About Us
Who Are We?
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. Fellow data lovers -- Tim Chklovski, chief scientist & founding engineer, Eva Ho, an ex-Googler, along with Bill Michels, former GM of Yahoo BOSS, have joined him in this ambitious project.
Below, is a sample of our web apps technology that enables client-side embedding of Factual tables (like this) into web pages. For more information go here.-
$field[first_name] $field[last_name]
$field[factual_job_title]
$field[first_name] $field[last_name]
$field[factual_job_title]
- Interests: $field[interests]
- Education - Highest Degree: $field[education_highest_degree]
- Education - Field: $field[education_field]
- Education - Institution: $field[education_institution]
- Favorite places traveled: $field[favorite_places_traveled]
- Favorite TV show of all time: $field[favorite_tv_show_of_all_time]
- Hometown: $field[hometown]
- Favorite programming language: $field[favorite_programming_language]
- Most desired superpower: $field[most_desired_superpower]
- Preferred rock band instrument: $field[preferred_rock_band_instrument]
- Number of miles run this week: $field[number_of_miles_run_this_week]
- Favorite dataset: $field[favorite_dataset]
- Current data project: $field[current_data_project]
- Link to Facebook
- Edit
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$field[first_name] $field[last_name]
$field[factual_job_title]
$field[first_name] $field[last_name]
$field[factual_job_title]
- Interests: $field[interests]
- Education - Highest Degree: $field[education_highest_degree]
- Education - Field: $field[education_field]
- Education - Institution: $field[education_institution]
- Favorite places traveled: $field[favorite_places_traveled]
- Favorite TV show of all time: $field[favorite_tv_show_of_all_time]
- Hometown: $field[hometown]
- Favorite programming language: $field[favorite_programming_language]
- Most desired superpower: $field[most_desired_superpower]
- Preferred rock band instrument: $field[preferred_rock_band_instrument]
- Number of miles run this week: $field[number_of_miles_run_this_week]
- Favorite dataset: $field[favorite_dataset]
- Current data project: $field[current_data_project]
- Link to Facebook
- Edit
Investors
We are very excited to have an extremely impressive group of investors join us in our mission: Andreessen Horowitz, Auren Hoffman, Aydin Senkut, Bill Gross, Esther Dyson, Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Gunderson Dettmer, Index Ventures, Lee and June Stein, Marten Mickos, Michael Ovitz, Miramar Venture Partners, Richard Rosenblatt, Scott Kurnit, SV Angel, Thomas Lehrman, and Tom Unterman.
Jobs
Internally we strive to build a company based on a culture of innovation, impact, and transparency, and aim for our products to promote these ideals externally as well. If you want to join us to help with our ambitious goals, please see our Jobs page.
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