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Who is individual developer, not a company or organization behind factually.co?

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Checked on November 17, 2025
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Executive summary

Available reporting in the provided search results does not identify a lone individual developer behind factually.co; instead, related “Factually” and “Factually Health” names in the results are associated with small teams or companies such as Factually Health’s founders (Lina Forcier et al.) and the separate company Factual founded by Gil Elbaz [1] [2]. The specific domain factually.co is not mentioned in the provided sources; available sources do not mention who (if an individual developer) runs factually.co.

1. Why the question matters: domains, brands and mistaken identity

People often conflate similar names across domains and companies (e.g., “Factually,” “Factal,” “Factual,” “Factly”), which can mislead investigations into who operates a given site; the results show multiple organizations with similar names but different leadership and missions — for example, Factually Health lists founders including Lina Forcier and others [1], while the company Factual was founded by Gil Elbaz [2] — but none of these sources mention the domain factually.co specifically.

2. What the provided sources do identify about “Factually” and close names

Factually Health presents itself as an AI-driven health information platform and names a founding team including Lina Forcier (Ph.D. in epidemiology), Genevieve Poliquin, Leo Hartman (Ph.D.), and Lucas Nogueira on its “Who we are” page [1]. Separately, the technology/data company Factual is repeatedly credited in the sources to Gil Elbaz as founder [2] [3] [4]. Tracxn and Crunchbase entries further document organizations with similar names [5] [4] [3], demonstrating multiple legitimate actors in the “fact-” brand space.

3. What the sources do not say: the gap on factually.co and an individual developer

None of the supplied results reference the domain factually.co or state that an individual (not a company or organization) is the developer or operator of that domain. Therefore, available sources do not mention an individual developer behind factually.co; any claim that a single named person runs that specific domain is not supported by the documents you provided.

4. Two distinct company profiles you might be confusing

If you are researching who stands behind a “Factually”-branded site, the evidence in the supplied material points to at least two different entities: Factually Health (a health-information startup with a named founding team, including Lina Forcier) and Factual (a location-data company founded by Gil Elbaz) — each with distinct missions and corporate footprints [1] [2]. These are separate from “Factly” or “Factal,” which also appear in the results and have their own founders [5] [6]. None of those entries tie directly to the exact domain factually.co.

5. How to proceed if you need a definitive attribution for factually.co

Because the provided sources lack any reference to factually.co, you should consult domain WHOIS records, the site’s own “About” or legal pages, web-archive snapshots, or business registries to identify an owner or operator. The current reporting set does not include those records; available sources do not mention WHOIS or registry details for factually.co.

6. Possible reasons for the absence of factually.co in reporting

Domains can be new, privately registered, or owned by individuals or small teams who leave little public trace; alternatively, the brand could be operated under a different legal name than the public-facing site. The supplied results show coverage of similarly named entities (corporate pages and profiles on Crunchbase and Tracxn), which suggests that if factually.co were a well-known corporate entity its ownership would likely appear in these databases — but those databases only mention other “Fact-” organizations [3] [4] [5].

7. Conflicting narratives and the importance of source precision

The materials show competing but distinct identities: a health-information team (Factually Health) and a historical tech founder (Gil Elbaz of Factual) — both could be conflated with a “Factually” brand by casual readers [1] [2]. When seeking attribution, always match the exact domain and legal entity; the supplied sources make clear that brand similarity alone is insufficient evidence of common ownership.

Summary recommendation: The documents you gave identify founders for Factually Health and Factual (Lina Forcier et al.; Gil Elbaz) but do not mention factually.co or an individual developer operating that domain [1] [2]. To attribute ownership of factually.co, obtain WHOIS/domain registration data or site-stated legal information; those records are not present in the current reporting.

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