Who are the key team members behind factually.com?
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Executive summary
Factually.com does not appear in the supplied search results; available sources instead return companies with similar names — Factly, Factal and Factually Health — each with distinct leadership. Tracxn lists five co‑founders for Factly (Shashi Kiran Deshetti, Manoj Manduva, Tejeswi Pratima Dodda, Rakesh Reddy, Srinivas Kompally) and notes Factly is Hyderabad‑based and unfunded [1]. Other results describe Factal’s leadership and teams [2] [3] and Factually Health’s founding figure Lina Forcier [4]; the Factly website lists a broader “team” page but without the same founder detail in the snippets [5].
1. Missing target: “Factually.com” isn’t present in the returned reporting
The set of provided sources does not mention “Factually.com” specifically; searches instead surface Factly, Factal, and Factually Health — distinct organizations with overlapping name elements [1] [2] [4]. Available sources do not mention a Factually.com leadership roster; therefore any claim about factually.com’s team cannot be supported from this material.
2. Factly: named co‑founders and basic company profile
Tracxn’s 2025 profile for Factly lists five co‑founders: Shashi Kiran Deshetti, Manoj Manduva, Tejeswi Pratima Dodda, Rakesh Reddy and Srinivas Kompally, and identifies Factly as an online Indian news content provider founded in 2014 and based in Hyderabad; Tracxn also reports Factly had not raised funding as of their entry [1]. Factly’s own “Team” page, returned separately, frames the organization as a 2016‑founded “Factly Media & Research” with a diverse staff of researchers, content creators and fact‑checkers, but the snippet does not reproduce the Tracxn founder list verbatim [5].
3. Factal and Factal’s public team signals — possible source of confusion
Another returned company, Factal, is a risk‑intelligence/news verification firm whose Tracxn entry lists co‑founders such as Cory Bergman and Ben Tesch and a CEO named Charles Tillinghast; Tracxn also reports $5.18M raised over three rounds and employee counts that grew year over year [2]. Separately, Factal’s own blog and organizational pages reference member‑facing teams (member success, editorial) and public appearances at conferences, underscoring a structured team rather than a single founder narrative [3] [6].
4. Factually Health: a different “Factually” with a named founder
The Factually Health site identifies Lina Forcier, Ph.D., among founding team members and frames the organization as an AI‑driven health information platform combating health misinformation; the returned snippet highlights mission and team orientation rather than a full executive roster [4]. This is a third distinct entity whose name could be conflated with “factually.com” in casual searches.
5. Why these name collisions matter for journalistic verification
Identical or similar names (Factly, Factal, Factually Health, and the queried Factually.com) create high risk of misattribution: founders or leaders of one organization are often incorrectly credited to another unless sources are checked carefully. The provided Tracxn and company pages each name specific people tied to their respective entities [1] [2] [4], which is the correct practice for attribution.
6. What we can and cannot conclude from the supplied sources
We can report the named leaders and organizational facts that appear in the provided snippets: Factly’s five co‑founders and Hyderabad base [1]; Factal’s co‑founders and CEO plus funding details [2]; Factal’s team structure and event presence [3] [6]; and Factually Health’s founding mention of Lina Forcier [4]. We cannot identify the team behind a site specifically called Factually.com because the supplied results do not mention it — any such identification would require sources beyond those provided here.
7. How to proceed to get a definitive answer
To determine who runs Factually.com you should consult: the site’s own “About/Team” and corporate registration pages, domain WHOIS and registration records, authoritative business databases, and independent media profiles. Those sources are not present in the current set; available sources do not mention Factually.com (p1_s1–p1_s6).
Limitations and caveat: all factual assertions above are drawn from the provided snippets and profiles (p1_s1 through p1_s6). If you can provide a direct link to Factually.com or allow searching broader sources, I can map its leadership and help verify identities against public records.