Factual, an open data start-up built by Applied Semantics co-founder Gil Elbaz, has raised $25 million in first-round funding to expand its data API service. The company is trying to build a platform for open data that developers can tap to power their applications. Read More »
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Web data API provider Factual is making a play for the hot geo-local space today. Today it came out a huge new dataset for geo-coded information like addresses and phone numbers tied to latitude and longitude for 14 million local U.S. businesses and points of interest. Read More »
First there was open source. And now, here comes open data. Or that’s what Gil Elbaz thinks. He’s returning to the startup arena with a new Los Angeles-based company called Factual, which is building its business around the concept of open data. It wants… Read More »
