| Website | factual.com |
| Blog | blog.factual.com |
| @factual | |
| Category | Search |
| Phone | +1 (310) 286-9400 |
| info@factual.com | |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Description | Provider of definitive global data |
| TOTAL | $27M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $27M |
| Seed, 2/10 Andreessen Horowitz Miramar Venture Partners Founder Collective Richard Rosenblatt Esther Dyson Marten Mickos Danny Rimer Tom Unterman Scott Kurnit Lee And June Stein Thomas D. Lehrman Gunderson Dettmer Auren Hoffman Idealab | $1M |
| Seed, 3/10 | $1M |
| Series A, 12/10 Andreessen Horowitz Index Ventures SV Angel Michael Ovitz Felicis Ventures GRP | $25M |
Factual provides access to definitive global data for powering web and mobile apps, mobile advertising, and enterprise solutions. Using its sophisticated big data stack, Factual builds data products that leverage contributions from partners, user communities, and the web. Factual’s first offering is its Global Places suite of data and APIs, which provides access to more than 63 million places in 50 countries along with entity mapping, resolution, and geo ad-targeting services. Its second offering is its Products suite of data and APIs. Factual is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.
Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics (which launched ASI’s AdSense product). Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003. Gil has had a lifelong passion for organizing and structuring information, and building smart tools which can make better sense of data. To that end, he set out to develop an open data platform and community in an effort to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability.
