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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...
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...
BlackRock does not appear in the available reporting as the owner of Shutterfly; multiple business profiles and news summaries list Apollo Global Management as Shutterfly’s acquirer and majority owner...
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...
Available reporting on “Memyts” is fragmented and contradictory: promotional pages present it as a dietary nootropic aimed at adults 45+, while independent reviewers and watchdog posts treat it as lik...
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...
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...
Available sources for Factually.co are extremely limited. PitchBook’s profile for “Factually Health” lists it as a private company and describes its product as an AI platform for verified health infor...
The short claim “US Domestic And General.com” conflates a UK‑headquartered company’s name and its US operations; PitchBook, Wikipedia summaries, and industry reporting show Domestic & General’s origin...
Neuralink’s capital base is dominated by prominent venture capital firms, prolific institutional investors and a handful of strategic corporate and sovereign backers, with its largest disclosed raise ...
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 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 ...
Available reporting does not identify a clear external investor or a named corporate parent for Burn Peak; marketing and press releases describe the product as launched by a U.S.-based company and man...
Factually.co is not mentioned in the supplied sources; available sources do not mention the domain factually.co or identify who runs it (not found in current reporting). The provided results instead i...
DuckDuckGo is not a solely founder-funded, closed company: multiple business databases and reporting show it has taken outside venture and secondary investments, including a disclosed $100M+ secondary...
Available sources in the provided set do not mention a company called “NeuroCept” or provide its founders, executives, or funding history; searches instead surface broadly related neurotechnology indu...
Factually.co’s funding picture is mixed in public documents: company-specific details are scarce, but related entities and similarly named organizations show funding from venture capital rounds, insti...