CEO & Founder
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Gil Elbaz is an entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. Elbaz co-founded Applied Semantics Inc. (ASI) which developed AdSense contextual advertising products and was later acquired by Google. Prior to founding ASI, Elbaz worked in engineering roles at IBM, Sybase and SGI.
In 2008, Elbaz founded Factual, an open data platform, to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and accessibility. The company is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Elbaz is on the board of trustees for the X Prize Foundation and Caltech, and is also an active angel investor. He and his wife manage the Elbaz Family Foundation, supporting environmental and educational causes.