Fact check: Who founded Factually.co and when was it established?

1. Why the question matters and what the documents claim loudly

The user asked a focused factual question about the founder and founding date of Factually.co, but the documents supplied repeatedly profile other entities, creating a risk of misattribution. Multiple extracts explicitly identify Factually Health as a company with an identified founding team and year—most consistently 2018 and founders Lina Forcier, Lucas Nogueira, and Genevieve Poliquin—but they do not name Factually.co or link that name to this founding data ^[1]. This pattern indicates the primary finding from the packet is about Factually Health, not Factually.co, and any claim that Factually.co was founded by the same people or in the same year would be an assumption unsupported by the materials provided ^[2].

2. Evidence pointing to Factually Health rather than Factually.co

Three independent profiles in the dataset converge on the same organizational identity and founding details: commercial databases and company pages list Factually Health with a leadership roster including Lina Forcier, Genevieve Poliquin, and Lucas Nogueira, and they attribute an establishment around 2018 ^{[1] [2]}. Those entries provide company descriptions, leadership listings, and business metadata, but every instance is explicit that the subject is Factually Health or an AI-driven health information platform; none of the excerpts or metadata included in the packet explicitly say “Factually.co” or equate that domain with the Factually Health profile ^{[5] [3]}. The dataset therefore supports a firm conclusion about Factually Health, but not about Factually.co.

3. Parallel names—how “The Factual” and “Factual” add confusion

The packet also contains references to other, differently named organizations: The Factual, described as an aggregation platform founded in 2016 by Ajoy Sojan and Arjun Moorthy, and Factual, a data management company founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz—each unrelated to Factually Health and each carrying distinct founders and timelines ^{[4] [6]}. One excerpt mentions a founder named Wudan Yan linked to a “Factual” project, further illustrating that similar brandnames exist in the media and data spaces ^[7]. This multiplicity of near-identical names creates a credible source-of-error: researchers may inadvertently conflate Factually.co, Factually Health, The Factual, and Factual, producing inconsistent answers unless domain-level verification is performed ^{[4] [6]}.

4. Assessment: what can and cannot be concluded from the supplied sources

From the supplied materials, the only supported factual conclusions are that Factually Health has a publicly reported founding team and a 2018 founding attribution, and that several other similarly named firms have separate, dated origins. The packet contains no explicit statement that connects those data points to a domain or company named Factually.co; therefore the question “Who founded Factually.co and when was it established?” cannot be answered definitively using these sources alone. Any definitive attribution of Factually.co to the Factually Health founders or founding date would be speculative and not grounded in the provided evidence ^{[1] [7]}.

5. Practical next steps for authoritative verification

To resolve the gap, the appropriate next steps are to check domain records, the Factually.co official site, and authoritative business registries, or to consult press releases and news coverage that explicitly mention “Factually.co.” If the inquirer wants, a follow-up search should retrieve the Factually.co homepage or WHOIS domain registration and corporate filings, which will either confirm a direct link to the Factually Health founders or establish a distinct founding record. Given the packet’s pattern of conflating similarly named entities, domain- and registry-level verification is the minimal required evidence to state a founder and founding date with confidence. The supplied documents alone do not supply that verification ^{[2] [4]}.