Quora, a question-and-answer website, has raised $85 million in a fresh funding round co-led by Sam Altman, on behalf of Y Combinator Continuity and Collaborative Fund.

Previous investors Tiger Global, Matrix Partners, and Dustin Moskovitz — one of the co-founders of Facebook — also participated in this funding round.

The latest funding will be used to expand the platform internationally, grow the business side, and make new hires, especially machine learning engineers, to help personalize the content users see.

Palo Alto, California-based Quora which was founded in 2009 by Adam D’Angelo & Charlie Cheever, is created, edited, and organized by its owners.

The company has been experimenting with this self-service ads model for a few months now and will be launching it out of beta in the coming months. In April 2016, the firm announced an experimental pilot of third-party ads. “At this stage we’ll only be showing ads from a handful of advertisers, and our main aim is to learn what kind of advertising works best for readers, writers, and advertisers,” said cofounder and CEO Adam D’Angelo.

Three years back, Quora secured $80 million in series C round led by Tiger Global Management.
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