- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "founded_year", "conflict": "YC says 2019; CB Insights and LinkedIn founder tenure start Aug 2018", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protobase", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/protobase", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-vogt-b4439377/"]}, {"field": "funding_total", "conflict": "CB Insights reports $500K total convertible note; YC W20 standard deal was $150K for 7%; no primary-source round announcement found to reconcile", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/protobase", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-winter-2020-batch-stats"]}, {"field": "operating_status", "conflict": "YC and YC OSS list Inactive; CB Insights lists Alive as of crawl", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protobase", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/protobase"]}, {"field": "product_description", "conflict": "loot-drop.io describes design-collaboration/prototyping platform and $3.0M cash burn; contradicts YC/founder spreadsheet positioning; loot-drop data unsourced", "source_urls": ["https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/943-protobase", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protobase"]}, {"field": "name_collision", "conflict": "Unrelated entities share the name: University of Magdeburg open-source document store (BTW 2019); Southern DataComm ProtoBase payment software (acquired)", "source_urls": ["https://dl.gi.de/items/82c8b3d1-7513-4a7b-a427-a39fa61b9944", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/southern-datacomm"]}, {"field": "customers_competitors", "gap": "No sourced named customers, revenue, or direct competitor list found", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protobase"]}, {"field": "legal_entity", "gap": "No verified Delaware/legal entity name or SEC filing found", "source_urls": []}, {"field": "crunchbase", "gap": "Crunchbase organization page exists but was not retrievable during research; funding not independently confirmed", "source_urls": ["https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/protobase"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://dl.gi.de/items/82c8b3d1-7513-4a7b-a427-a39fa61b9944", "https://github.com/vogtb", "https://github.com/vogtb/f7", "https://github.com/vogtb/spreadsheet", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/protobase", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/southern-datacomm", "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/protobase", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-vogt-b4439377/", "https://www.loot-drop.io/startup/943-protobase", "https://www.vogt.world/about/", "https://www.vogt.world/excel-and-beyond/", "https://www.vogt.world/status-update-september-2021/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/a-new-standard-deal", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-winter-2020-batch-stats", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protobase", "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/protobase.json"]