Youniversity Ventures
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Youniversity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim that focuses on investing in technology startups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Youniversity Ventures canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1030193 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Youniversity Ventures Context triple: [Jawed Karim, founded, Youniversity Ventures]
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A.
Thirty Five Ventures
Thirty Five Ventures is a business and investment firm co-founded by NBA star Kevin Durant that focuses on venture capital, media, and sports-related enterprises.
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B.
Founders Lab
Founders Lab is an innovation and entrepreneurship space at Elmhurst University that supports student startups and experiential learning in business and technology.
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C.
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator is a leading startup accelerator and incubator at the University of California, Berkeley that supports early-stage companies with mentorship, resources, and access to investors.
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D.
NoVo Foundation
The NoVo Foundation is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing social justice, gender equality, and the rights and well-being of marginalized communities worldwide.
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E.
Solusi University
Solusi University is a private Christian institution of higher education in Zimbabwe, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and located near Bulawayo.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Youniversity Ventures Target entity description: Youniversity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim that focuses on investing in technology startups.
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A.
Thirty Five Ventures
Thirty Five Ventures is a business and investment firm co-founded by NBA star Kevin Durant that focuses on venture capital, media, and sports-related enterprises.
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B.
Founders Lab
Founders Lab is an innovation and entrepreneurship space at Elmhurst University that supports student startups and experiential learning in business and technology.
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C.
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator
Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator is a leading startup accelerator and incubator at the University of California, Berkeley that supports early-stage companies with mentorship, resources, and access to investors.
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D.
NoVo Foundation
The NoVo Foundation is a philanthropic organization focused on advancing social justice, gender equality, and the rights and well-being of marginalized communities worldwide.
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E.
Solusi University
Solusi University is a private Christian institution of higher education in Zimbabwe, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and located near Bulawayo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
early-stage investment firm
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venture capital firm ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coFoundedBy |
Jawed Karim
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Keith Rabois ⓘ Kevin Hartz ⓘ |
| coFounderJawedKarimKnownFor | co-founding YouTube ⓘ |
| coFounderKeithRaboisKnownFor | roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square ⓘ |
| coFounderKevinHartzKnownFor | co-founding Eventbrite ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn | early-stage technology startups ⓘ |
| hasCoFounderBackground |
Silicon Valley venture ecosystem
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entrepreneurship ⓘ startup operations ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoFounder |
Jawed Karim
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Keith Rabois ⓘ Kevin Hartz ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
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venture capital ⓘ |
| investmentFocus |
consumer technology
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internet startups ⓘ technology companies ⓘ |
| investmentStage | early stage ⓘ |
| knownFor | backing early-stage technology founders ⓘ |
| targetSector |
online platforms
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software startups ⓘ web services ⓘ |
| typicalRole |
angel-style investor
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seed investor ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Youniversity Ventures Description of subject: Youniversity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim that focuses on investing in technology startups.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jawed Karim