want to turn offline human knowledge digital and make it widely available for the first time,” says the company.

Arbolus’ platform opens up offline human knowledge using machine learning and natural language processing capabilities. Its technology helps businesses source the right industry professionals and enables multiple methods of gathering information and ‘unique’ data points. While market research and alternative data platforms index published information, Arbolus claims to be making previously offline human knowledge available for the first time.

The startup is headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Barcelona and Delhi.