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| 01.04.2020 | ‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with thei... | Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key con... | techcrunch... |
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| 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... | vator.tv/n... |
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| 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 ... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | socaltech.... |
| 05.09.2018 | Location Data Company Factual Raises $42M | Factual, a Los Angeles, CA-based location data company, raised $42m in funding.
Backers included Up... | finsmes.co... |
| 05.09.2018 | Location data startup Factual nabs $42 million to accelerate... | As the world increasingly becomes data-driven, brands and businesses need accurate, reliable and acc... | techstartu... |
| 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... | reuters.co... |
| 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 product... | techcrunch... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 28.07.2017 | Placecast launches new product to verify the location data i... | Alistair Goodman, CEO of mobile marketing company Placecast, said location data is the “next frontie... | techcrunch... |
| 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. , i... | techcrunch... |
| 04.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 4, 2016 | Scholar Rock received $36M; DeePoon landed $30M; SilverCar raised $28M Series C funding
Japan-based... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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 develop... | socaltech.... |
| 10.12.2015 | Factual Raises $35 Million to Push Expansion | - | labusiness... |
| 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 in... | finsmes.co... |
| 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... | socaltech.... |
| 21.04.2015 | Building a consumer app in 2015: How developers can add cont... | Location in mobile is still often defined by its WBSGAC (Walk By Store, Get A Coupon) heritage. But ... | venturebea... |
| 03.03.2015 | CrowdFlower Launches Open Data Project Covering Everything F... | Crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower allows businesses to tap into a distributed workforce of 5 million... | techcrunch... |
| 09.07.2014 | Mobile ad spend: location, location, location | SAN FRANCISCO — Successful mobile ad campaigns have a new mantra: location, location, location.
“So... | venturebea... |
| 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 m... | venturebea... |
| 07.07.2014 | Upsight & Grindr: Creating loyal mobile users with the p... | Studies have shown that mobile users not only expect mobile apps to be designed for their convenienc... | venturebea... |
| 07.07.2014 | Upsight & Grindr: Creating loyal mobile users with the p... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 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... | venturebea... |
| 05.07.2014 | Driving commerce with mobile: increasing savings & short... | Walmart has sought to revolutionize the in-store experience by adding navigation, voice commands, sh... | venturebea... |
| 03.07.2014 | Fighting the mobile retail war: How to meet customers every ... | The stakes are high in mobile retail, because suddenly more people are shopping on their mobile phon... | venturebea... |
| 03.07.2014 | Fighting the mobile retail war: How to meet customers every ... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 03.07.2014 | Learn how leading mobile publishers find the right users at ... | Our seventh annual MobileBeat event is just around the corner on July 8-9 in San Francisco, and we’v... | venturebea... |
| 02.07.2014 | Yo founders to unveil how the stupidly simple app got such s... | They say good design is about doing more with less.
Yo is pushing that adage to the limit with a si... | venturebea... |
| 01.07.2014 | Announcing the MobileBeat Innovation Showdown finalists | We received over 100 quality startup applicants to the MobileBeat Innovation Showdown, one of the hi... | venturebea... |
| 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 d... | venturebea... |
| 30.06.2014 | 12 major brands show off their customer-conversion strategie... | Consumer traffic is spiking on mobile devices. It’s shifting away from the desktop, which is dangero... | venturebea... |
| 27.06.2014 | 30 new MobileBeat speakers, and tickets shoot up $200 at 5 p... | MobileBeat is coming right up, and the price shoots up today (June 27) at 5 p.m. Pacific!
This is y... | venturebea... |
| 26.06.2014 | L'Oreal & Shopkick explore how brands can benefit from t... | Consumer traffic on mobile devices is accelerating at a rapid pace, rising 81 percent in the last ye... | venturebea... |
| 25.06.2014 | CEOs of four of the hottest predictive app companies join Mo... | A powerful trend in mobile is taking shape: Smaller, faster, less expensive, and more intelligent co... | venturebea... |
| 25.06.2014 | AT&T on how the 'Internet of things' will drive the next... | Mobile- and web-industry experts constantly speculate about where the next big wave of growth will c... | venturebea... |
| 24.06.2014 | Here's why MobileBeat is the must-attend mobile event of the... | Our seventh annual MobileBeat event is coming right up on July 8-9 in San Francisco, and we’re confi... | venturebea... |
| 23.06.2014 | How LivingSocial baked marketing into its mobile-first appro... | Mobile has the fastest adoption of any new medium ever. Companies are watching as consumption on mob... | venturebea... |
| 23.06.2014 | Here's how national brands are using mobile to market in you... | In mobile marketing, local campaigns can drive sales at the store level, but the challenge lies in s... | venturebea... |
| 20.06.2014 | Google’s head of performance media explores what’s really dr... | Businesspeople are talking about the important role mobile is playing in driving growth across secto... | venturebea... |
| 20.06.2014 | Location is the 'mobile cookie' | Location, considered by many to be the “mobile cookie,” is being used in increasingly sophisticated ... | venturebea... |
| 17.06.2014 | Case study in mobile marketing: How Trulia partnered with to... | Marketers are struggling to keep up with the explosion in mobile users.
In an effort to reach the l... | venturebea... |
| 28.05.2014 | Desktop usage is cratering. Here's how to get ahead on mobil... | Mobile has become almost cliché among Silicon Valley companies. Everyone’s talking about their “mobi... | venturebea... |
| 23.05.2014 | Mobile startups: Get noticed at the MobileBeat Innovation Sh... | Nominations have just opened for the Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of our seventh annua... | venturebea... |
| 30.04.2014 | No data, no personalization | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 30.04.2014 | No data, no personalization | Imagine a phone that knows your tastes, your preferences, and desires, and patterns of behavior. Thi... | venturebea... |
| 29.04.2014 | How Factual’s location data comes in handy for startups Emu ... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 29.04.2014 | How Factual’s location data comes in handy for startups Emu ... | If you’ve got big data to sell, you’re in luck. Companies want to smarten up for their own operation... | venturebea... |
| 04.12.2013 | Factual And Smaato Partner To Improve Mobile Ad Targeting Wi... | Smaato Enhances Ad Inventory with Audience Segment Data from Factual’s Geopulse Audience Solution
L... | realwire.c... |
| 01.08.2013 | CityMaps Announces $1.5M In Additional Series A Funding From... | CityMaps, a company in the news this week for a new version of its mobile mapping application for iO... | techcrunch... |
| 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
W... | vator.tv/n... |
| 05.02.2013 | Expect Labs Teams Up With Factual To Bring Better Location D... | Expect Labs has been on a bit of a tear lately — within the past six months the San Francisco-based ... | techcrunch... |
| 16.11.2012 | Wallaby’s iPhone App Tells You Which Credit Card To Use To M... | When reviewing a new iPhone application called Glyph earlier this week that tells you which credit c... | techcrunch... |
| 24.10.2012 | The data diet: Factual now feeds you nutrition data (Exclusi... | Want to cut out sugar or add super-foods to your diet? Now app developers can help. Data curator Fac... | venturebea... |
| 24.10.2012 | The data diet: Factual now feeds you nutrition data (Exclusi... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 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 ... | techcrunch... |
| 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 set... | techcrunch... |
| 18.06.2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael... | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (... | observer.c... |
| 15.05.2012 | Factual Releases Three New Location And Mobile Ad Targeting ... | Open data platform Factual.com is beefing up its Global Places offering today with three new APIs th... | techcrunch... |
| 13.01.2012 | With SimpleGeo’s Shutdown Imminent, Parse Swoops In With A L... | Yesterday Urban Airship announced that it would be shutting down SimpleGeo on March 31 2012, only a ... | techcrunch... |
| 12.01.2012 | Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With F... | Yesterday, we wrote about Urban Airship, the startup that gives developers a simple way to build in-... | techcrunch... |
| 27.10.2011 | Geo-Loco: Is location 2.0 here and making dollars & sens... | This post is sponsored by Geo-Loco.
With the success of smartphones, cloud-based platforms like Sim... | venturebea... |
| 27.10.2011 | Geo-Loco: Is location 2.0 here and making dollars & sens... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 24.10.2011 | New Factual Resolve API Will Help Clean Up, Complete Locatio... | Open data platform Factual.com is launching a new API for developers of location-based services call... | techcrunch... |
| 31.08.2011 | On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Loca... | Search tool Wajam is rolling out a new feature today to its browser extension that overlays links sh... | readwrite.... |
| 20.07.2011 | On Data Markets and Their Evolution | More than two years after President Obama’s memorandum on his open government initiative, thousands ... | readwrite.... |
| 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. T... | techcrunch... |
| 19.04.2011 | With $4 Million From Comcast, Fwix Launches Its Own Open Pla... | With a fresh infusion of $4 million from Comcast Interactive Capital, which it raised recently in a ... | techcrunch... |
| 31.03.2011 | Access, Aggregation, and Other Big Data Challenges for Start... | In some ways, the term “big data” belies the challenges that startups face in tackling the subject. ... | readwrite.... |
| 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 ... | techcrunch... |
| 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 m... | readwrite.... |
| 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 consumptio... | readwrite.... |
| 14.02.2011 | Can You Really Build A Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valle... | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side ... | techcrunch... |
| 01.02.2011 | Hyperpublic Wants To "Structure The Data In Your Local ... | One of my big predictions for 2011 is that we are going to start to see open databases for places sp... | techcrunch... |
| 03.01.2011 | Factual Aims, Credibly, to Become Wikipedia 2.0 | Imagine an online community that combines user contributions, editing and fact checking like Wikiped... | readwrite.... |
| 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 ... | readwrite.... |
| 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
Eve... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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... | finsmes.co... |
| 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
Fac... | vator.tv/n... |
| 08.12.2010 | Andreesen Horowitz And Index Lead $25 Million Round For Big ... | Factual, the open database company, closed a $25 million series A financing, led by Andreessen Horow... | techcrunch... |
| 08.12.2010 | Andreessen Horowitz writes big check for Factual’s data plat... | Factual, a startup that claims to host hundreds of thousands of data sets, has raised $25 million in... | venturebea... |
| 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-traili... | readwrite.... |
| 15.11.2010 | To Describe to Us the World: Former Digg CEO Joins Location ... | Jay Adelson, known to some as the recent CEO of Digg but known to others for far more, has taken a p... | readwrite.... |
| 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... | readwrite.... |
| 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 o... | techcrunch... |
| 18.03.2010 | YC-Funded Data Marketplace Is An Amazon For Structured Infor... | There has always been a vibrant ecosystem around financial data. Financial institutions, such as hed... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | techcrunch... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 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 d... | venturebea... |
| 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... | socaltech.... |
| 03.02.2010 | Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowit... | If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, y... | techcrunch... |
| 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 ... | venturebea... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 13.10.2009 | Factual: Applied Semantics Co-Founder Launches A Repository ... | Gil Elbaz wants people to make lots of spreadsheet tables filled with fun and important facts and sh... | techcrunch... |
