- conflicts or gaps
- [{"founding_year": {"value": "CEO Medium post says 'started in 2017'; CB Insights, Tracxn, TechCrunch (June 2018: 'three-month-old'), and GitHub org (created 2018-04-02) point to 2018 incorporation/launch", "source_urls": ["https://medium.com/elph/elph-has-been-acquired-by-brex-f5e6e974572d", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elph", "https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/13/this-new-startup-wants-to-be-the-netscape-for-crypto-and-some-investors-think-it-has-a-shot/", "https://github.com/ElphNetwork"]}, "total_funding_amount": {"value": "Sources disagree: $875K (Berkeley EECS, Global Venturing), ~$880K (CB Insights), $900K (Startup Intros), $1.02M over 2 rounds (Tracxn); TechCrunch says 'a little less than a million'", "source_urls": ["https://eecs.berkeley.edu/news/startup-elph-secures-875k-pre-seed-funding/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elph", "https://startupintros.com/orgs/elph", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/elph/__y5FHVs2KsNlLz1hYQwOqKVZx6nOAgsP90DKJsr1-pwY", "https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/13/this-new-startup-wants-to-be-the-netscape-for-crypto-and-some-investors-think-it-has-a-shot/"]}, "funding_round_count": {"value": "Most sources report 1 pre-seed round (2018); Tracxn reports 2 rounds including a 2019 seed round not corroborated by primary announcements", "source_urls": ["https://startupintros.com/orgs/elph", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elph", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/elph/__y5FHVs2KsNlLz1hYQwOqKVZx6nOAgsP90DKJsr1-pwY"]}, "founder_count_on_yc_page": {"value": "YC company page lists 4 active founders (Malhotra, Luthra, Chitters, Ravi); Brex press release and CEO Medium post list 5 including Abhinav Lanka", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elph", "https://www.brex.com/journal/press/elph", "https://medium.com/elph/elph-has-been-acquired-by-brex-f5e6e974572d"]}, "acquisition_date": {"value": "Medium announcement dated 2019-03-21; CB Insights and Tracxn news entries cite 2019-03-25", "source_urls": ["https://medium.com/elph/elph-has-been-acquired-by-brex-f5e6e974572d", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elph", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/elph/__y5FHVs2KsNlLz1hYQwOqKVZx6nOAgsP90DKJsr1-pwY"]}, "acquisition_price": {"value": "Not publicly disclosed in Brex press release or founder announcement", "source_urls": ["https://www.brex.com/journal/press/elph", "https://medium.com/elph/elph-has-been-acquired-by-brex-f5e6e974572d"]}, "post_acquisition_product_fate": {"value": "No authoritative public source confirms whether Elph consumer products (DApp Browser, Plasma sidechains) continued under Brex branding; Medium comment (2020) asks what happened to Elph products with no official answer found", "source_urls": ["https://medium.com/elph/elph-has-been-acquired-by-brex-f5e6e974572d"]}, "cbinsights_investor_anomaly": {"value": "CB Insights lists Brex as an investor, likely reflecting the acquisition rather than a prior equity investment; not corroborated as a pre-acquisition funding round elsewhere", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elph"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://eecs.berkeley.edu/news/startup-elph-secures-875k-pre-seed-funding/", "https://github.com/ElphNetwork", "https://globalventuring.com/university/elph-enters-the-house-for-pre-seed-funding/", "https://medium.com/elph/elph-has-been-acquired-by-brex-f5e6e974572d", "https://medium.com/elph/introducing-elph-highly-scalable-blockchain-infrastructure-5d4591259c18", "https://startupintros.com/orgs/elph", "https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/13/this-new-startup-wants-to-be-the-netscape-for-crypto-and-some-investors-think-it-has-a-shot/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/elph/__y5FHVs2KsNlLz1hYQwOqKVZx6nOAgsP90DKJsr1-pwY", "https://www.brex.com/journal/press/elph", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/elph", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/elph"]