- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "funding.total", "issue": "Equity totals vary widely across databases ($3.1M–$11.7M–$204M) because sources mix equity, token sales, and secondary transactions differently.", "source_urls": ["https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/160045-39", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/protocollabs/__jPN7tdA_pdSTvztsVvEJbTF9xAwe7eD2rKPqK6_oCsw", "https://getlatka.com/companies/protocol-labs"]}, {"field": "funding.filecoin_token_sale_total", "issue": "Combined Filecoin raise reported as $205.8M (company), $257M (CoinDesk), and ~$199.9M (sum of SEC Form D filings: $51.7M + $148.2M).", "source_urls": ["https://protocol.ai/about/", "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2017/09/07/257-million-filecoin-breaks-all-time-record-for-ico-funding/", "https://www.formds.com/issuers/protocol-labs-inc"]}, {"field": "funding.september_2014_round", "issue": "Company timeline confirms September 2014 funding from prominent investors but no public amount or full investor list found in primary sources.", "source_urls": ["https://protocol.ai/about/"]}, {"field": "funding.yc_amount", "issue": "YC page lists batch/status but not investment amount; $120K figure comes from FormDs/PitchBook aggregation, not YC directly.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protocol-labs", "https://www.formds.com/issuers/protocol-labs-inc"]}, {"field": "employees", "issue": "YC reports team size 130; homepage/about cite 600–750+ network organizations, which is not headcount.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protocol-labs", "https://protocol.ai/", "https://protocol.ai/about/"]}, {"field": "headquarters", "issue": "YC lists Palo Alto; SEC filings list San Francisco (548 Market Street).", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protocol-labs", "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1675225/000167522517000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml"]}, {"field": "founders", "issue": "Only Juan Benet is listed as founder/CEO in YC and company blog; Wikipedia lists Marvin Ammori as key person but not co-founder; early contributors (e.g., Jeromy Johnson) are not listed as founders.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protocol-labs", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Labs", "https://docs.ipfs.tech/project/history/"]}, {"field": "identity.organization_model", "issue": "Company rebranded from centralized R&D lab to decentralized innovation network (transition completed July 2025), making 'company' vs 'network' boundaries ambiguous.", "source_urls": ["https://protocol.ai/about/", "https://protocol.ai/"]}, {"field": "exit_status", "issue": "Third-party databases (PitchBook, Tracxn, PrivCo) report later-stage VC, secondary transactions, and even M&A entries not corroborated by primary public filings reviewed here.", "source_urls": ["https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/160045-39", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/protocollabs/__jPN7tdA_pdSTvztsVvEJbTF9xAwe7eD2rKPqK6_oCsw", "https://www.privco.com/company/filecoin"]}, {"field": "name_disambiguation", "issue": "Slug protocol_labs maps to protocol.ai (YC S14). Unrelated entities may appear under similar names in other datasets.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/protocol-labs", "https://protocol.ai/"]}]]
- source urls
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