1 Matching Annotations
- Aug 2022
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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Anno, a public benefit corporation (aka “Annotation Unlimited, PBC”) that shares the Hypothesis mission as well as its team. We’ve done this so that we can take investment in a mission aligned way and scale the Hypothesis service to meet the opportunity in front of us. Anno is funded by a $14M seed round that includes a $2.5M investment from ITHAKA, the nonprofit provider of JSTOR
Anno is a public benefit corporation to house the hypothes.is mission set up to allow investment. Anno attracted 14M including 2M5 from JSTOR. JSTOR imo is of dubious moral nature wrt OA, public domain, and particularly ending the chokehold of publishers on distribution of scholalry works, inverting their centuries old mission of making distribution possible. Source of funding impacts the course of what is funded towards the character of the funders.
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