Our mission is to help the world understand the quality, credibility and safety of online information – creating a better Internet for everyone to enjoy.
Location: United Kingdom, England, Westminster
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $3.1M
Investors 2
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| - | Catapult V... | catapultvc... |
| - | Knockout C... | knockout.c... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 08.02.2018 | Seed | $1M | - |
| 10.09.2017 | Seed | $758.88K | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.04.2023 | What are the top 5 tools to effectively combat fake news? | When we’re going about our days -- ingesting media from a mountain of different sources -- it is always possible that the information we come across, be it in print, radio, or on the internet, may not be accurate. False information has been... |
| 17.11.2022 | PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives | Fake news, and the identification and eradication of it, has long been thought of as the purview of social media platforms, where a lot of that tends to be shared. Today, one of the more ambitious tech startups in the field of fighting fake... |
| 29.04.2021 | Nearly $1 Billion of Global Programmatic Budget Spent On Unsafe Content | Study by 4D and Factmata reveals 5% of programmatic spend still ends up in unsuitable brand environments While brand safety and suitability have fast become the number one focus for brands advertising in today’s politically and economically... |
| 12.11.2019 | Top 10 AI Companies to Watch in the UK | 111 shares Share Tweet Pin LinkedIn The world of artificial intelligence has grown to impressive heights in recent years, with one study showing that the amount of enterprises integrating AI has risen 270% in just the last four years. ... |
| 31.10.2019 | The scary things that UK tech is solving | It can be hard to escape stories of scary world-ending technology. Science fiction has for decades been ruminating on the possibility of extinction-summoning all-powerful AI and genocidal Austrian robots. More recently you might have notice... |
| 09.09.2019 | 29 leading Artificial Intelligence scaleups join UK’s first ever Applied AI growth programme | We are excited to introduce the cohort for the UK’s first ever Applied AI growth programme. Announced earlier this year, the growth programme is part of the UK Government AI and Data Sector Deal, and aims to support the AI founders that are... |
| 09.05.2019 | Factmata gets backed by eyeo, maker of Adblock Plus, and takes over its Trusted News app | “Fake news” — news content that either misleads people with half-truths, or outright lies — has become a permanent fixture of the internet. Now, as tech and media platforms continue to search for the best way to fight it, Factmata — a Londo... |
| 28.08.2018 | Civil, the blockchain journalism startup, has partnered with one of the oldest names in media | Civil, the two-year-old crypto startup that wants to save the journalism industry by leveraging the blockchain and cryptoeconomics, has partnered with the 172-year-old Associated Press to help the wire service stop bad actors from stealing ... |
| 02.02.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, February 2 | IPO DELAYS Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop In an executive shakeup, Airbnb said its CFO, Laurence “L.T.” Tosi will be leaving the company and CEO Brian Chesky’s longtime deput... |
| 01.02.2018 | Factmata Closes Seed Funding Round | Factmata, a London, UK-based Anti-fake-news startup, closed its seed funding round. The round reportedly amounts to $1m in total. Backers included Biz Stone, the founder of Twitter, and Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, which joined... |
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