aid: factual
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/factual.png
name: Factual
description: >-
  Factual Inc. was a Los Angeles-based location-data company (backed by a16z, DCVC and
  Index Ventures) that operated the Global Places database and Geopulse audience/location
  APIs, giving developers programmatic access to a worldwide catalog of business points of
  interest, categories, attributes and geotagged mobile audience data. Factual was acquired
  by and merged into Foursquare in 2020; factual.com now redirects to foursquare.com and the
  standalone Factual Places/Geopulse API has been discontinued. This profile preserves the
  historical first-party client drivers (Java, Python, Node.js, Clojure) still published in
  their package registries and captured as real artifacts in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/factual/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: foursquare
x-acquired-year: 2020
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- dcvc
- index-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Location
- Places
- Geolocation
- Points of Interest
- Location Data
- Geospatial
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://foursquare.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Factual
- type: Packages
  url: packages/factual-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/factual-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/factual-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence