Factual

Factual Inc.
Type	Private
Industry	IT Services
Founded	2007
Founder	Gil Elbaz
Headquarters	Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shanghai
Key people	Gil Elbaz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Vikas Gupta, Director of Marketing and Operations Bill Michels, Senior Vice President of Product and Partnerships Tyler Bell, Director of Product Boris Shimanovsky, Vice President of Engineering
Services	Data Mining, Data analysis
Website	www.factual.com

This article is about the website factual.com. For factuality, see fact. For the genre of non-fiction television, see Factual television.

Factual, launched in October 2009, is an open data platform developed to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and accessibility. It provides access to through web service APIs and reusable, customisable web applications. It is described by its founder, Gil Elbaz as "a platform for anyone to share and mash open data". Factual has data sets about local place information, entertainment and information derived from government sources. Dr Tim Chklovski co-founded the company. Commercial consumers of the datasets include Facebook Places and SpatialMatch.^[1] Factual intends to provide discounts to data consumers that contribute improved data back, in order to encourage crowd sourcing and other collaborative approaches to data creation and curation.^[2]

Currently, Factual has three offices: two in California (Los Angeles and Palo Alto) and one in Shanghai, China.

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