- conflicts or gaps
- [{"founded_year_discrepancy": {"value": "LinkedIn/Tracxn/Lei Xu cite 2015; YC profile cites Founded 2016 (likely company start vs YC batch year)", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emote", "https://www.leixusam.com/about"]}, "headquarters_discrepancy": {"value": "YC and Tracxn list San Francisco; LinkedIn, Julian Golder profile, and Unreasonable list Oakland, CA", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emote", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://unreasonablegroup.com/ventures/emote"]}, "employee_count_discrepancy": {"value": "LinkedIn reports 2; Tracxn reports 5 (Apr 2026); YC reports team size 6; aVenture lists 30 (likely stale/erroneous directory data)", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emote", "https://aventure.vc/companies/emote-uk"]}, "founder_listing_gap": {"value": "YC Active Founders section lists only Julian Golder; Imagine K12/Tracxn/LinkedIn list both Julian Golder and Lei Xu as co-founders", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emote", "http://www.imaginek12.com/alumni.html", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4"]}, "undisclosed_third_investor": {"value": "Tracxn lists 3 institutional investors but publicly names only Y Combinator and Imagine K12", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4"]}, "name_collision_unrelated_company": {"value": "Separate Toronto-based 'Emote Education' (founded 2020, CEO Sarah Dean, K-8 SEL curriculum) is a different entity sharing similar branding", "source_urls": ["https://www.highperformr.ai/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc."]}, "stale_growth_metrics": {"value": "Unreasonable profile cites 250 schools/month and 50,000+ student uses (circa 2018 press era); conflicts with current small reported headcount and no recent funding", "source_urls": ["https://unreasonablegroup.com/ventures/emote", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4"]}, "no_funding_since_2016": {"value": "All sourced databases show only one $120K seed round in Aug 2016; no disclosed Series A or later rounds", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://leadiq.com/c/emote/5a1db26a2300005b00ab19bf"]}, "open_source_name_confusion": {"value": "Unrelated open-source/software products named 'Emote' (Linux emoji picker, EmoteLab on Steam) are not this company", "source_urls": ["https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/releases/tag/v4.0.1", "https://www.wutshot.com/a/emotelab-patch-4-0"]}}]
- source urls
- ["http://www.imaginek12.com/alumni.html", "https://aventure.vc/companies/emote-uk", "https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/releases/tag/v4.0.1", "https://leadiq.com/c/emote/5a1db26a2300005b00ab19bf", "https://linkedin.com/in/juliangolder", "https://linkedin.com/in/leixusam", "https://theorg.com/org/emote-education/org-chart/julian-golder", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/emote/__TSP3ki9T1gOZRF5usWB2AaQjdHbaiMbbCRtdkZpIiW4", "https://unreasonablegroup.com/ventures/emote", "https://www.emotenow.com/", "https://www.highperformr.ai/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://www.leixusam.com/about", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/emote-education-inc.", "https://www.wutshot.com/a/emotelab-patch-4-0", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/ik12-plus-yc/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emote"]