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| 01.04.2020 | ‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with their own shops | Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself or herself in business as a fund manager.... |
| 19.01.2019 | Welcome to the abnormalization of transportation | Bill Goodwin Contributor
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Something odd is in motion in Los Angeles. On a recent day at the office, coll... |
| 19.12.2018 | Today's Entrepreneur: Esther Dyson | It's amazing to be part of a team that works together and does so much more than any individual does
Today's entrepreneur is Esther Dyson.
In 2013 Esther co-founded Wellville - a national nonprofit project to demonstrate the value of invest... |
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Fox has invested a combined $100 million into Caffeine, a social broadcasting platform for gaming and entertainment that’s still ... |
| 05.09.2018 | Location data platform Factual raises $42M | Factual announced this morning that it has raised $42 million in new funding.
The company launched in 2009 and now provides location data to customers like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. And it’s still adding new capabilitie... |
| 05.09.2018 |
Factual Finds $42M In Funding, Takes Total To $104M
| Los Angeles-based Factual, the provider of location data led by Gil Elbaz, has raised $42M more in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday morning, bringing its total raised to $104M. According to Factual, the funding included Upfron... |
| 05.09.2018 | Location data startup Factual nabs $42 million to accelerate growth and fuel international expansion | As the world increasingly becomes data-driven, brands and businesses need accurate, reliable and accessible location data to develop smarter digital products and services. Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brand... |
| 05.09.2018 | Location Data Company Factual Raises $42M | Factual, a Los Angeles, CA-based location data company, raised $42m in funding.
Backers included Upfront Ventures and Felicis Ventures, among others.
The company will use the new funds to accelerate international expansion, particularly in ... |
| 23.08.2018 | Europe's new data law upends global online advertising | By Kate Holton
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LONDON (Reuters) - Europe’s new data privacy law has put a small army of tech firms that track people online in jeopardy and is strengthening the hand of giants such as Google and Facebook in the $200 billion globa... |
| 01.02.2018 | Factual expands its location-based ad tools | Factual announced this morning that it’s expanding its Geopulse ad-targeting suite, with new products designed to help advertisers measure whether their campaigns drive in-store visits, and to give them more guidance on overall strategy.
Yo... |
| 21.11.2017 | AI won’t peak at human intelligence | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the past few years, AI has dominated news cy... |
| 28.07.2017 | Placecast launches new product to verify the location data in mobile ad campaigns | Alistair Goodman, CEO of mobile marketing company Placecast, said location data is the “next frontier” when it comes to ad measurement and verification.
For example, Goodman pointed to a study by Factual and the Mobile Marketing Association... |
| 28.01.2016 | Susa Ventures Looks to Raise $50 Million Second Fund | Susa Ventures, a 2.5-year-old, seed-stage firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, and L.A. , is looking to raise up to $50 million for a second fund, two years after raising a $25 million debut fund. The SEC filing is here.
Susa has f... |
| 04.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 4, 2016 | Scholar Rock received $36M; DeePoon landed $30M; SilverCar raised $28M Series C funding
Japan-based startup news media The Bridge today announced raising an undisclosed amount of funding from Fuji Startup Ventures and PR Times. Founded in 2... |
| 04.01.2016 |
Factual's Elbaz Backs Quartzy
| Gil Elbaz, the founder of Los Angeles-based data startup Factual, is one of the backers of a developer of lab management software for the research, biotech, and pharma industry today. Palo Alto-based Quartzy said this morning that it raised... |
| 10.12.2015 |
Factual Finds $35M In Series B
| Los Angeles-bassed data startup Factual, which is led by Gil Elbaz, said Thursday that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round. The funding came from Altpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Haystack Partners, Heritag... |
| 10.12.2015 | Factual Raises $35M in Series B Funding | Factual, a Los Angeles, CA-based location data company, raised $35m in Series B funding.
Backers included Altpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective, Haystack Partners, Heritage Group, Index Ventures, Miramar Ventures, Tamarisk... |
| 10.12.2015 | Factual Raises $35 Million to Push Expansion | - |
| 21.04.2015 | Building a consumer app in 2015: How developers can add context for better engagement | Location in mobile is still often defined by its WBSGAC (Walk By Store, Get A Coupon) heritage. But as our smart devices get smarter, and as predictive analytics gain momentum, location data could disrupt the status quo and deliver a more p... |
| 03.03.2015 | CrowdFlower Launches Open Data Project Covering Everything From Climate Change To #ThatDress | Crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower allows businesses to tap into a distributed workforce of 5 million contributors for basic tasks like sentiment analysis. Today it’s releasing some of that data to the public through its new Data for Everyon... |
| 09.07.2014 | Mobile ad spend: location, location, location | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Successful mobile ad campaigns have a new mantra: location, location, location.
“Someone’s location says a lot about wh... |
| 09.07.2014 | Mobile ad spend: location, location, location | SAN FRANCISCO — Successful mobile ad campaigns have a new mantra: location, location, location.
“Someone’s location says a lot about who they are,” said Maureen Little, a senior vice president at marketing software play Turn, at VentureBeat... |
| 07.07.2014 | Upsight & Grindr: Creating loyal mobile users with the power of location | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Studies have shown that mobile users not only expect mobile apps to be designed for their convenience, but they also expect their apps ... |
| 07.07.2014 | Upsight & Grindr: Creating loyal mobile users with the power of location | Studies have shown that mobile users not only expect mobile apps to be designed for their convenience, but they also expect their apps to take advantage mobile-specific features like location.
Location offers a massive opportunity for mobil... |
| 06.07.2014 | The time for deep linking standards is now | Year after year since the big app stores launched, native apps have asserted their hegemony over the mobile web. One big drawback of native apps was the inability then the difficulty to seamlessly access any content from one app to the othe... |
| 05.07.2014 | Driving commerce with mobile: increasing savings & shortening in-store visits | Walmart has sought to revolutionize the in-store experience by adding navigation, voice commands, shopping lists, price comparisons, and other useful tools to its mobile applications.
At next week’s MobileBeat — July 8-9 in San Francisco — ... |
| 03.07.2014 | Fighting the mobile retail war: How to meet customers every step of the way | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The stakes are high in mobile retail, because suddenly more people are shopping on their mobile phone than ever before.
And with people... |
| 03.07.2014 | Fighting the mobile retail war: How to meet customers every step of the way | The stakes are high in mobile retail, because suddenly more people are shopping on their mobile phone than ever before.
And with people using their phones more than desktops. the game has completely changed for the traditional giants of ret... |
| 03.07.2014 | Learn how leading mobile publishers find the right users at the right time | Our seventh annual MobileBeat event is just around the corner on July 8-9 in San Francisco, and we’ve got a limited number of tickets left for what we believe is the must-attend mobile event of the year.
We’re thrilled to announce a session... |
| 02.07.2014 | Yo founders to unveil how the stupidly simple app got such stupidly huge growth | They say good design is about doing more with less.
Yo is pushing that adage to the limit with a single-purpose app that the founders claim has garnered over 1 million users — 750,000 of them in just a few days of furious viral activity.
Se... |
| 01.07.2014 | Announcing the MobileBeat Innovation Showdown finalists | We received over 100 quality startup applicants to the MobileBeat Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s seventh annual event on the future of mobile (next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8 and July 9, in San Francisco).
We... |
| 30.06.2014 | Yahoo Mobile's careful use of push messaging pays off | So you have a great mobile app or product. But how do you attract users? And more importantly, how do you retain users? One key aspect is mastering the balance between push and pull.
There’s a fine line between whether a notification will h... |
| 30.06.2014 | 12 major brands show off their customer-conversion strategies at MobileBeat | Consumer traffic is spiking on mobile devices. It’s shifting away from the desktop, which is dangerous for brands that took the PC experience granted for so long.
So brands are scrambling to manage the shift, seeking to build mobile experie... |
| 27.06.2014 | 30 new MobileBeat speakers, and tickets shoot up $200 at 5 p.m. Pacific today | MobileBeat is coming right up, and the price shoots up today (June 27) at 5 p.m. Pacific!
This is your last to chance to save $200. Sign up here.
Our goal this year is to highlight winning strategies for tracking and serving customers along... |
| 26.06.2014 | L'Oreal & Shopkick explore how brands can benefit from the sharp rise of consumer traffic on mobile | Consumer traffic on mobile devices is accelerating at a rapid pace, rising 81 percent in the last year alone.
As a result, mobile is becoming the No. 1 medium for companies to reach their target markets — any time, any place. But as a fairl... |
| 25.06.2014 | AT&T on how the 'Internet of things' will drive the next wave of growth on mobile | Mobile- and web-industry experts constantly speculate about where the next big wave of growth will come from.
Will it be Google Glass? A new type of sensor? Smart-home devices like Nest or Dropcam? The future appears to be pointing to the g... |
| 25.06.2014 | CEOs of four of the hottest predictive app companies join MobileBeat lineup | A powerful trend in mobile is taking shape: Smaller, faster, less expensive, and more intelligent connected devices are everywhere. Backing them up is increasingly powerful cloud software that leverages machine learning to draw inferences a... |
| 24.06.2014 | Here's why MobileBeat is the must-attend mobile event of the year | Our seventh annual MobileBeat event is coming right up on July 8-9 in San Francisco, and we’re confident we’ve put together the must-attend mobile event of the year.
We’re highlighting winning strategies for tracking and serving customers a... |
| 23.06.2014 | Here's how national brands are using mobile to market in your hometown, store by store | In mobile marketing, local campaigns can drive sales at the store level, but the challenge lies in scaling these benefits at national level.
Brands, retailers, and agencies work together to explore how mobile platforms can help businesses a... |
| 23.06.2014 | How LivingSocial baked marketing into its mobile-first approach | Mobile has the fastest adoption of any new medium ever. Companies are watching as consumption on mobile screens rapidly outpaces consumption on the desktop.
While mobile commerce is growing, it is clearly behind when compared to consumption... |
| 20.06.2014 | Google’s head of performance media explores what’s really driving growth on mobile | Businesspeople are talking about the important role mobile is playing in driving growth across sectors—such as retail, services, and entertainment. But with so many disparate data sources, it’s hard to know exactly what is going on with reg... |
| 20.06.2014 | Location is the 'mobile cookie' | Location, considered by many to be the “mobile cookie,” is being used in increasingly sophisticated ways to help brands better connect with consumers.
VentureBeat’s upcoming MobileBeat event — July 8-9 in SF — is featuring a panel on how lo... |
| 17.06.2014 | Case study in mobile marketing: How Trulia partnered with top mobile app Pandora | Marketers are struggling to keep up with the explosion in mobile users.
In an effort to reach the largest audience possible, they’re focusing their efforts on the mobile apps with the most users. Facebook and Twitter are, of course, the top... |
| 28.05.2014 | Desktop usage is cratering. Here's how to get ahead on mobile | Mobile has become almost cliché among Silicon Valley companies. Everyone’s talking about their “mobile first” strategy.
Facebook now makes a majority of its revenue from mobile, up from almost nothing three years ago. And evidence about the... |
| 23.05.2014 | Mobile startups: Get noticed at the MobileBeat Innovation Showdown | Nominations have just opened for the Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of our seventh annual MobileBeat event (July 8 and July 9) at the Hilton in San Francisco.
We’re looking for companies — from young startups to more established... |
| 30.04.2014 | No data, no personalization | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Imagine a phone that knows your tastes, your preferences, and desires, and patterns of behavior. This data about you — personal context... |
| 30.04.2014 | No data, no personalization | Imagine a phone that knows your tastes, your preferences, and desires, and patterns of behavior. This data about you — personal context — is combined in real-time with the phone’s environment (where it is, adjacent businesses, people, and e... |
| 29.04.2014 | How Factual’s location data comes in handy for startups Emu & Shopular (exclusive) | If you’ve got big data to sell, you’re in luck. Companies want to smarten up for their own operations and enhance their applications to make them more relevant. And location data in particular looks more and more useful all the time.
Factua... |
| 29.04.2014 | How Factual’s location data comes in handy for startups Emu & Shopular (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’ve got big data to sell, you’re in luck. C... |
| 04.12.2013 | Factual And Smaato Partner To Improve Mobile Ad Targeting With Rich Contextual Information | Smaato Enhances Ad Inventory with Audience Segment Data from Factual’s Geopulse Audience Solution
Los Angeles, San Francisco, London - December 4, 2013 - Factual Inc., the leading location data platform, and Smaato, the leading global mobil... |
| 01.08.2013 | CityMaps Announces $1.5M In Additional Series A Funding From A-Grade Investments, Endeca’s Founder & Others | CityMaps, a company in the news this week for a new version of its mobile mapping application for iOS, has raised an additional round of $1.5 million in outside funding – an extension of its earlier Series A, this time bringing in new inves... |
| 23.03.2013 | The top 10 Los Angeles startups to watch | Many of L.A.'s hottest startups are tied to celebrities like Justin Timberlake and Kim Kardashian
When it comes to technology, Silicon Valley still reigns supreme. But that does not mean that other cities around the world, and in the United... |
| 05.02.2013 | Expect Labs Teams Up With Factual To Bring Better Location Data To Its Anticipatory Computing Engine | Expect Labs has been on a bit of a tear lately — within the past six months the San Francisco-based startup showed off its fan-favorite app at Disrupt SF 2012, scored itself $2.4 million in funding from some big names, and inked a deal with... |
| 16.11.2012 | Wallaby’s iPhone App Tells You Which Credit Card To Use To Maximize Your Rewards | When reviewing a new iPhone application called Glyph earlier this week that tells you which credit card to use in order to earn the best rewards, we mentioned that a competitor in this space, Wallaby, was doing something similar. As of this... |
| 24.10.2012 | The data diet: Factual now feeds you nutrition data (Exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Want to cut out sugar or add super-foods to your ... |
| 24.10.2012 | The data diet: Factual now feeds you nutrition data (Exclusive) | Want to cut out sugar or add super-foods to your diet? Now app developers can help. Data curator Factual just added ingredient lists for over 350,000 of the most popular consumer packaged goods (CPGs) and nutrition parameters for over 150,0... |
| 30.09.2012 | Data Markets: The Emerging Data Economy | Editor’s note: Gil Elbaz is an entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. In 1998, he co-founded Applied Semantics, which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI’s AdSense. In 2003, Google acquired ASI, and af... |
| 24.09.2012 | Factual Place Rank Wants To Make Location Data More Relevant | Factual is a company that provides open data sets for developers, most notably its location data sets and APIs. The company just announced that it has added thousands of new locations to its U.S. point of interest sets, for a total of more ... |
| 18.06.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| 15.05.2012 | Factual Releases Three New Location And Mobile Ad Targeting Tools | Open data platform Factual.com is beefing up its Global Places offering today with three new APIs that will provide mobile developers with access to a ton of new data which can help them build better location-aware apps. But the company not... |
| 13.01.2012 | With SimpleGeo’s Shutdown Imminent, Parse Swoops In With A Life Preserver | Yesterday Urban Airship announced that it would be shutting down SimpleGeo on March 31 2012, only a few months after acquiring the company for around $3.5 million. The news irked plenty of developers — you can find a thread on Hacker News h... |
| 12.01.2012 | Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack | Yesterday, we wrote about Urban Airship, the startup that gives developers a simple way to build in-app purchases and push notifications into their mobile apps, and how the company has been on a tear of late. They recently hired Skype’s for... |
| 27.10.2011 | Geo-Loco: Is location 2.0 here and making dollars & sense? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This post is sponsored by Geo-Loco.
With the success of smartphones, cloud-based platforms like SimpleGeo, and “contextual” data from s... |
| 27.10.2011 | Geo-Loco: Is location 2.0 here and making dollars & sense? | This post is sponsored by Geo-Loco.
With the success of smartphones, cloud-based platforms like SimpleGeo, and “contextual” data from sources like GeoIQ and Factual, location-aware mobile devices and solutions have reached a tipping point. ... |
| 24.10.2011 | New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up, Complete Location Databases | Open data platform Factual.com is launching a new API for developers of location-based services called Resolve. The API is an entity resolution API that makes partial records complete, matches entities against one other and assists in the p... |
| 31.08.2011 | On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Location Data to Your Search Results | Search tool Wajam is rolling out a new feature today to its browser extension that overlays links shared by your friends on Twitter and Facebook at the top of the page when you perform a search on Google. (Or Bing.) Now Wajam puts a sidebar... |
| 20.07.2011 | On Data Markets and Their Evolution | More than two years after President Obama’s memorandum on his open government initiative, thousands of public authorities and organizations worldwide have embraced the main idea behind it. Opening up data and making them publicly available ... |
| 23.06.2011 | SimpleGeo Outsources Its Places Database To Factual | In the quest for a unified database of places, geo-location startup Factual is making big strides. Today it is announcing a major partnership with SimpleGeo to maintain and power its places database, which up until now has offered a competi... |
| 19.04.2011 | With $4 Million From Comcast, Fwix Launches Its Own Open Places Databases | With a fresh infusion of $4 million from Comcast Interactive Capital, which it raised recently in a series B financing (with previous investor BlueRun also pitching in), hyperlocal places database Fwix is pushing out a major upgrade to its ... |
| 31.03.2011 | Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Startups | In some ways, the term “big data” belies the challenges that startups face in tackling the subject. That adjective “big” tends to get a lot of the attention, often at the expense of the noun “data.” In other words, we spend a lot of time ta... |
| 04.03.2011 | Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers | When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup’s then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16 million businesses with a reverse-geo-co... |
| 17.02.2011 | Facebook Now Oh, So Close to Blowing Location Wide Open | Facebook now publishes its millions of user generated event listings according to the standardized microformats hCalendar and hCard, according to an announcement today by microformats community leader Tantek Çelik. That means that the venue... |
| 16.02.2011 | Visualize Your Data with Google Public Data Explorer | The Google Public Data Explorer takes large data sets and makes them palatable for public consumption, taking numbers, figures and other data and turning them into bar graphs, line graphs, maps and bubbles. When the explorer launched last y... |
| 14.02.2011 | Can You Really Build A Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley? | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French service... |
| 01.02.2011 | Hyperpublic Wants To "Structure The Data In Your Local World" | One of my big predictions for 2011 is that we are going to start to see open databases for places spring up and take hold. Hyperpublic, which just launched today, is doing just that by creating an open database of people, places, and things... |
| 03.01.2011 | Factual Aims, Credibly, to Become Wikipedia 2.0 | Imagine an online community that combines user contributions, editing and fact checking like Wikipedia, with automated data extraction like Google and complex artificial intelligence to create a rich description of the world around us that ... |
| 28.12.2010 | Most Promising Company For 2011: SimpleGeo | Yesterday we selected our Best LittleCo of 2010, the light blogging service Tumblr. In this post we select a company that we think has the potential to be Best LittleCo of 2011. Next year we’re expecting a lot from data-centric companies an... |
| 10.12.2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/10/10 | All Series A or B rounds this week: Factual, Gazzang, Panzura, Shoutlet, Taulia, Threadsy, Viki
Every funding announcement we covered in the past week came from an early-stage company raising either a Series A or Series B round. No seed or ... |
| 09.12.2010 | Factual lands $25 million Series A for data | Andreesen Horowitz and Index Ventures back Factual, an open and collaborative data set platform
Factual, an open and collaborative data platform, announced Thursday that it has secured $25 million in a first round of financing co-led by And... |
| 09.12.2010 | Factual Raises $25M in First Round of Financing | Factual, Inc., a Los Angeles, CA-based collaborative data platform and web service, has secured $25m in its first round of financing.
The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, with participation from Michael Ovitz and ... |
| 08.12.2010 | Andreesen Horowitz And Index Lead $25 Million Round For Big Data Startup Factual | Factual, the open database company, closed a $25 million series A financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. VCs Ben Horowitz of AH and Danny Rimer of Index will be joining Factual’s board. Ron Conway’s SV Angel and former Ho... |
| 08.12.2010 | Andreessen Horowitz writes big check for Factual’s data platform | Factual, a startup that claims to host hundreds of thousands of data sets, has raised $25 million in its first round of institutional funding.
When I spoke to founder and chief executive Gil Elbaz more than a year ago, he had a big vision f... |
| 04.12.2010 | The New Gowalla is Both Wonderful & Terrible | The mobile social travel diary and game Gowallalaunched version 3.0 of its popular, if market-trailing, service last week and it’s a great example of the potential and the pitfalls of contemporary social software.
If you’re familiar with Fa... |
| 15.11.2010 | To Describe to Us the World: Former Digg CEO Joins Location Startup SimpleGeo | Jay Adelson, known to some as the recent CEO of Digg but known to others for far more, has taken a position as the new CEO of pre-launched and eagerly-awaited geolocation data platform SimpleGeo, the company announced today.
SimpleGeo says ... |
| 04.08.2010 | “The Almighty API,” Crawling and The Programmable Web | Today, applications increasingly depend on a rich ecosystem of APIs. Thousands of different services are variously tethered together to form new software offerings and enhance existing ones. The idea of a programmable Web is finally coming ... |
| 26.03.2010 | Factual Turns On Tools To Visualize Its Big Data | Big Data is great for geeks, but most normal people don’t get a kick out of looking at huge tables of data (Excel junkies excluded). Factual, which is an open database wiki, just added some tools to help visualize the data entered on the si... |
| 18.03.2010 | YC-Funded Data Marketplace Is An Amazon For Structured Information | There has always been a vibrant ecosystem around financial data. Financial institutions, such as hedge funds and investment banks, pay thousands of dollars for quantitative tabular data (financial data in spreadsheets). But now, the web has... |
| 16.03.2010 | Big Data Is Less About Size, And More About Freedom | Editor’s note: Big Data has been around for a long time between credit card transactions, phone call records and financial markets. Companies like AT&T, Visa, Bank of America, Ebay, Google, Amazon and more have massive databases they mi... |
| 03.02.2010 | Factual lands $1M seed led by Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Factual, an online data management company whose ... |
| 03.02.2010 | Factual lands $1M seed led by Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab | Factual, an online data management company whose stated goal is to help people create as many open databases on the Internet as possible, has apparently pulled in $1 million in seed funding. The company was founded last fall by Gil Elbaz, w... |
| 03.02.2010 | Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels | If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google for $100 million in... |
| 03.02.2010 |
Factual Gains Funding, Names Investors
| Santa Monica-based Factual, the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz, the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening. According to Elbaz, the firm h... |
| 13.10.2009 | Factual wants to be the center of the web’s open data | The team behind Factual, a website that’s launching its beta test today, has an ambitious goal — to become the central location where people share, find, and mash-up data.
Founder Gil Elbaz points to sites like the Open Directory Project an... |
| 13.10.2009 | Factual: Applied Semantics Co-Founder Launches A Repository For Open Data | Gil Elbaz wants people to make lots of spreadsheet tables filled with fun and important facts and share them across the Web. Later today, he will be launching Factual, which he describes as “a platform for anyone to share and mash open data... |
| 13.10.2009 | Factual wants to be the center of the web’s open data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The team behind Factual, a website that’s launchi... |
