Question: Nupedia was underwritten by what company that was founded in 1996?

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Kaboom Studios: Kaboom Studios Limited (formerly Geoff Brown Holdings Limited) was a British holding company established by Geoff Brown in 1996 to pursue video game development company investment.  The company was started for Brown's December 1996 acquisition of a 75% stake in Silicon Dreams Studio for at least GB£ .  Silicon Dreams Studio was founded by Brown in March 1994, as in-house development team for his publishing company, U.S. Gold, until the entire CentreGold umbrella (including U.S. Gold and Silicon Dreams) was sold to Eidos Interactive in April 1996.  In January 1997, Geoff Brown Holdings also acquired Attention to Detail, and a motion capture studio Audiomotion, as well as another developer, Pivotal Games, were founded under the Kaboom umbrella in 1997 and March 2000, respectively.  In 2003, Kaboom Studios faced major financial struggles, resulsting in the colsure of Attention to Detail and Silicon Dreams Studio on 28 August 2003 and 3 September 2003, respectively.  Meanwhile, Audiomotion's managing director Mick Morris performed a management buyout, in order to "reboot" itself and avoid closure.  Kaboom Studios went into receivership on 9 September 2003, with all remaining assets, including still-active Pivotal Games, being transferred to Ernst & Young for sale.  On 29 September 2003, SCi acquired Pivotal Games from Ernst & Young for a total of GB£ .

Churchill Insurance: Churchill Insurance is a United Kingdom insurance company based in Bromley, London.  Founded in 1989, as one of the country’s first direct car insurance companies, the company has expanded to offer a range of general insurance products.  Churchill is part of the Direct Line Group; policies are underwritten by the parent United Kingdom Insurance Limited.

Velosurance: Velosurance is a bicycle insurance program managed by Velosure, Inc and underwritten by Markel American Insurance Company rated “A” by AM Best Company.  Velosure, Inc. (DBA Velosurance) was founded in August 2012 in Florida by Dave Williams and Denis Voitenko, both avid cyclists.  The company insures bicycles of clients across the U.S.

Health Insurance Innovations: Health Insurance Innovations is a developer of web-based individual health insurance plans and ancillary products listed on NASDAQ.  HII was founded in 2008 by Michael W. Kosloske, and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.  The company uses a cloud-based platform which enables licensed agents to enroll consumers in a variety of insurance products and lifestyle benefits provided by carrier partners.  The health insurance products are sold by licensed insurance agents and underwritten by insurance carrier companies.

Aluworks: Aluworks is a manufacturing company based in Tema, Greater Accra.  It was founded on February 24, 1978 and was converted to a public limited liability company on May 28, 1996.  After an Initial Public Offer in October 1996, it was listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange on November 29, 1996 at the share price of GH¢ 0.135.  The company is a component listing of the GSE All-Share Index.

Nupedia: Nupedia was an English-language Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by volunteer contributors with appropriate subject matter expertise, reviewed by expert editors before publication and licensed as free content.  It was founded by Jimmy Wales and underwritten by Bomis, with Larry Sanger as editor-in-chief.  Nupedia lasted from October 1999 until September 2003.  It is mostly known now as the predecessor of Wikipedia, but Nupedia had a seven-step approval process to control content of articles before being posted, rather than live wiki-based updating.  Nupedia was designed by committee, with experts to predefine the rules, and it approved only 21 articles in its first year, compared to Wikipedia posting 200 articles in the first month, and 18,000 in the first year.

The Geffen Film Company: The Geffen Film Company (also known as The Geffen Company, The Geffen Film Company, Inc., and later Geffen Pictures) was a film distributor and production company founded by David Geffen, the founder of Geffen Records, and future co-founder of DreamWorks.  Geffen founded the company in 1980, having recruited Eric Eisner as president, and distributed its films through Warner Bros. Geffen operated it as a division of Warner Bros., and as a result, following The Geffen Film Company's shutdown in 1998, Warner Bros. now owns the company's library.  However, the only Geffen Film Company title Warner Bros. does not own is the 1996 Mike Judge comedy "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America", itself owned by Paramount Pictures.

Worth Ave. Group: Worth Ave. Group is a consumer electronics insurance provider based in Stillwater, Oklahoma.  The company is best known for offering iPhone insurance policies.  Worth Ave. Group was formed from National Student Services Inc., one of the nation's largest insurers of college students’ personal property.  Worth Ave. Group's insurance policies are underwritten by Hanover Insurance Group.  The company was founded in 1972.

Bomis: Bomis ( to rhyme with "promise") was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia.  It was founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, and Michael Davis.  Davis became acquainted with Wales after hiring him at Chicago Options Associates in 1994, and Wales became friends with Shell through mailing lists discussing philosophy.  The primary business of Bomis was the sale of advertising on the Bomis.com search portal.

Innerloop Studios: Innerloop Studios (commonly abbreviated to Innerloop) was a Norwegian video game developer operating from 1996 to 2003.  The company was founded as Innerloop Technologies in May 1996 by a group of ex-employees of the Oslo-based video game company Funcom.  After entering into a partnership with the video game developer and publisher Eidos Interactive, Innerloop merged with DiMaga Studios in 1997 and changed its name to Innerloop Studios to reflect the merger.  In the fall of 2000, Swedish electronic entertainment company Vision Park acquired the studio.  In 2002, Innerloop once again became an independent company before shutting its doors in June 2003.  The company was unable to make funds to create future titles,so they finally decided to shut down the studio.

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Answer: Bomis