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Factual

Factual Inc. was a Los Angeles-based location-data company (backed by a16z, DCVC and Index Ventures) that operated the Global Places database and Geopulse audience/location APIs, giving developers programmatic access to a worldwide catalog of business points of interest, categories, attributes and geotagged mobile audience data. Factual was acquired by and merged into Foursquare in 2020; factual.com now redirects to foursquare.com and the standalone Factual Places/Geopulse API has been discontinued. This profile preserves the historical first-party client drivers (Java, Python, Node.js, Clojure) still published in their package registries and captured as real artifacts in the API Evangelist network.

Factual is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Location, Places, Geolocation, and Points of Interest.

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8.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyLocationPlacesGeolocationPoints of InterestLocation DataGeospatialAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Factual Domain Security

DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: factual
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/factual.png
name: Factual
description: Factual Inc. was a Los Angeles-based location-data company (backed by a16z, DCVC and Index Ventures) that operated
  the Global Places database and Geopulse audience/location APIs, giving developers programmatic access to a worldwide catalog
  of business points of interest, categories, attributes and geotagged mobile audience data. Factual was acquired by and merged
  into Foursquare in 2020; factual.com now redirects to foursquare.com and the standalone Factual Places/Geopulse API has
  been discontinued. This profile preserves the historical first-party client drivers (Java, Python, Node.js, Clojure) still
  published in their package registries and captured as real artifacts in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/factual/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: foursquare
x-acquired-year: 2020
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- dcvc
- index-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Location
- Places
- Geolocation
- Points of Interest
- Location Data
- Geospatial
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://foursquare.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Factual
- type: Packages
  url: packages/factual-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/factual-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/factual-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence