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Heptabase

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Founded 2021Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Heptabase is an intelligent, visual knowledge base built for students, researchers, and lifelong learners. Our product helps you master anything you learn and do your best research with AI.

Heptabase is backed by Y Combinator, HOF Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Moving Capital, Tonic Fund, and other investors, including the founders of Socialcam, Triplebyte, Codementor, and more.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Project Meta

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Alan Chan

Founder

I'm the co-founder and CEO of Heptabase. I previously studied CS at Minerva University (2019), Physics & Math at National Taiwan University (2016) and voluntarily dropped out from both of them to pursue better ways of learning. I want to help people learn better, think deeper, and make sense of the massive information in our complex world. To achieve that, we're building the best learning tools that will sit on top of a global knowledge discovery platform.

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Yeefun Lin

Founder

I'm the co-founder and CTO of Heptabase. I studied Sociology at National Taiwan University (2019) and became a software engineer through self-learning. I believe the best knowledge management can produce the greatest ideas. Starting from Heptabase, we want to reinvent the whole knowledge management system.

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Ethan Wu

Founder

I’m the co-founder and product designer of Heptabase. Starting with my electronics engineering background in university, I ended up becoming obsessed with information design. I have a deep belief that knowledge coming from cross-disciplinary exploration plays a crucial part in human technology progress, and Heptabase’s original design began from here.

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10team members reported
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Founded 2021 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedManchester, England, United Kingdom; Remote
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-09-23

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