Heptabase
ActiveAn intelligent, visual knowledge base for learning complex topics.
About
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.
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heptabase.com ↗Heptabase is an intelligent, visual knowledge base designed for students, researchers, and lifelong learners. It combines AI-assisted tutoring, integration with research tools, and a block-based editor to organize sources, notes, highlights, and discussions in one connected workspace.
Heptabase provides a visual, block-based editor to build a connected knowledge base from sources, notes, highlights, and discussions. It includes AI-powered tutoring that guides learners through structured, personalized sessions, citations for sources, and integrations (e.g., Readwise, Zotero). It supports agent-assisted learning, source explanation, research tasks, and a workflow that bridges researching, note-taking, and learning in one platform; there is also a CLI and compatibility with code assistants like Claude and Codex for advanced users.
Who it’s for: students, researchers, lifelong learners
- AI tutor for guided learning sessions
- Block-based editor with bi-directional links
- PDF/YouTube/Note/Journal integration
- Zotero integration and web clipping
- Source explanations with cited reasoning
- Daily journals and highlights organization
- AI-driven research assistance with citations
investor backing mentioned
Founders · 3
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.
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.
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.
Formerly “Project Meta”
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