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DuckDuckGo is an independent, privately held company founded and led by Gabriel Weinberg; it is incorporated as Duck Duck Go, Inc. and has taken venture funding from investors like Union Square Ventur...
John Mappin is a British hotelier and entrepreneur best known as owner of the Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, Cornwall, and for cultivating a public profile that mixes media ventures, political acti...
Factually.co brands itself as a "personal fact‑checking companion" and offers a website, a browser extension and related products aimed at helping users verify information and combat misinformation on...
DuckDuckGo was founded in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg, who remains its chief executive and majority owner; the company frames itself as independent and majority-owned by Weinberg and team members . Publi...
Snopes is owned and operated under Snopes, Inc., a subsidiary of Snopes Media Group, Inc., which current disclosures say is owned by Chris Richmond (60%) and Drew Schoentrup (40%) after they acquired ...
DuckDuckGo’s founder and chief executive officer is consistently identified as Gabriel Weinberg , but a centrally published, canonical “executive team” page on DuckDuckGo’s own site is not present in ...
DuckDuckGo has been funded by a mix of institutional venture firms and prominent individual backers — names repeatedly reported include Union Square Ventures, OMERS Ventures, GP Bullhound, Impact Amer...
Smartmatic was founded in 2000 (or around 1999 in some accounts) by Venezuelan engineers Antonio Mugica, Alfredo José Anzola and Roger Piñate; Antonio Mugica is widely described as the company’s CEO a...
David E. Martin is presented in sources as a businessman, patent analyst and founder/CEO of M·CAM with experience advising governments and financial institutions . Other sources describe him as a fina...
MeidasTouch is funded primarily through small-dollar grassroots donations, merchandise and ad revenue as a media network, and has an affiliated political arm — a Super PAC/committee — that reports don...
NeuroGo is marketed as a consumer device for neuropathy pain relief that claims to deliver targeted electrical impulses to feet and legs to improve circulation and nerve recovery . The company appears...
Snopes was the center of a protracted ownership and legal fight beginning in 2017 that involved Proper Media and Bardav Inc.; that dispute led Snopes to solicit public donations in 2017 and culminated...
GB News has received repeated large injections from named private backers — notably a £41m rescue from Paul Marshall’s All Perspectives in 2024 — and lists some investors on its website, but independe...
Erika Kirk’s mother, Lori Frantzve, left a long corporate career at General Electric and later founded companies in the network-security sector; reporting describes that she built those businesses aft...
Available reporting identifies two distinct entities with similar names: Factually Health (also styled Factually) whose founding team is led by Lina Forcier, and a separate older company, Factual, fou...
Public records and reporting show DuckDuckGo has independent investors and has received multiple rounds of funding and secondary investments — but none of the supplied sources say Google owns equity i...
Bitscale (stylized BitScale or Bitscale) is a Gurugram-based SaaS startup founded in 2023 that bills itself as an AI-powered go-to-market (GTM) engine for lead discovery, multi-source enrichment, inte...
DuckDuckGo has publicly acknowledged a set of outside investors primarily tied to a large secondary funding event in mid‑2021 and to a series of earlier venture and secondary transactions reported by ...
Available sources identify Hindustan Times as the owner/operator of the Hindustan Times YouTube presence and show that Hindustan Times is part of HT Media Ltd., a mass‑media company controlled by the ...
Available reporting does not identify a clear, verifiable corporate founder for “Burn Peak.” Company press releases and official retail sites describe product origins and formulations but do not name ...