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Min Investment
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$100
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Location
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San Francisco, CA
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Offering Date
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March 24, 2021
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Valuation
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$6,000,000
Company Description
A pioneer in tackling disinformation online
The internet is out of control. Hate speech. Trolls. Coordinated Disinformation. Factmata is tackling the biggest issues on the internet, and doing it at scale, using AI.
Key Deal Facts
First UK government-approved tool for disinformation (G-Cloud 11 framework)
Estimated (not guaranteed) revenues of $143M ARR by 2025
Pre-seed investors include Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter), Craig Newmark (founder, Craigslist)
Built by PhDs from University of Cambridge, Amazon, Microsoft, UCL, Google, and more
On a mission to give everyone a better understanding of the content they read online
Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Dhruv Ghulati, Founder & CEO
Dhruv was first PM at import.io, launching its first commercial APIs. He has a BSc Economics from LSE and MSc CS from University College London, with an award-winning thesis in automated fact-checking. He is a Forbes 30U30 and Techstars alum.
Antony Cousins, Co-CEO & COO (joining in April)
Antony brings 6 years of SaaS COO experience, building AI products. He led on the UK ministry of defence's strategic engagement strategy for Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain, and UK counter-terrorism policy/ comms strategy at the Home Office & Cabinet Office
Tomas Denis Reyes Sanchez, CTO & Cloud Architect
Tomas was Cloud Architect at the European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) developing tools for cloud analytics and worked at the University Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numeric Applications in Engineering (SIANI).