- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"topic": "Founder list", "details": "Y Combinator lists Jake Quist, Peter Harrington, and Tyler Neylon as former founders, but does not list Roger Huffstetler. Other sources call Roger Huffstetler co-founder/president or founder/president, and Tracxn lists four founders: Peter Harrington, Jake Quist, Roger Dean Huffstetler, and Tyler Neylon. Golden lists Jake Quist and Roger Dean Huffstetler/Roger Huffstetler as founders but not Tyler Neylon in the visible founder field.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zillabyte", "https://commandyourbusiness.com/2013/10/15/episode-12-roger-huffstetler-marine-corps-veteran-entrepreneur-co-founder-and-president-zillabyte/", "https://poetsandquants.com/2013/12/06/a-harvard-mba-co-founds-the-pandora-of-sales-leads/?pq-category=students", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zillabyte/__qdSqKD2pYDh7HHFGhjuEOWc8yYAHNEZ_sYW_KJEoq5M", "https://golden.com/wiki/Zillabyte-99B6K9G"]}, {"topic": "Funding amount and round count", "details": "YCDB and Golden report about USD 1.5M total funding; LinkedIn reports USD 1.625M and four prior funding rounds; Tracxn reports two seed rounds with undisclosed amounts. I would treat the USD 1.5M-USD 1.625M figures as reported estimates rather than definitive filings.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycdb.co/company/zillabyte", "https://golden.com/wiki/Zillabyte-99B6K9G", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zillabyte", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zillabyte/__qdSqKD2pYDh7HHFGhjuEOWc8yYAHNEZ_sYW_KJEoq5M/funding-and-investors"]}, {"topic": "Funding investors", "details": "The investor list is partly sourced from profile databases rather than primary financing announcements. Strongly repeated names include Y Combinator, DFJ, Menlo Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, and KEC Ventures, but full round-by-round investor allocation is incomplete.", "source_urls": ["https://linkedin.com/in/jacobquist", "https://kando.tech/company/zillabyte", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zillabyte/__qdSqKD2pYDh7HHFGhjuEOWc8yYAHNEZ_sYW_KJEoq5M/funding-and-investors"]}, {"topic": "Employee count", "details": "Employee/team size varies materially by source: YC says team size 2, YCDB says 5 employees, LinkedIn says 1 current employee for a closed company, Golden gives a broad 1-100 range, and Mindmaps gives 11-50.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zillabyte", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/zillabyte", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zillabyte", "https://golden.com/wiki/Zillabyte-99B6K9G", "https://mindmaps.ai-ecosystem.org/map/firms/56457/"]}, {"topic": "Status", "details": "YC and MicroVentures say inactive/ceased operations, and LegiStorm quotes a closing notice. Golden's visible structured field says operating status 'Active', which appears stale or inconsistent with the stronger shutdown sources.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zillabyte", "https://microventures.com/portfolio/zillabyte", "https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/129458/Zillabyte.html", "https://golden.com/wiki/Zillabyte-99B6K9G"]}, {"topic": "Exit or bankruptcy", "details": "I found no evidence of an acquisition or formal exit. LinkedIn lists a bankruptcy item dated 2015-08-01, but other reviewed shutdown sources say only that the company ceased operations or was closing.", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/zillabyte", "https://microventures.com/portfolio/zillabyte", "https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/129458/Zillabyte.html"]}, {"topic": "Customers", "details": "Public sources reviewed mention an unnamed early customer with a 35 percent conversion-rate improvement but do not name customers. No verified customer roster was found.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/06/adstage-zillabyte-launch/"]}, {"topic": "Exact founded date", "details": "The sourced materials consistently support the year 2011, but no reliable exact founding date was found.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycdb.co/company/zillabyte", "https://golden.com/wiki/Zillabyte-99B6K9G", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zillabyte", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zillabyte/__qdSqKD2pYDh7HHFGhjuEOWc8yYAHNEZ_sYW_KJEoq5M"]}]]
- source urls
- ["https://commandyourbusiness.com/2013/10/15/episode-12-roger-huffstetler-marine-corps-veteran-entrepreneur-co-founder-and-president-zillabyte/", "https://egg.dataiku.com/users-floating-in-space-a-study-in-recommendations/", "https://foundertrace.com/companies/zillabyte/", "https://golden.com/wiki/Zillabyte-99B6K9G", "https://kando.tech/company/zillabyte", "https://linkedin.com/in/jacobquist", "https://microventures.com/portfolio/zillabyte", "https://mindmaps.ai-ecosystem.org/map/firms/56457/", "https://poetsandquants.com/2013/12/06/a-harvard-mba-co-founds-the-pandora-of-sales-leads/?pq-category=students", "https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/06/adstage-zillabyte-launch/", "https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/21/zillabyte-relaunch/", "https://thenextweb.com/news/launch-festival-winners-announced-zillabyte-jawfish-games-named-top-winners", "https://theorg.com/org/unbox-research/org-chart/tyler-neylon", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zillabyte/__qdSqKD2pYDh7HHFGhjuEOWc8yYAHNEZ_sYW_KJEoq5M", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/zillabyte/__qdSqKD2pYDh7HHFGhjuEOWc8yYAHNEZ_sYW_KJEoq5M/funding-and-investors", "https://venturebeat.com/entrepreneur/and-the-winners-of-launch-are/", "https://venturebeat.com/technology/these-4-startups-are-leading-the-pack-at-launch-2013/", "https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/129458/Zillabyte.html", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zillabyte", "https://www.manning.com/authors/peter-harrington", "https://www.weekday.works/people/jake-quist-jacobquist", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/zillabyte", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zillabyte"]