# Everipedia

The crowd-sourced online encyclopedia for absolutely everything

## Elevator pitch
Everipedia is the next stage in the evolution of the internet - we combine the best parts of Wikipedia, Reddit, and Google into one massive encyclopedia of human knowledge and searchable content. First we’ll make what Wikipedia tried and failed to do: a completely open platform where anyone - not just a few thousand editors - can contribute text, sources, images, and videos for a much richer encyclopedia experience.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/everipedia
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:10878
- Last updated: 2026-06-04T05:02:02Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-04T19:01:38Z

## Quick facts
- 1.8 million monthly unique visitors.
- One of the fastest growing sites in the world. Currently ranked 20,833 up from 1,900,000 in July 2015.
- 3.5 million pages and counting.
- Already making money. Vision to become a site more important than Wikipedia, Google, and Reddit. Revenue will increase with popularity.
- Founder Mahbod's previous company Genius is valued close to $1 billion. Genius investors include Andreessen Horowitz.
- Current banner ad avenues are bringing in about $150-300 per day.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:6795: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## FAQ
1. **The claim that white editors of Wikipedia are paid not with money, but with an ability to "use their power to reinforce their racist, sexist, and bigoted beliefs" is an absurdity, and one in which you are making a blanket--dare I say racist?--statement about white editors at y...**
   - Everipedia doesn't delete 80% of the pages people make, so it's EVERYONE's encyclopedia! We don't discriminate.. do you have an account?
2. **Hello! I understand the need to pay competitive salaries to hire and retain talent and that that will be the main use of the funds you're raising, but are the founders committed in the short term (several years) to ensuring their salaries are commensurate with the size of the ...**
   - Hey scott! Right now only one of the founders gets paid $1K/month. Other than him, only employees get salaries. We figure since founders have more equity, they don't need as much salary for comp. We are working to make this the next Facebook.. me and travis are already rich, and we don't really care about money to begin with, and SAM.. oh man.. you gotta meet Sam. He is the next Zuck!! All he cares about is his site - material things mean nothing to him. All he cares about is Everipedia and w...
3. **What was the previous valuation of the $320,000 raise?**
   - $1.1M for the pre-seed $120K from Mucker Capital before the site launched, $10M for the next $235K from angels, after the site had launched.
4. **Do you have a pitch deck?**
   - yeah! email me at mahbod@everipedia.com! It is pretty old tho - the info on our WeFunder page is way more up-to-date..
5. **What is the main way you will generate revenue for the site? Do you think banner ads alone will generate a large revenue stream? Google uses AdSense with businesses, do you foresee the same type of format? Do you ever think you'll use video ads? Thanks.**
   - For now, we are working with some ad networks, trying to find the best fit. The site already generates substantial revenue, we almost are at the point of covering our costs. Someday, when the site is huge, we would want to run native ads in the form of a "see also" section on every page. We have a janky, manual preview of this on Tinder's wiki: http://www.everipedia.com/tinder/ Imagine if you have a new energy drink, and you can pay to have it on the wikipedia page for coke/pepsi/red bull/etc...

## Team
- Mahbod Moghadam (Founder)
- Travis Moore (Founder)
- Sam Kazemian (Founder)
- Theodor Forselius (Founder)

## Recent posts
- Everipedia Completes Largest Follow-On Financing in Reg Crowdfunding History (2018-07-16T18:39:16Z)
- Everipedia Raises $30 Million (2018-02-08T23:18:14Z)
- Part 2: How It All Began and Message to Investors (2017-08-02T01:01:52Z)
- Part 1: Intro to Everipedia and New Features Since Campaign (2017-07-31T00:00:00Z)

## Q&A
- Q: Hi! I want to ask some questions to clear up things in my previous post. 1. When I asked about your site having less quality than Wikipedia, you said that since you have paid editors, that you have more quality. I can dispute this. Wikipedia, as a non-profit, attracts people to editing by hosting edit-a-thons. They also pay people for their time, by giving grants to people wanting to improve Wikipedia in a big way. They also pay people through their non-profit The Wikimedia Foundation to host edit-a-thons to increase editing. Your site on the other hand, while it has paid editors, doesn't have a crucial part in the community. Wikipedia also has "bot" accounts run by people in the community. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have only seen company run bots on Everipedia. 2. I asked you how you said to Jason "if you search "X wiki" - where X is something that doesn't have a wikipedia page - Everipedia will often win the search! " if you could prove this. You never gave me a yes or no answer. Can you? 3. You answered my question when I asked how Wikipedia was "static" compared to Everipedia. You said that the main difference with Wikipedia, was that it had no CEO. It in fact kind of does. The parent company of Wikipedia, The Wikimedia Foundation, has an Executive Director. Following up to this, how can a company be labeled "static" if it has no CEO? For non-profit organizations, it is uncommon to have a title for a person such as CEO. 4. You said "Wait... so you are going to judge Everipedia based on WIKIPEDIA'S OPINION???" when i said that your company doesn't have a wikipedia page. Wikipedia does not have an opinion on the matter. In their main rules, they never say that Wikipedia is a competition. They have strict Conflict of Interest policies on their site, and there is no one "Wikipedia opinion". Please answer these questions and rephrasings of questions DIRECTLY, and as I said: don't go into PR mode. The last post, you gave me external links to back-up your questions. Instead of giving me external links, talk to me straight. Thanks, James Kerrane
  - A: Hey James, I can answer some of your concerns. Thanks for your interest. First, about paid editors. Both Wikipedia and Everipedia obviously have capital to spend on endeavors that further enrich their respective ecosystems. We have paid editors and volunteers. While being a startup allows us to be more flexible in how we allocate our resources and monetize further down the line, the main important thing is that we have a very diverse set of users on our site from paid, volunteers, scholars, verified editors/celebrities, and wiki enthusiasts. We actually have people who cross edit between Wikipedia and Everipedia, which is highly encouraged. If there's one thing to keep in mind, it's that our vision is not a zero sum game. For Everipedia to win, Wikipedia does not necessarily have to lose. In fact, we encourage all content to be used interchangeably back and forth. I'm sure you've noticed our unique content is free under Creative Commons just like the Wikipedia articles we import. Second, in terms of our prominence in search engines. I think what Mahbod was saying is that search engines partly understand that we are a wiki site with general similarities to Wikipedia because we routinely win results for articles that are not sufficiently covered by Wikipedia. A lot. This is directly related to our mission of "completing Wikipedia" by growing with unique and interesting content that expands the scope of an online encyclopedia for better or worse (depends on if you ask a deletionist or inclusionist). PS: I don't think anyone is going into PR mode. We are pretty genuine, anti-censorship, and very open about everything. Would be great if you tried the platform and signed up and gave us your feedback. Thanks for discussing your concerns.
- Q: Dont't ask as Maeder as Mr. Mahbod won't answer. He still has not answered my simple questions..
  - A: I've answered all of your questions - maybe something wasn't sending?
- Q: What license will you use for the site content? How will you incorporate the Wikipedia licensing terms Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA)?
  - A: We are probably going to use Creative Commons as well, like Wikipedia.
- Q: The claim that white editors of Wikipedia are paid not with money, but with an ability to "use their power to reinforce their racist, sexist, and bigoted beliefs" is an absurdity, and one in which you are making a blanket--dare I say racist?--statement about white editors at your competitor. The biggest "problem" you are trying to solve appears ideological and based on emotion. You seem to have little faith in whites. If you assert that Wikipedia's bias is the major problem you want to solve, why should I believe that your apparent biases won't affect Everipedia?
  - A: Everipedia doesn't delete 80% of the pages people make, so it's EVERYONE's encyclopedia! We don't discriminate.. do you have an account?
- Q: It says that anyone has to forward a token to propose an edit, but I was able to make an edit without coin. I am confused.
  - A: The token launches next month! What is your username? Are you in our fb group?? https://www.facebook.com/groups/everipedia.editors/
- Q: What's your business model? Do people own their own submissions? Is there any value to the contributor?
  - A: Yes! The token will be launched next month, which makes content creators the owners. The token also has inflation built into it which is intended to create revenue without running ads.
- Q: I have some questions for you: 1. You said to Steven Alexander Littaua that you "think [you] can make [Wikipedia] much better. also, Wikipedia started by importing Britannica. They made Britannica better.. we are going to make Wikipedia better!" What can you do on your clone of Wikipedia, that you can not do to improve ON Wikipedia? 2. You also said to Nicholas Robbins that "Everipedia doesn't delete 80% of the pages people make, so it's EVERYONE's encyclopedia! We don't discriminate.. do you have an account?" Does this mean that you will have less quality than Wikipedia? Wikipedia deletes articles to make sure that they are not wasting space on their servers for articles that are not notable. 3. You said to Jason Thomas that "one use case for Everipedia [is] that [you] really like is the potential for every small business to have a page - a Yelp competitor!" If every small business had a page like you hoped, how would you pay for servers to host these useless pages? 4. If this is a for-profit company, how will you earn editors mainstream, against Wikipedias' non-profit status? You also said to Jason "if you search "X wiki" - where X is something that doesn't have a wikipedia page - Everipedia will often win the search! " Can you prove this? 5. You also said to Jason, that "[You] were thinking about delaying WeFunder until it is "fixed" - but the site will *never* be fixed, it will keep on improving forever! (same as, say, facebook) - unlike Wikipedia, which is static.. " How is Wikipedia "static" compared to your website? You said that your website "will keep on improving forever" but this is the same case for Wikipedia! 6. I want a straight answer for this question that Alex K asked but you failed to answer: "Your T&Cs seem to claim "When you post User Content to the Service [...], you hereby grant, [...], to Everipedia an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), create derivative works of, distribute and otherwise fully exploit all Intellectual Property Rights in and to such User Content". So basically you can do whatever you want with the content. However, your users cannot do any of this: "...you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or the Everipedia Content, in whole or in part, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content". Your own - meaning each person's personal edits? Who in their right mind will contribute to your site?" Stating what Alex K said, "who in their right mind will contribute to your site?" 7. As you were saying to Adam Levinson, "Everipedia got a WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE made about it today". This is not true. The only copy of the article was deleted on Wikipedia for blatant promotion and lack of notability. If your website is not notable enough to stay on it's competitors website, than how should you expect your website to compete? This was my last question. As you answer this, please do not go full-on PR mode, like with other questions you answered. I want REAL answers, if you are a REAL company. Sorry if this post seemed a little attacking, but I wanted to know the real truth. Thanks -James
  - A: wassup james 1. what do you mean by "clone of wikipedia"? everipedia is new software that we think is far superior to wikipedia - it is like airbnb vs craigslist. it is a lot easier to make pages and the incentive structure for users is different - celebrities can get Verified Accounts, users get IQ and top community members get paid and even get equity. 2. Everipedia allows any page where all of the information is properly cited from other sources. apparently there is a lot of demand for this since we're already one of the 2,000 biggest sites in the U.S. the pages - at least the pages that are getting substantial traffic - are higher quality than wikipedia because we have a paid staff. we also watch users pretty stringently and have strict quality control - nothing is posted without being reviewed by staff. 3. The servers don't cost as much these days as you seem to think - look at Facebook/Yelp - how do you think they do it? It seems like they are doing OK Also - very good question - because Everipedia will soon be launching the "corporate wiki" product - where we charge between $1K - $5K to enhance and promote your wiki. Tell any small business owners to get in touch with me - this is the best way to promote your business on the internet. 4. Search some stuff see how we do! Our traffic is pretty good: https://www.quantcast.com/everipedia.com I think it will be way easier to build the community when we can offer compensation - there is this theory called "capitalism" - I am a belieber.. we already have a really big community check out our fb group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/832060766909870/ 5. Wikipedia is a dinosaur, it has not changed since 2001. It doesn't have a technical CEO, like Facebook/Everipedia have. This makes a big difference to ME - maybe it is not a big deal to you? (I think it's a big difference) 6. The terms of use were mostly copied from Genius, my previous company. We then added that we are under Creative Commons. So I don't think there is anything unusual in our terms - it is similar to other crowd-knowledge websites, plus we are under Creative Commons. 7. Wait... so you are going to judge Everipedia based on WIKIPEDIA'S OPINION??? That's like asking the Maginot Line "hey, dude, what do you think of the Blitzkrieg?"
- Q: OK it has been nearly two months since I invested and have heard exactly SQUAT from anyone about this. No info, no updates, nothing. Extend some courtesy, please.
  - A: The deal still hasn't finalized, we feel the same way. We still don't even have a list of all investors - once we get it, believe me, we are def going to be in touch! Please contact WeFunder and ask them why the delay? Also kindly email me at mahbod@everipedia.com we can set up a time to talk!
- Q: when will you be accepting another round of startup investors and will the amount still be the same?
  - A: Going to focus on making the site grow first, but we will definitely be back! WeFunder has been an extraordinarily valuable endeavor for our site and community, it is really cool to have people using the site who are personally invested in its future.
- Q: How it will affect your business if Wikipedia tomorrow decides to add "verified pages" and ads?
  - A: Unless Wikipedia decides to start from scratch, it's not really the same thing as Everipedia. Our software, citation system, and general philosophy are completely different. This is like asking "what if someone decides to build a competitor?" - in which case, my answer is, good luck! Building a site like this takes a lot of time, technical talent, and hard work.
- Q: Your T&Cs seem to claim "When you post User Content to the Service [...], you hereby grant, [...], to Everipedia an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), create derivative works of, distribute and otherwise fully exploit all Intellectual Property Rights in and to such User Content". So basically you can do whatever you want with the content. However, your users cannot do any of this: "...you agree not to modify, copy, frame, scrape, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Service or the Everipedia Content, in whole or in part, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content". Your own - meaning each person's personal edits? Who in their right mind will contribute to your site?
  - A: The terms currently are based on the terms from my last site, genius.com, which has tens of thousands of contributors and is one of the biggest sites on the web.
- Q: I'd like to followup on the question about content licensing. "We are probably going to use Creative Commons as well, like Wikipedia." - but right now you are not? It looks like there is no even proper Creative Commons attribution on the page - link to the Wikipedia is not enough. You still put (C) Everipedia on every page instead of marking the page copied from Wikipedia as a CC-ShareAlike-3.0.
  - A: We actually resolved this, if you look at the terms, the "wiki import" pages are under Creative Commons license.
- Q: Will Everipedia use blockchain?
  - A: For sure! Our CEO is very into bitcoin/fintech, I'm really excited to have bitcoin-for-IQ set up soon!
- Q: You say Everipedia makes substantial revenue. What are the revenue sources, ads only?
  - A: Yes we run simple banner ads for now, eventually we want to do sophisticated native ads.
- Q: Where is your email Mr. Mahbod
  - A: I'm at mahbod@everipedia.com