Tracxn Startup Research: Data as a Service Landscape, August 2016

Data as a Service Report, August 2016

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Contents

Topic Page No.

Scope of Report 05

Entrepreneur Activity 08

Investment Trend 12

Who is Investing 20

Exit Outlook - IPO, Acquisitions 24

Sub Sector Analysis 27

Interesting Companies 43

Useful Links 53

Company List 55

Team 249

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Illustrative Sectors We Track

MOBILE

EDUCATION

MOBILE COMMERCE

MOBILE PAYMENTS

MOBILE MARKETING

MOBILE DEV TOOLS

MOBILE HEALTH

MOBILE GAMING

MOBILE LEARNING

MOBILE COMMUNICATION

EDUCATION IT

SELF LEARNING

CONSUMER

HEALTHCARE

MARKETPLACES

SUBSCRIPTION COMM.

FOOD TECH

INTERNET FIRST BRANDS

UBER FOR X

SECOND HAND GOODS

TRAVEL

GAMING

LIFE SCIENCES

DIGITAL HEALTH

TECH

SECURITY

STORAGE

NETWORKING

MOBILITY

IT OPS

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

API MANAGEMENT

INTERNET OF THINGS

3D PRINTING

BIGDATA INFRASTRUCTURE

ENTERPRISEINFRASTRUCTURE

FINTECH

BITCOIN

PAYMENTS

DATA AS A SERVICE

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

MOBILE-FIRST ENT. APPS

INTELLIGENT ENT. APPS

OPEN SOURCE

RETAIL TECH

MARKETING TECH

STEALTH MODE

ENTERPRISEAPPLICATIONS


Sector Overview

Scope of report

This report covers companies providing on demand data to all its customers. These companies aggregate data from various sources(Internet, government released, sensors, satellite etc.), perform basic curation, and offer it to their customers. These companies aregenerating revenue by selling the data or facilitating the data exchange (Marketplace).

This report does not include companies which are offering - data crawling services, not generating revenue by selling the data, andsoftware which are unifying siloed data in an organization.

This report focuses on following sectors:-

The scope of this report includes equity as well as debt funding received by the companies.

Name Description

FinanceFinancial market data for investment in public companies, data on start-ups & private companies, and consumer & business credit ratings providers.

Market IntelligenceCompanies providing information / data relevant to a company's market which is normally difficult to locate and is related tothe external environment of the company.

Marketing Companies providing data to marketers for lead generation

Geospatial Location, earth imagery, and geographic data providers.

Social Data Social data e.g twitter feeds, FB posts etc providers

Traffic Traffic movement and navigation related data vendors.

Weather Weather condition and weather forecasting data providers.

Public Data Companies aggregating government released data and open source data, and offering it to the customers.

Marketplaces Online platforms facilitating data exchange between data buyers and sellers.

Trade Import-export, shipping, related data aggregators.

Automotive Vehicle history reports, vehicle service data, VIN numbers, Vehicle pricing data providers.


Market & Funding Insights

With the advent of social media and IoT, businesses are receiving a lot more data than they ever did in the past. Companies who can analyze this data, derive insights and share their learnings across with partners externally in an effective manner to transform their businesses are invariably the ones who are going to win. Start-ups like Terbine, Dataminr are already generating value from IoT & Social Media data.

In addition to IoT, Open datafrom both public and private sources are giving new dimension to data-driven innovations. Businesses are finding new ways of segmenting markets by blending open data with proprietary data and discovering new ways to raise productivity by using open and proprietary data to benchmark operations. According to McKinsey $3 trillion in annualeconomic potential could be unlocked across seven domains. [1]

Over $4.5B has been invested in this sector since 2010 with Financial data providers alone receiving a funding of $1.1B. The topthree funded sub-sectors till date:

• Market Intelligence - 149 investments worth $1.3B

• Financial Data Providers - 158 investments worth $1.2B

• Geospatial Data Providers – 82 investments worth $807M

• 500 Startups, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, and NEA are some of the most active investors.

• Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Accel Partners have also shown their interest in this sector by investing incompanies like Factual, Premise Data, and Near.

http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/how-government-can-promote-open-data


Scope of Report

Entrepreneur Activity

Investment Trend

Who is Investing

Exit Outlook - IPO, Acquisitions

Sub Sector Analysis

Interesting Companies

Useful Links

Company List

Team

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Planet Labs Snowball Finance Spire Orbital Insight Farmer's Business Network Leverfun

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Planet Labs Snowball Finance Spire Orbital Insight Farmer's Business Network Leverfun

App Annie Enigma Premise FiscalNote Zeotap YPCredit


Large Upcoming Sectors

No. of Companies Founded

Average Age

No. of Companies Funded

Business ModelTotal

FundingExample

22 2010.4 13Market Intelligence > Digital Competitor Intelligence

243MApp Annie

2010, San Francisco

21 2010 18Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > DMP

343MLotame

2006, Columbia

38 2008.5 25 Geospatial > Location 278MFactual

2007, Los Angeles

59 2007.6 37 Geospatial 663MMapmyIndia1992, Delhi

25 2006.4 14Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > Consumer Data

169MDatalogix

2002, Westminster

29 2005.1 14 Traffic 198MInrix

2004, Kirkland

62 2004.9 45Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence

992MMetamarkets

2010, San Francisco

118 2004.1 43 Marketing 520MHitwise

1997, New York City


Niche Upcoming Sectors

No. of Companies Founded

Average Age

No. of Companies Funded

Business ModelTotal

FundingTracxn Picks

42 2012.2 13 Marketplace 31MQuandl

2011, Toronto

38 2009.2 17 Public Data 124MSocrata

2007, Seattle

17 2009.2 11 Social Data 330MDataminr

2009, New York City

96 2006.4 33 Marketing > Lead Generation 497MInside View

2005, San Francisco

14 2006.2 8 Geospatial > Satellite Based 311MPlanet Labs

2010, San Francisco

13 2003.2 9Market Intelligence > Product Intelligence

58MIndix

2010, Chennai

11 2006 5Marketing > Lead Generation > Tech Leads

93MRainKing Software

2007, Bethesda


Scope of Report


Investment Trend

Who is Investing


Sub Sector Analysis


Useful Links

Company List

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YoY – Number of Rounds and Total Funding

Note: The funding includes debt rounds also.

$181M$121M

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Average Ticket Size – Early Stage

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Top investments in last one year

CompanyFunding Amount

Round Name

Date Investors

sportradar.usSportradar

(San Francisco, 2010)$44M Series C 10/01/2015 Revolution

factortrust.comFactorTrust

(Atlanta, 2006)$42M Series C 11/01/2015 ABS Capital Partners, MissionOG

creditbenchmark.comCredit Benchmark

(London, 2012)$20M Series B 07/01/2015 Balderton Capital, Index Ventures

crimsonhexagon.comCrimson Hexagon

(Boston, 2007)$20M PE 03/01/2016 Sageview Capital

discern.comDiscern

(San Francisco, 2009)$20M Series A 09/01/2015 Artiman

orbitalinsight.comOrbital Insight

(Palo Alto, 2013)$20M Series B 06/01/2016 GV, CME Group, Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel

sourceintelligence.comSource Intelligence

(Carlsbad, 2008)$18M Series B 01/01/2016 Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors


Top investments in last one year

CompanyFunding Amount

Round Name

Date Investors

vertoanalytics.comVerto Analytics(Espoo, 2013)

$16M Series B 06/01/2016EQT Ventures, Conor Venture Partners, Open Ocean, VisionPlus Fund, Finnish Industry Investment

axelspace.comAxelspace

(Tokyo, 2008)$16M Series A 09/01/2015

Energy and Environment Investment, SMBC Venture Capital, Softbank Investment, Seibu Shinkin Capital, Mitsui, ITOCHU Technology Ventures, Global Brain, Weathernews

runtitle.comRunTitle

(Austin, 2012)$8M Series A 10/01/2015 Founders Fund, Deep Fork Capital, Austin Ventures

datarepublic.com.auData Republic Pty Ltd

(Sydney, 2014)$8M Series A 05/01/2016 Qantas Loyalty, NAB, Reinventure Group

zeotap.comZeotap

(Berlin, 2014)$6M Series A 08/01/2015 Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital

allyapp.comAlly

(Berlin, 2014)$5M Series A 12/01/2015 KfW

arabiaweather.comArabia Weather(Muscat, 2006)

$5M Series A 11/01/2015 Silicon Badia, Wamda Capital, DASH Ventures, Jabbar

leverfun.comLeverfun

(Beijing, 2015)$5M Seed 07/01/2015 Shichun Wu, Future Capital


Funnel view of Sector

Percent of Previous

36%

82%

46%

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M&A & IPO

Late

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Scope of Report


Investment Trend

Who is Investing


Sub Sector Analysis


Useful Links

Company List

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Oanda App Annie Credit Karma DataSift InsideView Oanda comScore Credit Karma Planet Labs Planet Labs

The Climate Corporation

Snowball Finance Planet Labs PlaceIQ LiveRampThe Climate Corporation

MyHeritage Planet Labs NinthDecimal The Climate Corporation


Where are Top Investors investing

NEASequoia Capital

Founders Fund

IA Venttures

Rembrandt Venture Partners

Index Ventures

AccelFelicis

VenturesFirst Round

CapitalDFJ Venture

Market Intelligence

App AnnieNear

LiveRamp MetamarketsLiveRamp

SensorTowercomScore

KruxLiveRamp

NinthDecimalBrightKite

Finance OandaSnowball Finance

Credit KarmaOandaCredit

BenchmarkLenddo

Credit KarmaCrunchBase

GeospatialLocation kitPlacemeter

Orbital InsightCityzenith

Planet Labs PlaceIQ FactualPlanet Labs

GeoAPIPlanet LabsSimpleGeo

Planet Labs

Marketing MattermarkRapleafRunTitle

InsideViewRapleaf

MattermarkRapleaf

Clearbit

Social Data Topsy DataSift Gnip, Inc.

WeatherThe Climate Corporation





Genealogy Geni MyHeritage MyHeritage


Top Investor by Stage of Entry

500 Startups 6

Techstars 4

Felicis Ventures 3

Google Ventures 3

NEA 3

SV Angel 3

Y Combinator 3

BoxGroup 2

Collaborative Fund 2

First Round Capital 2

Seed Series A Series B Later Stage

NEA 7

Andreessen Horowitz 4


Founders Fund 4

Index Ventures 4

DFJ Venture 3

Foundry Group 3

GV 3

IA Venttures 3

Madrona Venture Group 3

Felicis Ventures 5

NEA 5

Bessemer Venture Partners 4

Founders Fund 4

Index Ventures 4

Accel 3


GV 3

IA Venttures 3

Khosla Ventures 3

Founders Fund 4

IVP 4

Bessemer Venture Partners 3

IA Venttures 3

Khosla Ventures 3

Sequoia Capital 3

Western Technology Investment

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Accel 2

Bain Capital Ventures 2

Battery Ventures 2


Scope of Report


Investment Trend

Who is Investing


Sub Sector Analysis


Useful Links

Company List

Team

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Top IPOs

IPO Date Company OverviewFunding Amount

Sep-2016 carlsolutions.comCarl Data Solutions(Vancouver, 2015)

Data collection, storage and analytic solutions for Bigdata as a serviceScharfe Group

Jun-2014 markit.comMarkit

(London, 2001)

Financial information services company.General Atlantic, Prime Ventures $250M

Jun-2013 urthecast.comUrtheCast

(Vancouver, 2010)Real time HD video of Earth $14.5M

Dec-2012 arcontech.comArcontech Group PLC

(London, 1979)Real time financial market data

Jan-2011 nielsen.comNielsen

(New York City, 1922)

Global Information and measurement company.Harbourvest Partners, AlpInvest Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Stockwell Capital, Centerview Capital

Nov-2011 ancestry.comAncestry

(Provo, 1983)

Online genealogy platformAmerica Online, Crosslink Capital, Spectrum Equity, EPIC Ventures, Industry Ventures, Pivotal Group, Compaq, Hercules Capital, AlpInvest Partners, Signal Peak

$146.2M

May-2009 digitalglobe.comDigitalGlobe

(Longmont, 1993)

Geospatial data using sattelitesWavemaker Partners

Apr-2007 comscore.comcomScore

(Reston, 1999)

Global Media Measurement & AnalyticsAccel, Forrester, IVP, J.P. Morgan, Adams Street Partners, Lehman Brothers, Vispring, Topspin Partners, Flatiron Partners, Sageview Capital, Harmony Partners, Comdisco, Wind Point Partners, flatironpartnersllc.com, Brinson Foundation, Signal Peak

$376.93M


Major Acquisitions

Date Company Acquirer Deal Size OverviewTotal

Funding

Jun-2016 l2c.comeMarketer

(New York City, 1996)axelspringer.de $250M

Data on digital marketing, media, and commerce.Stripes Group

$25M

Apr-2016 onsemble.wsCrosswise

(Tel Aviv, 2013)Oracle.com $50M

Cross-Device Identification MappingZhenFund, Emerge, Giza Venture Capital, OurCrowd and Horizons Ventures.

$5M

Apr-2016 asset4.comGlobal Spec

(East Greenbush, 1996)ieee.org Undisclosed

Database of engineering and industrial productsWarburg Pincus

$20M

Mar-2016 iriworldwide.comMarkit

(London, 2001)ihs.com $5.5B

Financial information services company.General Atlantic

$250M

Feb-2016 compendiabio.comVeda

(Sydney, 1967)equifax.com $1.9B

Credit information and analysis in Australia and New Zealand

Jan-2016 brightkite.comThe Weather Company

(Atlanta, 1978)ibm.com Undisclosed Weather data and forecast

Jan-2016 sensenetworks.comOPIS

(Gaithersburg, 1977)ihs.com $650M Oil Price Information Service provider

Dec-2015 datamarket.comInteractive Data(Bedford, 1968)

intercontinentalexchange.com

$5.2BFinancial market data, analytics and related solutions.Warburg Pincus, Stockwell Capital


Scope of Report


Investment Trend

Who is Investing


Sub Sector Analysis


Useful Links

Company List

Team

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WEATHER

Spire (2012, $66.5M)

SPORTS DATA

Sportsradar AG (2001, $98.2M)

HEALTH CARE

Aureus Sciences (2000, $6M)

AUTOMOTIVE

CARFAX (1984, Acq)

August 2016Tracxn BlueBox : Data as a Service

Cumulative funding in the sector

MARKETING

Lead GenerationRelationship Science (2010, $121M)

$504M

MARKETPLACE $31M

AdvertisingBDEX (2014, $2M)

Finance & EconomicQUANDL (2011, $18M)

FINANCE

Public Market Investment Bloomberg (1981)

Private Market Owler (2011, $19M)

$1.3B

Credit Information Equifax (1899, IPO)

GEOSPATIAL

Satellite ImageryPlanet Labs (2010, $186M)

LocationFactual (2007, $62M)

$579M

$275M $142M

$23M

SOCIAL DATA

DataSift (2010, $64M)

GENEALOGY

Ancestry (1983, $146M)

TRAFFIC

Inrix (2004, $143M)

LEGAL

FiscalNote (2013, $30M)

<$1M

PUBLIC DATA $124M

Socrata (2007, $54.5M) Enigma (2011, $35M)

Practice Area – Enterprise Tech | Analysts: @saurabhjain296

800+ companies in the sector, 372 funded in last 5 years, $289 M invested in 2016

Most Active Investors: 500 Startups, Felicis Ventures, NEA, SV Angel, BVP, and Founders Fund

$330M

$212M

$198M

$170MMARKET INTELLIGENCE

Industry Intelligence IHS (1959)

Digital Competitor IntelligenceApp Annie (2010, $156M)

$1.4B

Product Intelligence Etilize (2000, Acq)

Consumer Intelligence Nielsen (1922, IPO)

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Top Business Models by Funding

$1.3B $1.3B

$663M

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comScore Credit Karma Planet Labs RelSci Dataminr The Climate Corporation Inrix

App Annie Markit Skybox Imaging InsideView DataSift Spire Miovision


Market Intelligence – Business Model Description

Companies providing information / data relevant to a company's market which is normally difficult to locate and is related to theexternal environment of the company.

Consumer Intelligence Industry Intelligence Digital Competitor Intelligence

Product Intelligence

Data related to opportunity,forecast, trends, marketvolume analysis etc

Data related to competitors'strategy, their pricing,investments, organizationchanges etc

Data related to productpricing, attributes etc.

Companies offering data relatedto consumer understanding,loyalty/satisfaction.


Market Intelligence – Entrepreneur Activity and Investment Trend

$34M$15M $18M

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Market Intelligence – Most Funded Companies

Company Overview Business ModelFunding Amount

comscore.comcomScore

(1999, Reston)

Global Media Measurement & AnalyticsAccel, Forrester, IVP, J.P. Morgan, Adams Street Partners, Lehman Brothers, Vispring, Topspin Partners, Flatiron Partners, Sageview Capital, Harmony Partners, Comdisco, Wind Point Partners, flatironpartnersllc.com, Brinson Foundation, Signal Peak

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > Digital Media Analytics

$376.93M

appannie.comApp Annie

(2010, San Francisco)

Provides app store analytics and market intelligenceSequoia Capital, Greycroft Partners, IVP, IDG Capital Partners, Wellington Partners, Greycroft Partners, e.ventures, Strive Capital, Greenspring Associates, Infinity Ventures

Market Intelligence > Digital Competitor Intelligence

$156M

datalogix.comDatalogix

(2002, Westminster)

Aggregator of offline purchasing dataNEA, General Catalyst Partners, IVP, Costanoa, Sequel Venture Partners, Breyer Capital, Wellington Management

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > Consumer Data

$86.5M

similarweb.comSimilarWeb

(2007, London)Web Measurement & Online Competitive IntelligenceNaspers, Docor International, Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, NFX Guild


$65.1M

lotame.comLotame

(2006, Columbia)

Data management platformEmergence Capital Partners, Battery Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Betaworks, Hillcrest Management, TrueBridge Capital Partners, Pinnacle Ventures, R.J. Finlay & Co.

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > DMP

$63.69M

bluekai.comBlueKai

(2007, Cupertino)

Data management platform and 3rd party data marketplaceRedpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures, GGV Capital, Split Rock Partners, Homebrew, Infinity Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures


$56.89M

krux.comKrux


Cross-Screen Data Management PlatformAccel, IDG ventures, Temasek, Sapphire Ventures, Ulu Ventures, The Entrepreneurs' Fund, VisionnaireVentures, Sapphire Ventures


$48M

ninthdecimal.comNinthDecimal

(2003, San Francisco)Mobile Audience Intelligence PlatformNorwest Venture Partners, DFJ Venture, Trident Capital, Panorama Capital, Comcast Ventures, DFJ Frontier


$47M


Finance – Business Model Description

Financial market data for investment in public companies, and data on start-ups & private companies, and consumer & businesscredit ratings providers.

Public Market Investment Private Market Investment Credit Information

Data on privately owned companies andstartups for investment purpose.

B2B and B2C Credit information providersCompanies providing data to supportdecision making about investments inpublic companies.


Finance – Entrepreneur Activity and Investment Trend

$11M $5M

$36M

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Finance – Most Funded Companies


creditkarma.comCredit Karma


Aggregator of various consumer financial products.SV Angel, 500 Startups, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, QED Investors, Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Google Capital, Viking Global Investors

Finance > Credit Information

$369.77M

markit.comMarkit

(2001, London)Financial information services company.General Atlantic, Prime Ventures

Finance > Public Market Investment

$250M

oanda.comOanda


Internet-based forex trading and currency information servicesNEA, Index Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Armada Investment, Next Generation Finance Invest, Cascade Investment Group


$117M

premise.comPremise


Crowdsourced real-time offline economic data trackingAndreessen Horowitz, GV, Harrison Metal, S23P, Bowery Capital, Anthemis Group, SK Ventures, Valor Capital Group, Social Capital Partners

Finance $66.5M

xueqiu.comSnowball Finance

(2011, Beijing)Online finance information service providerSequoia Capital, Renren, Morningside venture Capital


$53.2M

factortrust.comFactorTrust

(2006, Atlanta)

Provider of consumer data, analytics and risk scoring solutions on those underserved by traditional banking channelsABS Capital Partners, MissionOG, Archbrook


$43.62M

xignite.comXignite

(2000, San Mateo)Market data cloud solutions and API providerStarVest Partners, Startup Capital Ventures, QUICK, Altos Ventures

Finance $36.89M

themarkets.comTheMarkets

(2000, New York City)Aggregator of sell side research and earnings estimate modelsBank of America, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers


$30M


Geospatial – Business Model Description

Location, earth imagery, and geographic data providers.

Location Satellite Based

Companies which provides satellite basedearth imagery data to the customers.

Companies offering location based data.


Geospatial – Entrepreneur Activity and Investment Trend

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Geospatial – Most Funded Companies

Company OverviewBusiness Model

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planet.comPlanet Labs


Microsatellites to maps the earth to provide universal access to informationFirst Round Capital, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, IFC, AME Cloud Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, DFJ Venture, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective, Western Technology Investment, Rothenberg Ventures, CBC Capital, Lux Capital, Capricorn, Industry Ventures, Double Bottom Line Investors, Westly Group, Raptor Group, Fall Line Capital, HighGear Ventures, DBL Partners

Geospatial > Satellite Based

$183.1M

skyboximaging.com

Skybox Imaging(2009, Mountain

View)

high resolution Satellite imageryCanaan Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Asset Management Ventures, Leader Ventures, Y Ventures, Peterson Partners, Draper Associates


$91M

factual.comFactual

(2007, Los Angeles)

Mobile Location Based Data Provider.Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures, Index Ventures, Founder Collective, Felicis Ventures, Data Collective, Heritage Group, Miramar Venture Partners, Miramar Ventures, Altpoint Capital Partners, Haystack Partners

Geospatial > Location

$62M

placeiq.comPlaceIQ

(2010, New York City)

Location data provider for mobile advertisingIA Venttures, kbs, Iris Capital, US Venture Partners, Social Leverage, Valhalla Partners, Harmony Partners, Raptor Group, Social Leverage


$52.75M

mapmyindia.comMapmyIndia(1992, Delhi)

Provider of map data, GPS based navigation products and mobile appsFlipkart, Nexus Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, KPCB, Sherpalo Ventures, Zenrin, Lightbox Ventures

Geospatial $46.4M

loc-aid.comLocaid

(2005, San Francisco)Mobile location-enablerFlorida Growth Fund, Intersouth Partners, HIG Ventures, H.I.G. Capital


$37.7M

orbitalinsight.comOrbital Insight

(2013, Palo Alto)Understanding global trends through image processing and deep learningSequoia Capital, GV, CME Group, Lux Capital, Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel, citizen.vc


$30.2M

blackbridge.comBlackBridge

(1998, Berlin)End to end solutions for geospatial value chainBusiness Development Bank of Canada, BMO

Geospatial $20.18M


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relsci.comRelSci


Web based platform to build business relationshipsSalesforce, RIT Capital Partners, MacAndrews, Hearst Communications, Starr Companies, gasparglobal.com

Marketing > Lead Generation > Contacts

$121.3M

insideview.comInsideView


Lead Generation, prospect data, business insights and social connections tool.Rembrandt Venture Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, Split Rock Partners, Greenhouse Capital Partners, Big Sky Partners, JDM CAPITAL CORP, Novirian Capital, Spring Lake Equity Partners

Marketing > Lead Generation > Business information

$88.96M

rainkingonline.com

Rain King Software(2007, Bethesda)

IT Profiling DatabaseSpectrum Equity

Marketing > Lead Generation > Tech Leads

$67.5M

netprospex.comNetProspex

(2006, Waltham)B2B Lead Generation and EnrichmentAmerican City Business Journals, Spring Lake Equity Partners, Edison Partners


$27.5M

spoke.comSpoke

(2002, San Mateo)Crowdsourced people & business informationUS Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, Partech Ventures, DCM

Marketing > Lead Generation $25.1M

hgdata.comHG Data

(2010, Santa Barbara)Technology installation database.Updata Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures


$23M

duedil.comDueDil

(2010, London)

Bloomberg for private companiesOak Investment Partners, Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Playfair Capital, Oak Investment Partners


$22M

data.comData.com

(2004, San Francisco)Source of accurate business data Marketing > Lead Generation >

Business information$17.95M


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Company OverviewBusiness Model

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dataminr.comDataminr


Social media analyticsFidelity Investments, WorldQuant, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, IVP, Venrock, GSV Capital, Glynn Capital, Expansion Venture Capital, Deep Fork Capital, Adorable Foxie, Conversion Capital, Wellington Management, Wharton Equity, BoxGroup

Social Data $179.57M

datasift.comDataSift

(2010, Reading)

Social Data Analytics PlatformInsight Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, IA Venttures, Scale Venture Partners, Northgate, Daher Capital, Cendana Capital

Social Data $64.2M

crimsonhexagon.com

Crimson Hexagon(2007, Boston)

Social Media Monitoring and Analytics PlatformRose Tech Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Sageview Capital, Beacon Angels, Golden Seeds

Social Data $34.15M

topsy.comTopsy

(2007, San Francisco)Real-time public social data IndexerSV Angel, Founders Fund, Ignition Partners, BlueRun Ventures, Western Technology Investment

Social Data $32.2M

unmetric.comUnmetric

(2011, Chennai)Social media benchmarking companyNexus Venture Partners, JAFCO Asia

Social Data $8.7M

gnip.comGnip, Inc.

(2008, Boulder)Provides Social Data Crawling for EnterprisesFirst Round Capital, Foundry Group, SoftTech VC, Darwin Ventures

Social Data $6.64M

likely.coLikely

(2011, Shoreditch)Social data analytics providerCharlotte Street Capital, New World Private Equity

Social Data $1.6M

leadsift.comLeadSift

(2012, Halifax)Social intelligence platformSalesforce, Innovacorp, OMERS Ventures, East Valley Ventures

Social Data $1.39M


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Company Overview Business ModelTotal

Funding

semantics3.comSemantics3


Online database of products & pricesY Combinator, Golden Gate Ventures

Market Intelligence > Product Intelligence

$2.15M

secondmeasure.comSecond Measure

(2015, San Mateo)

Credit card transaction data providerY Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, Foundation Capital, FundersClub, S2 Capital, LLC, Scrum Ventures

Finance $2M

planetos.comPlanet OS

(2012, Sunnyvale)

Cloud Platform for Industrial IoT and Earth Observation DataIntertrust

Geospatial > Location $1.4M

oddup.comOddup

(2014, Hong Kong)

Data driven approach to assess invest-ability of startupsKima Ventures, Big Colors

Finance > Private Market Investment

$1.13M

dataweave.comDataWeave

(2011, Bangalore)

Cloud based data visualisation and analytics platformBlume Ventures, TLabs, 5ideas Startup Superfuel

Market Intelligence $270K

stockstreams.netStockStreams(2013, Dublin)

Crowdsourced news engine for financial markets. Finance > Public Market Investment

$80K

Curated list of companies by the sector analyst are defined as Interesting


Interesting Series A Companies


Funding

runtitle.comRunTitle

(2012, Austin)

Mineral Ownership Information database in the US

Founders Fund, Austin Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, SURGE Ventures

Marketing > Lead Generation

$12.03M

inventure.comInventure

(, Los Angeles)

Credit scoring

MESA Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Google Ventures, Expansion Venture Capital, Collaborative Fund, Vast Ventures, India Internet Fund, Female Founders Fund, BAM Ventures


$11.2M

ravellaw.comRavellaw

(2012, Palo Alto)

Legal search & analytics

NEA, North Bridge Venture Partners, Ulu Ventures, The Experiment Fund, Work-Bench, XfundLegal $9.2M

smartprocure.usSmartProcure

(2011, Deerfield Beach)

Cloud based repository of government purchase data

New Ground Ventures, Govtech Fund

Public Data > Public Procurement

$7.9M

placemeter.comPlacemeter


Platform that senses and unlocks data about activity in physical places

NEA, Qualcomm Ventures, TriplePoint Capital, Techstars, Collaborative Fund, FundersClub, blisce


judicata.comJudicata


Legal Analytics

Khosla VenturesLegal $7.8M

zeotap.comZeotap

(2014, Berlin)

Actionable Premium Data From Telecom Operators

Iris Capital, Capnamic Ventures, HitFox Group


$7.7M

zoominfo.comZoom Information(2000, Waltham)

Business Intelligence Platform

Vulcan, Venrock, Ascent Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures


$7M




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nav.comNav (fka Creditera)

(2012, South Jordan)

Business & personal credit monitoring.

KPCB, Rock and Hammer Ventures, Fenway Summer, Kickstart Seed Fund, Bassin Ventures, Zenstone Venture Capital, Peak Ventures


$6.5M

crosswise.comCrosswise

(2013, Tel Aviv)

Cross-Device Identification Mapping

Giza Venture Capital, OurCrowd, Horizons Ventures, Horizon Ventures, ZhenFund, Pereg Ventures

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence

$5M

aire.ioAire

(2014, London)

Company offering credit scores to individuals using machine learning algorithms.

Accion, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Tom Glocer, Barclays Accelerator, Craigie Capital


$1.4M

zapr.inZapr

(2012, Gurgaon)

TV viewership data repository

Flipkart, Micromax Informatics, GSF India, TA Ventures, Pix Vine Capital

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence

digitalglobe.comDigitalGlobe

(1993, Longmont)

Geospatial data using sattelites

Wavemaker Partners


oanda.comOanda


Internet-based forex trading and currency information services

NEA, Index Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Armada Investment, Next Generation Finance Invest, Cascade Investment Group


$117M

spire.comSpire


Satellite-powered data company

Bessemer Venture Partners, Scottish Enterprise, Promus Ventures, RRE Ventures, Mitsui Global Investment, Grishin Robotics, Lemnos Labs, Han Hai Investment, Jump Capital

Weather $66.5M




Funding

factual.comFactual

(2007, Los Angeles)

Mobile Location Based Data Provider.

Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures, Index Ventures, Founder Collective, Felicis Ventures, Data Collective, Heritage Group, Miramar Venture Partners, Miramar Ventures, Altpoint Capital Partners, Haystack Partners


$62M

krux.comKrux


Cross-Screen Data Management Platform

Accel, IDG ventures, Temasek, Sapphire Ventures, Ulu Ventures, The Entrepreneurs' Fund, Visionnaire Ventures, Sapphire Ventures


$48M

enigma.ioEnigma


Solution developer for public data analysis

American Express, NEA, TriplePoint Capital, Crosslink Capital, Comcast Ventures, New York City Seed, Two Sigma Ventures, NYTimes

Public Data $34.62M

indix.comIndix

(2010, Chennai)

SaaS based Big Data product intelligence platform

Nexus Venture Partners, Nokia Growth Partners, Avalon Ventures, Tola Capital, Anthemis Group, Milliways Ventures


$29.49M

creditbenchmark.comCredit Benchmark

(2012, London)

Credit risk data aggregator from multiple banks

Index Ventures, Balderton Capital


$27M

near.coNear

(2012, Bangalore)

Location intelligence platform providing real-time information on places, people and products.

Canaan Partners, Sequoia Capital, Telstra, Global Brain


$25.5M


Interesting Series B Companies


Funding

hgdata.comHG Data

(2010, Santa Barbara)

Technology installation database.

Updata Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures


$23M

windward.euWindward

(2010, Kloten)

Maritime data and analytics company

Horizons Ventures, Aleph Venture Capital$15.8M

lenddo.comLenddo

(2011, Singapore)

Social networking based credit scoring

Accel, Omidyar Network, Metamorphic Ventures, Inovia Capital, Lumia Capital, Blumberg Capital, Life.SREDA, Golden Gate Ventures, Alpine Meridian, Kickstart Ventures, Future Perfect Ventures, FinTech Innovation Lab, atcapital.com


$14M

placed.comPlaced

(2011, Seattle)

Location Analytics

Plug and Play Tech Center, Madrona Venture Group, Two Sigma VenturesGeospatial > Location $13.4M

estimize.comEstimize


Crowdsourced financial estimates provider

WorldQuant, Contour Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, Valuestream Labs, agilicllc.com


$9.5M

streetlightdata.comStreetLight Data


Contextualizes anonymous location data (mobile devices) to measure consumer mobility patterns for a place

Osage Partners, Deutsche Telekom, Vision Ridge Partners, Engie, Telekom Capital


heckyl.comHeckyl

(2010, Mumbai)

Real time financial information & news analytics for markets & businesses

Seedfund, IDG Ventures India


$4.75M


Interesting Late Stage Companies


Funding

comscore.comcomScore

(1999, Reston)

Global Media Measurement & Analytics

Accel, Forrester, IVP, J.P. Morgan, Adams Street Partners, Lehman Brothers, Vispring, Topspin Partners, Flatiron Partners, Sageview Capital, Harmony Partners, Comdisco, Wind Point Partners, flatironpartnersllc.com, Brinson Foundation, Signal Peak

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > Digital Media Analytics

$376.93M

creditkarma.comCredit Karma


Aggregator of various consumer financial products.

SV Angel, 500 Startups, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, QED Investors, Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity, Google Capital, Viking Global Investors


$369.77M

markit.comMarkit

(2001, London)

Financial information services company.

General Atlantic, Prime Ventures


$250M

planet.comPlanet Labs


Microsatellites to maps the earth to provide universal access to information

First Round Capital, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, IFC, AME Cloud Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, DFJ Venture, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective, Western Technology Investment, Rothenberg Ventures, CBC Capital, Lux Capital, Capricorn, Industry Ventures, Double Bottom Line Investors, Westly Group, Raptor Group, Fall Line Capital, HighGear Ventures, DBL Partners


$183.1M

dataminr.comDataminr


Social media analytics

Fidelity Investments, WorldQuant, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, IVP, Venrock, GSV Capital, Glynn Capital, Expansion Venture Capital, Deep Fork Capital, Adorable Foxie, Conversion Capital, Wellington Management, Wharton Equity, BoxGroup

Social Data $179.57M

appannie.comApp Annie


Provides app store analytics and market intelligence

Sequoia Capital, Greycroft Partners, IVP, IDG Capital Partners, Wellington Partners, Greycroft Partners, e.ventures, Strive Capital, Greenspring Associates, Infinity Ventures


$156M

ancestry.comAncestry

(1983, Provo)

Online genealogy platform

America Online, Crosslink Capital, Spectrum Equity, EPIC Ventures, Industry Ventures, Pivotal Group, Compaq, Hercules Capital, AlpInvest Partners, Signal Peak

Genealogy $146.2M

relsci.comRelSci


Web based platform to build business relationships

Salesforce, RIT Capital Partners, MacAndrews, Hearst Communications, Starr Companies, gasparglobal.com


$121.3M




Funding

climate.comThe Climate Corporation


Climate data provider for farms

First Round Capital, NEA, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Atomico, Founders Fund, FelicisVentures, Google Ventures, Glynn Capital, Allen & Company, Western Technology Investment, Anthemis Group, Code Advisors, TenOneTen, Juvo Capital

Weather $99.42M

sportradar.comSportradar

(2001, St. Gallen)

Provides technologies, service and content for sports federations, state authorities, sports media and sports betting industry

Revolution, EQT, EQT

Sports Data $98.2M

skyboximaging.comSkybox Imaging

(2009, Mountain View)

high resolution Satellite imagery

Canaan Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Asset Management Ventures, Leader Ventures, Y Ventures, Peterson Partners, Draper Associates

Geospatial > Satellite Based $91M

insideview.comInsideView


Lead Generation, prospect data, business insights and social connections tool.

Rembrandt Venture Partners, Emergence Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, Split Rock Partners, Greenhouse Capital Partners, Big Sky Partners, JDM CAPITAL CORP, Novirian Capital, Spring Lake Equity Partners


$88.96M

datalogix.comDatalogix

(2002, Westminster)

Aggregator of offline purchasing data

NEA, General Catalyst Partners, IVP, Costanoa, Sequel Venture Partners, Breyer Capital, Wellington Management

Market Intelligence > Consumer Intelligence > Consumer Data

$86.5M

rainkingonline.comRain King Software(2007, Bethesda)

IT Profiling Database

Spectrum Equity


$67.5M

premise.comPremise


Crowdsourced real-time offline economic data tracking

Andreessen Horowitz, GV, Harrison Metal, S23P, Bowery Capital, Anthemis Group, SK Ventures, Valor Capital Group, Social Capital Partners

Finance $66.5M

similarweb.comSimilarWeb

(2007, London)

Web Measurement & Online Competitive Intelligence

Naspers, Docor International, Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, NFX Guild


$65.1M




Funding

datasift.comDataSift

(2010, Reading)

Social Data Analytics Platform

Insight Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, IA Venttures, Scale Venture Partners, Northgate, Daher Capital, Cendana Capital

Social Data $64.2M

bluekai.comBlueKai

(2007, Cupertino)

Data management platform and 3rd party data marketplace

Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures, GGV Capital, Split Rock Partners, Homebrew, Infinity Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures


$56.89M

socrata.comSocrata

(2007, Seattle)

API development and management

OpenView, Morgenthaler, Frazier Technology Ventures, Canvas Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Sapphire Ventures

Public Data $54.5M

xueqiu.comSnowball Finance

(2011, Beijing)

Online finance information service provider

Sequoia Capital, Renren, Morningside venture Capital


$53.2M

placeiq.comPlaceIQ


Location data provider for mobile advertising

IA Venttures, kbs, Iris Capital, US Venture Partners, Social Leverage, Valhalla Partners, Harmony Partners, Raptor Group, Social Leverage


mapmyindia.comMapmyIndia(1992, Delhi)

Provider of map data, GPS based navigation products and mobile apps

Flipkart, Nexus Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, KPCB, Sherpalo Ventures, Zenrin, Lightbox Ventures

Geospatial $46.4M

sportradar.usSportradar


Data & content of professional sports, leagues, and events in the United States

RevolutionSports Data $44M

exelate.comeXelate


Centralized Big Data Management Platform.

Viola Group, Menlo Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Trident Capital, Newspring Capital


$31M


Top Funded Deadpooled Companies


Funding

focus.comFocus

(2005, San Francisco)Online research and lead generation for enterprises.Lightspeed Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, GGV Capital, Leader Ventures

Marketing > Lead Generation

$12.2M

brightkite.comBrightKite

(2007, Burlingame)Product research platformDFJ Venture, Techstars


$2.09M

sportsweatherstats.comSports Weather Stats(2011, New York City)

Studies weather's impact on professional sports team and playerSports Data $100k

inkwire.ioInkwire

(2010, Cupertino)Instant analysis platform for investment professionals. Finance > Private Market

Investment

snolr.comSnolr

(2010, Lucknow)Platform offering data analytics based stock market analysis Finance > Public Market

Investment


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Finance Market Intelligence Marketing Geospatial Social Data Traffic Weather Public Data Marketplace Trade Automotive

Company Details Funding Investors

Premise [San Francisco, 2012]: Premise is a global crowd-sourced economic information gathering platform.Provides a way for corporations, financial services firms including hedge funds and governments to collectbusiness and economic data. Individuals get paid to take pictures of items or report prices at grocery stores,food markets and more via a proprietary mobile app for both Android and iOS. Allows granular level of datainsights for inflation tracking, food security monitoring, channel checks for brands, etc. Backed by GoogleVentures, Andreessen Horowitz and Harrison Metal. Customers include Bloomberg, which redistributes Premisedata via its terminals. Based in San Francisco, with offices in New York City, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires.

$66.5M

Andreessen Horowitz, GV, Harrison Metal, S23P, Bowery Capital,

Anthemis Group, SK Ventures, Valor Capital Group, Social Capital Partners

Xignite [San Mateo, 2000]: Xignite is a financial market data cloud provider that integrates real-time andreference market data into apps and devices. Xignite Market Data Distribution is a private-labeled service thathelps exchanges, over-the-counter (OTC) brokers, multilateral trading facilities and data vendors distribute tickdata directly to their clients. The company also offers Xignite Enterprise Data Distribution which is a fullymanaged, cloud-based solution designed to help financial institutions drive data adoption and reduce data costs.

$36.89MStarVest Partners, Startup Capital Ventures, QUICK, Altos Ventures

Prevedere Inc [Columbus, 2012]: Prevedere provides Big Data predictive analytics to large enterprisecustomers, private equity, and investment firms. Analyst and Data Scientist across finance, procurement, salesand marketing can use the software to forecast sales and raw material price for enterprise customers.Investment firms and hedge funds use its software to perform industry and portfolio holding analysis to gainhigher returns on investment. Customers includes Racetrak, Hamilton, Aecom, Momentive etc targetingsoftware, networking and hardware in several industries and specialties including mobile commerce, cloudcomputing, health care, education and Big Data.

$7.9MFoundation Capital, PointGuard

Ventures, Rev1 Ventures

BrightScope [San Diego, 2008]: BrightScope is a financial information company that delivers data through web-based software, BrightScope data caters to individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers,broker-dealers, and financial advisors. They primarily operate in two major segments: Retirement Plans andWealth Management. They provide a BrightScope Rating suite which reviews more than 200 unique data inputsper retirement plan and calculates a single numerical score which defines plan quality at the company level.Additionally, they also offer a suite of data analytics software products to asset managers, broker-dealers,financial advisors, and other market participants

$5.9M Steelpoint Capital Partners

http://www.premise.com/

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Powerlytics [Philadelphia, 2011]: Powerlytics’ market intelligence platform provides a comprehensive, accurateand granular consumer and business financial data available. Underpinned by the financial statements of 27million business and 144 million households, Powerlytics' platform and products allow for insights to understandrisk, identify market opportunities and conduct predicative analytics, analysis and research.They enable thecreation of predictive analytical models, score sectors, conduct precise benchmarking and market sizing reports,or perform detailed economic business and marketing research.

$4.84MCME Group, Ben Franklin Technology

Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania

360kompany [Vienna, 2012]: 360kompany helps businesses of all sizes to verify and check their internationaltrading partners, suppliers and customers. Provides real-time access to official company register documents,business credit reports, annual reports and other documents filed with the government. Currently covers 21million European businesses and a total of 1 billion filings. Also provides an Enterprise API to power third-partybusiness applications and an advanced user interface to international business background information. Is anofficial contracting partner of the Common Register Portal of the German States, the official and registeredClearing Office of the Republic of Austria, distributor of the European Business Register (EBR) as well as theSwiss Federal Commercial Registry Office, the UK Companies House and the Irish Companies Registration Office.

$4M Floor13, AC & Friends GmbH

Mercaris [Chicago, 2012]: Mercaris, Inc. provides market data and trading platform for organic, non GMO andcertified agricultural commodities in USA. Data is collected from over 50 different first handlers of grains,located across the United States and Eastern Canada who participate in a weekly survey on IP grain cash priceinformation. The company charges per bushel service fee for its trading platform. Transportation is handled bybuyer/seller. It offers services for growers, mills/elevators/merchandisers/brokers, and industry analysts andresearchers; and manufacturers, co-packers, and retailers.

$3.08MOmidyar Network, Kapor Capital, Middleland Capital, Closed Loop

Capital, S2G Ventures

Meridian IQ [New York City, 2010]: Meridian IQ is the provider of financial intermediary data and includes allthe S&P Capital IQ data collected over the past 25 years on Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) and Broker-Dealers (BDs) from the directories formerly known as the "Blue Book" and "Red Book". Apart from data, thecompany also offers tools and services. Mutual Fund Companies, Separate Account Providers, Technology Firms,Custodial Broker-Dealers, Advisory Firms, Third-party marketers of hedge funds, alternative investments, andnumerous other entities with products and services for Financial Advisors uses Meridian IQ directory.

$2M Stonehenge Growth Equity


http://www.powerlytics.com/

http://www.kompany.com/

http://www.mercaris.com/

http://www.meridian-iq.com/


Finance (3/54)


Second Measure [San Mateo, 2015]: Second Measure uses the data of billions of credit card transactions toanalyze macroeconomics trends in real-time. Their dataset covers more than 1% of all U.S. consumer spendingto monitor the live performance of public and private companies. Second Measure has two products: a webapplication that they are targeting more towards analysts and a data feed that they make available toresearchers. Through Second Measure, investors can dig through operational metrics like revenue and customergrowth, retention and cohort analysis, while also benchmarking companies against their competitors to trackoverall market penetration. Currently, the company is focusing its offering towards VCs and hedge funds.

$2M

Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, Foundation Capital, FundersClub, S2 Capital, LLC, Scrum

Ventures

TRDATA [London, 2009]: TRdata collects accurate real-time data by introducing web based, global institutionalinvestment network. Anyone can immediately become a content provider while users choose the providers,eligible for their institutional or personal criteria. They crowd-source the content, validation and developmentof features, making the whole process marginally cheaper. By making the system 100% web-based they bypassB2B installation process allowing system to spread virally. Their market is 1 million premium users, licence price$5K a year generates $5,000,000,000 in annual fees.

$1.76M Seedcamp, 500 Startups

Trafinity [Bellevue, 2013]: Trafinity is a financial technology start-up designing multiple products to allowconsumers keep up with content related to the financial markets and publicly-traded companies. Offers acurated research platform designed to track the flow of information for watch-lists containing up to 100keywords (Stock symbols, hashtags, people, products, etc) across a wide variety of content distribution channelsincluding Twitter, RSS, Blogs, Websites, Facebook, and more. Organize information into Research Boards,typically built around themes such as Mobile Technology. Each board tracks "filtered or curated feeds" based onthe board owner's personal preferences.

$317.5K Tech Wildcatters

Timetric [London, 2008]: Timetric provides suite of products and services that allows clients to identify marketand investment opportunities, assess competitive threats, manage and understand risk and improve businesspractices, decision-making and regulatory compliance. Timetric provides intelligence and analysis for sectorssuch as Banking, Insurance, Wealth, Construction, Accountancy and Mining. Timetric offers proprietary as wellas specialized industry data, analysis, and generates reports. Has won TechCrunch’s London Mini Seed Camp2009. In 2011 the company was acquired by Progressive Media Group, a PE firm.

Anthemis Group


http://www.secondmeasure.com/

http://www.trdata.com/

http://www.trafinity.com/

http://www.timetric.com/


Finance (4/54)


Bureau van Dijk [London, 1991]: Bureau van Dijk specialises in providing company information and businessintelligence. Product range includes databases of company information and business intelligence for individualcountries, regions and the world. Have extensive coverage of private companies, detailed company hierarchies,standardised financial reports. Source contents from regulatory and other sources.

BC Partners, EQT, Charterhouse Capital Partners, EQT

ET Index [London, 2014]: ET Index Ltd was set up in early 2014 to commercialize and develop theEnvironmental Tracking (ET) Index Series, a market mechanism designed to address climate change risk forinvestors. The ET Index Series builds on the work carried out by the Environmental Investment Organisation(EIO), a not-for-profit research body that publishes Carbon Rankings scoring the world’s largest listed companiesaccording to their greenhouse gas emissions and levels of transparency. The company provides investors withcorporate carbon emissions data, portfolio carbon footprinting and reporting services, as well as low carbonindexes that can act as the next generation of index benchmarks.

Level39

CommoPrices [Paris, 2014]: CommoPrices is a web portal that publishes over 1600 commodity prices. Based onopen data from various sources (such as French Customs), data is structured, selected and processed togenerate benchmark price references. The company partners with companies, brokers, agencies and institutionsworldwide. They provide it with data insights on their markets and regions. Besides the web format, thecompany also offers API to the clients. subscription based revenue model. Backed by Open Data Incubator andhas raised €99.6K in funding.

Open Data Incubator

Quantec [Pretoria, 1998]: Quantec specialises in marketing, distribution and support of economic & financialdata country intelligence and statistical, econometric and decision analysis software. Quantec also providesconsultancy in custom economic and financial database solutions, economic analysis and forecasting, andmarket analysis and segmentation. The company is affiliated with The Economist Intelligence Unit, StataCorporation, and EViews as their Africa representatives and partners. Its offerings can be categorised under 4domains- Data: delivers comprehensive data sets covering macro & regional economic, industry andinternational trade data via its web-based EasyData Platform; Software: provides statistical, econometric anddecision analysis software solutions to the corporate, public sector and educational markets; Intelligence:through its partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) the company offers intelligence over theinternet; and Consultancy: consulting services in the areas of economic analysis and forecasting, spatial analysis,custom economic and financial database solutions and custom country intelligence solutions.


http://www.bvdinfo.com/

http://www.etindex.com/

http://www.commoprices.com/

http://www.quantec.co.za/


Finance (5/54)


Quanton Data [New York City, 2013]: Quanton Data is a data information company serving the institutionalinvestment community. The company identifies and partners with companies that have unique and interestingdata and then brings that data to investors seeking differentiated insights into company and sectorperformance. Quanton was acquired by Guidepoint in May 2016

YipitData [New York City, 2012]: Yipit analyzes web data for institutional investors. Its operations can becategorized in two segments. For shoppers, Yipit.com aggregates the best deals and offers available online andidentifies the most appropriate for each user based on their unique preferences. The company works withpartners such as Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt, Travelzoo, and hundreds more. For investors, YipitData aggregatesonline data about publicly traded companies to derive their operating performance. Its portfolio includesGroupon, Alibaba, Workday, Netflix, MercadoLibre, eBay, JD, ServiceNow, Veeva and more. The companylicense this data to the largest institutional investors in the world.

Wizbit [Amsterdam, 2013]: Wizbit offers financial data and insights on crypto currencies through its web- basedplatform. They aggregate trade data from big exchanges and normalize the statistics in a visual interface. Theyalso create visuals about the whole crypto currency ecosystem. The first product is a view showing alltransactions and blocks happening in realtime in the Bitcoin network in user's browser using a WebGL earthglobe. The company is in stealth mode as of May 2016

Economena Analytics [Beirut, 2011]: Economena Analytics is a specialized economic information serviceprovider covering the Lebanese and Middle East markets. The company facilitates research and investmentanalysis in the region by providing research tools and data services to banks, economists, policymakers,consultants, analysts, and journalists based in the region and around the world. Economena offers the dataalong with proprietary interactive charting tools to facilitate the visualization and analysis of data. All data anddocuments are sourced by Economena from third-party information providers, including official sources andprivate sector associations. Subscription based revenue model.


http://www.quantondata.com/

http://www.yipitdata.com/

http://www.wizb.it/

http://www.economena.com/


Finance (6/54)


Quadrant [New York City, 2014]: Quadrant aggregates economic indicators from public sources and offers it toits clients. The company claims to have aggregated over 400000 economic indicators from over 1000 publicsources. The company curates and standardises menus of key indicators for over 2000 countries. Users canchart and share this data. Also provides API to developers to access the data.

Global Insight [Lexington, 2001]: Global Insight is the global macroeconomics information, analysis andconsulting service provider. Global Insight was formed in May 2001by merger of Data Resources Inc andWharton Econometric Forecasting Associates. Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial andpolitical coverage of countries, regions and industries. Global Insight covers industries such as autos, energy,agriculture, steel, telecommunications, trade, tourism, healthcare, and construction. Its offerings includesubscriptions or projects, which are delivered via its website, printed publications, conferences, reports, andpresentations. Global Insight also offers software that provides navigation, analytical tools, and presentationcapabilities, and its consulting services advise clients on issues that affect their competitive position, investmentstrategy, and policy positions.

Bigfind [Mumbai, 2014]: BigFind is a DaaS platform for business information providing access to marketresearch reports, company filings, statistical & macro-economic data from authoritative sources. Claims to becrawling data from 250,000 authoritative sources every day. It categorizes each public business report into 24industries, time period, company, content, region etc.

Barchart Market Data [Chicago, 1934]: Barchart is a financial technology firm focused on market data andtrading solutions. The company sources market data directly from exchanges around the world, and collectinformation from fundamental data providers, new and government agencies, associations and weather dataproviders. Apart from data collecting, processing and distributing Barchart facilitates future order routing forbrokers and individuals through its trading software. Barchart also offers off-the-shelf and custom solutions forinstitutional clients that encompass data feeds, website content, software and enterprise data management.Clients include companies in financial services, wealth management, proprietary trading, media, technology, aswell as agriculture, energy, metals and other commodities.


http://www.quadrant.io/

http://www.globalinsight.com/

http://www.bigfind.co/

http://www.barchartmarketdata.com/


Finance (7/54)


Tofler [Gurgaon, 2013]: Web platform that delivers comprehensive and up-to-date information on allcompanies, particularly unlisted and private companies in India. Information ranges from master data, directors,charges, financials, shareholding details, compliance filings etc. Also provides customized reports on a variety offacets of companies in India. Claims to have 50k+ unique visitors a month. Clients include big banks and privateequity firms. Also offers a browser plugin to get instant access to information on a company and allows forbuilding marketing list for email or direct mailing campaigns.

Activist Insight [London, 2012]: Activist Insight provides detailed information on shareholder activism includingnews, profiles and performance. Activist Insight Online provides live filing and news alerts on, over 800 detailedactivist investor profiles, unique stats on activist campaigns and proxy battles, and much more. A free trial of thedatabase and a monthly newsletter subscription is available on request. Activism Monthly Premium is an onlineand print magazine featuring interviews with activist investors, fund managers and advisers, as well as uniquedata from its database.

Proxy Insight [London, 2013]: Proxy Insight is the source for global shareholder voting data.Combining detailedinvestor voting information with the actual principles used by each institution, Proxy Insight is an essential toolfor issuers, their advisors and asset owners. Helps corporations understand why and how their shareholdersvote their proxies. With over 45 million voting records covering 22,000 corporations, Proxy Insight is the mostcomprehensive source for the actual voting behavior of key global shareholders. In addition, the service offersover 500 profiles detailing the corporate governance policies of the world’s top investors.

PriceStats [Massachusetts, 2010]: PriceStats collects price information from hundreds of retailers across nearly70 countries and publishes daily inflation series for over 20 countries and PPP indices for 6 economies. Most oftheir series start in 2007-2008. PriceStats has partnered with State Street Global Markets toupdate daily inflation series in more than 40 countries through their client research portal, IR3. PriceStatsgathers price information for key economic sectors: food & beverages; furnishing & household products;recreation & culture; clothing & footwear; housing, electricity & fuel; and health. BPP - MIT Sloan spun offcompany.


http://www.tofler.in/

http://www.activistinsight.com/

http://www.proxyinsight.com/

http://www.pricestats.com/


Finance (8/54)


Zauba Technologies [Bangalore, 2014]: Zauba Corp is a business research platform gathering info oncompanies, trading and documents . It provides officially sourced information on businesses incorporated inIndia and United Kingdom. It also provides financial data, shareholder information and contact information oflimited companies. New home buyers can use it to assess financial capacity of developers. It also providesinformation to exporters and importers regarding India's bilateral trade reports that shows top traded productsand their values. Claims to track all Indian major ports on daily basis and import details for more than 6000 portsacross world. Businesses use Zauba Crop for customer acquisition and marketing.

Dealogic [London, 1983]: The company provides a platform for investment banks to conduct deals in the areasof fixed income, equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, institutional sales and equity research, as wellas Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), SEC & FTSEregulatory and investment banking strategies.Dealogic also provides a real-time analytics platform. In November 2014, Carlyle group acquired Dealogic for$700 m.

Discovery CompanyProtected Tweets [Eatontown, 2002]: Discovery Data operates a database that providesdata on firms and professionals in the financial services industry. The company also provides data hygieneanalysis and recommendations report; data feeds that supply dataset for integration into any customrelationship management or other data systems; discovery profile for custom relationship management; andconsulting services. It serves asset managers, broker-dealers, insurance companies, service providers,investment managers/wholesalers, recruiters, marketing organizations, and clearing firms/custodians.Subscription based monetization model.

SimFin [Berlin, 2015]: SimFin is a crowdsourcing platform for fundamental financial data. Currently, providingdata free. In beta testing mode.


http://www.zaubacorp.com/

http://www.dealogic.com/

http://www.discoveryco.com/

http://www.simfin.com/


Finance (9/54)


Avox [Wrexham, 2003]: Avox, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, DTCC,provides legal entity data (LEI) services. LEI includes data such as corporate hierarchies, registered addressinformation, industry sector codes and company identifiers. Avox sources and manages legal entity data forfinancial institutions across 255 jurisdictions and has validated reference data associated with more than 1.8million entities. Company's clients and partners shares business intelligence which the firm centralises,anonymises, verifies and publishes out to each participant. Financial institutions participating in Avox form acommunity that collectively addresses client, issuer and counterparty data quality issues. Subscription basedmonetization model. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in UK.

Sharadar Fundamentals [ , 2013]: Sharadar is an independent research and analytics firm which specializes inextraction, standardization and organization of US public company financial data from company filings. Haspartnered with Quandl to sell its data sets. Provides redistribution rights to subscribed developers. Subscriptionbased monetization model.

LegiStorm [Washington, 2006]: LegiStorm LLC is a non-partisan, for-profit company that researches, verifies andpublishes information about Members of Congress and congressional staff. LegiStorm provides phone numbers,verified email addresses, detailed background information on staffers including social media links, salary andemployment history, educational history, privately funded travel disclosures and much more.

Credit Information

Credit Karma [San Francisco, 2007]: Credit Karma offers a web-based credit and financial management servicethat provides credit tools with Credit Report Cards, which summarizes a consumer’s credit report intocomponents graded with an A-F letter grade. Credit Score Simulator, which simulates the effect of certainfinancial actions on credit scores and credit monitoring, sends an email alert when something importantchanges in a consumer’s TransUnion credit report. It also offers financial account monitoring through accountaggregator service Yodlee which allows consumers to track their bank, credit card, savings and loan transactionsand balances in Credit Karma’s interface. Their revenue model includes paid advertisement of relevant financialproducts to its consumers. It also provide analytics for the companies that use Credit Karma as a platform to sellservices.

$369.77M

SV Angel, 500 Startups, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, QED Investors,

Tiger Global Management, Ribbit Capital, Susquehanna Growth Equity,

Google Capital, Viking Global Investors


http://www.avox.info/

http://www.sharadar.com/

http://www.legistorm.com/

http://www.creditkarma.com/


Finance (10/54)


Credit Information

FactorTrust [Atlanta, 2006]: FactorTrust provides underbanked consumer data, analytics and risk scoringsolutions to a variety of lenders. The Atlanta-based company utilizes an internal team of predictive analyticsexperts and statisticians combined with a deep, proprietary database of underbanked consumer loanperformance and best-in-class third-party data sources. As a result, providers of short-term or installment loans,credit and pre-paid cards, automotive loans, retailers, wireless services and collection agencies have anunparalleled view of the underbanked community. This unique data, along with FactorTrust’s data modeling andanalytics, serves lenders throughout the US, UK and Canada in one of the largest and fastest growing consumersegments, the underbanked.

$43.62MABS Capital Partners, MissionOG,

Archbrook

Credit Information

Credit Benchmark [London, 2012]: Credit Benchmark gathers, aggregates, anonymizes credit data from multiplebanks and then delivers it in a highly secure, confidential and legally-compliant manner. Its systems maximizedata quality through rigorous data validation and entity matching, with the ability to handle unlimited datasets.By doing this, it creates consensus credit data and analysis that directly reflect the views of banks’ own riskteams. Its system specifically produces estimates for probability of default and loss given default, used for riskmanagement and more broadly as benchmarks in the financial industry. The model allows it to offer insights onunrated sovereigns, hedge funds, public and private companies as well as their trading subsidiaries.

$27M Index Ventures, Balderton Capital

Credit Information

Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited [Mumbai, 2000]: CIBIL is a credit information company that collectsand maintains records of an individual's payments pertaining to loans and credit cards. This information is thenused to create Credit Information Reports (CIR) and credit scores which are provided to lenders in order to helpevaluate and approve loan applications. TransUnion International, a leading global credit information provider,owns 55% shares in the company, while the remaining 45% are held by SBI, ICICI Bank, Bank of India, Bank ofBaroda, Union Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, HSBC and Aditya Birla Trustee Company.

$19MIndia Infoline Finance, India

Alternatives Investment Advisors, Aditya Birla Private Equity

Credit Information

Lenddo [Singapore, 2011]: Lenddo is a provider of social network based credit scoring for individuals. Users linktheir social networking accounts to their Lenndo account and complete their profiles to generate theLenddoScore. This score can be used on websites providing financial products to consumers for financing or toget a better interest rate.

$14M

Accel, Omidyar Network, Metamorphic Ventures, Inovia Capital,

Lumia Capital, Blumberg Capital, Life.SREDA, Golden Gate Ventures,

Alpine Meridian, Kickstart Ventures, Future Perfect Ventures, FinTech

Innovation Lab, atcapital.com


http://www.factortrust.com/

http://www.creditbenchmark.com/

http://www.cibil.com/

http://www.lenddo.com/


Finance (11/54)


Credit Information

Inventure [Los Angeles, ]: InVenture is a mobile technology company providing simple credit scoring andaccounting tools for emerging markets. Collects borrowers data through SMS and builds a credit score whichthen lenders can refer to while providing loans. Apart from financial help Inventure also offers financial literacyand vocational training.

$11.2M

MESA Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Google Ventures, Expansion Venture

Capital, Collaborative Fund, Vast Ventures, India Internet Fund, Female

Founders Fund, BAM Ventures

Credit Information

Nav (fka Creditera) [South Jordan, 2012]: Nav (fka Creditera) helps small business owners access the financingthey need to grow and effectively manage their business. They do this giving business owners tools to takecontrol over their credit profiles--offering both personal and business credit data and insights for free. With thegoal of empowering business owners with better transparency into their credit lives, the site includes easy-to-read personal and business credit reports, contextual advice and monitoring all in one spot. It also provides toolsthat help members build business credit and a marketplace that makes it easy for them to use credit to createthe business of their dreams.

$6.5M

KPCB, Rock and Hammer Ventures, Fenway Summer, Kickstart Seed Fund,

Bassin Ventures, Zenstone Venture Capital, Peak Ventures

Credit Information

L2C [Atlanta, 2000]: L2C is a provider of advanced consumer scoring and analytics solutions. L2C leveragesalternative payment and asset data to create new predictive credit, collection and marketing scores for over 260million Americans. L2C’s clients include leading institutions in the financial service, retail, healthcare,automotive, telecommunication, and media and entertainment industries.

$4.01M QED Investors, Core VC, CFSI

Credit Information

Open Book Ben [Golden, 2013]: Open Book Ben is a business credit reporting agency. BEN has a business creditscore for nearly every company in the United States. These scores are based on publicly available data, as wellas data provided by their users. This approach allows business owners to have active and meaningful impact ontheir credit reputation and opens the door to additional features including better trade agreements, newcustomers, and more favorable capital opportunities.

$2.5M

Credit Information

YPCredit [Beijing, 2015]: YPCredit uses big data technology to provide various credit services. It collectspersonal information and business information and thereafter analyses the information which about customertransactions. It provides customers with credit info, fraud prevention, precision marketing, risk control etc.Claims to have raised $2.01M in Angel round of funding.

$2.01M Dbn Technology Group


http://www.inventure.com/

http://www.nav.com/

http://www.l2c.com/

http://www.openbookben.com/

http://www.ypcredit.com/


Finance (12/54)


Credit Information

Aire [London, 2014]: Aire is a London-based company which provides credit scoring of individuals via machine-learning algorithms. It allows users to enter their information in the application and generates a credit score forthem, especially users with no prior credit history. It also provides APIs to lenders, to be integrated in theirsystems, to provide credit scores of the applicants applying for the loans on their platform. The API was built toprovide real time response.It has been counted amongst the 10 hottest Fin-Tech startups in London and in Top15 Financial startups in Europe.

$1.4MAccion, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Tom Glocer, Barclays Accelerator,

Craigie Capital

Credit Information

modeFINANCE [Trieste, 2009]: modeFinance is a Credit Rating Agency. Its products and services help its clientsin the decision making, giving the best information in terms of quality, efficiency, transparency. Utilizing themodeFinance products, their clients have easy access to the knowledge of the credit risk of companies, sectors,holdings, countries, suppliers’ chains, vendors, etc. modeFinance provides international credit reports on everycompany across the world. modeFinance elaborates the ratings by using proprietary method: MORE MultiObjective Rating Evaluation.

$1.4M CORVALLIS

Credit Information

Equifax [Atlanta, 1899]: Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency. It gathers and maintainsinformation on over 400 million credit holders worldwide. Equifax sells businesses credit reports, analytics,demographic data, and software. Equifax collects and provides data through the NCTUE, an exchange of noncredit data including consumer payment history on telco and utility. Business customers include retailers,insurance firms, healthcare providers, utilities, government agencies, as well as banks, credit unions, personaland specialty finance companies and other financial institutions. From 1999, Equifax began offering services tothe credit consumer sector in addition, such as credit fraud and identity theft prevention products.

$1M

Credit Information

Ibercheck [Madrid, 2010]: Ibercheck is a tool that allows you to have a credit report on the person with whomyou do business. Provides SME or individuals the information to know if other people with whom they areconsidering doing business have incidences of defaults. Collects information from databases such as Asnef-Equifax and Experian. Backers include private investors François Derbaix, Juan Leal, Ignacio Buenhombre andothers.

$195K


http://www.aire.io/

http://www.modefinance.com/

http://www.equifax.com/

http://www.ibercheck.com/


Finance (13/54)


Credit Information

Compuscan Information Technologies (Pty) Ltd [Stellenbosch, 1994]: Compuscan is a credit reference bureauthat collects, validates, loads, verifies, houses, and distributes business and consumer credit information inSouth Africa. Its products & services offerings include account verification services, bureau summary variables,codix ( automated decision support tool), columbus (online tracing tool), compuloan (debtor managementsystem), CompuScore ABC (suite of credit bureau scores), credit check, credit bureau data, employmentconfidence index, income predictor, load defaults, marketing services, person verification services, proloan (loan servicing, management, tracking and collections software platform), and Xcelerator (automated applicationprocessing and filing system). In addition, the company also offers individual solutions, such as personal creditreports, as well as information for questions about credit bureaus or logging a dispute.

Actis

Credit Information

TransUnion [Chicago, 1968]: TransUnion provides risk and information solutions. The company operates inthree segments: U.S. Information Services, International, and Consumer Interactive segments. The U.S.Information Services segment provides consumer reports, risk scores, analytical services, and decisioningcapabilities; and online data, marketing, and decision services. The International segment offers online dataservices, marketing services, credit reports, analytics, decision services, and other value-added risk managementservices; and consumer services, which enable consumers to manage their personal finances.

Advent International, QED Investors

Credit Information

Callcredit [Leeds, 2000]: Callcredit Information Group manages consumer data for businesses across everyvarious sectors. The Group focuses on developing innovative products and services to help businesses makesmarter, more informed decisions throughout the customer life cycle. The Group counts many of the UK'sleading companies, including all of the clearing banks, several major international lenders, mediacommunications businesses, and petroleum, automotive, power and retail organisations as its customers. GTCR,a leading private equity firm, announced acquiring Callcredit Information Group Limited, in February 2014, inpartnership with its management team

GTCR

Credit Information

Dagong Global Credit Rating [Beijing, 1994]: Dagong global Credit Rating is a credit rating agency based inChina. The company offers professional risk evaluation services; and credit ratings for short-term financingbonds, medium-term notes, hybrid capital bonds, enterprise bonds, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, asset-backed securities, detachable convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds of listed company shareholders, financialbonds, SME collection bills, and subordinated bonds. In addition, the company conducts surveillance creditrating on domestic financial institutions, including banks and insurance companies; and issuing credit risksratings accordingly. Also, the company operates a credit management school that provides credit rating teachingto students. Dagong is headquartered in Beijing, China and has offices in Hong-Kong & Europe.

Mandarin Capital Partners


http://www.compuscan.co.za/

http://www.transunion.com/

http://www.callcredit.co.uk/

http://www.dagongcredit.com/


Finance (14/54)


Credit Information

EFL [Lima, 2010]: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is an innovative financial-technology company whichemploys psychometric and nontraditional applicant data to create credit scores to measure risk and potentialamong new and existing small businesses. EFL, a product of its early Harvard research, has been recognized bythe G-20 as one of the most innovative approaches to SME finance globally, and is supported by numerousinternational organizations, both public (IFC, IADB, G-20) and private (over a dozen of the largest financialinstitutions across 26 countries in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.) EFL identifies highpotential entrepreneurs by measuring risk among micro and SME borrowers with insufficient credit history.

Omidyar Network

Credit Information

TrustingSocial [New York City, 2013]: Trusting Social provides consumer credit score based on social, web andmobile data. It provides three major scores on an applicant: 1.Authenticity: Measures how likely an onlineidentity is real and trustworthy.; 2.Network quality: Measures the depth of the network, based on interactionswith other people and their background.; 3.Financial Credibility: Estimates a person's income percentile basedon her work history and education. Their solution enables lenders in emerging markets to lend to billions of“financially invisible” consumers who are not covered by credit bureaus. The platform modules can be tailoredfor social marketing, sale lead scoring, personalized offerings, and credit risk. Trusting Social is the winner ofFuture of Money and Technology Startup Competition (2014), and among top 10 fintech startups in Americaspresenting at the Innotribe Startup Showcase New York (2014).

Plug and Play Tech Center, Kima Ventures

Credit Information

Clear Score [London, 2014]: ClearScore provides free credit score and reports of individuals in the UK. Asopposed to other credit rating agencies which charge for the credit reports after trial, ClearScore claims toprovide lifetime free access to credit score and reports to the consumer. The credit score and reports areextracted from Equifax. The company generates revenue from commission it gets after a consumer buys afinancial product suggested by ClearScore offered by a partner.

QED Investors

Credit Information

Experian plc [Dublin, 1980]: Experian is a global information services company, providing data and analyticaltools to clients across the globe. Experian's principal lines of business are credit services, marketing services,decision analytics and consumer services. The company collects information on people, businesses, motorvehicles and insurance. It also collects 'lifestyle' data from on- and off-line surveys. The company's largestoperation is Experian North America, a consumer credit reporting agency that is considered one of the threelargest American credit agencies along withEquifax and TransUnion.

SPARK Venture Management


http://www.eflglobal.com/

http://www.trustingsocial.com/

http://www.clearscore.com/

http://www.experianplc.com/


Finance (15/54)


Credit Information

LendProtect UK Ltd. [Atlanta, 2008]: LendProtect is the provider of consumer data, analytics, and risk scoringsolutions on those underserved by traditional banking channels. LendProtect has compiled a comprehensivedata on the underbanked market in the industry on portfolios that report data daily, in real time. This daily loanperformance data on underbanked consumers is analysed in order to provide instant lending decisions using thecompany’s comprehensive scoring platform. LendProtect is a product launched by FactorTrust in 2008.

Credit Information

KnowYourCustomers [Akron, 2012]: KnowYourCustomers is a provider of customer prescreening tool. Thecompany offers a web-based tool to businesses to help them learn about their customers before they engage inbusiness with them, including past payments histories with other vendors. The company operates on acrowdsourced model. Businesses can submit complaints about customers on the platform. Then, the companyacknowledges the consumers that they have been posted on the platform. This opens a line of communicationin its internal arbitration process for the two parties to engage and try to settle their differences. It is free toupload complaints. The pricing for the platform starts at $28.69 per month.

Credit Information

Company Check [Nottingham, 2011]: Company Check is the database of UK companies helping clients with thedue diligence, checking up on customers and suppliers, researching competitors, and tracking their ownbusinesses. Company & director information are gathered from various sources including Companies House, theRegistry Trust and local Gazettes. Its offerings include credit reports, director reports, company housedocument, and API. 3 tier pricing model. Also, generates revenue from advertising.

Credit Information

CoCredo [ , ]: CoCredo is the provider of online company credit reports and related business information withinthe UK and overseas. Its online portal provides credit information on over 256 million companies across 221countries. Apart from credit information on UK & Ireland companies, the company offers company documents,director reports, direct marketing data, consumer reports, debt recovery, CRM integration, credit evaluation,and country risk reports. Subscription based revenue model. CoCredo was started in 2002 as part of WyseLeasing, and became a stand-alone company in 2005. In 2009, successfully completed a management buyoutand rebranded itself to ConCredo Ltd. Has won 'Credit Information provider of the Year' at the Institute of CreditManagement Awards 2014 and has been selected as finalists for 2015. Also, awarded 'Small Business of theYear' at the Buckinghamshire Business Awards 2014.


http://www.lendprotect.co.uk/

http://www.knowyourcustomers.com/

http://www.companycheck.co.uk/

http://www.cocredo.co.uk/


Finance (16/54)


Credit Information

Graydon [Harrow, 1888]: Graydon UK provides online credit information and credit management solutions. Thecompany offers credit report, ledger management, risk monitoring, automated credit decision, fraudprevention, marketing list, data integration, other credit report, and procurement and supplier selectionsolutions. The company also provides credit management and portfolio software. Graydon UK Ltd. was foundedin 1888 and is based in Harrow, United Kingdom. Graydon UK Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Graydon HoldingN.V.

Credit Information

Ormsby Street [London, 2014]: Ormsby Street develops CreditHQ for SMBs to track credit status, paymentperformance and general financial health of more than 7 million companies. CreditHQ takes data fromcompanies house and major credit supplier D&B, and uses that to provide financial insights to SMBs. CreditHQstarted life as a ‘credit score subscription' product for Barclays bank. Core technology is based around theMicrosoft Azure platform, and deliver primarily into web and email channel, the most widely used environmentsfor this kind of data, though they're increasingly integrating directly to other applications via APIs. They're basedin .NET and use relational and big data database storage platforms for their data storage and analysis ofcompanies. Has received £2.5m in seed funding, in the form of a legacy contract.

Credit Information

Veda [Sydney, 1967]: Veda specialises is the provider of credit information and analysis in Australia and NewZealand. It provides credit reporting, credit scoring, and marketing analytics services. Veda has two operatingsegments Australia and International. Within Australia, there are three lines of business consumer risk &identity: data intelligence about individuals to enable business customers to manage credit risk, validate identity& qualifications, and avoid fraud; commercial risk and information services: helps business customers assesscommercial credit risk, verify entities and manage supplier risk through the use of data intelligence and third-party data about businesses and the people behind them; B2C & marketing services: products that helpconsumers improve their financial literacy, negotiate better credit offers, protect their identity andbelongings, and safely purchase used vehicles. International comprises the operating businesses outsideAustralia. These include New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and Saudi Arabia. The Company waspreviously known as Baycorp Advantage, which was a merger of Australian company Data Advantage and NewZealand Company Baycorp in 2001.


http://www.graydon.co.uk/

http://www.ormsbystreet.com/

http://www.veda.com.au/


Finance (17/54)


Credit Information

Infocredit Group [Strovolos, 2011]: Infocredit Group provides reports which provide information for theprincipals of a company, to a more complex investigation that can be adopted on the needs of our clients.Services related to transactional behaviour of a company and alerts on positive and negative update areprovided by the company.

Credit Information

Credit Angel [Macclesfield, 2014]: Credit Angel provides credit scores and reports to UK based individuals tohelp them understand and improve their credit score. It offers credit report and score, social report and score,credit and social alerts, savings and vouchers and tailored financial deals. The credit reports are provided byCallCredit.

Credit Information

Destácame [Santiago, 2014]: Destácame helps people to use their utility bills like electricity, water andtelephone in order to demonstrate to banks and large stores that they are responsible and worthy of goodcredit conditions.

Credit Information

Credit Kudos [London, 2015]: Credit Kudos uses consumer transaction data to build highly accurate andtransparent credit score-cards and affordability metrics. The product makes decisioning possible for unbankedas well as those with nonexistent or thin credit files. It is backed by Entrepreneur First, Europe-based leadingpre-seed investment programme for technical founders. Offers APIs to online lenders wherein the borrowershave to authorize access to their data.

Credit Information

Check Business [London, 2013]: Check Business is an online service that provides credit and risk rating ofbusinesses in the UK in partnership with Equifax. It allows members to look up and monitor credit scores for anyUK business, partnerships and sole traders. The reports and ratings can be accesses by searching for companyname, registration number or VAT number.


http://www.infocreditworld.com/

http://www.creditangel.co.uk/

http://www.destacame.cl/

http://www.creditkudos.com/

http://www.check-business.co.uk/


Finance (18/54)


Credit Information

SMBscorecard [New York City, 2013]: SMBscorecard provides the information behind business credit scores tothe 26 million SMBs and 6,416 banks in the United States. SMBscorecard is a product and trademark ofCorporate Legacy, Inc.

Credit Information

Experian [Costa Mesa, 1996]: Experian is a global information service company. Provides credit report, creditscore, credit monitoring, and identity theft protection services to individuals; and customer acquisition,customer management, risk management, fraud management, debt recovery, regulatory compliance, businessresources, and consulting services to businesses. One of the three big credit reporting agencies in USA. Totalrevenue for the year ended March 31, 2014 was US$4.8 billion and support clients in more than 80 countriesand employ more than 16,000 people in 39 countries. As of December 2015, Brian Cassin Serves as a group CEO

Credit Information

Creditjam [San Mateo, 2011]: Creditjam.com is a service of Infofree, providing businesses credit ratings andestimated credit capacity on over 14 million businesses. Creditjam.com credit reports are built on theinformation that comes from Database101, founded by Vinod Gupta.

Credit Information

Dun & Bradstreet [Short Hills, 1841]: Dun & Bradstreet provides commercial data to businesses on credithistory, B2B sales and marketing, counterparty risk exposure, supply chain management, lead scoring and socialidentity matching. Dun & Bradstreet has been listed on the Fortune 500 and was one of the first companies tobe publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered atNew Jersey.

M&A Data

Carl Data Solutions [Vancouver, 2015]: Carl Data Solutions (CSE:CRL | FSE: 7C5) is a information collection,storage and analytics solutions for data centric companies. Building on its recent acquisitions, Flow Works Inc., acompany that helps its clients analyze and understand all forms of environmental data through a powerfulplatform of data collection, monitoring, analysis, and reporting tools, and extend to social media with anapplication that allows clients to leverage their customers’ social networks for referral marketing and analytics,Carl develops applications to work with new cloud-based mass storage services and analytics applications (Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS)).

Scharfe Group


http://www.smbscorecard.com/

http://www.experian.com/

http://www.creditjam.com/

http://www.dnb.com/

http://www.carlsolutions.com/


Finance (19/54)


M&A Data

PEI Services [Austin, 2005]: PEI Services specialise in providing corporate finance research database platformwith an integrated CRM and a project tracking tools specifically designed for M&A deal flow. Within the projecttracking piece, users can create/send email campaigns, generate up-to-date reports and journal allconversations amongst the deal participants. The corporate finance research database tracks private equityfirms, investment banks, institutional real estate firms, valuation firms, senior lenders, hedge funds, publiccompanies and mezzanine firms. Search results can be downloaded or migrated to the targetedfirms/individuals into the project tracker. Primarily the company serves middle market investment bankers andrelated M&A professionals. It cost $1320 per year to access the platform.

M&A Data

MandAsoft [New York City, 2009]: MandAsoft.com is provides mergers and acquisitions data via a hosted,graphically enhanced, searchable database. MandAsoft.com is launched by Berkery Noyes IT & Research team in2009. MandAsoft specializes in the Information Industries such as Online, Mobile, Media, Software, TraditionalMedia and Publishing both in the consumer and Business to Business spaces including the Healthcare, Educationand Financial Information and Technology sectors. Claiming to have over 26000 transactions and almost 41000companies in the MandAsoft database which has been continuously updated since 2000.

Private Market Investment

Owler [San Mateo, 2011]: Owler (formerly InfoArmy) is a free mobile and online platform to track and researchcompany information and interactive business news. Owler keeps you up to date by providing hand-curated,real time updates about companies and competitors along with exclusive company insights from the Owlercommunity. Company offers this data free of cost to users. Founding team from Jigsaw, which got acquired bySalesforce.com for $142M in 2010. Headquartered in US with market research team in Coimbatore, India

$19.3MNorwest Venture Partners, Trinity

Ventures


PitchBook [Seattle, 2008]: PitchBook is a research firm for Private Equity and Venture Capital. PitchBookprovides comprehensive M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, along with the limited partners,funds, companies and advisors involved. PitchBook meticulously collect, organize and analyze hard-to-findprivate equity deal data. PitchBook’s flagship product is the web-based PitchBook Platform, as well as its dailynewsletter and research reports. Subscription based monetization model. Customers are from PE investors, VCfirms, I-Banks, law firms, lenders, strategic acquirers, LPs and media & academics.

$14.25M Morningstar


http://www.peiservices.com/

http://www.mandasoft.com/

http://www.owler.com/

http://www.pitchbook.com/


Finance (20/54)



CB Insights [New York City, 2009]: CB Insights is a data as service firm that offers comprehensive information,intelligence and insights about private companies that have received venture capital, private equity, angel orgovernment funding. Its products include the CB Insights database platform which offers structured, searchabledata on companies and investors as well as FundingFlash, a daily email detailing venture capital, growth equityand angel investment deals. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in New York. NEA, Cisco,Salesforce, Castrol, Comcast are some of its prominent customers. Subscription based monetization model.

$10MNational Science Foundation,

Rosemont Seneca Partners, FinTech Innovation Lab


DataFox [Mountain View, 2013]: DataFox provides important business information to customers using its dataplatform based on Stanford's machine learning and natural language processing algorithms. The company wasfounded in 2013 and is headquartered at Mountain View. Subscription based monetization model.

$6.8M

Goldman Sachs, Dorm Room Fund, Google Ventures, InnoSpring, Y

Ventures, Green Visor Capital, Cota Capital


Tracxn [Palo Alto, 2013]: Tracxn is a venture capital database that offers comprehensive and curatedinformation about startups across the world. It is a market intelligence platform that offers deal discovery,analyst support and other tools for exploring private market investment opportunities. As of Jan 2016, Tracxnhas over 130 analysts tracking more than 230 sectors. The company has 6000+ paid users across the globe. InJan 2016, Tracxn announced funding from Ratan Tata and later in Feb 2016, Tracxn raised funding from NandanNilekani, Mohandas Pai, WhatsApp VP Neeraj Arora, Junglee co-founder Anand Rajaraman, Beenos founderTeruhide Sato, Freshdesk CEO Girish Mathrubootham, and Capillary Technologies CEO Aneesh Reddy. In Feb2016, Tracxn launched TracxnSecondary, a platform enabling liquidity in startup space.

$3.7M SAIF Partners, Beenext


Pivotl [London, 2005]: Pivotl (formerly StrategyEye) is a disruptive technology sector tracking startup. It offersPivotl iQ and Pivotl KM solutions. Pivotl iQ provides sector analysis, daily intelligence, deal data tools, industrymap, company intelligence, category intelligence, and customized report. Pivotl KM: is a knowledgemanagement tool to share knowledge among the team members. Apart from this, the company provides dailynews and technology event schedules. StrategyEye was rebranded as Pivotl and sold to Blenheim Chalcot in Sept2014. It is part of their fast-growing Contentive publishing portfolio and remains powered by the EditorEyeplatform.

$3M


http://www.cbinsights.com/

http://www.datafox.co/

http://www.tracxn.com/

http://www.pivotl.com/


Finance (21/54)



IT Juzi [Beijing, 2013]: IT Juzi is a Chinese startups database and business information service provider. It aimsto provide information and data which includes investment, acquisition, competitive intelligence, subdivisionindustry information and other product information data as a service.

$2.2M

IDG Capital Partners, Northern Light Venture Capital, Northern Light

Venture Capital, PreAngel Partners, China Renaissance, Geek Founders


Funderbeam [Tallinn, 2013]: Funderbeam is a startup & investor research platform. Mines the data fromvarious public and private sources, including CrunchBase. Plans to launch syndication platform and aftermarketfor startup investments that will be secured by the blockchain. Subscription based business model.

$2.01M3TS Capital Partners, Rock Spring

Ventures, Rock Springs Capital, AAR KEI ENTERPRISES


CrunchBase [San Francisco, 2007]: Crunchbase is a simple crowdsourced database to track startups covered onTechCrunch. Anyone can access the data free of cost. Crunchbase announced its spin-out from AOL inSeptember 2015 and now functions like an independent company.

$2MSalesforce, SV Angel, Emergence Capital Partners, Felicis Ventures,

Cowboy, Austin Ventures, 8VC


Asoko Insight [London, 2014]: Asoko Insight is an information services company focused on delivering up-to-date management information, profiles, insights and data on unlisted companies across Africa to investors,global corporates and institutions. Data is gathered through a combination of in-country collection teams, onlinedata mining, media syndication and institutional data partnerships. Verified information is available viasubscription access to our extensive database or individual company snapshot purchase.

$1.35MEmergo Partners, Jonathan Berman, North Base Media, Singularity, CRE

Venture Capital


http://www.itjuzi.com/

http://www.funderbeam.com/

http://www.crunchbase.com/

http://www.asokoinsight.com/


Finance (22/54)



Oddup [Hong Kong, 2014]: Oddup is an online platform that rates startups in China, Hong Kong, Singapore andTaiwan and assesses their invest-ability. Rates startups on a scale of 1 to 100, with a higher score signifying aless-risky investment for VCs and angels. Ratings are based on various factors such as expected futurevaluations, previous investors, strength of management teams, quality of product, competitive landscape,media buzz etc. Also gives qualitative commentary by its analysts on aspects such as chance of success,investment risk, etc. along with buy/hold/sell ratings. Claims that its rating methodology is patent pending.Clients include J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and BNP Paribas. Plans to cover startups based out of Sydney,London, Melbourne, Bangalore, and Bangkok by mid-2016

$1.13MKima Ventures, Big Colors, Innotech

Capitals


TradeVibes [Mountain View, 2007]: TradeVibes is an online database of private companies. Offres featuressuch as sharing data, discussion, and evaluation of company information. Part of Mill River Labs. Mill River Labsis a company founded by four former PayPal employees. Their first product, TradeVibes, was purchased inSeptember 2009 by VentureBeat.

$900k


Fuelup [Amsterdam, 2012]: FUEL UP is a subscription based digital platform that features new business ideas,products and startups. Provides an overview of the global startup market and a ranking system based onbusiness plan, team and traction. FuelUp was a participant of Startup Bootcamp Amsterdam 2013.

$521K Startupbootcamp


Tangent Data Services [New York City, 2012]: Tangent data services uses Big Data analysis for providing realtime insights for investment professionals by analysis public financial information of eCommerce businesses.Through its proprietary data partner, it aggregate and analyze data on the world's largest e-businesses.

$458.5K undisclosed


http://www.oddup.com/

http://www.tradevibes.com/

http://www.fuelup.co/

http://www.tangentds.com/


Finance (23/54)



BrightSun [London, 2011]: Brightsun offers a database containing information about private companies,including the amount of funding that a startup has raised to date, its burn rate, approximately how much moneyit has in the bank, a prediction of whether the founders are currently looking for funding, bios etc. News,company databases, information from incubators and university labs, and many more data sources are used asinputs into an algorithm that surfaces appropriate start-ups based on a user's specific criteria.

$200k


Dato Capital [Madrid, 2007]: Dato Capital is a business information portal which provides information ofcompanies for business transactions. Has large source of information on companies, including commercial,related to market listing, geolocation data and employees in the company. Dato Capital covers companies inUK, Gibraltar,Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Virgin Islands,Panama and Spain.

$163K


Lets Talk Payments [Charlotte, 2013]: LTP offers a FinTech startup discovery platform MEDICI. It providesresearch and trend on FinTech startups along with contextual engagement. LTP allows only companyrepresentatives to update their company's profile on MEDICI using their company email addresses. Also, offersrelevant MEDICI reports alongside company profiles for purchase. Subscription based monetization model.Pricing is different for startups and enterprise customers. Customers uses MEDICI platform for growth strategythrough identification of target companies for partnership, investment or acquisition. As of Feb, 2016, theplatform is in beta phase.

$100K


VCAlphaBeta [Sydney, 2015]: VCAlphaBeta operates an interactive data platform that provides insights andanalysis to venture capital (VC) clients to identify trends, themes, and opportunities in Australia. The companyprovides funding & financial data, startup profiles & information, industry/sector data, and strategicinformation. The company offers research and insights to the entrepreneurs and investors; high net worthindividuals, angels, government, academics, and financial and corporate VCs. VCAlphaBeta Pty Ltd wasestablished by Artesian Capital Management in April 2015.

Artesian


Venture Scanner [San Francisco, 2013]: Venture Scanner tracks startups in emerging technology sectors. Theyhave their in house analyst team that is powered by data aggregation and clustering technology. Hitachi,Deloitte, JP Morgan, EY are some of its customer. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in SanFrancisco.

Bee Partners


http://www.brightsungroup.com/

http://www.datocapital.com/

http://www.letstalkpayments.com/

http://www.vcalphabeta.com/

http://www.venturescanner.com/


Finance (24/54)



Startup Genome [New York City, 2011]: Startup Genome is a non-profit organization that builds and maintainsdatabase of startup companies and entrepreneurs in the world. Curators are appointed at the city, state orcountry level and are given the ability to add, delete and change entries in order to make the data in their citymore useful and accurate. Offers API, dynamic map and interactive charts to the developers.

Streamlined Ventures


Econodata [Sao Paulo, 2013]: Econodata provides a database of more than 14 million Brazilian companies witha focus on private companies. Cloud-based offering. Its database contains financial information such as balancesheets, income statements, sectors of activity, contact information and competitor information. The company isbacked by Wayra from Telefonica Group and by Startup Brasil. Subscription based revenue model.

Wayra


Business Model Gallery [Helmsange, 2013]: Business Model Gallery has developed a database of businessmodels. Every business model is described in detail, including company information, a description of thebusiness model and a full representation of the business model building blocks. Users can search, filter,compare, and export business models. In addition, it also offers blueprints / patterns for designing businessmodels. 3 tier pricing structure free, basic, and startup. Basic costs EUR 99 per month.


SkipStarter [Hyderabad, 2016]: SkipStarter is an upcoming startup discovery platform. As of Feb 2016, underconstruction. Made by Ryn Software Labs.


Macrobond financial [Malmo, 2008]: Macrobond is a provider of economic and financial data through ananalytics and charting application. Its database features more than 22 million time series and securities. Userscan then create customizable charts, tables and reports. Bloomberg Terminal users can use the Bloombergconnector feature and utilize the Macrobond Application's front-end as an interface to Bloomberg data. Offersuser-friendly exploration and presentation of historical financial and economic data. Its clients includeinvestment banks, central banks, research firms, fund managers, hedge funds, corporates, consultancies anduniversities world-wide.


http://www.startupgenome.co/

http://www.econodata.com.br/

http://www.businessmodelgallery.com/

http://www.skipstarter.com/

http://www.macrobond.com/


Finance (25/54)



MedMarket Diligence LLC [Foothill Ranch, 2001]: MedMarket Diligence provides tactical information andinsight to the medical products, investment and other industries on the status and outlook for advanced medicaltechnology. The company publishes a range of medical technology market and assessment Reports and theMedtech Startups Database. MedMarket Diligence also provides regular coverage of new developments,including recent medtech financings and medtech startup formation, in their blog. Subscription based revenuemodel.


ADVFN [London, 1999]: ADVFN is a provider of stocks and shares information to the private investors. Thecompany offers stock quotes, charts, news, FOREX, futures & options, and stock screeners. The site covers inexcess of 70 stock exchanges from across the globe. It is known for its active bulletin boards. ADVFN operatesboth free and premium bulletin boards, which receive between 10,000-12,000 posts a day.


Deal Italy [London, 2015]: Deal-Italy is a digital platform aim to facilitate equity investments in italian SMEs.Services offered include deal sourcing, due diligence on selected SMEs, data room management and exitmanagement.


startups watch [Istanbul, 2015]: Startup Watch is an investment analytics platform for Turkey & MENA startupecosystem. The platform provides market research and strategic insights for over 100 verticals, Competitormonitoring (traffic, financials, AdWords plans), startup database, deal flows, metrics, mobile app ranking, andweb ranking. Offers yearly subscription plan starting at $600/year for Pro version and $1000/year for enterpriseversion. VCs, Angel Investors, large corporate houses are among its customers.


http://www.mediligence.com/

http://www.advfn.com/

http://www.deal-italy.com/

http://www.startups.watch/


Finance (26/54)



Research PE India [Delhi, 2009]: ResearchPEIndia.com is a research-based firm (started by ProvidenceConsultants Private Limited) that provides a comprehensive coverage of business deals that happen in the Indiato clients in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Investment Banking and the Corporate world. In addition, itsadvisors track customer-specific financial information and generate research reports that help clients makesuccessful business decisions at a fraction of the cost and time. Its database provides access to more than 1700deals in India, customizable research reports about public or private companies, and the latest governmentnotifications, rules and regulations relating to private equity, venture capital and foreign direct investment (FDI).Subscription based revenue model.


IVC Research Center [Tel Aviv, 1997]: IVC Research Center analyzes and monitors Israel's high-tech industry. Itsonline database includes Israeli high-tech companies, venture capital and private equity funds, investmentcompanies, professional service providers, foreign investors, and technological incubators information. Thecompany also provides high-tech industry reports, serial entrepreneur’s reports, IPO intentions reports, mergerand acquisitions reports, high-tech and venture capital directory, survey on venture capital and private equityindustry, advertising tools, and online alerts. Also, the company publishes insights on venture capital, privateequity, and high-tech companies for business leaders, financial entities, and government organizations in theUnited States, Europe, Asia, and Israel. Google, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Greylock Partners and others are amongits customers.


PSEPS [London, 2001]: PSEPS is a global private equity and venture capital information source. The PSEPSDatabase includes data about private equity firms and funds, their investee companies, as well as about theprofessionals employed by the industry. The data is being used by investment banks, private equity firms,limited partners, entrepreneurs raising capital, professional advisers, and researchers worldwide.


VentureDeal [Menlo Park, 2006]: VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides information aboutventure capital-backed technology startup companies, venture capital companies and transactions throughoutNorth America. Users can access database, download in CSV as well as pdf format and also can set up alerts.Claims that they cover over 40 industries spanning general technology to life sciences. Conducts secondaryresearch. Subscription based revenue model. Subscription cost starts at $25 per month.


http://www.researchpeindia.com/

http://www.ivc-online.com/

http://www.pseps.com/

http://www.venturedeal.com/


Finance (27/54)



StartupFlux [Hyderabad, 2016]: Startupflux is a startup discovery, research and comparison platform. Thecompany provides curated data to investors, entrepreneurs, job seekers and startup enthusiasts. Currently, thecompany is in development stage.


Massinvestor [ , 1998]: Massinvestor/ VC News Daily is the publisher of VC & PE databases providingauthoritative coverage of the USA's top regions for financing—Silicon Valley, Massachusetts, New York,Midwest, Texas, Mid-Atlantic, Southern California, Rocky Mountain and Southeast. Massinvestor/ VC News Dailyalso publishes the United States Venture Capital & Private Equity Database, which profiles nearly 3,500investment firms in all 50 states. Covers the entire spectrum of private capital from Angels to Merchant Banks,VCs to PE investors. Its offerings include access to online as well printed databases.


Inkwire [Cupertino, 2010]: Inkwire is a data-as-a-service company that provides instant analysis platform forVC's evaluate investment oppurtunities. The platform converts unstructured big data from the public sourcesinto actionable investment intelligence for banks, investment firms and private investors and lets them buildtheir own measurement criteria. This intelligence allows investors to objectively and accurately measuremomentum across a set of key metrics. The company is now closed.


Venture Market Index [London, 2011]: Venture Market Intelligence offers VM Index, a market indicator thathas analysed over 50,000 venture capital transactions and is updated daily to provide detailed investor profilesbased on their actual activity and track record. VM Index is a predictive search platform designed to helpcompanies identify the right investors for their business and find funding faster, whilst reducing costs and thedrain on management time.


Globerly [San Francisco, 2015]: Globery is a digital platform for investors, funds, startups and global brands todiscover, connect, invest in and partner with. Globerly strategy is to point to prominent global trends via theirdatabase of startups. Users can discover startup information from the database and connect to the teams viathe platform.


http://www.startupflux.com/

http://www.massinvestor.com/

http://www.inkwire.io/

http://www.vmindex.com/

http://www.globerly.co/


Finance (28/54)



Xeler8 [Delhi, 2015]: Xeler8 is a deal-sourcing and research platform tracking, and analyzing startups with focuson consumer agnostic Indian startups. Tracks more than 50 startups every week in various emerging segmentsincluding HealthTech, FinTech, Online Travel, FoodTech, E-commerce. Claims to use primary and secondaryresearch to bring a curated feed. On registering, startups will also get assistance in pitching to VCs. Investors willbe provided information on startups and founder details.


TechSG [Singapore, 2015]: TechSG is a digital platform for Singapore's technology entrepreneurial ecosystem.TechSG integrates and augments the information resources already existing to provide comprehensiveinformation on the key players in Singapore’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.Also, TechSG will provide curatedresearch insights and analytical tools for visualising and tracking the diversity, interdependency, growthdynamics and vibrancy of Singapore’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. TechSG has been developed by NUSEnterprise and has been sponsored by IBM.


Preqin [London, 2003]: Preqin provides comprehensive data and research on alternative assets industry. Preqinprovides data and information on the private equity, real estate, hedge fund, infrastructure, private debt andnatural resources asset classes, encompassing the areas: funds & fundraising, performance, fund managers,institutional investors, deals, and fund terms. Preqin's team of multilingual analysts based around the worlddirectly contact and collect the data from industry professionals. Also, Preqin monitors regulatory filings, makeFOIA requests and track news sources. Preqin has a strategic partnership with Baxon Solutions, a company thatdelivers market leading cloud-based software solutions for monitoring, managing and reporting private equityportfolio performance.


Lglist [Hanoi, 2015]: Lglist features a comprehensive list of Vietnamese promising startups. It helps angelinvestors easily discover the best targets in Vietnam. The site also features a discussion forum for thecommunity and a job board that help startup founders finding employees.


http://www.xeler8.com/

http://www.techsg.io/

http://www.preqin.com/

http://www.lglist.co/


Finance (29/54)



StartupStats [San Francisco, 2012]: Startupstats is an automated startup discovery system that finds upcomingcompanies. Through its "automated newsroom" system, the company send out alerts for those companies useris tracking.


Deal Intelligence [Rotterdam, 2014]: Deal Intelligence is a data base to understand and track privatecompanies. It brings automation and data science to dealmaking. Helps to generate insights when researching,prospecting and tracking fast growing private companies. Uses a subscription based monitization model.


ExitList [New York City, 2014]: ExitList is a platform for discovery, research and track startups, their founders,and investors. The platform aggregates, refine and organize data from multiple sources. Their reports dissectcomplete companies profiles in well structured layouts. In stealth mode as in November 2015.


VentureSource [New York City, 1987]: VentureSource is a comprehensive venture capital database trackingmore than 67,000 venture-backed companies in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, Israel and India. It provides in-depth financial, product and service provider details for companies in all stages of development and working inevery industry and sector. Also tracks private investment firms and the key executives managing each companyand firm.


WhoGotFunded? [Paris, 2012]: Whogotfunded is a database that provides global VC funding details. Theplatform extracts relevant funding information through text-mining technologies, from a combination ofTwitter, web news and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The platform then transformunstructured text into structured data and presents data points like funds received, how much was invested,investor name, industry and geographical region. Follows a subscription based monetization model.


http://www.startupstats.com/

http://www.dealintelligence.co/

http://www.exitlist.co/

http://www.venturesource.com/

http://www.whogotfunded.com/


Finance (30/54)



VBProfiles [San Francisco, 2013]: VB Profiles is a partnership between Spoke Intelligence and VentureBeat. Theplatform aggregates, curates and organizes up-to-date business data and information, to create insights aroundindustries, companies and people. Users can enter searches by keyword (IaaS, for instance) or company name(Cloudscaling) and get a list of matching records from the database: companies, significant executives, or insome cases products. Each match has a corresponding profile card, which shows basic data about the companyor person along with links to recent news articles from a variety of sources.


myFrenchStartup [Paris, 2012]: MyFrenchStartup is an analytic French startups database. It's the originator andre-distributor of the French startups value-added data including entrepreneurs profile, funding round andamount, investors, competitors, market size etc.


Startup Ranking [Lima, 2013]: StarupRanking is a platform that track, research and provides insights of allstartups registered in their database. The platform rates the company (SR Score) based on their social influence.SR Score is a number between 0 and 100,000. Follows a subscription based monetization model.


StartupList [San Francisco, 2010]: StartupList is a discovery tool for startups. The platform provide social profilesfor startups. The information is aggregated from social information from Twitter, Facebook, CrunchBase,AngelList, LinkedIn etc. Early Adopters, entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and investors can view these profiles todiscover investment oppurtunities.


Startup Tracker [London, ]: Startup Tracker combines information from leading providers and completesmissing knowledge by crowdsourcing directly from startups. Data sources include leading startup informationdatabases such as CrunchBase, AngelList, Product Hunt etc. Startup profiles of interest can be annotated andsaved to Evernote.


http://www.vbprofiles.com/

http://www.myfrenchstartup.com/

http://www.startupranking.com/

http://www.startupli.st/

http://www.startuptracker.io/


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VCCEdge [Noida, 2009]: VCCEdge is a research platform providing comprehensive data and analytical tools toprofessionals. VCCEdge was initially launched as a deal database offering information on historical and currentprivate equity & venture capital, and merger and acquisition transactions in India. Since then the product hasevolved into a holistic financial research platform used by clients for deal origination, deal structuring andvaluations, gaining market insights, carrying out due diligence, and tracking competition.


BetaList [Eindhoven, 2010]: BetaList is the place for early adopters to discover upcoming internet startups.Features only those startups whose product is not live, features a custom designed, decent-looking landingdescribing the product and a way for people to leave their contact information.


Venture Intelligence [Chennai, 2002]: The Venture Intelligence service is a source of information and analysison private company financials, transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) and their valuations inIndia. Customers include PE / VC Firms, Limited Partners, Investment Banks, Corporate Law Firms and otherServices Providers. Subscription based monetization model.


Dashboard [Arlington, 2013]: Dashboard is a product of Disruption corporation which serves as a tool for start-ups and provides investors data and analysis on start-ups to investors. The platform provides public data tools togain exclusive insights into private market companies. Helps in researching startups, monitor investments, andcreate watchlists of companies.


C Experts [Shreveport, 1999]: VC Experts provides data on the financing of private companies along withcontent on fundraising. Conduct exhaustive analyses of all state and federal regulatory filings by privatecompanies. Information gathered includes valuations, share prices, terms and conditions, board members, andbehind the scenes details for improved deal context.


http://www.vccedge.com/

http://www.betalist.com/

http://www.ventureintelligence.com/

http://www.dashboard.io/

http://www.vcexperts.com/


Finance (32/54)



DealIndex [London, 2014]: DealIndex is an intelligent data and deal aggregator of private companies and assetsraising capital across leading alternative finance platforms globally. The platform provides extensive data,research and analytics as part of its service to clients. The company offers crowdfunding aggregator dashboardthat allows investors to navigate and track deals in real-time, manage their portfolio of private companyinvestments, and make informed investment decisions backed by extensive analysis, data and research. Thedashboard provides single sign-on access to hundreds of private companies seeking capital.


Rating.VC [Helsinki, 2014]: Rating.VC is a startup analytics tool that uses all available information to discoverand evaluate new promising companies. It scans all sources about new startups (media, competitions,accelerators, directories, etc), collects all information about it's traction, team, market, fundraising, thenstructures it and makes it searchable. Also benchmark startups with their competitors and compare with dataabout successful startups.


OpenCorporates [London, ]: OpenCorporates is the open database of companies in the world. The company hasa database of over 84 million companies in 104 jurisdictions. Its data is used by World Bank, LinkedIn, Stripe,Creditsafe, and others. Awarded the Open Data Business Award (2015) by the Open Data Institute. Offers APIson subscription basis to access the data. Part of Chrinon Ltd.


PrivCo [New York City, 2009]: PrivCo is a provider of financial data on major privately-held companies. Fromprivate company financials to M&A and venture capital transactions, deal terms and valuation multiples andownership breakdowns, PrivCo is the source. Customers are from wall street banks, private market investors,law firms, market research and consulting firms, and major business media. The company has been called the"Bloomberg on Private Companies". Subscription based monetization model.

Public Market Investment

Markit [London, 2001]: Markit is a global diversified provider of financial information services. The Companyprovides pricing and reference data, indices, valuation and trading services, trade processing, enterprisesoftware and managed services. End-Users include front and back office professionals, such as traders, portfoliomanagers, risk managers, and research professionals. Markit EDM is a data management platform that acquires,validates and distributes trade, operational, risk, finance and customer data for the financial and servicesindustry. In April 2016, IHS and Markit merged to form IHS Markit, the total merger valued at $13B.

$250M General Atlantic, Prime Ventures


http://www.dealindex.co/

http://www.rating.vc/

http://www.opencorporates.com/

http://www.privco.com/

http://www.markit.com/


Finance (33/54)



Oanda [San Francisco, 1995]: Oanda uses innovative financial technology to provide Internet-based Forextrading and currency information services to individuals, large corporations, portfolio managers and financialinstitutions. Has one of the world's largest historical, high frequency, filtered currency databases. Offers API forHTTP based access to foreign currency exchange rates daily. Has WorldFirst as partner for international bankaccount to bank account money transfer.

$117M

NEA, Index Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Armada Investment, Next Generation Finance Invest,

Cascade Investment Group


Snowball Finance [Beijing, 2011]: Snowball Finance is an internet financial information service provider. Thecompany’s investment & communication platform xueqiu.com, provides investors with cross-market and cross-species data query, newsletter subscription and interactive communication services, which has covered HongKong stocks and U.S. stocks market. In addition, Snowball Finance also owns the iMeigu (imeigu.com) whichserves the U. S. stock investors in China.

$53.2MSequoia Capital, Renren, Morningside

venture Capital


TheMarkets [New York City, 2000]: TheMarkets is a joint venture of several Wall Street banks, includingJPMorgan Chase & Co and Goldman Sachs Group, formed in 2000 as a way to provide banks' sell side researchto institutional investors. The company offers broker research and earnings models, such as equity, fixedincome, sector, economic, and strategy reports that create a set of research, data, and analytics solutions forinstitutional asset managers; and financial data and analytics. According to a report, the company counts threequarter of the 50 largest US asset managers as its clients. The company was acquired by CapitalIQ in 2010.

$30MBank of America, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Lehman

Brothers


Activ [Chicago, 2002]: ACTIV Financial is a provider of real time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions.ACTIV offers neutral, managed services for buy and sell-side firms and technology providers seeking a completemarket data solution that encompasses both global content management and data delivery across theenterprise. Product offerings include ActivWorkstation (AWS) - enables traders' to access to market dataincluding advanced charting, time and sales, and option analytics, MPU Gen3- tickerplant device that facilitateslarge-scale, real-time data distribution, ActivFeed Direct- for implementations demanding the lowest possiblelatency, or for firms that have a desire to own and operate its own dedicated ticker plant, ActivFeed - highlycompressed datastream, delivering every tick on every instrument, but in a small band-width footprint.

$25M Bessemer Venture Partners


http://www.oanda.com/

http://www.xueqiu.com/

http://www.themarkets.com/

http://www.activfinancial.com/


Finance (34/54)



Discern [San Francisco, 2009]: DISCERN is a Signals-as-Service provider for Investment Professionals, that isdeveloping web applications to dramatically streamline financial decision-making. Its cloud-based platformsynthesizes disparate data into a single browser-accessible location, continually augments the data, and deliverssignals on new developments important to financial decision-makers. This allows more time to focus ondiscovering actionable insights. Domain experts guide the company's data curation efforts, collectively coveringenergy, real estate, banking, consumer retail and macroeconomic sectors. Known for its Signals as a Serviceoffering, the company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York.

$20M Artiman


eVestment [Marietta, 2000]: Evestment provides a suite of cloud-based solutions to the institutional investingcommunity. The company operates a database across various asset classes. It offers Analytics, a suite ofanalytical options for research and due diligence, peer-group comparisons, competitive analysis, flexiblefiltering, and client-ready reporting. The company serves asset managers, hedge fund managers, PE fundmanagers, institutional investors, and investment consultants.

$19MInsight Venture Partners, Silicon Valley

Bank, Salmon River Capital


Cogencis [Mumbai, 2007]: Cogencis Information Services (previously known as NewsWire18), is a real timemarket data and financial news terminal provider. Cogencis is among the few market data vendors in the worldthat have proprietary data and news which helps it serve discerning customers. It offer three main products inthe real time market data and financial news terminal business: Money, Equity, and Commodity. In each productvertical the company provides bespoke versions that allow customers to choose a product that works best forthem. They also offer data feeds and newsfeeds, both for end users as well as for redistribution. Theircustomers include finance professionals, money managers, policy makers, and others who want to keep track ofwhat is happening in the financial world. Samara Capital has bought out Network 18's 77.5% stake in CogenicsInformation Services.

$16.5M Samara Capital


YCharts [Chicago, 2009]: YCharts is an investment and economic data terminal containing information onequities, mutual funds, ETF's etc. Offers 450,000 economic indicators on countries around. Allows integrationwith Microsoft Excel. Pricing model ranges from less than $500 a year for limited use for students and individualinvestors to $4,000 a year for professional advisors.

$14.5MMorningstar, Hyde Park Angels, I2A

Fund, Amicus Capital, Amicus Capital Partners, Social Leverage, REV


http://www.discern.com/

http://www.evestment.com/

http://www.cogencis.com/

http://www.ycharts.com/


Finance (35/54)



Selerity [Jersey City, 2009]: Selerity is a low latency, real-time fact aggregation and event data company thatcaters to sophisticated investment firms including hedge funds, banks, and proprietary trading firms. TheSelerity Platform searches and extracts event data from real-time primary sources delivering clients machine-readable, actionable insight. Customers use Selerity’s platform to make accelerated trading and riskmanagement decisions by programmatically incorporating event data into their investment models.

$12.27M Citigroup


Estimize [New York City, 2011]: Estimize is an open financial estimates platform that aggregates fundamentalestimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and students.Analysts are scored based on track record, and the platform algorithmically flag estimates that are very unlikelyto be in good faith. Estimize provides an API to investment professionals to integrate Estimize data into theirfinancial models. The company monetizes by selling a feed of all estimates made on the platform through an APIin real time to investment firms which write algorithms against it to trade quantitatively.

$9.5M

WorldQuant, Contour Venture Partners, Longworth Venture

Partners, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, Valuestream Labs,

agilicllc.com


Leverfun [Beijing, 2015]: Leverfun is a mobile app (also called "Fried Rice") for experienced stock investors. Theapp provides data as well as risk analysis to users. It allows users to perform arbitrage trading. Available oniPhone and Android.

$4.84M Shichun Wu, Future Capital


Heckyl [Mumbai, 2010]: Heckyl offers a Big Data-based analytical platform for investors, traders andresearchers of the financial industry. It provides the product 'FIND', a real-time news and data analytic platformto brokerage firms, short-term traders, investors and fund managers. Its integrated solution with tradingterminals provides information, visuals, heat maps of sentiments and market data to help traders find thetrading opportunity in the market. The company covers Forex, Commodities, over 15000 Public listedcompanies, a few hundred private companies & startups, along with the world top Private equities players,Hedge funds, Fund Managers and Venture capitalist firms. It aims to launch a Big Data mining platform forfinancial institutions and the hedge fund industry soon.

$4.75M Seedfund, IDG Ventures India


http://www.seleritycorp.com/

http://www.estimize.com/

http://www.leverfun.com/

http://www.heckyl.com/


Finance (36/54)



Chaikin Analytics [Philadelphia, 2009]: Chaikin Analytics offers a financial decision making tool for professionaland individual investors. The data is aimed to reduce risk, identify profitable stock and ETF opportunites andimprove workflow. The Analytics are based on the technical and fundamental work of stock market expert MarcChaikin.

$4.75M


iSENTIUM [Miami, 2010]: iSENTIUM ingests millions of finance-related tweets and extracts information that isconsumed by financial institutions and business professionals.iSENTIUM’s patented Natural Language Processing(NLP) technology currently supports over 8,500 U.S. stocks, indices and ETFs.

$4.64M


Eagle Alpha [Ballsbridge, 2012]: Eagle Alpha provides asset managers with alternative research, tools, data,analytics, marketplace and resources. Its research analysts leverage technologies (proprietary and licensed) anda team of data scientists to produce actionable research on specific stocks and macro topics. Also, Eagle Alphahas built, and is building, specific tools for users to do their own proprietary analysis. Apart from research andanalytics, Eagle Alpha is building a platform for Wall Street research analysts and fund managers to access,query using natural language and conduct complex research on unique datasets aggregated from the Web.

$4.5M


Infinancials [Paris, 2000]: Infinancials specialises in providing fundamental data and analytics for listedcompanies. Provides web based products- Equity Analysis Platform and Financial Web Components. Itsplatform accesses data from FactSet, WVB, and Morning Star. Infinancials serves investment banking, privateequity, consulting, asset management, universities, and corporate clients. Infinancials was acquired byNorwegian market data vendor Infront in June 2012.

$2.75MBNP Paribas Investment Partners, A

Plus Finance


Thinknum [New York City, 2013]: Thinknum is a web-based repository of financial models. It has aggregatedover 5 million data series from thousands of sources and enabled analysts to create and host financial modelson the cloud. Currently offering two products: Cash Flow models and plotter. Thinknum digitize financial filingsfrom institutions such as SEC and helps users to create financial model. Thinknum platform helps investors tomake more informed decisions. It claims that analysts from around the world are building the largest repositoryof financial models on Thinknum.

$1M500 Startups, Green Visor Capital,

Pejman Mar Ventures


http://www.chaikinanalytics.com/

http://www.isentium.com/

http://www.eaglealpha.com/

http://www.infinancials.com/

http://www.thinknum.com/


Finance (37/54)



FinancialContent [San Carlos, 2000]: FinancialContent provides stock market data, business news and contentsyndication to publishers, widgets, web pages. The company focuses on providing financial content, such asstock quotes and Dow Jones Industrial average data, to various web sites. The company powers websites suchas CNET, CBS, San Francisco Chronicle, Cablevision, Nielsen, 24-7PressRelease, and Minyanville. The companycurrently owns and operates SocialPicks.com, a stock idea community, PRConnect.com, a press releasedistribution network, StreetIQ.com, a business podcast directory, GoInvest.com, a stock market tracking service,MarketMinute.com a blog about the US financial markets, and FinancialMedia.org, which tracks news related tocontent and monetization in the Financial industry.

$1M Bay Partners


Vuru [Montreal, 2010]: Vuru is an automated analysis engine that converts financial statements intotransparent reports for investors.The company offers three core product: Stock Fundamentals – In-depth stockreports based on company fundamentals and valuations, Stock Screener: A powerful stock screener that allowsinvestors to easily find great stocks and Portfolio X-ray: A robust tool that identifies strengths and weaknesses inan investor's current portfolio.

$1M


Investfeed [New York City, 2014]: Investfeed is a is a marketplace for stock traders and investors that gathersquantifiable trading data and uses it to build a performance stats tracker into every user profile. It then uses thedata it has collected to assign an overall ranking to each user. It gives other users (referred to as “feeders”) andpotential subscribers the transparency they covet in order to make the best decisions possible for their owninvestment portfolios. Premium feed holders can set a monthly subscription fee to their investfeed profile andearn directly from users who want to access their content.

$1M


StockStreams [Dublin, 2013]: StockStreams filters streams of data from social media to provide information onfinancial markets. The company has developed algorithms that enable the system to rank users and has built uparound half a million different sources on stocks that the company follows.

$80K


http://www.financialcontent.com/

http://www.vuru.co/

http://www.investfeed.com/

http://www.stockstreams.net/


Finance (38/54)



FlashRatings [San Francisco, 2014]: FlashRatings owns and operates an online platform that provides equityanalyst research coverage for retail investors. Its platform provides access to analyst explanations andrationales, predictions, and price targets on various stocks; and provides email alerts and watch list. Thecompany also delivers real-time news feed for professionals, as well as into intranet and trading floor platformsof institutions; and display news feed on client’s Websites. FlashRatings LLC was founded in 2012 and is based inPalo Alto, California.

500 Startups


Internet Securities Inc [New York City, 1994]: Internet Securities (trading as ISI Emerging Markets), wasfounded in 1994 and acquired by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in 1999. It delivers information on morethan 80 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service. Itaggregates and produces content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information,industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are deriveddirectly from local and global publications.

Advent International


Data Explorers [London, 2002]: Data Explorers specialises in providing financial benchmarking information tothe securities lending industry and short side intelligence to the investment management community. Data issourced directly from securities lending desks of over 100 of the top lending firms and representing most of theglobal securities lending market. The Data Explorers database tracks $12 trillion of lendable securities, with $2trillion of loan balances on average covering 30,000 equities, 40,000 corporate bonds, and 80,000 governmentbonds. The company products include APIs, Data Feeds, Excel Toolkits, Mobile Apps, web-based platforms andchannel partners including Bloomberg LLC,Thomson Reuters, Factset, Markit and Capital IQ.

Bowmark Capital


GlobalView Software [Chicago, 1979]: GlobalView specialises in providing market data and data managementsolutions to energy and agricultural companies. Its product offerings include MarketView Desktop: providesaccess to a comprehensive collection of global energy and commodity market data enabling clients to visualize,track, and analyze real-time and historical market data as well as global news and proprietary data; MarketViewcurve builder: allows for customers to design curves, schedule times to execute curve runs, monitor the entireprocess, and automatically send data downstream into an ETRM system; MarketView Excel Tools; MarketViewMobile; MarketView Prop Data Hub: SaaS-based architecture to access, analyze, and distribute proprietary datafrom internal data silos; and MarketView Data Management Solution. Virgin Atlantics, GS Caltex, CITGO, CSCArbitrage Group and others are among its customers. GlobalView Software, Inc. was formerly known asMarketView Software, Inc. and changed its name to GlobalView Software, Inc. in 1995. The company wasfounded in 1979 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois

CCP Equity Partners


http://www.flashratings.com/

http://www.securities.com/

http://www.dataexplorers.com/

http://www.marketview.com/


Finance (39/54)



Genscape [Louisville, 1999]: Genscape, Inc. provides market insights and intelligence to global commodity andenergy markets. It offers market intelligence across the commodity and energy spectrum, including power, oil,natural gas, petrochemical and NGL, agriculture, biofuels, and maritime freight markets. The company providesdata and intelligence through a Web-based interface, as PDF reports, and/or via direct data feeds into customeror third-party trading and publishing systems. Its customers include global commodity and energy trading hedgefunds, banks, producers, and marketers, as well as various government entities, including the U.S. Departmentof Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The company was founded in 1999 and is based inLouisville, Kentucky.

Chrysalis Ventures, DMG Information


Tick Data [Great Falls, 1984]: Tick Data provides research-ready historical intraday data for the world’sEquities,Futures, Options and Forex markets. These are offered as complete data sets, or specific symbols, datesand granularities of data that can be customized. They also provide as-traded or time series data. Other featuresinclude 1) Flexible storage and access choices, with historical data API and data hosting solutions. 2) Integrationof data into R, MATLAB, MongoDB, Kdb+, etc. 3) TickWrite time series building tools are also additionallyoffered.

Ferst Capital


Stockbit [Jakarta, 2012]: Stockbit is a financial data platform that provides fundamental investment data toretail investigators. Some of the features include key stat summary, charting tools and a member's communityto share investment ideas. Follows a subscription based model for monetization.

Ideosource


Niuguwang [Beijing, 2014]: Niuguwang is a free investment services platform which claims to provide investorswith improved traditional investment experience. They also provide free cloud based intelligent solutions, real-time stock quotes and information services. It claims to have raised Series C round of funding.

Legend Capital, Aspect Ventures, Xianfeng Evergreen, Zhongguancun

Industrial Investment


http://www.genscape.com/

http://www.tickdata.com/

http://www.stockbit.com/

http://www.niuguwang.com/


Finance (40/54)



S&P Capital IQ [New York City, 1999]: S&P Capital IQ provides web-based information services that combineinformation on companies worldwide along with a variety of software applications that allow financialprofessionals to analyze company fundamentals, build financial models, screen for investment ideas, andexecute other financial research tasks. Capital IQ serves more than 4,200 clients, including investment banks,investment management firms, private equity firms, universities, consultants, and corporations. Components ofCapital IQ’s offering include data on public companies, private companies, auditable company financials,M&A/financing transactions, public offerings, corporate executives and board directors, compensation, news,filings, screening tools, chart builder, Excel Plug-In modeling tool, real-time market data and news, relationshiptree, macroeconomic data, industry analyses and investment research.

Northwood Ventures


Interactive Data [Bedford, 1968]: Interactive Data Corporation provides financial market data and relatedofferings to institutions, active traders and individual investors. The company's businesses offers real timemarket data, time sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for securities trading, including hard to valueinstruments. In July 2010, the company was acquired by two PE funds, Warburg Pincus and Silver Lake Partners,for $3.4 billion in all cash transaction. In Ocotober 2015, Intercontinental Exchange bought IDC for $5.2B.

Warburg Pincus, Stockwell Capital


MCX Market Watch [Ahmedabad, 2014]: MCX Market Watch offers a mobile app to real-time commodityprices. Investors can check bid price, offer price, last trade price, high low, buyers, sellers, etc. through the app.The app also offers news modules, price alerts, and intraday charts.


SETMONITOR [Bangkok, 2016]: SETMONITOR is a website that aims to provide retail and professional investorswith a tool to research, and analyze charts and fundamental data. It give users information in a quick andattractive snapshot. It allows users to research and analyze stocks’ information, historical performances, markettrends, and economic indicators.


http://www.capitaliq.com/

http://www.interactivedata.com/

http://www.mcxmarketwatch.com/

http://www.setmonitor.com/


Finance (41/54)



Sternshus [Seattle, 2016]: Sternshus is an algorithmic based platform that tags, indexes, and ranks financialdata reducing the time and monetary cost of investment research for advisors. Its API is available for$5,000/month to $10,000/month.


CreditRiskMonitor [Valley Cottage, 1999]: CreditRiskMonitor provides credit and financial analysis to credit,supply chain and finance professionals. It also provides the latest news, proprietary credit scores and financialsfor 40,000 public companies. It provides FRISK proprietary credit scores for companies which it claims to be 95%effective in predicting company bankruptcies. It also includes agency ratings from Moody's, Fitch and S&P,whenever available.


Mergent [Fort Mill, 1900]: Mergent (formerly Financial Communications Company) is a provider of business andfinancial information on global publicly listed companies. The company offers Mergent Online: research solutionfor detailed insight into company and industry research; Mergent Intellect: a web-based application for businessinformation; Mergent Bondviewer: contains a range of bond data that involves issuer and issue-level terms andconditions for the United States taxable bonds, municipal bonds, and retail notes; First research industryreports;In addition, it offers analytics, data feeds, data collection services, cloud-based applications, corporateactions and pricing, fixed income solutions, private company solutions, print and digital archives, and investorrelations solutions. The company has partnered with D&B to provide online & print solutions. The companyserves academic, corporate, and financial research professionals and institutions, as well as public librariesworldwide. Offers its solutions through partners and redistributors. Former subsidiary of Xinhua HoldingsLimited.


Hedgefund.net [New York City, 1997]: HedgeFund.net (Owned by Channel Capital Group) is a provider of hedgefund data, research, and news to the accredited investors. The company offers HedgePlus, a fund listingplatform that allows fund managers to provide investors quantitative and qualitative transparency; and postbiographies, strategy descriptions and exhibits, newsletters and press clippings, PowerPoint presentations, andan initial due diligence questionnaire. Offers data export features for further custom analysis. In addition, thecompany offers investor tools, such as HFN Indices to track the aggregate performance of hedge funds, funds offunds, and CTAs as reported by managers; and manager services for managers who list their products in thedatabase. In September 2011, the company was acquired by eVestment for an undisclosed sum of money.


http://www.sternshus.com/

http://www.creditriskmonitor.com/

http://www.mergent.com/

http://www.hedgefund.net/


Finance (42/54)



Eurekahedge [Singapore, 2001]: Eurekahedge is an independent data provider in hedge fund news, indices, anddatabases. Its hedge fund database covers North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The company tracksover 220 data points and updates its database by month end. Eurekahedge is a subsidiary of Mizuho Bank. Inaddition to the hedge fund database and analysis, its other business functions include hedge fund publication,due diligence services, investor services, and an analytical platform service. The company serves family offices,endowments & trusts, pension funds, funds of hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, private banks, advisors,service providers, and industries. Subscription based revenue model.


Stockvider [Paris, 2016]: Stockvider provides financial data which can be accessed via API. The company offershistorical and daily end of day prices and volume for the main US exchange: NYSE, Nasdaq, technical indicators(more than 40), as well as candlestick pattern recognition and auto-charting processing (supports, resistances,trends, patterns). The company is planning to extend its data coverage such as futures, options, technicalanalysis data, fundamental data, news data etc.


Insignis [Chicago, 1985]: Insignis provides daily automated collection, aggregation, and management of financialdata, including data on positions, transactions and complex instruments such as exchange-traded futures andoptions, OTC swaps and foreign exchange spot and forward contracts. Insignis offers financial data aggregationservices in the areas such as Plan Sponsors: Collecting data on derivatives from investment managers andfutures brokers to support risk, collateral management, and reconciliation; Investment Consultants: Collectingtransaction and holdings data from custodians on a daily or monthly basis to support analytic computationsincluding performance and attribution; Investment Managers: Collecting futures data from futures brokers, aswell as investment managers, to support risk, reconciliation, and collateral management; and Third PartyApplication Providers: Aggregating data from custodians, investment managers, and third-party data sources toprovide TPA clients with the full benefit of the application through entry of accurate, timely, low-cost data. Inaddition, Insignis has developed a library of building blocks which can be utilized to assemble new data solutionsfor its clients. These building blocks, which include its library of data feeds, are available to its clients fordeveloping custom solutions. In 2015, the company was acquired by MSCI for an undisclosed amount.


http://www.eurekahedge.com/

http://www.stockvider.com/

http://www.insignis.com/


Finance (43/54)



TagniFi [Tampa, 2012]: TagniFi is a provider of financial data for investment research via excel & API. Thecompany offers TagniFi Fundamentals: low-latency standardized data from the balance sheet, incomestatement, and cash flow statement; TagniFi Markets: delivers free end-of-day market data; and TagniFi Macro:offers free economic data. In addition to that, the company offers excel add-ins and data API. Subscriptionbased revenue model.


2iQ Research GmbH [Frankfurt, 2002]: 2iQ Research specialises in behavioural finance as well as quantitativeprocessing and analysis of capital market data. The company provides access to European directors' dealings forinvestor and a range of services regarding data; European directors' dealings that are available via CEF real-timedata feeds to information providers and banks, and stock pilot. Its solutions range from web access, customisedreports, alpha signals to a raw data feed. The company currently cover over 12,000 companies in more than 50countries. The company was founded at Frankfurt University business incubator, supported by the Chair ofBanking and Finance (Prof. Dr. Mark Wahrenburg) and the Chair of Electronic Commerce (Prof. Dr. BerndSkiera).


SNL Financial [Spokane, 1987]: SNL Financial (formerly S&L Securities) is a provider of financial market datafeed of public and private companies. The company offers sector-specific financial, including sector specificperformance metrics, and financial statements for making comparisons; investor presentations and conferencecall transcripts of a company; M&A data. the company also collects capital offerings made by companies;institutional ownership data; credit ratings; estimates and research reports that provide consensus andindividual analyst estimate metrics; and asset-level market data. The company serves customers in investmentbanks, rating agencies, government agencies, law firms, real-estate, energy, and financial sectors. As ofSeptember 2015, the company operates as a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.


Sentieo [Harbor Beach, 2012]: Sentieo offers equity research applications for institutional investors. Offersfinancial document search from its database of SEC filings, Conference Call Transcripts, Company Press Releases,Investor Presentations. Equity Data Terminal for accessing financials with 10M+ data points and a chartingengine for plotting Sentieo's data sets. Offers mobile app.


http://www.tagnifi.com/

http://www.inside-analytics.com/

http://www.snl.com/

http://www.sentieo.com/


Finance (44/54)



Platts [New York City, ]: Platts specialises in providing data on benchmarking prices for commodities and energymarkets. Its products and services include real-time news and market alerts, market data & price assessments,market reports, analytics, energy infrastructure maps, commodity risk solutions, and conferences & events.Platts serves traders, analysts, risk managers, purchasing agents, and other professionals of public and privatesector organizations, including exploration companies, and miners and refiners; end-users, such as utilities,airlines, steel companies, and auto manufacturers; government agencies and financial institutions; andprofessional service firms in law, engineering, consulting, and asset management. The company was founded in1909 in London. Later in 1953 it was acquired by McGraw-Hill Financial, Inc.


FnGuide [Seoul, ]: FnGuide Inc. provides financial information services in South Korea and internationally. Thecompany operates FnGuide.com, a cyber banking and financial data solution that offers home-equity andcorporate finance, debt, and economic data; and FnMoa, which provide financial markets and marketdistribution information, as well as publishes classified information processed by financial information Web-based site. It also provides CompanyGuide that offers institutional and individual investment information, andother services; FundNuri, which provides information on investment funds; and DataGuide, an excel add-in tool.In addition, the company offers FnGuide Index that provides research services on private exponent indices,bond indices, and commodity indices, such as investment strategy consists of the index. Further, it publishesbooks and periodicals; and offers database, financial system and consulting, and fund rating services, as well aspublishes books and periodicals. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.


INET BFA [Johannesburg, 1965]: INET BFA is the financial data and analysis tool provider for African markets.The company offers JSE Market data, African market data, International market data, fundamental data ofAfrican companies through its products INET Station, INET Frontier, INET Graph, MoneyMate and INET Expert.The company also offers INET Convergence: which is a Fibre Broadband solutions with low contention ratios,through a superior Fibre network. INET BFA was formed by the merger of two of South Africa's financial dataproviders, McGregor BFA and I-Net Bridge, in 2014.


CQG [Denver, 1980]: CQG provides electronic trading, technical analysis, and market data solutions for thefinancial trading industry. CQG specialises mostly in the futures market but provides both real-time andhistorical data from more than 100 exchanges from North & South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. CQGoffers CQG integrated client: flagship desktop-based product for global market data, analytics and advancedorder routing; CQG spreader, CQG Q Trader, CQG FX, CQG M, CQG Trader, and CQG data factory. Apart fromabove products, the company also offers API for developers.


http://www.platts.com/

http://www.fnguide.com/

http://www.inetbfa.com/

http://www.cqg.com/


Finance (45/54)



Dow Jones [New York City, 1882]: Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial informationfirm that has been owned by News Corp since 2007. The company's flagship publication, The Wall StreetJournal, is a daily newspaper in print and online covering business, financial national and international news andissues around the globe. Other consumer-oriented publications of Dow Jones include Barron's Magazine, aweekly overview of the world economy and markets and MarketWatch, the online financial news site. Otherproducts include 'Financial news' and 'BigCharts'


Creditflux [London, 2001]: CreditFlux specialises in providing information and data about credit trading andinvestment market. The company publishes a monthly newsletter, online daily news and comprehensivedatabases of CLOs and credit fund returns. Its data product CLO-i provides users the inside track on CLO activityand performance including b-wic and secondary trading prices, primary & secondary market data and managerperformance using over 18,000 trustee reports. In January 2016, the company was acquired by MergermarketGroup.


Stocks [Harare, 2013]: ZimStocks uses reported data to provide an in-depth analysis of companies on theZimbabwe stock market. The platform also includes professional investment advice. Features of ZimStocksinclude, week day market commentary, an alert to give an overview of the market, round up of the marketperformance at weekends, stock prices (current, historic and average), local business news with a sentimentgrade and Portfolio to help you keep track of investment or to test out strategy. Available on iOs and android.


BullBear Device [Ahmedabad, 2014]: Smartphone app that provides financial data to users and real-timecommodity quotes, of Indian as well as global indices. Features include viewing buy, sell and trading rates ofcommodities, real time news from Dow Jones Commodities Newswire, communication with marker experts andtraders, real-time quotes of international commodity market, access to daily market outlook and freecommodity tips among others. Offers pricing plans ranging from INR 800 - INR 7000 / year subscription.


Mometic [Dallas, 2014]: Mometic offfers a financial data app MOMO, that evaluates over 6500 stocks fromNasdaq, NYSE, and AMEX in real-time to deliver a live stream of stocks. Also allows to share information oniMessage, Twitter, and StockTwits.


http://www.dowjones.com/

http://www.creditflux.com/

http://www.stocks.co.zw/

http://www.bullbeardevice.com/

http://www.mometic.com/


Finance (46/54)



Trendlyne [Bangalore, 2015]: Trendlyne is an online information portal on stock market for investors. It tracksnews articles and reports it to users in a visually appealing fashion (charts & visualizations). Also has a discussionforum for opinion on various stocks.


Major Gainz [Mumbai, 2013]: MajorGainz provides live share/stock market statistics and updated financialmarket information. Provides all investment related info like Equity, Derivatives, Currency, Commodity, MutualFund, IPO, News, Economy, Research, etc. Has tied up with Finapple Ideas to offer FNO advisory services andequity advisory services.


Capital Mind [Bangalore, 2013]: Capital Mind provides analytics on financial markets in India, includingcoverage on bonds, stocks, derivatives and macroeconomics. Soon to launch its 'Next Gen Financial AnalyticsPlatform' for viewing live data in raw and synthesized form. Offers a weekly newsletter on Macroeconomicconcepts, with detailed data on bonds, broad market picture, RBI actions, government, fiscal data and apremium offering around derivatives (futures and options) which talks about trading with a real portfolio behindit. Quarterly and annual subscription pricing.


Snolr [Lucknow, 2010]: Snolr offers a web platform that enables beginners and expert traders to register andget market analysis of 100+ companies and indices including nifty and midcap stocks for smarter investmentdecisions. Has developed a proprietary algorithm, GutFeel that analyzes news based on how a similar newsaffected a particular stock price in the past. Also offers sentiment analysis based on social media reports analysisand gives a dynamic sentiment score of each index. Offers visual analysis in the form of graphs and market feedfor the indicators. Offers beginner, trader and professional packages. Currently its services are available only oninvitation basis. Founded in 2010 by Shashi Singh & Arihant Agarwal.


Port Alchemy [Brighton, 2013]: PortAlchemy is a resource for investors of over 10,000 annual reports.PortAlchemy offers an organised platform for corporate reporting. The annual report PDF should meet certainstandards, be user friendly and be highly functional. Companies can add this standard to their reporting PDFs forthe benefit of investors and other stakeholders. Also offers Radar, an advanced annual report search toolspanning 10 years of UK reporting.


http://www.trendlyne.com/

http://www.majorgainz.com/

http://www.capitalmind.in/

http://www.snolr.com/

http://www.portalchemy.com/


Finance (47/54)



CrowdKast [Norfolk, 2015]: Crowdkast is using crowd-sourcing to analyse how investors evaluate financialmarkets and interpret market risk. Their real-time feeds provide actionable and forward-looking volatilityforecasts, fundamental ratios, technical indicators, and portfolio risk and return metrics to investors of allexperience levels.


Intraday Traders [Bangalore, 2012]: Coronis is a online portal which provides stock buy and sell signals fortraders. Traders can access various features such as intraday calls, stock related information, stock performancehistory (price+volume against time), health and pulse. Other features include an event calendar and a progressreport (percentage return generated on stocks invested over the last few years). Package costs Rs 7000.


QUANTHETA [New York City, 2014]: Sentiquant,, harnesses the power of social media for investors of all kinds.Provides with actionable insights that allow investors to make more informed investment decisions. Usingsophisticated machine learning and natural language processing techniques, SentiQuant extracts stocksentiment and delivers it in an easily digestible form, allowing investors to better understand the underlyingtone of market in real time.


SIX Financial Information [Zurich, 1930]: Six Financial Information (Subsidiary of Six Group) specializes in theprocurement, processing and distribution of international financial information. Provides its clients with thenecessary tools for the settlement of financial transactions and the implementation of investment decisionsor the risk management of investment positions. Banks and asset managers are the principal users of thisfinancial information. The main focus is on reference data and information used for valuing financialinvestments. However, SIX also delivers price information in real time. On the basis of its range of referenceand market data, SIX also offers standardized display products and solutions tailored to specific clientrequirements. The Financial Information business area also includes the Group companies Rolotec (softwaresolutions) in Biel, EuroPerformance (fund data) in France and CETREL Securities (software and financial datasolutions for reference data) in Luxembourg.


http://www.crowdkast.co/

http://www.coronis.in/

http://www.sentiquant.com/

http://www.six-financial-information.com/


Finance (48/54)



Money.Net (Official) [New York City, 1998]: Money.Net is a platform that empowers customers to analyze andmonitor markets in real-time. For a flat $95 per month. It provides real-time US equity prices, options,international equities, foreign exchange, bond and commodity futures. Money.Net also includes a professionaltechnical charting system, live breaking market news, an Excel API to update spreadsheets with live feeds andupdatable historical data, graphical market analytics, and much more. Money.Net has built many custom marketinformation tools for NASDAQ, CBOE, Capital IQ, OptionsXpress, ThinkOrSwim, TD Ameritrade, E*Trade,InvestTools, and Investor's Business Daily, among others. The Money.Net platform is designed to be able to runfrom anywhere. A standalone application, run from any browser as a cloud-based application.


Style Research [London, 1996]: Style Research is a provider of global investment research and portfolio analysisapplications. Specialize in holdings and returns based style, risk and performance analysis of portfolios, fundsand markets and offer a variety of analysis and research services to professional investment institutions.


The ETF Toolkit [ , 2014]: The ETF Toolkit provides research, analysis, investor applications and education forETFs. Offers a 21 day free trial and thereon charges $30/month.


Interactive Data Corporation [Massachusetts, 1968]: Interactive Data Corporation pioneers in providingfinancial market data, analytics and related solutions to financial institutions, active traders and individualinvestors. Interactive Data provides reference data and listed markets pricing, ultra-low latency data and tradinginfrastructure services to facilitate electronic trading, sophisticated analytical tools for investment managers,customized web-based financial information systems, and desktop solutions, including eSignal Suite of Products.Supports clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatorycompliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. The company was founded in 1968and was acquired by two PE firms Warburg Pincus and Silver Lake Partners for $33.86 per share or $3.4 billion inan all-cash transaction in July 2010. In October 2015, Intercontinental Exchange acquired IDC from PE firms for$5.2 billion.


http://www.money.net/

http://www.styleresearch.com/

http://www.etftoolkit.com/

http://www.interactivedata-rts.com/


Finance (49/54)



FactSet [Norwalk, 1978]: FactSet provides financial information and analytical applications to global buy andsell-side professionals, including portfolio managers, market research and performance analysts, risk managers,sell-side equity researchers, investment bankers, and fixed income professionals. FactSet aggregates third partycontent from more than 220 data suppliers, 100 news sources and 80 exchanges into its own dedicated onlineservice which the client accesses to perform their analyses. FactSet's software platform, also called FactSet,includes real-time news and quotes, company and portfolio analysis, multi-company comparisons, industryanalysis, company screening, portfolio optimization and simulation, predictive risk measurements, alpha testingand tools to value and analyze fixed income securities and portfolios. FactSet is available via wireless devicessuch as iPad and iPhone and is integrated with Microsoft Office applications.


Islero [Trondheim, 2013]: Islero is a platform organizing the useful information being created by many analysts,and sharing it in a simple way. Anyone who has been analyzing and coming up with interesting informationabout the market are able to upload their analyses. The quality of analysts and analyses are assured by acommunity based rating system. Users can ask the analysts for critical information, and read historical analysesfor free. Also allows to follow companies or analysts.


Capp.io [New York City, 2014]: Cappio is stock data platform that aggregates and analyzes information onstocks and provides ratings and information to facilitate investing. Uses the Piotroski score (algorithmdeveloped by a professor at the University of Chicago) to rank stocks.


Market Wall [Milano, 2014]: MarketWall is a global market data platform. It is connected to 80 equity marketswith more than 50,000 companies. They guarantee their clients up to the minute market data, fundamentals,competitor information, videos and news. MarketWall users have access to the first financial ecosystemcompatible Apps (iOs, Android)Smart TVWearables (Gear II, Gear S). USA and Canada real-time market data areavailable at $1.99 USD per month. End-of-day market data is also available for additional 80 financial markets.


http://www.factset.com/

http://www.islero.com/

http://www.capp.io/

http://www.marketwall.com/


Finance (50/54)



Stockpulp [Boca Raton, 2015]: Stockpulp is an online platform which provides access to information aboutstocks, gathered from Social Networks like Twitter and LinkedIn. Based on noise and sentiment, the data ismixed with other variables.


StocklFlare [London, 2013]: Stockflare is a research tool for self directed investors which provides informationabout stock prices. It provides users with the tools they need to value, understand and manage their portfolio bysimplifying investment data and news. Sources its data from Thomson Reuters. The available data is publishedwith a 15 minute delay. Revenue model does not exist yet, but they plan to introduce it in near future


Kognetics [ , 2015]: Kognetics financial insights is a data platform that gives professionals the ability to accessqualitative and financial data on US-listed companies. It applies custom analytics, and create presentationsinstantly. It has a suite of tools that automate processes like extracting company source data, analyzingfootnotes for adjustments, developing company comparables, and creating presentations.


Robur [Makati, 2013]: Robur publishes financial data on companies listed on the global stock markets - aimed atindividual investors who need access to quality data. Product offering includes a stock screener, companyfinancials presented in a standard database and research. Institutions can use their platform via their APIoffering.


Intrinio [Saint Petersburg, 2012]: IIntrinio provides access to financial data through an API, Excel Add-In andGoogle Sheets add-on. Can be accessed from any device (Apple, Microsoft, Google). Data includes basiccompany information, company metrics, historical stock prices, 120 valuation ratios, as-reported financialstatements, standardized financial statements, sales, earnings, and growth estimates, as well as economic data.The platform also provides a free valuation engine.


http://www.stockpulp.com/

http://www.stockflare.com/

http://www.kognetics.com/

http://www.roburir.com/

http://www.intrinio.com/


Finance (51/54)



Stock Rover [Braintree, 2011]: Stock Rover is an equity research platform that uses an Integrated DevelopmentPlatform and web 2.0 technology to make an investment research dashboard in user's browser window.Dashboard acts like a spreadsheet of all the financial data of all the companies in which an investor is interested.Users can organize, view, and compare stock information using more than 50 financial metrics available with theprogram. Stock Rover take all that information that’s readily available on Google or in financial statements andconsolidates it


Finviz [Maastricht, 2007]: Finviz provide leading financial research, analysis and visualization to individualtraders and institutional clients. The site aims to make market information accessible and provides a lot ofinformation in visual snapshots, allowing traders and investors to quickly find the stock, future or forex pair theyare looking for. Also provides advanced screeners, market maps, analysis, comparative tools and charts. It offersmost of the site's functionality for free and charges a fee for more advanced features.


Bloomberg [New York City, 1981]: Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial software, data and mediacompany. Provides financial software tools such as an analytics and equity trading platform, data services andnews to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg terminal (via its Bloomberg ProfessionalService), its core money-generating product. Bloomberg L.P. also includes a wire service(Bloomberg News), aglobal television network (Bloomberg Television), a radio station (WBBR), websites, subscription-onlynewsletters and three magazines: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuit. In2014, Bloomberg launched a multiplatform media property that will merge the company's political news teams.


Arcontech Group PLC [London, 1979]: Arcontech Group PLC specializes in providing real time financial data tothe users. Its award winning CityVision product suite collects, aggregates, and redistributes the market data inreal-time from multiple sources to multiple destinations. Sources can include Vendor feeds exchanges and othertrading venues as well as data contributions from spreadsheets and internal pricing systems. Destinationsinclude multiple vendor contributions, dealing desk displays, MS Excel, real-time streaming web updates and on-line trading applications. CityVision incorporates with other systems via existing de facto & via its own APIs. Inlate December 2000, the company went public.


http://www.stockrover.com/

http://www.finviz.com/

http://www.bloomberg.com/

http://www.arcontech.com/


Finance (52/54)


Public Market Investment - ESG

ASSET4 AG [Zug, 2003]: ASSET4 AG provides investment research information on economic, environmental,social, and governance (ESG) aspects of corporate performance. The company provides a database containingESG information of publicly listed companies, countries, local authorities, state-owned companies, andsupranational entities in a Web based architecture. It also provides equity-focused solutions and fixed incomesolutions for professional investors and corporate executives; extra-financial information for fixed incomeinvestments; and carbon data and estimates. It serves financials, consumer, technology/telecommunication,healthcare, and industrials/energy/materials/utilities sectors in Switzerland and internationally. ASSET4 AG wasfounded in 2003 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. As of November 30, 2009, ASSET4 AG operates as asubsidiary of Thomson Reuters Corporation.

$4.9M Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs


W Financial [Portland, 2001]: IW Financial is a provider of objective research and technology solutions that helpfinancial professionals evaluate the environmental, social, and governance performance of companies. IWFinancial’s research team produces data on more than 3,000 U.S. publicly traded companies covering more than1,000 discrete data elements. IW Financial’s in-house research on more than 6000 global companies is availablethrough IW Financial’s patented Workstation platform. The company also offers investment universes, overlays,and custom indexes. In addition, the company offers consulting services to its clientele. Its clients includeinvestment firms, banks, endowments, religious organizations, universities, and advisors. Portfolio managers,research analysts, marketing and customer service professionals, compliance professionals, and investmentcommittees.


RepRisk [Zurich, 1998]: RepRisk AG is an environmental, social and corporate governance research provider.RepRisk offers a suite of solutions to address ESG risk related need such as ESG risk platform, data feeds,RepRisk briefs and reports. The company runs an online searchable database on the risk exposure of companies,projects, sectors and countries related to ESG issues. It methodically assesses on a daily basis the risks,allegations, and criticism related to issues such as environmental degradation, human rights abuses andcorruption that can impact an organization's reputation, financial profitability or lead to compliance issues. Thedatabase is used by financial institutions and corporations as a risk research and monitoring tool. RepRisk wasformed in 1998 as ECOFACT, a Zurich-based environmental and social risk consultancy focused on the financialsector. In 2006, its ESG risk database was created at the request of a banking client. In 2010, RepRisk split fromthe consultancy and became an independent company.


http://www.asset4.com/

http://www.iwfinancial.com/

http://www.reprisk.com/


Finance (53/54)


Public Market Investment - Frontier Market Data

Frontier Strategy Group [Washington, 2007]: Frontier Strategy Group is the information and advisory firm foremerging market executives. Its product and services include FrontierView Platform: provides proprietaryleading indicator data across 200+ markets, maintained by FSG's global research team; Dashboard & Tools: toolsfor market prioritization, monitoring, visualizations, and data analysis, research and expert access; CustomPractices such as market optimization, channel excellence, predictive analytics. SAP, Bacardi, GE, MitsubishiElectric and others are among its customers.

$17.14M Spark Capital, Boathouse Capital


Frontier Data Corp [New York City, ]: Frontier Data Corp delivers unique, high-fidelity, and continuous data onFrontier Markets across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America. FDC collects highly granular and uniquemarket and pricing data on a weekly basis from the most promising and difficult-to-penetrate markets. FDC havecollection capability in numerous countries and have launched data subscription services in Iraq, Saudi Arabiaand Vietnam—with many more on the way. Subscriptions are available via web access and are readilydownloadable. Custom reporting for all covered countries is available immediately.


Abacus [Nairobi, 2014]: Abacus provides real time financial data, news, analysis and analytics tools and marketaccess. It is a licensed as a data vendor by the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Allows offers a social communitywhere members can see, follow and copy the best traders in the investment network by reviewing the tradinghistory and risk profile of a trader and subscribing for their trades on email.

Public Market Investment - SEC Filings

Silqe [Kitchener, 2014]: Silqe operates an online platform that enables users to search and analyze corporateSEC financial data. Its product is being used by individuals, enterprise and developers. Subscription basedrevenue model.


Calcbench [New York City, 2011]: Calcbench is a financial data platform powered by XBRL. Provides financialand accounting data covering over 9,000 US listed public companies. Financial analysts, accountants, academicsand investors can access the data online or with excel add-in. Also provides API access, XBRL analysis, and whitelabeling services to enterprise customers. Calcbench was the winner of the 2012 XBRL challenge, is a 2012MassChallenge finalist, and was a resident of the DogPatch Labs incubator.


http://www.frontierstrategygroup.com/

http://www.frontierdatacorp.com/

http://www.abacus.co.ke/

http://www.silqe.com/

http://www.calcbench.com/


Finance (54/54)



Last10k [Irvine, 2015]: Last10K is a mobile app that displays an in-depth catalog for every part of a company'sfinancial statement from earnings and revenue to cash flow trends, debt load and more. The app optimizes rawfinancial values for mobile viewing for easy reading and sharing. Users can view Annual and Quarterly reportsalong with their amendments and press releases pertaining to results of operations and financial conditions inone consolidate user interface. The service is completely free. The company rely on advertisements to fund thisfree service.


My Logiq [San Juan Capistrano, 2001]: MyLogIQ, (formerly LogixData) is a provider of SEC compliance anddisclosure intelligence products. MyLogIQ has digitized all unstructured SEC filings since 1994 using artificialintelligence. The company collects data from multiple sources blends it and give access to customers throughSoftware-As-A-Service: SECAnalyzer™ or Data-As-A-Service: CompanyIQ™. MyLogIQ solutions are used byExternal Reporting Teams of public companies, Big 5 Auditing Firms, Law Firms, Academia and Regulatory body.


http://www.last10k.com/

http://www.mylogiq.com/


Market Intelligence (1/36)


DataWeave [Bangalore, 2011]: Provides actionable data by aggregating, parsing, organizing and visualizing hugeamount of data points from web. It creates curated data sets by aggregating data from the web. Helps user tomonitor and visualize public data in the form of API, dashboards and visualizations. has 2 products - Retailintelligence , brand analytics. Retail intelligence is a market intelligence platform for retailers which providespromotional insights, pricing intelligence, assortment & gap analytics and catalog insights for retailers. Brandanalytics is a maket intelligence platform for brands which does price monitoring, provides promotional insights,seller analytics and momentum analytics for brands. Entered in strategic partnership with Aucfan (Onlineshopping, auction search and price comparison website) to chart its entry into the Japanese market.

$270KBlume Ventures, TLabs, 5ideas Startup

Superfuel

metoda GmbH [Munich, 2012]: metoda is a provider of market research in E-commerce. metoda provides itscustomers with access to on-demand price, product and trend information for more than one billion productsworldwide. metoda provides its data in compliance with EU regulations and real-time to companies for internaluse or as reports and processes. The solutions are used by both manufacturers and retailers in categorymanagement, sales, product management, and marketing departments. For retailers, the company offers priceoptimisation: competitor price intelligence data; assortment of goods: relevant product trends and brands; andmarketing intelligence solutions. For brands, the company offers channel monitor, new product trends &developments; and market analysis data. The company uses crawlers to build its database. Customised pricingmodel.

High-Tech Grunderfonds, Tengelmann Ventures

Finactum [Belgium, 2015]: Finactum is a provider of company data for Belgium. The information on its websitecomes from publicly accessible data. The financial information on the website is provided by the National Bankof Belgium. Also, consults the Belgium Official Journal, The National Social Security and the Central Enterprisefor data collection. This data can be used for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or leadgeneration. Business model is Freemium. Also, generates revenue from advertising.

Amplicate.com [London, 2009]: Amplicate is a database and information company that tracks consumeropinion in social media. The company offers in-depth social media analytics reports on companies and industriesas well as a free real-time social media analytics service that tells what's hot and what's not on social media. InMarch 2013, the company was acquired by Grand Central Holdings.


http://www.dataweave.com/

http://www.metoda.com/

http://www.finactum.be/

http://www.amplicate.com/




The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) [London, 1946]: The Economist Intelligence Unit is an independentbusiness unit within The Economist Group providing forecasting and advisory services through research andanalysis. The EIU provides country, industry, and management analysis worldwide and incorporates the formerBusiness International Corporation, a UK company acquired by its parent company in 1986. The EconomistIntelligence Unit also produces regular reports on "liveability" and cost of living of the world's major cities. TheEconomist Intelligence Unit's Quality-of-Life Index is another noted report. In November 2015, the EconomistIntelligence Unit launched Market Explorer. It is an online tool which was designed to scan markets in variouscountries and cities across the globe and find the best locations for a product or service. Subscription basedrevenue model. Corporates and media houses are among its customers.

PredictHQ [Auckland, 2014]: PredictHQ is a global events intelligence platform that aggregates, enriches andconnects scheduled and real-time event data happening both locally and globally. Help customers in identifyingwhich events might have impacted their business in the past and predict those that are likely to in the future, sothey can make decisions based on actual data. Web based service is free of cost but charges for API. As ofDecember 2015, the product is in beta phase.

Consumer Intelligence

Metamarkets [San Francisco, 2010]: Metamarkets is a real-time analytics platform for the programmaticadvertising space build on open-source time-series db Druid. The company gives Twitter, OpenX, MillennialMedia and dozens of other buyers, sellers, and marketplaces the ability to visualize programmatic trends &opportunities as they happen .

$43.5M

Bessemer Venture Partners, IA Venttures, Founder Collective, Village

Ventures, Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Data Collective, City

National Bank, Bowery Capital, AOL Ventures, Anthemis Group, Raptor

Group


LiveRamp [San Francisco, 2006]: LiveRamp provides data connectivity solutions for the enterprise. LiveRampdata onboarder enables companies to use their offline customer data in online advertising. Customer uploadsthe data files via SFTP on LiveRamp dashboard, then it anonymises the data through de-identification process.Then it matches customer records to devices and digital ids and lastly delivers data segments to any marketingapplication of choice with new integrations for better customer targeting. LiveRamp is focused solely on dataonboarding and is integrated with ad tech platforms. Acquired by Acxiom in 2014.

$16M

Rembrandt Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures,

SoftTech VC, North Bridge Venture Partners, Industry Ventures, Draper

Nexus, Dace Ventures, NFX Guild


http://www.eiu.com/

http://www.predicthq.com/

http://www.metamarkets.com/

http://www.liveramp.com/





Unacast [Oslo, 2014]: Unacast offers hyper-local offline data in real-time though Unacast PROX, a leadingproximity network, enabling global online media players to extract a higher value from advertisers and launchnew innovative campaigns. Enables advertisers of Unacast's partners, reach and retarget customers in theonline space based on the customer interacton with beacons in the physical space. Allows Unacast's partners, toprecisely target their consumers and thereby charging higher CPM from their advertisers.

$6.6M Open Ocean, Investinor


Crosswise [Tel Aviv, 2013]: Collects petabytes of user activity data, representing billions of unique devices andapplies advanced data science along with proprietary machine learning techniques to this data, to construct aprobabilistic device map that anonymously matches devices to individual users. Deliver its proprietary devicemap to AdTech vendors, publishers and consumer brands. Enables the advertisers to add cross-devicecapabilities to your existing advertising, content personalization and analytics systems.

$5MGiza Venture Capital, OurCrowd,

Horizons Ventures, Horizon Ventures, ZhenFund, Pereg Ventures


BIScience [Tel Aviv, 2009]: BIScience provides business intelligence solution for online media industry. Itsproduct offering includes AdClarity- provides complete picture of the entire display advertising ecosystem of anywebsite, brand, ad campaign or ad network; GeoSurf- enables users to access premium proxy servers in 120+global locations to surf and view geo-targeted local content from other areas. Serve media buyers, salesmanagers, affiliates and internet professionals with a stake in online media and advertising. Monthlysubscription based revenue.

$5MViola Group, OurCrowd, Viola Credit,

iAngels, Bright Capital, Cyhawk Ventures, Cyhawk Ventures Ltd.


Poshly [New York City, 2011]: Poshly is an online platform that uses its personalization technologies to connectbeauty brands with consumers. It provides real-time insights to its clients that includes L'Oreal, Unilever, Time,Weleda, Skinfix, Stowaway Cosmetics, and more. It also offers brands, publishers and agencies real-time accessto aggregated insights as well as targeting campaigns that leverage this proprietary data. It claims that itsgrowing membership has collectively answered more than 18,000,000 questions about their personal attributesand routines.

$2MWI Harper Group, Astia, 645 Ventures, Corigin Ventures, Frontier Equities VC


Ipsos [Paris, 1975]: Ipsos is the third largest market research firm in the world. The company has organized itsbusiness into several areas of specialization: advertising research, marketing research, media content andtechnology research, opinion polls and social research, loyalty, quality & customer relationship managementresearch, and survey management, data collection and delivery. Ipsos revenues totaled €1,669.5 million in 2014,with an organic growth rate of +0.3%. In 2014, Ipsos derived 46% of its revenue from the EMEA region (Europe,the Middle East and Africa), 38% from the Americas region, and 16% from the Asia-Pacific region.

Butler Capital Partners


http://www.unacast.com/

http://www.crosswise.com/

http://www.biscience.com/

http://www.poshly.com/

http://www.ipsos.com/





Zapr [Gurgaon, 2012]: Zapr offers TV viewership data and geo analysis for market research and ad agencies.Data points include top channels, channel rank, top shows (in each channel). Has two products; Zapr Data andZapr audience. Charges a subscription fee or a one time fee for their data services. Claim to be monitoring andcollecting the data and viewership trends from over 300 TV channels across 1500 locations covered acrossurban and rural India as of Janueary, 2016. Raised angel funding from ex-Indiagames COO Samir Bangara andIndiamart founder Dinesh Agrawal in Dec, 2015. Raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Flipkart, withparticipation from Saavn, Micromax, Mu Sigma cofounders – Dhiraj Rajaram and Ambiga Dhiraj and existinginvestors Dinesh Agarwal, Samir Bangara, Sanjay Nath and Arihant Patni in Jan, 2016.

Flipkart, Micromax Informatics, GSF India, TA Ventures, Pix Vine Capital


Nielsen [New York City, 1922]: Nielsen is a global information and measurement company that enablescompanies understand consumers and consumer behavior by measuring and monitoring what consumers watchand the brands consumers associate with on a global and local basis. Delivers critical media and marketinginformation, analytics and manufacturer and retailer expertise about what and where consumers buy and whatconsumers read, watch and listen to on a local and global basis. Also provides a constant, real-time stream ofinformation, revealing tuning behavior during programs and commercials.

Harbourvest Partners, AlpInvest Partners, Hellman & Friedman,

Stockwell Capital, Centerview Capital


GfK [Nuremberg, 1934]: The GfK Group is the fourth largest market research organisation in the world afterNielsen, Kantar Group and Ipsos. The company provides services in three sectors Custom research, retail &technology and media. Custom Research: specializes in operational and strategic marketing issues; retail &technology: Retailer POS data is the source for the Retail and Technology sector. The sector supplies clients withinformation and consulting services based on retail data. GfK Retail and Technology has also developed an indexto track technical consumer goods markets in more than 30 countries worldwide called GfK TEMAX (TechnicalMarket Index). GfK Etilize: GfK Etilize supplies product data to more resellers, distributors, manufacturers andwebsite portals. Media: The Media Sector delivers information services on range, intensity and nature of mediausage and acceptance in more than 20 countries in Europe and the USA. The data source for the Media sectorstems from the media (point of media).

Sageview Capital


http://www.zapr.in/

http://www.nielsen.com/

http://www.gfk.com/





Acxiom [Levallois-Perret, 2004]: Acxiom is an enterprise data, analytics, and software as a service company.Offers solutions in Marketing and data services and IT infrastructure management segments. In marketing anddata services company enables its clients in data sourcing; data activation via analytics, integration andenhancement; the building and managing of customer marketing databases; partner integration; providing aneutral connectivity platform to enable the use of first- and third-party data. Also included within Marketing andData Services is the execution of e-mail and mobile marketing campaigns for clients. IT infrastructure segmentprovides mainframe, server hosting and cloud computing services. Pricing is based on industries in which clientsoperates and has one of the value based recurring revenue models, transactional models, subscription or licensemodels, and professional services models, among others.


Datonics [Long Island City, 2011]: Datonics LLC (formerly AlmondNet Data Division) is the aggregator anddistributor of highly granular and proprietary behavioral purchase intent, life-stage and demographic data. Thecompany’s pre-packaged and custom keyword-based segments enable the delivery of relevant advertisementsto online consumers based on their recently observed behavior and attributes. It collects data from dataprovider partners and distributes to platform partners and their marketers.


Information Resources Inc [Chicago, 1979]: IRI provides clients with consumer, shopper, and retail marketintelligence and analysis focused on the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. The company offers marketperformance and strategy solutions that range from market measurement and point-of-sales tracking of onlineand offline purchases, to strategy and growth diagnostics, in-store performance audits, and new productforecasting; and consumer and shopper intelligence solutions that focus on leveraging shopper marketing clouddata to develop shopper insights, segment planning, opportunity sizing, and activation strategies. It alsoprovides analytics and in-market execution solutions, including price and promotion, assortment, supply chain,joint business planning, and gateway portals; cross-channel media, social, and online/offline purchase data sets;and IRI Liquid Data, a data management platform.


Datamonk [Berlin, 2010]: Provides a data enrichment technology that allows programmatic advertisers to runtargeted campaigns while maintaining scale. Also provides audience segmentation to better understand thetarget group and also provides app store analytics through Metricsmonk for facebook and mobile applications.On the demand side, provides targeting data that helps mobile advertisers reach the right audiences at the rightprice. On the supply side, helps publishers increase the value of their inventory by segmenting their audiences.


http://www.acxiom.fr/

http://www.datonics.com/

http://www.iriworldwide.com/

http://www.datamonk.com/




Consumer Intelligence -Consumer Data

Datalogix [Westminster, 2002]: Datalogix is a consumer data collection company. Primarily the companycollects and tracks offline and online data purchasing behavioral patterns, with the use of information obtainedfrom retailers' loyalty card programs. Retail stores, grocers, travel agencies. Pepsico, Ford, and the Dr PepperSnapple Group are among its customers. In December 2014 the company was acquired by Oracle and now itoperates as a part of the Oracle Data Cloud. Charges percentage of media spend with guaranteed minimums.

$86.5M

NEA, General Catalyst Partners, IVP, Costanoa, Sequel Venture Partners,

Breyer Capital, Wellington Management


VisualDNA [London, 2006]: VisualDNA is an audience insights company with patented technology that makes itpossible for businesses to understand people online. It has developed a method of understanding, driven by thescience of converting data from personality quizzes into rich, accurate and scalable audience profiles. In thecredit and risk sector VisualDNA's product allows a lender to assess any potential customer, with or without acredit history, allowing them to reach a larger market, and score that market more accurately. And by collectingrich first-party data through its quizzes, building scalable audience segments through its profiling algorithm andproviding data to all leading media-buying platforms, VisualDNA data also powers highly-targeted advertising inreal-time.

$28.6MAtomico, Northzone, Horizons

Ventures


Vserv [Mumbai, 2010]: Vserv is a mobile ad network focused on emerging markets. Vserv analyses andintegrates data from multiple sources such as telecom operators, offline and online retailers, consumer goodscompanies and mobile app developers to deliver specific, targeted and real-time ads on mobile platforms. Itsflagship products are AudiencePro and AppWrapper platforms. AudiencePro leverages telcom operators'ssubscriber data (privacy compliant) and user profiling to enable audience targeting for advertisers. AppWrapperis an app demonetization platform which integrates SDKs for app developers for advertising, in-app purchases,analytics and bug tracking abilities. Claims to have data profiles of over 120 million mobile Internet users in Indiaand over 500 million across all markets as of March 2015. Works with global Fortune 500 brands and leadingdigital media companies.

$18MEphiphany Ventures, Maverick Capital,

IDG Ventures India


Gravy [Leesburg, 2011]: Gravy provides customer insights, data analytics, and marketing segmentation solutionsfor brand marketers and media companies in the United States. Its solutions include Gravy GOLD, a platformthat include local activity and venue data, and meta-data; Local Analytics Engine that delivers actionableinsights, analytics, local experience profiles, and persona-based segmentation. It also provides GOLD SDK, aplatform that captures local event and activity data; and local content services. It serves retail and hospitalitybrands and businesses, as well as media and digital publishers.

$17.01M Gannett, MetTel


http://www.datalogix.com/

http://www.visualdna.com/

http://www.vserv.com/

http://www.findgravy.com/





Sense Networks [New York City, 2003]: Sense Networks provides a technology platform, MacroSense®, buildsproprietary mobile user profiles which incorporate over 1,000 behavioral attributes that are extracted fromlocation data. MacroSense receives streaming location data from mobile phones in real-time, processes the datain the context of billions of historical data points, and analyzes it to better understand human activity and applythe insights to mobile advertising. Also provides AdMatch, a real-time bidding advertising platform that targetsand serves the advertisements through mobile advertising exchanges by acting as a demand side platform withbrand and agency clients; Retail Retargeting, a solution that identifies and reaches shoppers and prospects ofthe top retailers with relevant mobile advertisements when they are near the retailer, and mClick-to-VisitAnalytics, a solution that reports when mobile users who have been served a mobile advertisementsubsequently visit the retailer.

$9M

The Challenge Fund-Etgar, Intel Capital, Passport Capital, EchoVC Partners, Drobny, Javelin Venture

Partners


Mobilewalla [Seattle, 2011]: Mobilewalla an audience data provider, plans and executes mobile audiencetargeted mobile ad campaigns. Based on clients' audience requirements, mobilewalla can suggest relevantmobile apps that should be bought. Earlier an app search and discovery company. Later developed an appanalytics platform - did App ranking. Amassed large data for it. Built technology to segment mobile usersdemographically. Used by RTB exchanges.

$4MJAFCO Asia, Madrona Venture Group,

Indian Angel Network, Infocomm Investments


7Park Data [New York City, 2012]: 7Park Data, Inc provides a cloud based data intelligence platform thatcombines real time mobile, web and purchasing data in real time. Offers reporting services through applicationsthat include real-time on-device monitoring of mobile phones and tablets streaming data points on key metrics,such as active users, engagement trends (time spent and session volume), and retention rates and penetrationetc. Also, it provides direct access membership solutions that include data extraction and aggregation leveragingdata collection tools; transaction-level details covering credit and debit card purchases; and in-stores receiptsand email purchase confirmations covering eCommerce and subscription purchases.

$3MBain Capital Ventures, Cerebellum

Capital


Reveal Mobile [Raleigh, 2015]: Reveal Mobile levels the playing field for app publishers and developerseverywhere by providing them with rich mobile audience data. Reveal Mobile's audience platform allowstargeting by demographics, behaviors, interests, political affiliation, and voting districts. Builds audienceanalytics from three distinct sources including but not limited to traditional latitude & longitude, app behaviors,and a beacon-powered audience database.

$1.25M

IDEA Fund Partners, Bull City Venture Partners, River Cities Capital Funds,

Capitol Broadcasting Company, Alerion


http://www.sensenetworks.com/

http://www.mobilewalla.com/

http://www.7parkdata.com/

http://www.revealmobile.com/





Ekho [San Rafael, 2012]: Ekho has developed a data platform which pulls data from thousands of upstreamsources such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and message boards such as Disqus to create customer profiles.The platform also activate private party and other publicly available data such as data.gov. These customerprofiles are then used for competitive intelligence, loyalty programme development, sales prospecting andmore, including ad targeting via programmatic platforms.

$1.2M Social Starts


Conexance MD SAS [Lille, 2006]: Conexance specialises in pooled behavioral database, and has developed thedatabase of mail-order buyers checked by commercial transactions in France. Conexance develops pooleddatabases in the fields of Press, Charity and Catalogue Sales, both on-line and off. Apart from the database thecompany also offers services including rental of high-affinity addresses, segmentation, behavioural prediction, e-mail enrichment, and use of CRM solutions in Saas mode, making it possible to optimise the customer file,automate relational campaigns by scenarios of ultra-individualised campaigns and to carry out multi-channelretargeting operations. Founded in 2006, Conexance is classified by “Entreprendre magazine” among the 100leading Future companies.Conexance received the “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award for the Nord-Pas-de-Calaisregion in the “Future Company” category late in 2009.

$1.1M XAnge, Aurinvest


NazarBazaar [Tehran, 2015]: Nazar Bazaar is a market research platform where businesses define surveys andconsumers answer them. As a two-sided exchange platform, Nazar Bazaar gives businesses insightful diagramsbased on reliable data. On the other side, it gives consumers incentives to provide timely and trustworthyanswers. Part of Avatech Accelerator program.

Avatech


http://www.ekho.me/

http://www.conexancemd.com/

http://www.nazarbazaar.ir/





Geoscape [Miami, 1995]: Geoscape is a provider of consumer intelligence for the culturally-diverse businessenvironments. Geoscape offers self-service data-rich online systems and full-service analytics and consultingservices. Its product offerings include Geoscape Intelligence System: SaaS platform that allows subscribers tomine geo-demographic dataset of the population of the United States. It offers datasets such as segmentation ofUS Hispanics by the level of acculturation, language preference and socio-economic status (Hispancity™), samesegmentation for Asian-Americans (Asianicity™), current year estimates of US population with 1,500 indicators,and national, state, county, metro, zip code and block-group data. DirecTarget SDK: proprietary SDK designed tohelp clients enrich their customer datasets; Geoscape Research; analytics; and consulting. The company servescustomers in retail/consumer markets, telecom, financial services, healthcare, and insurance sectors. Target,Walmart, Nestle, Verizon and others are among its customers. The company is backed by Goldman Sachs spinoff NMS Capital. In June 2007, the company got merge with Latin Force, LLC.

New MainStream Capital


TARGUSinfo [McLean, 1993]: Targus Information Corporation provides real-time and on-demand informationservices. The company offers IAN (identifiers, attributes, network), an insight engine for marketing analytics,customer acquisition, identification and verification, scoring, location, caller id, customer retention, displaymarketing, and real-time analytics.

TA Associates


Purchased [Brookline, 2007]: Purchased (formerly ChatThreads) provides consumer brands and retailers withshopper plans, behaviors, and purchases where they happen, when they happen. Using its Shopalong® shopperpanel, Purchased captures this data in real-time via mobile, allowing businesses to gain a complete and accuratepicture of the purchase decisions consumers make, and why they make them. The company captures this datawith targeted sample, validated receipts, geo-location, and in-the-moment qualitative. Applications includeretail audits, mystery shopping, seasonal purchase tracking, shopper data collection, and shopalongs.


http://www.geoscape.com/

http://www.targusinfo.com/

http://www.purchased.com/





Affluential [Singapore, 2013]: Affluential provides consumer intelligence and data portal on the affluentconsumer. The company collects data through its research & consulting arm, Agility Research & Strategy. Agilityconducts research across geographies & time zones and collects data. Affluential offers analytics suite tounderstand the motivations of the Affluent consumer when buying luxury and non-luxury items. Apart fromanalytics suite, the company also offers DIY online survey tools, research reports, and custom research &consulting solutions. Its premium research reports focus on luxury products and cover premium brands acrossthe categories- fashion & fashion accessories, watches, jewellery, Skincare, makeup, hotel/travel, financialservices & automotive.


Statiq [London, 2013]: Statiq specialises in providing consumers' lifestyle and intent data through tracking real-world behaviors such as where a person lives, works and visits. Statiq provides a suite of analytics and targetingcapabilities for digital marketers. It offers audience Targeting: demographic and geo-behavioural audiencesegments for connected devices; Campaign Insight: demographic and geo-behavioural audience segments forconnected devices; Custome audience creation; Places Database; CRM profiling: build look-a-like model andretarget; and In-store attribution: Measure and report physical store visits from mobile ad exposures. Haspartnered with DSP & Ad Networks to make its audience targeting & campaign insight products available tobuyers.


KoreanClick [Seoul, 2000]: KoreanClick is a web measurement company in South Korea. The company employsproprietary technology to measure Internet usage and attitude data, including audience measurement and forapplications such as instant messaging, gaming and online multimedia. Their clients include Internet companies,as well as advertisers and ad agencies. The company was acquired by Nielsen in 2009. Dohyun Yoo foundedKoreanClick in 2000.


ClearSight Interactive [Foster City, 2008]: ClearSight Interactive specialises in providing behavioural targetingsolutions to the advertisers and publishers. Through improved geo-locational data targeting techniques,ClearSight is able to effectively pinpoint IP Address locations at the neighborhood block level and append offlinedata characteristic for those neighborhood blocks. Its offerings include ClearTarget: tool for advertisers andpublishers for effective ad campaign; ClearAnalytics: database of online users based on demographic,psychographic and consumption traits; ClearTrigger: tools to engage and interact with prospective customers viaemail; ClearMail: tools to identify online users and match back their behavioral activities to a known postaladdress. ClearSight is an affiliate of AcquireWeb


http://www.affluential.com/

http://www.statiq.co/

http://www.koreanclick.com/

http://www.clearsightinteractive.com/





I-Behavior [Louisville, 1999]: I-Behavior specialises in data and information services needs of multi-channelmarketers. Products include a co-operative database with transactional data on over 120 million active directchannel buyers, supported by an integrated suite of services, including Marketing Database Consulting,Analytical Services, and an online behavioral targeting division. I-Behavior was the first to capture transactionsat the SKU-level, to provide attitudinal targeting, and to apply the co-op business model to Internet advertising(aCerno division).


Teralytics [Zurich, 2012]: Teralytics collects billions of data points about human behavior globally, aggregatinggeo-location and demographics, as well as online and spending behaviors to create insights on human profiles.Teralytics then processes and anonymizes those data points using advanced, predictive algorithms to designsolutions to identify optimal locations for retail shops, behavioral user segmentation, public transportimprovement etc. Customers are from retail, media, financial, transportation and the public sector. Thecompany is headquartered in Zurich with offices in New York and Singapore.


Semcasting [North Andover, 2009]: Semcasting is a primary analytics and data provider for online displayadvertising and offline direct marketing solutions. Its patented IP Zones targeting enables marketers to definean audience using automated predictive analytics and convert them to qualified target-ready online audiences.Its offline compiled data for the U.S. consumers is used by the consumer marketing organizations in CRM anddatabase marketing platforms for customer intelligence and prospecting solutions. The company serves financialservices, advocacy, auto, political, and non-profit clients.


WhoToo [Seattle, 2012]: WhoToo is a data as a service and marketing platform provider company. Thecompany offers a marketing platform that gives marketers with on-demand access to data sets; and providestools that enable clients to look at their users with a combination of metrics based on demographics,technology, usage, and more. It also provides a network of public data exchanges, private data exchanges, andon-demand marketing tools for marketing data providers. In addition, the company offers WhoToo ProfileCloud, a cloud-based compilation of data available to marketers through a suite of on-demand tools; andWhoToo On-Demand Tools that enable marketers to directly access the WhoToo Profile Cloud and utilizevarious data sets for reporting, analysis, targeting, and personalization.


http://www.i-behavior.com/

http://www.teralytics.net/

http://www.semcasting.com/

http://www.whotoo.com/





Acxiom [Little Rock, 1969]: Acxiom is an enterprise data, analytics, and software as a service company. Offerssolutions in Marketing and data services and IT infrastructure management segments. In marketing and dataservices company enables its clients in data sourcing; data activation via analytics, integration andenhancement; the building and managing of customer marketing databases; partner integration; providing aneutral connectivity platform to enable the use of first- and third-party data. Also included within Marketing andData Services is the execution of e-mail and mobile marketing campaigns for clients. IT infrastructure segmentprovides mainframe, server hosting and cloud computing services. Pricing is based on industries in which clientsoperates and has one of the value based recurring revenue models, transactional models, subscription or licensemodels, and professional services models, among others.


Datomik [Helsinki, 2015]: Datomik collects visit level data from multiple publishers, anonymizes it, and inserts itinto large data pools. The data pool is then analyzed to create custom segments that advertisers can use totarget their campaigns across the web.

Consumer Intelligence -Digital Media Analytics

comScore [Reston, 1999]: comScore is internet analytics company that provides marketing data and analytics toenterprises, agencies, and publishers. Measures what people do as they navigate the digital world and turnsthat information into insights and actions for its clients to maximize the value of their digital investments. Offersa suite of products in Audience, Advertising and Enterprise analytics. Its product Xmedia measures contentconsumption across all digital platforms and TV in a single metric.

$376.93M

Accel, Forrester, IVP, J.P. Morgan, Adams Street Partners, Lehman

Brothers, Vispring, Topspin Partners, Flatiron Partners, Sageview Capital, Harmony Partners, Comdisco, Wind

Point Partners, flatironpartnersllc.com, Brinson

Foundation, Signal Peak


http://www.acxiom.com/

http://www.datomik.com/

http://www.comscore.com/





Verto Analytics [Espoo, 2013]: Verto Analytics Inc. provides cloud-based media measurement services with afocus on syndicated research and analytics. To gather its data, Verto uses a variety of panels, and has consumersinstall smart meters on their devices. It also collects data from consumer-facing apps in order to track mobileapp usage. Offers its services to hardware vendors, media companies, traditional and mobile publishers, andbuy-side investors globally. Data can be accessed through web based platform for a price starting at $50 K to$150K per year and and for larger companies with more advanced data needs, the prices range from $5 to 10million annually. Yahoo, Cisco, EA, and Johnson & Johnson are some of the big names among its clients. It has aresearch and development facility in Espoo, Finland.

$23.9MOpen Ocean, Conor Venture Partners,

Finnish Industry Investment, VisionPlus Fund, EQT Ventures


Symphony Advanced Media [San Francisco, 2010]: Symphony AM specialises in collecting consumer behaviordata across multi media with a representative panel of consumers. The company provides single sourcemeasurement in one integrated mobile app. It passively collects individual behavioral cross media data in realtime. Then, it feeds information to SAM Cross Media Cloud for reporting and analytics. The company's coreproducts include technology tools to track audience; data; and customised reporting products. Its reportingproducts are Video Pulse, Ad Pulse, Consumer Pulse, and Geo Pulse. The company serves automotive,pharmaceutical, health and beauty care, consumer packaged goods, financial services, media/entertainment,and telecom industries.


Clickagy [Atlanta, 2012]: Clickagy is a digital data provider. According to the website the company analyzestrillions of behavioral data points across over a billion devices. The company has built its products by employingpatents pending technologies around NLP, data mining infrastructure, artificial intelligence, machine learning,and adaptive content platforms. Its offerings include Audience Lab: drag-and-drop interface, letting clients findtargetable, anonymous prospects based on their actual browsing history across the internet, without usingsegments or prepackaged taxonomies. Apart from Audience Lab, the company also offers DMP and DSP,allowing real time identification and execution of display media to highly relevant consumers. The company'sproducts are being used in digital marketing for prospecting, churn analysis and retention, and businessintelligence.


http://www.vertoanalytics.com/

http://www.symphonyam.com/

http://www.clickagy.com/




Consumer Intelligence -DMP

Lotame [Columbia, 2006]: Lotame's data management platform, Crowd Control collects audience data based onspecific behaviors (such as click, download, comment), interests (such as sports, football, parenting, museums,travel) or demographic information. These data points can be used to better understand an audience, createeffective RFP responses, enrich an audience using third-party data and extend an audience's reach to addresscampaign commitments. Marketers and agencies have access to full audience profile reports inside Lotame'sDMP and marketers can use information mid-campaign to adjust the audience segment details in real-time.Lotame acquired Admobius in 2014. Admobius aggregates data to create audience segments that mobile adnetworks, publishers, and demand-side platforms can use to improve their ad targeting. The company wasfounded in 2006 with offices in New York, Maryland, Chicago and Boston.

$63.69M

Emergence Capital Partners, Battery Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures,

Betaworks, Hillcrest Management, TrueBridge Capital Partners, Pinnacle

Ventures, R.J. Finlay & Co.


BlueKai [Cupertino, 2007]: BlueKai is the cloud-based big data platform that enables companies to personalizeonline, offline and mobile marketing campaigns with information about targeted audiences. BlueKai's DataManagement Platform (DMP) centrally organizes a company's customer and audience data in the cloud to helpimplement personalized marketing campaigns across all channels and deliver better results and highermarketing ROI. BlueKai also runs 3rd party data marketplace to augment a customer's proprietary data withactionable information on more than 700 million profiles.. In 2013 BlueKai was named to Forbes “50 MostPromising US Companies” list as well as Fast Company’s “10 Most Innovative Global Companies in Big Data".

$56.89M

Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures, GGV Capital, Split Rock Partners,

Homebrew, Infinity Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures


Krux [San Francisco, 2010]: Helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketingexperiences to the right audience. Provides a cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifying peopledata from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzing the data to understandeach individual’s preferences, and activating the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display,web, set-top) in real time. Clients include Kellogg, Time Warner and Meredith.

$48M

Accel, IDG ventures, Temasek, Sapphire Ventures, Ulu Ventures, The

Entrepreneurs' Fund, Visionnaire Ventures, Sapphire Ventures


NinthDecimal [San Francisco, 2003]: NinthDecimal is a mobile audience intelligence platform. Using both dataand proprietary technology it constructs customized audience segments which is built on data points fromdevices. NinthDecimal also offers one-to-one audience targeting with the launch of the Location Graph, theplatform that builds audiences using historical location data. Some of its partners include Media Math, BrightRoll, exelate, Tube Mogul, the trade desk, dataXu. JiWire rebranded to Ninthdecimal in June 2014.

$47M

Norwest Venture Partners, DFJ Venture, Trident Capital, Panorama

Capital, Comcast Ventures, DFJ Frontier


http://www.lotame.com/

http://www.bluekai.com/

http://www.krux.com/

http://www.ninthdecimal.com/





ownerIQ [Boston, 2006]: OwnerIQ is the leading programmatic advertising solution digitally connecting brandsand retailers. Transforms retailers' and product brands' 1st party data into digital advertising opportunities.Provides an audience-sharing platform, CoEx, which enables product brands and retailers to share 2nd partyaudience data and target unique and relevant audience segments along their path to purchase in order toinfluence buying decisions. Offers a Purchase Intent Impact Report which enables manufacturers to connectmeasurement back to their campaign's retail objective.

$39.3M

Atlas Venture, Longworth Venture Partners, Common Angels, Kepha Partners, Egan-Managed Capital,

Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, Escalate

Capital, Stage 1 Ventures, Accomplice, Converge Venture


eXelate [New York City, 2007]: Exelate's MAX DMP delivers both first party and third-part party data for a fixedcost to marketers and publishers. It offers distribution across 125 media platforms, native modeling based onsignal-level data and real-time offline/online profiling and attribution. It's eXchange is the online datamarketplace that provides smart data to maximize the return on audience targeting and is comprised ofpremium demo, interest, and intent data verified by Nielsen OCR and comscore. It has 2B unique users anddevices worldwide, 200+ online data providers, mobile browsing data, and 1 trillion data points served monthly.The partners are appnexus, DataXu, Mediamath, Acxiom and Nielsen among others. The company is ranked asas one of America's Most Promising Companies and selected as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ award winner.

$31MViola Group, Menlo Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Trident Capital, Newspring

Capital


Near [Bangalore, 2012]: Near, previously known as AdNear, uses location specific data to drive audiencetargeting for advertisers across mobile devices without need of GPS or operator assistance. Advertisers canserve dynamic ads based on context like location, weather, time etc. and see real time user engagementanalytics. Publishers and app developers can integrate SDKs and APIs to serve mobile ads. Headquartered inSingapore. Has presence across Australia, South East Asia, Japan and India. To date, the company has reached530+ million device users and works with marquee brands such as P&G, Woolworths, Audi, Unilever, BMW,Adidas, Ford, Samsung, and IKEA. Expanded to Europe in June, 2015.

$25.5MCanaan Partners, Sequoia Capital,

Telstra, Global Brain


Placecast [San Francisco, 2005]: Placecast is a location-based digital advertising company that providesShopAlerts, an opt-in marketing service via mobile devices designed to drive customers to specific physicalspaces like retail stores. ShopAlerts is a white-label service that works automatically on any phone and doesnot require an app. Users opt-in to a given brand’s program and receive text messages on their phone withinformation, coupons and offers from places of interest around them. Also launched PlaceAd in Sep 2013.PlaceAd is a DSP that connects Placecast’s location technology with mobile ad networks so advertisers candeliver campaigns based on location, as well as other user-specific criteria. Partnered with MoPub, PubMaticand Smaato for publisher inventory. Has offices in SFO and NYC.

$8M ONSET Ventures, Voyager Capital


http://www.owneriq.com/

http://www.exelate.com/

http://www.near.co/

http://www.placecast.net/





Zeotap [Berlin, 2014]: Provides a data platform that connects mobile network operators (MNOs) with the appand advertising ecosystem. Provides an end-to-end solution for data aggregation, activation and monetizationfor deterministic mobile in-app targeting. Has integrations with 100+ leading adtech platforms and enablescomplete compatibility with many ad formats including banners, interstitials, video and native. Plans to set up aglobal engineering centre in Bangalore.

$7.7MIris Capital, Capnamic Ventures,

HitFox Group


Eyeota [Berlin, 2010]: Eyeota specialises in audience targeting data. Claims to have aggregated over 1.3 billionuniques from publishers across Asia-Pacific, Australia, Europe and the Americas. Eyeota supplies third partyaudience data to all major global and regional ad buying platforms, trading desks, DSPs, DMPs and ad networks.The company is backed by Project A Ventures.

$7MProject A Ventures, SPRING Singapore,

Infinity Ventures, Global Brain, TA Ventures


Adsquare [Hennigsdorf, 2012]: Adsquare is a mobile audience targeting platform that enables mobile adnetworks and publishers to optimize the effectiveness of ads. Adsquare's solution uses huge amounts of locationdata from multiple sources and creates dynamic local audience profiles for mobile targeting and locationanalytics. The real-time data solution handles location and user data in a privacy-friendly way and enablesbrands and agencies to better reach their target audiences as well as understand their behavior and intent.

$5.7MBrandenburg Fruhphasenfonds,

Target Partners, Berlin Ventures, bmp


Cross Pixel [New York City, 2010]: Cross Pixel is a provider of audience data and audience information for thereal time advertising industry. Provides a fully transparent audience marketplace so that the advertisers knowthe source of the audience data they are targeting. Gives clients better insight, confidence of authenticity, andcontrol around the data powering their online advertising campaigns

$1.8M kbs


Brilig Data Marketpl [New York City, 2009]: Brilig provides an environment for the listing, combination, analysisand buying or selling of audience information for online advertising targeting. Data sellers gain the ability to selltheir data alone or in combination with other data sources to create unique, previously unavailable segments.Data buyers gain access to a vast library of data sources to better target their online advertising and to predictcampaign outcomes. Websites "merchandise" their consumer segments to data buyers (behavioral targeters,retargeters, ad exchanges, agencies) via Brilig's open central data dictionary. Segment makers can eitherdistribute their existing segments or create new ones from the available data sets.

$1.8M


http://www.zeotap.com/

http://www.eyeota.com/

http://www.adsquare.com/

http://www.crosspixel.net/

http://www.brilig.com/





Tail Target [Sao Paulo, 2012]: Tail Target is the provider of DMP with a suite for data activation and businessinsights. Tail Target offers an unique and proprietary system which collects and organizes consumer data frommultiple touch points, finding the best audience targeting to be reached by customized on line campaigns in realtime. For data-driven marketers, agencies and brands aiming superior advertising performance.

$500k


Bombora [New York City, 2014]: Bombora (formerly Madison Logic Data), a sister company of Madison Logicspecializes in aggregating B2B intent data. The company tracks over 2,300 granular B2B topics across actionsincluding search, white paper downloads, webinars, trade show sign ups, article reads, video, social, IP andmore. Then aggregates users into 60+ scalable predictive segments, and make them easily accessible throughBlueKai’s Data Exchange.

Alpine Meridian


Vertical Mass [Culver City, 2013]: Vertical Mass offers data management platform and marketplace for fans.The company helps its clients collect data on their audiences and license that data to marketers and publishersfor analytics, business intelligence and significantly better targeting of their media spends. Vertical Mass isbacked by investors including Formation 8, SV Angel, Sierra Wasatch, Fortress, YelloMobile, Structure Fund,Demarest, Ken Hertz, Michael Kassan and others. Its clients include 80 of the top 100 talent as well ascompanies in the music, sports and entertainment verticals.

Canyon Creek Capital


Retargetly [Buenos Aires, 2014]: Retargetly is a DMP (Data Management Platform). DMP works on cookies, ittracks users and their behaviour inside first and third party data providers. It sells the ability to access rich targetaudiences to companies based on first and third party data across all major Exchanges, Adnetworks, tradingdesks & DSPs

NXTP Labs


Precision Match [Gurgaon, 2012]: Provides 3rd party audience data using look-alike targeting and audienceretargeting solutions for digital advertising in India, SEA(Singapore) and MEA(Dubai). Works with publishers thatidentify audience intent and demographics without using PII. Provides data across categories such as auto,handsets, online buyers, travel etc. Has 50M+ unique users. Precisionmatch is part of the SVG Media Group.


http://www.tailtarget.com/

http://www.bombora.com/

http://www.verticalmass.com/

http://www.retargetly.com/

http://www.precisionmatch.net/





Aidata [Moscow, 2012]: Aidata.me aggregates, processes, segments and delivers data about age, gender,interests and intents of more than 1 000 000 000 unique cookies per month to ad serving solutions to deliverimpressions to their advertisers.


Cxense [Oslo, 2010]: Aggregates and segments the user data to engage and monetize your audience. Provides aDMP that captures structured and unstructured data in real time across mobile, tablet and desktop devices;combines it with other 1st and 3rd party data; analyzes the combined data; develops individual user profiles anduseful audience segments, and puts the data to work across the publisher's site. Provides targeted advertisingsolutions through which publishers can segment their audience and target ads to specific site visitors. Clientsinclude Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Gannett, Rakuten, Viacom to name a few.


DataXpand [Buenos Aires, 2012]: DataXpand is the Audience Data Marketplace and DMP with global scale andreach. The platform provides premium, rich data for previously untouched markets focusing on audiences fromLatin America and Europe, as well as US-based Hispanics. Through their premium publisher partners, DataXpandcreates audience clusters based on how users browse, search, show interest and intent, as well as based ondemographics, age & gender. Dataxpand was recently awarded as “Most Innovative Company in Latam” by thePortada Awards

Digital Competitor Intelligence

App Annie [San Francisco, 2010]: Appannie provides app store optimization and market intelligence throughvarious products including: Store Stats - app ranking analysis providing a range of charts visualizing on historicaland daily ratings and featured placements; Analytics dashboard - sales analytics dashboard for publishers whichallows to track app downloads, revenues, rankings and reviews across multiple platforms; Audience Intelligencewhich tracks users' data and their usage of other apps, this is in addition to collecting usage data as part of'Usage Intelligence'; Market Intelligence that provides algorithm-based market estimations helping businessesregarding their marketing, and investment strategies; eBooks service that connects Amazon Kindle DirectPublishing and iTunes Connect Books accounts to App Annie's dashboard. Offers free and premium services forall products. Used by 300k+ users for App Market Intelligence. Acquired Mobindia technology and Distimo for anundisclosed sum of money. 865K+ apps use AppAnnie.

$156M

Sequoia Capital, Greycroft Partners, IVP, IDG Capital Partners, Wellington

Partners, Greycroft Partners, e.ventures, Strive Capital, Greenspring

Associates, Infinity Ventures


http://www.aidata.me/

http://www.cxense.com/

http://www.dataxpand.com/

http://www.appannie.com/





SimilarWeb [London, 2007]: SimilarWeb provides websites and mobile app publishers with intel about theirown traffic and that of competitors. Product offerings include SimilarWeb Pro a market intelligence platformwhich provides comprehensive analysis for any app or website. Besides it shows websites' and apps' globalranking. Provides API for lead generation & trend detection, tools for google docs, and traffic widgets.Aggregates data comes from 4 main sources: 1) A panel of over 100 million monitored devices 2) Local internetservice providers (ISPs) located in many different countries. 3) Web crawlers, and 4) Direct measurementsources from websites and apps that are connected with them directly. Founded in 2007 and is headquarteredin London.

$65.1MNaspers, Docor International, Van

Leer Ventures Jerusalem, NFX Guild


Mobidia [Richmond, 2005]: Mobidia Technology, Inc. provides a set of mobile app and network usage datasolutions to track and benchmark competitors, plan global launch strategies, identify mobile app trends, identifytrends for cellular and Wi-Fi, optimize data plans and service offers, develop and optimize over-the-top plans,and target and optimize advertising for businesses. It offers app data, network data, device data, and plan datasets; and methodology, delivery, and dashboard solutions. The company provides real usage data worldwide.Mobidia Technology, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Richmond, Canada. As of May 6, 2015, MobidiaTechnology, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of App Annie Limited.

$15.69MBusiness Development Bank of Canada, BC Discovery Fund, BC

Advantage Funds


Mopapp [London, 2010]: Mopapp helps developers and publishers to track and analyze their apps' revenuefrom all major app stores (Apple App Store, Google Android Market, GetJar, RIM App World, Appia, MobiHandetc) and major mobile Ad networks (AdMob, InMobi,…) through automatic data aggregation and clear reports.Also provides number of downloads and reviews through its dashboard. Pricing varies for developers andenterprise. Autodesk, Bradesco, Intuit, and Pearson are among its customers.

$1.8M Seedcamp


MightySignal [San Francisco, 2014]: Mightysignal is a mobile app intelligence platform. Tracks mobile app datasuch as underlying technology, spending, user base and updates. Users can also get updates on any app changesthrough an API. Pivoted from a B2B lead gen startup.

$1.2MWestern Technology Investment, Draper Associates, Vulcan Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners


http://www.similarweb.com/

http://www.mobidia.com/

http://www.mopapp.com/

http://www.mightysignal.com/





SensorTower [San Francisco, 2013]: SensorTower helps mobile companies acquire more users organically.Features App store optimization which helps developers to track daily ranking of the app and helps discovermost worthwhile keywords associated with the app based on search traffic estimates and competitivenessranking. SensorTower's Competition analysis and review analysis provides developers with key insight oncompetitor's marketing strategy and ramifications of app updates and price changes from user feedback. Alsooffers App intelligence dashboard which gives access to data for strategic decisions, such as App & Publisherdownload and revenue estimates. Has a freemium model based on number of keywords to track.

$1MRembrandt Venture Partners, Merus Capital, BDMI, AngelPad, Pejman Mar

Ventures


Kompyte [Barcelona, 2014]: Kompyte provides SaaS based competitive intelligence tool to monitor competitorsonline. Kompyte visits competitors’ websites, advertisements, social profiles, newsletters, mentions and muchmore. Sends alerts when competitors have a new banner, change prices, launch a new campaign or a newplayer comes into the market. Monthly subscription based revenue model.

$587.16kRose Tech Ventures, Alantis Capital,

Idodivc


Superfly Insights [Menlo Park, 2010]: Superfly Insights is a data / analytics company that provides deep insightson revenue generating mobile apps and services. It provides data such as overall revenue, average user spend,share of wallet, user overlap, company roll-up etc. data to the brands. Apart from that Superfly leveragespermission-based identity and behavioral data to build BI systems for Marketing, Business Development andCorp Dev functions within Fortune 500 companies as well investment functions at Banks, Hedge Funds andVenture Capital firms. Generates revenue by selling the data.

$500k UpWest Labs


HeatSync [Los Angeles, 2013]: HeatSync provides cloud based platform that allows clients to track theircompetitor's website, SEO rank, web traffic, social media, demographics etc. The platform provides real timemetrics as well as historical trends. HeatSync gathers information on the sites from Alexa, Compete, Similarweb,Crunchbase, Web of Trust, Klout, Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter and many others. Premium plan starts at$19.95 per month. Most of the clients are digital marketer in SMBs.

$500k


http://www.sensortower.com/

http://www.kompyte.com/

http://www.superfly.com/

http://www.heatsync.com/





SearchMan [Mountain View, 2011]: SearchMan (previously AppGrooves) enables search & discovery of themobile apps. Provides search engine optimization for Mobile Apps on iPhone & iPad helping developers tracksearch rankings, keyword analysis and ranking updates. SearchMan analytics dashboard helps developers takebetter decision in selecting keywords and description by prioritizing and providing push updates to improvesearch rankings and increase downloads. Investors include 500 Startups (Dave McClure) and Digital Garage (JoiIto).

500 Startups


Rivalfox [Berlin, 2013]: Rivalfox provides real time competitive intelligence via a SaaS based platform to theclients. The company monitors the activity of clients' competitors, and gives comprehensive report on theiractivity with actionable business intelligence. The company targets digital marketers for its product.

Kima Ventures, bmp, Avala Management


Priori Data [Berlin, 2012]: Priori Data is an app store data and analytics provider. It has a large database of appinformation and tracks the performance of over 2 million apps from 300 thousand publishers across 30countries. The company’s platform enables users to discover, develop, track, and benchmark the performanceof various applications, as well as allows to track worldwide market movements, local country and categorytrends, and individual publisher and application performance, including downloads and MAUs.

Seedcamp


TapDog [Tel Aviv, 2013]: TapDog is a competitive intelligence platform for enterprises. Tracks information fromvarious sources, classify them and derive insights from data. The company provides data regarding a company'straffic and SEO ranking, social presence, press mentions, team structure, and ad campaign. Tapdog is a graduateof Silicon Valley’s UpWest Labs accelerator program. Acquired by Similarweb in March, 2014.

UpWest Labs


Alexa Internet [San Francisco, 1996]: Alexa develops toolbars, web crawls, and an infrastructure to process andserve data. The company offers Alexa Toolbar which allows users to use and contribute information about theWeb; and Alexa.com that provides database of information about sites, which comprise statistics and relatedlinks, as well as lists of top sites available by country, language, or in a category. It also provides Site OwnerTools, which helps to drive traffic and find broken links; and Alexa Web Information Service that provides accessto the processed information about the Web, including traffic details and related links. In addition, AlexaInternet offers advertising campaigns.


http://www.searchman.com/

http://www.rivalfox.com/

http://www.prioridata.com/

http://www.tapdog.co/

http://www.alexa.com/





Reflection [London, 2013]: Reflection is an app market intelligence company. It offers transactional revenueand download data for apps across each category, country and store. Reflection has developed statisticalalgorithms that accurately predict revenue and download figures from a combination of datasets that includespublicly available data such as app ranking, and transactional sales data shared by publishers and developersthat use Reflection. It currently supports iPhone & iPad, and is planning to add Google Play and other majorplatforms early 2016. Reflection currently offers market data for 4 countries- United Kingdom, Germany,France, and Italy. Charges monthly premium from developers to access its app market intelligence. Supportedby Sega, Miniclip, Soundcloud, Sky, Toca Boca, Wooga, Nordeus, Bossa Studios, Fox and more


Quad Analytix [San Mateo, 2013]: Quad Analytix gathers, purifies, and organizes a broad range of data fromtarget websites to provide insights. The company serves retail, manufacturing, consulting and investing firms.Professionals uses its service to make better decisions.


AppData [Raleigh, 2008]: AppData provides current and historical traffic data, demographics information, andperformance stats and trends for social and mobile games and apps. Facebook data is gathered via API directlyfrom Facebook. iOS and Android data is gathered from the App Store and Google Play store. Data is updatedonce per day. Data spans from October 2008 to today. Also tracks MAU and DAU activity for Facebook appsonly. Other products include PageData to analyze FB page likes and engagement and GPlusData- Google+ trendand analytics. Data can be exported in CSV format. Monthly subscription based revenue model.


AppMonsta [Palo Alto, 2011]: AppMonsta specialises in providing comprehensive app store data. It collects,aggregates and analyzes data about apps from app stores and the social web to help customers discover hotupcoming apps, do competitive analysis, find untapped market opportunities, and understand overall markettrends. Has complete data for the iTunes and Google Play stores, including 3 years of historical data. Currentlycollect data about apps in over 50 countries, with full coverage in 25 countries currently. Data can be accessedthrough API. Monthly subscription based revenue model. Customers are from health care analysts, developers,investors, phone manufacturers & carriers and market research firms.


http://www.reflection.io/

http://www.quadanalytix.com/

http://www.appdata.com/

http://www.appmonsta.com/





Think Gaming [New York City, 2013]: Think Gaming provides data on the mobile gaming market to helpdevelopers, publishers and investors identify great games, understand competitive dynamics, find the optimalmedia plan for user acquisition, and help sales teams sell more effectively. The company combine publicrankings from iTunes/Google Play with a proprietary model that estimates what each rank translates to in termsof new installs and revenue. Think Gaming build that model by providing free premium access to top grossinggames that anonymously contribute their revenue and install data. Member of Y Combinator's Summer 2014batch.


WhatRunsWhere [San Diego, 2011]: WhatRunsWhere is a competitive intelligence service for online mediabuying. Tracks over 150 thousand unique publishers across 15 countries and identifies the various advertisersoccupying their ad space. Allows customers to look in depth into company and brand level advertisements tofind new traffic sources which enable them generate new creative ideas and improve campaigns. Provideshistorical data spanning back over 4 years, mobile awareness feature and custom reports. Data can also beaccessed using API. Different pricing for display, mobile and display & mobile awareness solutions.


Distimo [Utrecht, 2009]: Distimo is an application store analytics company, provides insight into the applicationstore market for developers, carriers, and device manufacturers worldwide. It offers Distimo Monitor, a cross-platform application monitoring tool for developers that enables them to monitor their own and competitiveapplications across various application stores; and Distimo Report that provides in-depth customized reports forcarriers and operators, as well as insight into various trends happening within various application storesworldwide.


appFigures [New York City, 2009]: Appfigure provides app store analytics for Apple app store, Amazon apps andGoogle play store covering downloads, worldwide reviews & ranking. Features include hourly ranking, emailreports, reviews and detailed reports with visualization integrated into third-party BI dashboard providers andtracking app in all app stores. Developers can customize the analytics dasboard with geographical trends usingfilters along with iAd integration, track dedicated events. Used by 10k+ customers including ebay, AIG, Evernote,Square etc.


http://www.thinkgaming.com/

http://www.whatrunswhere.com/

http://www.distimo.com/

http://www.appfigures.com/




Industry Intelligence

eMarketer [New York City, 1996]: eMarketer is the comprehensive source of information on digital marketing,media, and commerce through its eMarketer Platform. Its research helps marketers answer three essentialquestions: how consumers spend their time, how consumers spend their money, and what marketers are doingto reach them. The company serves brands such as Unilever, Amazon, GE; Agencies such as MediaVest,icrossing, Underscore; Media companies such as Facebook, eBay, TubeMogul; and Universities & Non-Profitssuch as HBS, Stanford, Wharton. Subscription-based pricing model.

$25M Stripes Group


Bitvore [Orange County, 2010]: Bitvore develops intelligence gathering and big data mining systems. Its cloud-based Bitvore platform is based on AI and analyses information from Websites, social media, news reports, callcenters, and customer service records and provide it to the organizations. Also, the company providessituational awareness of local factors that impact credit for credit analysts and researchers working withmunicipal bonds, as well as intelligence gathering about emerging distressed issues and credit dislocations forsell-side and buy-side analysts. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Irvine, CA.

$4.75M Tech Coast Angels


eDataSource [New York City, 2003]: eDataSource (formerly Email Data Source) provides competitiveintelligence for email marketing, social media & e-commerce activity based on real-time monitoring of variousactive consumer inboxes and brands. Its product & services include Competitive Tracker: flagship product thatenables clients to search for email creatives, compare the email & social media activity of specific competitorsthrough a customizable dashboard, prospect new business opportunities; Customized Insight Reports; DataServices; & Ecommerce Monitoring. The company serves clients that range from advertising agencies, onlinemarketers, publishers, and Fortune 500 companies to email service providers and affiliate managers. Hasstrategic partnerships with Acxiom, Responsys, Yesmail Interactive, and Zeta Interactive.

$2.05MRose Tech Ventures, New York Angels,

TWJ Capital


GroundCntrl [Los Altos, 2010]: Its product, bnocular is a business intelligence service that benchmarks the retailperformance of brands by gatheingr qualitative and quantitative data from a sample of stores, malls, or anyphysical venue to discover trends. Its consumer shoppers in North America, Europe and Asia use its mobileplatform for explicit field instructions accompanied by data and photo capture. Its subscription and bespokeproducts are sold to financial investment firms, consumer brands, and marketing agencies.

$1.51M


http://www.emarketer.com/

http://www.bitvore.com/

http://www.edatasource.com/

http://www.groundcntrl.com/





KnowledgeHound [Chicago, 2013]: KnowledgeHound is a DaaS provides which provides visualisation andanalytics to organize and access consumer insights to transform data and insights into effective businessintelligence. It provides cloud-based technology to let the teams share information across units, geographies,and business partners for a broader impact.

$1.2M


EMIS Insights [London, 1994]: EMIS Insights is a provider of industry information alongside proprietary andmulti-source news, research and analytics on emerging countries. Its services include EMIS Professional:database of intelligence on emerging markets; EMIS Energy: information on energy companies across over 125developing countries; EMIS Embassy: A service created specifically for government embassies working withinemerging markets; EMIS Media: a service to help information providers to obtain anytime, anywhere access tothe important emerging markets news; and EMIS University: database of proprietary and multi-source news,data, research and more than 1.3M+ private and public company profiles – in an archived, indexed, searchableformat. The company is backed by the PE firm Advent International.

Advent International


bnocular [Los Altos, 2010]: Its product, bnocular is a business intelligence service that benchmarks the retailperformance of brands by gathering qualitative and quantitative data from a sample of stores, malls, or anyphysical venue to discover trends. Its consumer shoppers in North America, Europe, and Asia use its mobileplatform for explicit field instructions accompanied by data and photo capture. Its subscription and bespokeproducts are sold to financial investment firms, consumer brands, and marketing agencies.

Brightstone Venture Capital


Ascend Worldwide Limited [London, 2007]: Ascend provides specialist information and consultancy solutions tothe global air transport industry. It offers aviation fleet information, valuations and appraisals, technical andcommercial solutions, market analysis, airport economics, and space analytics. The company also providesbusiness jet solutions, such as business jet fleet and transaction data, values, and appraisals; and specialistmarket commentaries, and market analysis and strategic advisory services. In addition, the company offersSpaceTrak, a launch and satellite database that provides failure and insurance loss data; and SpaceReview thatincludes online commentary and analysis on available launch systems and spacecraft bus designs, as well asconsultancy solutions. It serves airlines, airports, and manufacturers and suppliers; and corporate aviation,finance, insurance, leasing, regulatory and legal, and space customers. Ascend was founded in 2007 and is basedin London, United Kingdom with additional offices in New York, New York; and Wanchai, Hong Kong. As of June29, 2011, Ascend Worldwide Limited operates as a subsidiary of Reed Business Information Ltd.

LDC


http://www.knowledgehound.com/

http://www.emis.com/

http://www.bnocular.com/

http://www.ascendworldwide.com/





MarkLines [Tokyo, ]: MarkLines is an information portal for the automotive industry. The core business of theportal is the MarkLines Automotive Information Platform. MarkLines Automotive Information Platform providesonline information for the automotive industry. The platform provides two kinds of services: research tools:information about the global automotive market and marketing tools: promote a customer’s products,technologies and services to over 90,000 MarkLines’ members. It serves OEMs, parts suppliers, solutionvendors, material suppliers, governments, labour unions, consultation firms, financial institutions, anduniversities, as well as machinery and equipment, transportation, trading, and construction companies.

Nippon Venture Capital


MiningRadar AG [Zug, 2003]: MiningRadar provides a database of mining companies, mining projects, indices,charts & ratios to investors, analysts, and mining companies. Mining companies can access a database of miningcompanies peer group charts mining companies, and peer group mining companies (senior producers). Mininginvestors can access mining company profile, reserves & resources of mining projects, the biggest miningprojects in the world, market cap of mining companies. In addition to that, the company offers free servicessuch as mining chart of the day, ratios & indicators, and MiningRadar silver index. Subscription based revenuemodel.


ResearchCafe [Bangalore, 2015]: ResearchCafe is a market intelligence platform of ResearchFox Consulting. Ithelps to track technology markets such as cloud computing, big data & analytics, smart technologies, mobilityetc, analyze trends, build strategies and make informed decisions. The service presents reports on thedashboard instead of PDFs. The service covers 100+ technology sectors, 20+ market segments, 10+ industriesacross 8 regions. Subscribers can view market sector reports with segmentation, parameters and competitivelandscapes in the form of an interactive dashboard. Mckinsey&Company, CITRIX, ZOHO are a few of the clients.


TDn2K [Dallas, 1995]: TDn2K (Transforming Data into Knowledge) is a provider of Workforce, financial, &consumer social benchmarks for the restaurant industry. Its offerings include PeopleReport: provides service-sector human capital and workforce analytics for its members on a monthly basis; Black Box Intelligence:provides weekly financial and market level data for the restaurant industry; and White Box Social Intelligence:delivers consumer insights and reveals online brand health. The company report on over 36,000 restaurantunits, 1.5 million employees and 61 billion dollars in sales. They are also the producers of the two restaurantindustry conferences: Summer Brand Camp and the Global Best Practices Conference, each held annually inDallas, Texas.


http://www.marklines.com/

http://www.miningradar.com/

http://www.researchfox.com/

http://www.tdn2k.com/





Retail Economics [London, 2010]: Retail Economics is an independent economics research consultancy focusedon the UK consumer and retail industry. The company provides research and analysis on the key economic &social drivers behind the UK retail sector. The company provides research and data across the seven retailsectors- food & grocery, clothing & footwear, homewares, furniture & flooring, DIY & gardening, electricals,health & beauty. Its Retail Economics Sales Index model uses a number of sources and consumer panel data toestimate the growth of retail sales across seven sectors within retail. Customers have to subscribe to itsplatform to avail its research reports and datasets.


Beverage Marketing [New York City, 1972]: Beverage Marketing Corporation specialises in providing marketintelligence regarding the beverage industry across more than 30 US and global market. Its flagship productDrinkTell is the all channel database with market forecasts. The company also offers research, consulting, andfinancial services for the beverage industry through its subsidiaries. BMC has annually co-hosted The BeverageForum, gathering global industry leaders and experts to discuss the current and future status of the globalbeverage industry.


ELM Analytics [Rochester, 2010]: Elm Analytics is a provider of automotive data and intelligence provider. Itsproduct offering includes Numerus which is a web based application using which customers can browse marketintelligence on the automotive original equipment and aftermarket parts industry. Numerus allows users tobrowse through the catalog of global automotive industry, measure risk in their supply base, identify newcustomers, benchmark against competitors and market services to the global automotive industry. The companysources information from government and third party sources. Subscription based revenue model. YamahaMotors Manufacturing Corporation, Deloitte, BCG, Hitachi Consulting and others are among its customers. ElmAnalytics LLC is a venture formed from the acquired assets of Elm International.


http://www.retaileconomics.co.uk/

http://www.beveragemarketing.com/

http://www.elmanalytics.com/





Industrial Info Resources [Sugar Land, 1983]: Industrial Info Resources is an industrial market intelligenceprovider. The company’s database products include event tracking for capital and maintenance projects,planned and unplanned unit maintenance outages, and shutdowns and turnarounds, as well as details on plantlocations that include key decision makers, unit details, and equipment profiles for turbines, boilers,compressors, and pollution control equipment. It also provides market forecasting services that include globalcapital and maintenance spending projections for various industrial markets, and specialized forecasts forequipment, materials, and labor; offers visual representation of plant locations, projects, and equipmentprofiles through laminated wall maps; and publishes daily news related to the industrial market, as well asengages in the provision of audio and video Webcasts/podcasts. In addition, the company provides multimediamarketing services, including industry today, multi-media promotion subscription, email campaigns, banneradvertising, and press release services; and online tools. Industrial Info's clients include equipmentmanufacturers, servicing companies, distributors, manufacturer reps, labor unions and placement services whosell products and services into the industrial market. Industrial Info's Energy Group provides intelligence forcommodity traders dealing in energy products and precious metals.


Chain Store Guide [Tampa, 1934]: Chain Store Guide is the provider of retail and foodservice intelligence tobusinesses. Chain Store Guide details all major retailers, restaurants, distributors and wholesalers in the UnitedStates and Canada with contact information on over 700,000 establishments. The data is compiled by its staff ofeditors and research professionals by contacting these companies by phone, mail or email to verify informationand ensure that data is accurate and current. Chain Store Guide provides data in print directory, online webapplication and customized database formats. Chain Store Guide data is used by manufacturers, suppliers,service providers, brokers, real estate professionals, retailers, analysts, consultants and other professionals.


YouGov [London, 2000]: YouGov is an internet-based market research and data company. YouGov specialises inmarket research through online methods. The company's methodology involves obtaining responses from aninvited group of internet users, and then weighting these responses in line with demographic information. Itdraws these demographically representative samples from a panel of 4 million people worldwide including over750,000 people in the UK. The company was established in the UK in 2000 as the online pollster. Later thecompany expanded to commercial market research activity from the public service sector. Its data product anddata services include BrandIndex: brand intelligence tracker; YouGov Reports: market intelligence reports andsector trackers; YouGov Profiles: planning and segmentation tool; YouGov Pulse: real-time online behaviortracker; and YouGov Omnibus: data service. YouGov is listed on the LSE.


http://www.industrialinfo.com/

http://www.chainstoreguide.com/

http://www.yougov.co.uk/





IHS Inc. [Englewood, 1959]: IHS Inc. provides information and analysis to support the decision-making processof businesses and governments in industries, such as aerospace, defence and security, automotive, chemical,energy, maritime & trade, and technology. It offers its critical information and insights by combining data withits proprietary and third-party technology to create graphical user interfaces, interactive search and navigationtools, and online databases. The company offers its products and services in four information domains: Energy,Product Lifecycle, Security, and Environment. The company was founded in 1959 and on Nov 11, 2005 it wentpublic.


Dodge Data & Analytics [New York City, 1891]: Dodge Data & Analytics is the provider of data, analytics, newsand intelligence serving the North American construction industry. Its product offerings include Dodge BidPro:bidding alert dashboard that allows access to customized, relevant construction projects from one screen;Dodge DocuPro: comprehensive construction document management solution; Dodge MarketShare: helpsbuilding product manufacturers and general contractors size, pinpoint, and find new market opportunities;Dodge BuildShare: informs about key firms, their current projects, and their historical relationships; DodgeSpecShare: construction plan and spec database; and Sweets: building product source for AEC professionals. Thecompany serves building product manufacturers, general contractors, and subcontractors and engineers. It wasa part of McGraw Hill Construction, which was divested to Symphony Technology Group for USD 320 Million inSept 2014. McGraw-Hill Construction was formed by the acquisition of FW Dodge Corporation in 1961. FWDodge Corporation was founded in 1891.


Allied Market Research [Portland, 2013]: Allied Market Research is a global market research and businessconsulting wing of Allied Analytics LLP. The company provides market research and business intelligencesolutions to enterprises as well as SMBs. The company employs analyst team who extracts data through primaryinterviews with top officials from companies of domain concerned. Secondary data procurement methodologyincludes deep online and offline research and discussion with knowledgeable professionals and analysts in theindustry. The company even conducts consumer surveys to get raw and unbiased information. Its productofferings include Databases: collection of quantitative market data tables that include historic as well asforecasted data; statistical reports and references, industry reports, geographic and company reports.Subscription based revenue model.


http://www.ihs.com/

http://www.construction.com/

http://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/





Forrester [Cambridge, 1983]: Forrester Research is an independent research firm whose product and servicesare targeted to specific roles, including senior management in business strategy, marketing, and technologymanagement principally at $1 billion-plus (revenue) companies. Its product and solutions include RoleViewresearch: primary syndicated research product. RoleView research products include The Forrester WaveTM.The Forrester Wave provides a detailed analysis of vendors’ technologies and services based on transparent,fully accessible criteria, and measurement of characteristics weighted by the company. Forrester LeadershipBoards: e exclusive peer groups for executives and other senior leaders at large organizations worldwide; Dataproducts and services: focus on consumers’ and business users’ attitudes about and behavior towardtechnology, including ownership, future purchases, and adoption trends; Forrester consulting and events.Generates revenue from research as well as advisory services.


Arbitron Inc. [Columbia, 1949]: Arbitron is an international media and marketing research firm that servesradio, television, cable, mobile industries and advertising agencies. Its 'Portable People Meter' technology tracksviewers watching over television, smart phones, radio, PC's and tablets. It has the largest data on the US's radiolisteners. It was acquired by Nielsen in 2013 in a $1.26 Billion deal. It was re-branded as Nielsen Audio, and thecompanies are looking to achieve synergies of $20 Million and generate a combined revenue of $6 Billion.


MarketLine [London, 2007]: MarketLine specialises in profiling companies, industries and geographies. Employsa team of analysts who conducts primary and secondary research to prepare the database. MarketLine'scompany reports include SWOT analysis, company strategy case studies and M&A financial data reports. Itsindustry reports include forecasts for the market, market value, volume and segmentation data, macroeconomicindicator and competitor analysis, and leading companies in the sector for major industries from agriculture toretail. Its country information database provide country reports based on PESTLE framework for over 150developed and emerging markets. Clients can subscribe to its platform or buy individual reports. ImperialCollege, PWC, Barclays, DHL and others are among its customers.


http://www.forrester.com/

http://www.arbitron.com/

http://www.marketline.com/





Informate Mobile [Mumbai, 2008]: Informate provides analytics tools for telcos, OEMs, publishers and appdevelopers, content creators and advertisers to measure consumer behaviour on smartphones, tablets and PCsusing passive measurement techniques. Using its proprietary on-device metering technology Smart Meter,Informate captures real time and complete data on actual mobile phone usage. In addition, Informate Quest, asyndicated survey captures attitudinal data such as brand awareness, purchase intention, brand satisfaction andpreference scores. While smart meter tracks what are the phone features used and when, informate questdelves into who the consumers are and the why of their mobile phone behaviour. Informate competitiveanalytics helps app developers ascertain their app usage and stickiness vs competitors and create better appengagement strategies, telcos to measure data usage and on what applications, advertisers to track usage ofsocial media sites to understand target groups. Informate currently operates in Asia, ME, Africa, US & Europe.The company moved its HQ to Seattle in 2014.


Findout Ltd [Kent, 2015]: Findout has developed its own proprietary indexing and machine learning technologyto allow users to access data and gain insight into market dynamics, opportunities and new competitors. Thecompany has used artificial intelligence and big data technologies in development of its platform. Findoutplatform enables users to explore large volumes of industry reports and datasets, spot key indicators to enabledata driven decision making, and share knowledge with the team. The company counts technology providers,management consulting firms, and law firms among its customers.


Reportlinker [Lyon, 2001]: ReportLinker is a search engine that provides access to public documents andreports containing industry statistics. It functions by aggregating authoritative publicly sourced data in oneplace, eliminating search results normally indexed in open source with little value such as articles, newspapercolumns, and wiki entries. Index is updated every day. Claims to have covered 350 industries by their reports.Subscription based revenue model.


Mintel [London, 1972]: Mintel is a privately owned, London based market intelligence company. The companyoffers subscription based research services and consulting solutions. Its product offerings include Mintel B2BReports, Mintel Comperemedia (competitive intelligence for direct and digital marketers), Mintel Market Sizes,Mintel GNPD, Mintel Trends, Mintel Insights, and Mintel Reports. Also, Mintel offers industry specific solutionsfor beauty & personal care, household & personal care, and food & drink. Apart from these products, Minteloffers consulting services. Subscription revenue model.


http://www.informatemi.com/

http://www.findout.com/

http://www.reportlinker.com/

http://www.mintel.com/





Datamonitor [London, 1989]: Datamonitor provides market intelligence, data analysis and opinion via aworldwide network of in-house analysts. Datamonitor serves automotive, CPG, energy and sustainability,financial services, logistics & express, pharmaceuticals & healthcare, and sourcing industries. In July 2007,Datamonitor was acquired by Informa group for about 502 GBP. Mike Danson and Doug Wilson had founded thecompany in 1989. On July 27, 2015, Progressive Digital Media announced that it has acquired DatamonitorFinancial, Datamonitor Consumer, MarketLine and Verdict businesses from Informa for a combined cash price of£25m.


Euromonitor International [London, ]: Euromonitor International Ltd is a privately owned market intelligencefirm, providing market research, business intelligence reports, and data to the customers. Its offerings includePassport: global market information system; Research Monitor: research on industries, countries and consumersworldwide; Analytics and modelling tools; and consulting services. Subscription based revenue model.


Vin Sight [Redwood City, 2014]: Vinsight is an application that aggregates geospatial data, weather data, andground sensor based data to provide the wine industry with analytics for what is happening on the vine.


Indix [Chennai, 2010]: Indix is building an index for over 1 billion consumer products in the world. Claims tohave a coverage on products across all retail vertical except auto, books and musics with 10,000+ productattributes to classify them. On top of its product database, Indix offers customized apps and APIs for retailers totap into the platform and gain real time insights based on their preferences. Has 20+ customers across brands,technology firms and merchants.

$29.49M

Nexus Venture Partners, Nokia Growth Partners, Avalon Ventures,

Tola Capital, Anthemis Group, Milliways Ventures


GlobalSpec [East Greenbush, 1996]: GlobalSpec has developed a search engine of engineering and industrialproducts. The company has indexed over 180 million parts divided into more than 2 million product families,from over 24000 manufacturer and distributor catalogs. GlobalSpec is a domain specific tool, in that its focuseddomain allows for optimized results. GlobalSpec has partnerships with several well-known companies, including:AltaVista, IEEE, ISA, McGraw Hill and SolidWorks. SolidWorks has embedded access to GlobalSpec's searchengine inside its computer-aided design software. Warburg Pincus, a PE firm sold GlobalSpec to IHS in 2012.

$20M Warburg Pincus


http://www.datamonitor.com/

http://www.euromonitor.com/

http://www.vinsight.co/

http://www.indix.com/

http://www.globalspec.com/





The Data Council Inc [Jacksonville, 2014]: The Data Council has developed IX-ONE which is a membership basedplatform, that provides independently verified and standardized product information to vendors, brokers,distributors, retailers and key partners in the organic, natural and specialty products industry. The solutionallows its members royalty-free use of all applicable data and images to run their businesses including internalsystems, marketing, billing and more. They physically handle and image every product annually includingcapturing all available data.

$3.85M


Semantics3 [San Francisco, 2012]: Semantics3 has created a database that aims to track every product soldonline, and every price it has ever been sold at, providing retailers with an API to this database. All of this data isavailable in realtime through their products API. Customers include developers building data-driven e-commerce apps, merchants figuring out trending products and monitoring prices and many others. Thecompany specializes in crawling, curating and merging data at scale from a variety of sources. This data isindexed along several dimensions and made available for developers to harness and innovate upon by means ofan API. Their primary offering is the Products Data API with which developers can track prices across a variety ofproducts and build shopping comparison engines, enrich e-commerce stores with rich metadata and more. HQin SFO with another office in Bangalore, India. The company is backed by YC Combinator.

$2.15M Y Combinator, Golden Gate Ventures


BrightKite [Burlingame, 2007]: Brightkite is a product research engine. Brightkite manually research variousproducts, collect relevant data for various aspects and prepare their index. They only list products to help onlinebusinesses and consumers to find the right products in a range of categories such as small business, software,webmasters, money and much more. Brightkite collect data regarding product from industry sources as well asby the official sources. It also allows user to compare two products side-by-side, Allows users to filter the listsaccording to features, pricing, solutions, find alternative for certain products and much more. As of April 29,2014, Brightkite, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IDT Corporation.

$2.09M DFJ Venture, Techstars


http://www.ix-one.net/

http://www.semantics3.com/

http://www.brightkite.com/





ProductBio [San Francisco, 2012]: ProductBio (Product of Workpology inc) provides product-level sustainabilitydata and analytics tools to retailers or manufacturers. ProductBio's method of systematically indexing third-party certifications and ecolabels, CSR reports, and self-reported business activities validates each company'ssustainability profile at the product-level against categorical best-practices. This sort of information helps anylarge organizations and their procurement departments specify what sustainability means for any given product,and evaluate vendors and products that most meet their environmental, social, fiscal values, policies, and goals.It offers procurement dashboards that make it transparent for socially conscious buyers (consumers); andinvestor dashboards to improve investment returns and capital allocations. Customers are city and countygovernment procurement directors looking to automate mass-scale environmentally preferable purchasing(EPP, EP3) of goods and services in compliance with administrative regulations (A.R.s) stemming from E.O.13514 & F.A.R. 23.103. The company is based in San Diego, California.

500 Startups


Datasembly [Washington, 2014]: Datasembly provides access to millions of grocery and retail pricing recordsaggregated from hundreds of grocery delivery and online shopping websites. Prices are collected for each storeand zip code in real time. Datasembly's pricing data currently powers pricing intelligence, economic indicators,consumer apps, and much more. 500 Startups backed company.

500 Startups, Plug and Play Tech Center


Wiser [San Francisco, 2012]: Wiser is a dynamic pricing engine that lets retailers intelligently monitor productspricing, analyze in-depth price history analytics, compare pricing strategy to competitors, and compete wisely bypricing products in real-time. Wiser’s core product is WisePricer, full-featured dynamic pricing andmerchandising engine that monitors, analyzes and reprices retail products in real-time. Also offers a MAPmonitoring solution, WiseMapper, for brands and manufacturers to monitor and protect their pricing across thethousands of retailers selling their products. Clients include eBay, Home Depot, AT&T, 3M, Rue La La, Desigualand more. Backed by Wing VC.

500 Startups, Plug and Play Tech Center, SGVC, Wing Venture Capital,

Elevator Fund


http://www.productbio.com/

http://www.datasembly.com/

http://www.wiser.com/





The Parker Bay Company [Erie, 1996]: The Parker Bay Company specializes in providing individualized marketresearch, marketing database development, customer surveys, business planning and related consulting workfor companies in the surface/open pit mining, mining equipment industries. The company has built a databaseof more than 70000 large pieces of surface mining equipment in current operation at large surface minesworldwide. It is both mine- and machine-specific, identifying mines that operate large haul trucks, electricmining shovels, hydraulic shovels/excavators, wheel loaders, draglines, crawler and wheel dozers, drills, andmotor graders. The company collects data from primary as well as secondary sources. subscription basedrevenue model.


Gladson [Lisle, 1971]: Gladson is the provider of product images, product content and related services for theUS consumer packaged goods industry. It creates, assembles, and analyzes multiple images and information onvarious consumer packaged goods, as well as builds them into databases, and consulting, merchandising, anddesign solutions. The company’s services include space management database, e-commerce database, nutritiondatabase, advertising image database, category management services, image merchandising solutions, masterdata solutions, in-store merchandising, and store design. In addition, it offers a solution for managing thecreation, hosting, and delivery of e-content to manufacturers. The company’s customers include consumerpackaged goods manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and related business services.


itemMaster [Skokie, 2009]: itemMaster creates and manages product information for brands. The companyprovides free information about products. Users can access the itemMaster database via restful API and canmake calls to return a listing of manufacturers, listing of brand names, and a listing of items.


RetailData, LLC [Richmond, 1989]: RetailData LLC provides real-time retail market intelligence services. Itsservices include competitive price shops, price scan verification, and retail compliance, as well as custom causalapplications, including private label product linking and the RetailData Analytical Suite. The company collectsretail information through various professionals in the United States, Puerto Rico, and selected Canadianprovinces. It serves retail food and drug channels, grocery wholesalers, mass merchants, office and pet supplystores, club stores, and consumer electronics retailers. RetailData LLC was founded in 1988 and isheadquartered in Richmond, Virginia.


http://www.parkerbaymining.com/

http://www.gladson.com/

http://www.itemmaster.com/

http://www.retaildatallc.com/





Etilize [Irvine, 2000]: Etilize Inc. aggregates product data from manufacturers and delivers it as a commerceready web content to online retailers, distributors and resellers. Customers are global leaders in offline andonline retailing to startups in the industries such as- information technology, consumer electronics, householdappliances, photography, home & garden etc. The company also develops custom product data solutions andvalue-added product content to meet the specific demands of our customers. Since December 2008, thecompany is operating as a subsidiary of Gfk SE.


http://www.etilize.com/


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Hitwise [New York City, 1997]: Hitwise specialises in measuring behavior across desktop, tablet andsmartphone devices. The company provides data on trends in visitor and search behavior, visitor and websiteprofiling and measures website market share. The company helps in optimizing marketing efforts and improvingthe effectiveness of search, display, affiliate, mobile, email and social media campaigns. The company wasfounded in 1997. In 2007, Experian acquired Hitwise and then in Dec 2015, Experian sold it to Connexity.

$14.2MInsight Venture Partners, Allen and

Buckeridge

CivicScience [Pittsburgh, 2007]: CivicScience provides the leading intelligent polling and real-time consumerinsights platform, the InsightStore™. Data is sourced by partnerships with hundreds of premier websites, whouse its polling applications to survey people each week. Its proprietary technology analyzes those consumeropinions, discovers real time trends and predicts market outcomes. Revenue model is based on sellingsyndicated and custom research products from the data it collects from its partner sites. Potential customers aremarketing decision makers, consumer insights teams, and their business stakeholders.

$6.37MInnovation Works, The NPD Group,

ALG

Bomoda [New York City, 2012]: Bomoda, previously a premier marketplace for international brands catering toChina market has pivoted to become a consumer intelligence company. Using a proprietary mix of data scienceand human curation, Bomoda provides leading global brands a new level of transparency into what drivesconsumer behavior. Bomoda is currently focusing on the global Chinese consumer. Bomoda's solutions includeexclusive consumer intelligence products, strategic services and content marketing. Based inNew York City andShanghai, Bomoda has worked with over 100 premier global fashion, beauty, e-commerce, airline, automotive,and hospitality brands. Publishes "Blueprint" series of report on impact of all forms of marketing activities withina country. They have started with the report on China luxury market.

$2.2MInovia Capital, Milestone Venture

Partners, SIG China

Virtual DBS [North Kingstown, 2010]: Virtual DBS specialises in providing database marketing products tomarketers. The company's offerings include Predictive modeling and analytics: segmentation model andpredictive score to identify prospects; Compiled B2C and B2B Marketing lists; and Database technology:database technology platforms with on-demand, web- enabled delivery options. The company serves catalogs,energy and utilities, finance and insurance, government, healthcare, higher education, high-tech, non-profit,online lead generation, retail, telecommunications, and travel and hospitality markets.

$575k


http://www.hitwise.com/

http://www.civicscience.com/

http://www.bomoda.com/

http://www.virtualdbs.com/


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Penton Media [New York City, 1892]: Penton is an information services & marketing company. Penton providestools and information to the clients in Agriculture, Transportation, Natural Products & Food, Design &Manufacturing, and Infrastructure. The company is descended from Penton Publishing, founded by John Pentonin 1904 to bring together production of several trade magazine titles, including Foundry, which he had createdin Detroit in 1892. The company's three largest revenue streams come from events, digital and marketingservices. In Feb 2007, MidOcean Partners a PE firm, acquired the company.

Eos Partners

MetrixLab [Rotterdam, 1999]: Provides data and analytics for studying consumer behavior for better customerengagement and customer value. Collects data through surveys, social media, mobile, public sources and GPS.Offers Global audience platform for feedback from consumer panels, browser agnostic survey platform,specialized mobile survey platform and geography based data gathering. Also provides for social mediaanalytics and an API that can be integrated to the existing CRM.

InterWest Partners, Grayhawk Capital, Endeit Capital

V12 Group [Red Bank, 2002]: V12 Group (Media Solution Services) provides data and multichannel digitalmarketing cloud solutions. The company operates Data Cloud, a database that comprises a collection ofdemographic, geographic, lifestyle, interests, behavioral, automotive, and CPG data categories. Its Data Cloudprovides Launchpad Marketing Cloud, a collection of online and offline marketing solutions that alloworganizations of various sizes to engage and communicate with prospects and customers through email, displayadvertising, social media, print and mail, data enhancement, and analytical solutions. The company also offersmanaged services, such as email marketing, online display advertising, print and mail, data enhancement,profiles and clones, and data selections; data enhancement services; and data licensing services. In addition, itprovides update services such as daily updates for email additions, unsubscribes, and opt-outs; weekly updateson New Movers, client email programs, and digital segment identification; monthly updates including NCOA,CASS, DPV, deceased, and data refreshes for the production files in Launchpad; quarterly updates such asconsumer postal, B2B, auto, ePostal, and online data sets; and annual updates on databases mostly involvingB2B firmographic information. V12 Group, Inc. was formerly known as Media Solution Services. The companywas founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Newspring Capital


http://www.penton.com/

http://www.metrixlab.com/

http://www.v12groupinc.com/


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DataMentors [Wesley Chapel, 1999]: DataMentors provides a suite of data quality software solutions that helpcompanies identify, cleanse, standardize, match, analyze, and manage business and customer information. ItsDaaS solution leverages data from online searches, social purchase signal, web mining, crowd sourcing, andtransactional data. DataMentors’ products and services are targeted toward marketing and/or IT professionalsto: Build clean, centralized, consistent marketing data mart or data warehouses. Perform intelligent analysisof cleansed data in order to segment, cross-sell, up-sell and mine the customer base. Segment and executemarketing campaigns (mail, email, print, etc.) targeted at existing and prospective clients. Analyze campaignresponses and associated research.

Spring Capital Partners, Bay Capital Investment Partners

Kompass International [Courbevoie, 1946]: Kompass is a business to business companies directories. It enablescompanies to find their customers and suppliers through its tools Kompass.com and its international dataplatform EasyBusiness. It provides access to detailed information about companies including financial data andrisk score for sales, marketing, researching and purchasing. Kompass is a part of Natixis, a french investmentbank. Kompass is present in more than 60 countries. Kompass has 60000 subscribers worldwide. It monetizesthrough selling subscription of online marketing packages and search tool called EasyBusiness. The otherstakeholders in company are Wanadoo, Yellow Pages, Coface Services

Verdoso

RealZips [Palo, 2014]: RealZips (developed by RealScenario) operates a GeoData platform for Salesforce. Thecompany offers geo-connected business data at a zip code level in the areas of legacy systems, including ERPdata and sales, product shipments and warranties, and service contracts; business data, such as targetcompanies and positions, federal data, and channel sales data; consumer data, including census data,segmentation, preferences, and spending; and weather data, installed products, Internet of Things, and socialmedia. The company also provides GeoData for B2B targeting; and market data for marketing and salesactivities. Its data helps users to enrich CRM data, manage territories, route leads, pinpoint business potential,mobilize sales, and track performance.


http://www.datamentors.com/

http://www.kompass.com/

http://www.realzips.com/


Marketing (4/32)


Liquid11 Data LTD [Lowestoft, 1995]: Liquid11 Data owns B2C mobile number database in the UK and providesdata services to its clients. The company claims that it owns a growing list rental database of more than 15million complete records. Data can be refined by consumer demographic and profiled to suit any live agentcampaign using sociographic and economic overlays. Apart from providing datasets for various marketingcampaigns the company also provides data services such as data hygiene, data appending, data profiling, mobileverification, mobile goneaways, unsubscribe direct, and other complementary services.Data is being collectedfrom different sources such as online web forms, telephone surveys, and purchased from other data sources.The company is ICO regulated and adheres to DPA regulations. Majority of its data is being used in live agentvoice call.

Global B2B Contacts [Kansas, 2006]: Global B2B Contacts is a provider of B2B IT mailing, email, andtelemarketing lists. The company offers email database, technology user database, and healthcare database.Apart from email lists the company offers database cleansing/appending solution. Business Lists are compiledfrom membership rosters, registrations, public records, licenses, corporate & executive registers, postal records,surveys, questionnaires, census data, student lists, birth records, voter registrations, telemarketing efforts, mail& telephone inquiries and purchase information, telephone directories, rebate coupons, subscriber order forms,warranty card registrations, entry forms, credit & financial data, SEC listings, institution information,conference/trade show/seminar attendee registrations, government records, opt-in email responses,applications, and rating & licensing boards.

School Mailings [Chorley, 1990]: School Mailings is a provider of UK school data and email marketing solution.The company claims to have collected over 300000 contacts across the UK Primary and Secondary schools.Clients can use School Mailings services for their email campaign or they can buy data from School Mailings inorder to run their in-house marketing campaign. The company offers CTPS checking on all telephone data,weekend, and holiday email services, and international school email service. The company has in-house design,print and fulfilment facility. Dalo, Bind Vision, Hedrin and others are among its customers.


http://www.liquid11data.co.uk/

http://www.globalb2bcontacts.com/

http://www.schoolmailings.com/


Marketing (5/32)


infoCheckPoint [Omaha, 2010]: Info CheckPoint is a provider of B2B data through an online application. Itsdatabase has niche data segments that include individual, company and industry profiles. Employs in-houseteam which maintains database hygiene and accuracy. According to its website the company offers 23+ millionbusiness contacts, 6+ million companies, and 18000+ million industries. The company collects data from sourcessuch as email campaigns, free magazine/newspaper subscription, social media profiles, tradeshow attendeelists, public record information, phone surveys, web-based registration/offers, B2B directory partnership,telephone and web directories, annual report/SEC filings, and business trade magazine subscription offers. Itsindustries database covers banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, and technology industries. UnityTelecom, Creative Business Resources, IGM Creative Group and others are among its customers.

Zebi [Hyderabad, 2015]: Zebi provides Data as a service (DaaS) for enterprises. Offers a platform that usesmachine learning and integrated data from multiple sources to provide check on fraudulent data anddocuments. Has raised $1M in Jan 2016 from a bunch of SF based angel investors.

4orange [Amsterdam, 1991]: 4orange specialises in providing marketing software, consumer data andmarketing services to the clients. Its marketing software products are 4orange connect: solution for connectingtwo or more operational CRM; 4orange profiles: tool for creation and comparison of customer profiles; DMTools: loading, searching, analysing and customising large files; GIS Analyser: web-based tool for statisticalanalysis; and Third Paty Software: implementation and support partner for third party software. Apart frommarketing software, the company also offers consumer data and marketing services.


http://www.infocheckpoint.com/

http://www.zebi.co/

http://www.4orange.nl/


Marketing (6/32)


NetRatings Inc [New York City, 1997]: NetRatings Inc specialises in providing Internet Audience measurementinformation and analysis. The company delivers internet audience information, collected from various internetusers and augment this information with reporting and analysis. Its product offerings include NetView: audiencebehavior measurement for worldwide web and the digital media universe; MegaPanel: provides increasedbreadth and depth of internet behavior and activity for the market research industry, including detailed e-commerce transaction information; SiteCensus offers Web analytical services based on a Web site’s actualtraffic flows and visitor behavior; VideoCensus: provides insight into video streams consumed online.AdRelevance: information on online advertising expenditures, including where, when, how, and how muchcompanies are advertising online; @Plan is a resource for demographic, lifestyle, and product preferences toguide advertisers, agencies, Web publishers, and others in their online marketing and media planning strategies;Homescan: online, a joint product with ACNielsen Corporation, combines ACNielsen’s offline consumer retailpurchasing data with its Internet audience measurement data. Apart from above products, the company alsooffers customized research and advisory services. It serves companies in the media, technology, advertising,financial services, consumer products, retail, and travel industries.

ChalkRow [London, 2014]: ChalkRow has developed VendorMach, a cross border sales discovery and riskmanagement platform. VendorMach indexes government data using machine intelligence to extract financial,product and people intelligence enabling international buyers to know their customers and ultimately improvethe sales process. Over the last year, the company claims to have gathered intelligence from over 600 SME's.VendorMach allows clients to search, save and cross reference with their compliance checklist, governmentfilings, and sends notification regarding any changes. The company has raised undisclosed amount in seedround in November 2014.

Canadean [London, 1973]: Canadean pioneers in market research and analysis in beverages, FMCG market andrelated industries, including packaging, ingredients, soft drinks, beer, retail, foodservice, wines & spirits,cosmetics & toiletries and food across the globe. Its product offerings include Research reports on globalconsumer market, Intelligence Centre: deep insight into consumer behavior and market development at thecategory and segment level; Innovation Insight: provides access to the consumer surveys across 50 countrieswith trend analysis. Apart from market research and intelligence the company also provides the customsolutions to the clients. The company counts Devin JSC, Symrise, Heineken, Nestle, Coca Cola etc among itscustomers.


http://www.netratings.com/

http://www.chalkrow.com/

http://www.canadean.com/


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Webhose.io [Tel Aviv, 2010]: Webhose.io provides access to structured data from feeds direct from forums,message boards, News and Blogs. Its simple search query capabilities lets users slice and dice the data accordingto their needs. Webhose.io is created by Buzzilla. Webhose.io provides data in form of an API. Monthlysubscription based revenue. Salesforce, Kantar Media, Crimson Hexagon, Netbase are among its customers.

Glassnetic [Seattle, 2013]: Glassnetic enables marketers to learn about many vendors and their offerings whichare relevant to them. With Glassnetics platform marketers can get enough information about a vendor'sofferings to be able to make an informed decision about whether they can have meeting with the vendors.Marketers can get the information without divulging their company & contact information. Marketers canpublish RFIs and vendor sees the RFIs and responds accordingly. While creation of RFIs is free Glassnetic chargesenterprises for its vendor knowledgebase. For vendors, registration is free and offers five credits to submitresponses to RFIs. Once those free credits are up then vendors have to pay to respond to an RFI.

Avention [Concord, 1986]: Avention, Inc., formerly OneSource, provides real-time, actionable B2B data.Avention empowers sales, marketing and research professionals with global B2B data available and leveragesthat data with its cutting-edge software. Through four key capabilities – Conceptual Search, Business Signals,Ideal Profiles and SmartLists – users find leads, market segments and the business insights. Headquartered inConcord, Mass. with offices across North America, Europe and APAC, Avention has more than 4,000 customersworldwide. GE Capital, Aon Risk Solutions, Spectrum Corporate Finance, Access Self Storage Ltd, Denali Groupare some big names among its customers.

Lead Generation

Spoke [San Mateo, 2002]: Spoke Software provides information on companies, people, corporate milestone,breaking news, trends, funding, opinion leaders, and more to help managers, salespersons, investors, andresearch professionals make decisions of taxonomy of their industry. Allows users to browse structured contentand relevant feeds to find what they need on its sites. Spoke Software powers the VBProfiles and SpokeIntel.

$25.1MUS Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures,

Partech Ventures, DCM


http://www.webhose.io/

http://www.glassnetic.com/

http://www.avention.com/

http://www.spoke.com/


Marketing (8/32)


Lead Generation

Rapleaf [Chicago, 2006]: Rapleaf provides a database for marketers to access and personalize content for theircustomers. Rapleaf aggregates consumer data from data providers, cleanses it, and maps it to emails. Thecompany’s Rapleaf is used by SMBs, large corporations, agencies, B2B platforms, and more. Rapleaf, Inc. wasfounded in 2006 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of October 1, 2013, Rapleaf, Inc. operates as a subsidiary ofTowerData, Inc.

$16M

Rembrandt Venture Partners, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures,

SoftTech VC, North Bridge Venture Partners, The Pilot Group, Dace

Ventures

Lead Generation

Focus [San Francisco, 2005]: Focus Research Inc provides online research to enterprise buyers and leads to ITvendors. It provides buyers with research and tools that help them make purchasing decisions in various areas,including information technology, telephony, sales and marketing, human resources, and finance. The companyalso offers highly qualified leads, content syndication, lead nurturing, Webinars, email list rental, displayadvertising, expert content, and buyer loop for vendors. It serves buyers and professionals in telephony, IT,Internet services, business finance, HR, CRM, and IT security markets. The company was acquired by Ziff Davis in2011.

$12.2MLightspeed Venture Partners, Trinity

Ventures, GGV Capital, Leader Ventures

Lead Generation

RunTitle [Austin, 2012]: RunTitle operates an online database of mineral ownership information that is sourcedfrom oil and gas companies, mineral owners, investors, operators, independent landmen, and mineral buyers—companies in the United States. It offers mineral ownership reports, chains of title, title opinions, and associatedcourt documents. The company serves oil and gas professionals.

$12.03MFounders Fund, Austin Ventures, Deep

Fork Capital, SURGE Ventures

Lead Generation

aiHit [London, 2007]: aiHit is a provider of business information services and solutions to the businessinformation, market research and lead generation industries. Through its knowledge of Artificial Intelligence andMachine Learning, the company has developed a platform that monitors millions of websites, extracting staticand dynamic data direct from public websites. Offres company datasets, executive datasets, URL, email, andtelephone datasets to the customers. Customers such as Informa, Equifax, EuroPages, S&P Capital IQ are usingits datasets.

$7.5MVTB Capital Investment Management,

Amadeus Capital, RVC USA


http://www.rapleaf.com/

http://www.focus.com/

http://www.runtitle.com/

http://www.aihit.com/


Marketing (9/32)


Lead Generation

IKO System [Paris, 2010]: IKO uses machine learning algorithms to detect buying patterns and signals from rawdata, and also generates proprietary lead intelligence based on the collected structured or unstructuredinformation. IKO works with more than 60000 sources of information, including Reuters, Zoominfo, Bloomberg,Marketmonitor, LexisNexis, etc. Premium sources are press articles, news feeds, contact databases, companydatabases, industry reports, corporate transcripts, etc. Claims 80% of sources are private or require premiumsubscriptions. Also monitors over 700m corporate web pages to detect buying signals and sales activities.Enables users to import third party sources such as your CRM data, marketing automation leads, address books,Excel files or social contact files. Integrates with Salesforce, Pardot, Marketo or Hubspot.

$3.76MBpifrance, Naxicap Partners, La Revue

Fiduciaire, 3T Capital

Lead Generation

Clearbit [San Francisco, 2014]: Clearbit provides business intelligence APIs to help research and qualify leads,amongst other use cases. The REST APIs take an email address, or a domain name, and return a whole host ofperson and company information, from names, titles, and social handles to company headcount, marketverticals, funding and more. Claims to have 1.2 million companies indexed. Prominent clients include Stripe,Zendesk, Asana and Intercom. Angel investors include Naval Ravikant, Othman Laraki, Hiten Shah, Ariel Poler,and Ilya Sukhar.

$2MFirst Round Capital, SV Angel, Maiden

Lane, Zetta Venture, S2Cap, Fuel Capital, BoxGroup

Lead Generation

MixRank [San Francisco, 2011]: MixRank is a Customer Discovery Platform that helps B2B sales teams automatelead prospecting and find new customers. MixRank has effectively created a search engine for AdSense thatcrawls pages running Google ads, and since Google sorts these ads by effectiveness, MixRank indexes this dataand estimates ad performance. After crawling these pages, MixRank takes into account Google’s sorting of theads by effectiveness, then uses this data to serve essential performance analytics. Its is integrated with majorCRMs to enable a one click import of leads into the CRM. Major customers include Bizo, OpenX, Smaato etc.

$1.5M

Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Data Collective, Ecosystem Ventures, Seraph Group, TEEC Angel Fund,

Kyosei Ventures, globalbrains.co.jp/english, Polytech

Ecosystem Ventures

Lead Generation

Spiderbook [San Francisco, 2013]: Spiderbook uses data science to give users qualified leads by trackingbehavioral signals of prospects. Possesses a connected data set of companies along with suppliers, partners,competitors and customer lists, and the key decision makers. Utilizes social algorithms and machine learning toidentify the best person to contact in the company. Some of the data points include public social data, news,logs, job posts and sec filings.

$1M


http://www.iko-system.com/

http://www.clearbit.com/

http://www.mixrank.com/

http://www.spiderbook.com/


Marketing (10/32)


Lead Generation

LeadFerret [Calabasas, 2011]: LeadFerret provides business and social information on 30+ million companiesand contacts, and can be accessed through its cloud based data management platform, LeadFerret Enterprise,or the new LeadFerret API. The company offers 5 points to start to users once they've signed up. These pointsallows customers to download upto 5 vCards. The company replenish the account with the points that user hasused during the day. The company offers premium account in which user can buy as much points as theyrequired at the same cost as their per record as your LeadFerret Premium account. The LeadFerret database isbuilt using the crowdsourcing model. The company counts Amazon, Cisco, Accenture, Bank of The West andothers among its customers. The pricing starts at $20 per month.

$550k

Lead Generation

ProvenProspects [Los Angeles, 2007]: ProvenProspects pioneers in providing B2B transaction data to sales andmarketing team enabling them keep track of potential prospects. ProvenProspects uses advanced dataprocessing and analysis techniques to collect, clean, categorize, and enhance major purchasing and financingtransactions. Has collected data about the major purchasing and financing transaction for all 50 States, over thepast eight years, over 22.5 million major transactions. Primary source of data is publicly disclosed uniformcommercial code financing statements, or UCC-1 filing. Data attributes are- Transaction date, lenderinformation, Company Information, Equipment/Transaction Category, Financing/Lender Category, CleanedEquipment/financing description, Custom fields like opportunity size and predicted sales cycle start date etc.Monthly / yearly subscription based revenue model.

$164k

Lead Generation

Boardroom Insiders [San Francisco, 2008]: Boardroom Insiders maintains a database of in-depth executiveprofiles for sales & marketing professionals, to help them reach and engage C-level executives. The companyoffers multi-page reports on each executive that include information beyond simple demographic information,title, and company such as what is most important to them, how they want to be sold to, what their focus is forthe year, what investments their company is looking to make, their technology strategy, their primarychallenges, personal goals and motivations etc. Profiles are made-to-order by business analysts. The companysearches all publicly available sources for information on target executive, including personal details,biographical history, and current business issues. SAP, Cisco, EMC, Citrix and others are among its customers.Pricing starts at $85 (One-time fee).

$11.42K


http://www.leadferret.com/

http://www.provenprospects.com/

http://www.boardroominsiders.com/


Marketing (11/32)


Lead Generation

Sidewalk [New York City, 2013]: Sidewalk helps marketers and salespeople close more sales through targetingand automation. Sidewalk collects and matches disparate web data on 20 million plus SMBs and makes it easyfor companies to identify businesses that use social media, advertise, are popular and are receptive to products.Sidewalk’s simple and actionable insights save companies time and increase revenue.

500 Startups

Lead Generation

Relevate [Fairfax, 2010]: Relevate specialises in providing marketing information services to customers. Thecompany offers SmartSelect: datasets for direct mail, telemarketing, email prospecting, and online advertising;R-Target: Database marketing and campaign management platform; Data enhancement & appending services;marketing mailing lists; and data modeling and analytics platform. Relevate was formed in 2010 to combine thedata products and services of Telematch and Phoenix Data Processing under a single brand. In August 2015,DataMentors and Relegate got merged.

Brook Venture Partners

Lead Generation

Infogroup [Omaha, 1972]: Infogroup Inc provides business and consumer databases for sales leads, mailing lists,direct marketing, database marketing, e-mail marketing and market research solutions. Operate three principalbusiness groups Data Group, Services Group, and Marketing Research Group. Proprietary databasesinclude- business databases, and consumer databases. Data is aggregated from yellow page companies, publicfilings, phone calls, newspaper articles, and annual reports. Product offerings based on databases includeSalesgenie- for sales lead generation, MarketZone Gold, MarketZone Platinum, infoConnect ONE PAS,OneSource Global Corporate and Executive Database, Credit.net, Polk City Directories, and other services.subscription based revenue model. The company was founded by Vinod Gupta an IIT Kharagpur alumnus in1972 and was acquired by CCMP Capital in July 2010.

CCMP Capital

Lead Generation

IQ Strategic Communications [Washington D.C., 2012]: IQ Strategic is a provider of consumer data and tools formicrotargeting. The company offers a consumer database with more than 500 attributes ranging fromdemographics to buying behaviors and political personalities. Its database includes 235 million nationalconsumers at home addresses, more than 100 million verified email addresses, over 140 million mobile phonenumbers, new mover & home owners etc. Its analytical tools include IQ Profiles, IQ Decision Trees, IQ Clusters,IQ Cloning, and FlightRisk. The company's offerings provide solutions for real-time dynamic web experiences,interactive mobile campaigns, consumer stimulus research. The company was founded in 2012 and is based inWashington DC.


http://www.getsidewalk.com/

http://www.relevategroup.com/

http://www.infogroup.com/

http://www.iqdelivers.com/


Marketing (12/32)


Lead Generation

Madison Chase [London, 2014]: Madison Chase is a UK based boutique data and lead generation brokeragespecialist. The company maintains consumer and business sector marketing lists for England, Scotland, Walesand Northern Ireland. The company works with a number of UK-based brokers. Also, uses industry suppressionsoftware to build and maintain the database. Its service offerings include B2C data, B2B data, lead generation,email marketing, data appending, data profiling, and data cleansing. The data is delivered in a passwordprotected Excel or CSV file using a secure online file sharing service.

Lead Generation

Joesdata [Portland, 2006]: Joesdata provides company profiles, executive news, sales leads, executive contactsto sales & marketing professional and job seekers. Also, allows users to contribute information to their ownprofiles and build new ones. Its database holds 5 million profiles of business professionals and 2 millioncompany profiles. Users can search data based on name, company, location, and vertical segments to generateleads. Subscription based revenue model.

Lead Generation

VENTES Pte Ltd [Singapore, 2013]: Ventesworks (now Leadbook) uses data science to gather business data suchas company data, executive data to help the sales people target appropriate people. It also helps the clientsupdate the information that is contained with them such as email Ids, telephone contacts etc. Its B2B sales leadsplatform with unlimited access to the largest verified business database in Asia. Leadbook’s database of 15m+company profiles, 60m+ executive contacts, real-time enrichment and advanced predictive scoring helps youbuild the ultimate prospect lists.

Lead Generation

LeadStage [San Francisco, 2013]: LeadStage is the database of sales lead data. The company uses automatic andmanual system to gather the contact details of the buyer and has created contact database of over 200 millionbusinesses. Customers gather leads they want to enhance into a campaign or group in your sales CRM ormarketing system, export the list, upload this list to LeadStage and it will be appended with hundreds of datapoints such as the technology they use, their location, vertical, size and more. Then, users can segment the listand export for their campaign.


http://www.madison-chase.co.uk/

http://www.joesdata.com/

http://www.ventesworks.com/

http://www.leadstage.com/


Marketing (13/32)


Lead Generation

Alert Research [Nottingham, 2005]: Alert Research specialises in providing B2B company data & businessintelligence solution, particularly in relation to high growth companies, business data, employment, funding,premises, contracts, and acquisitions. Its services include Alert Data: a comprehensive business resourcecontaining over 100 million individual pieces of information such as a database of 10000 high growthcompanies, business leads, and actionable information, detailed contact information across 21 business sectors,market focused reports, organisational maps, job creation & job loss activity, and B2B data covering hundredmillion public and private companies in 150 countries. Google, Toyota, Audi, Barclays, Microsoft and others areamong its customers.

Lead Generation

DR3DATA [Roosendaal, 2012]: DR3DATA is a dutch company holding B2B marketing database in the Benelux (Acustoms union comprising Belgium and Netherlands and Luxembourg). The company offers B2B data, datamanagement & data intelligence services through its DR3DATA software platform. Its software platform is beingused to manage sales, marketing, BI, and IT & Ops management areas. In February 2016, the company wasacquired by De Telefoongids Holding B.V. (DTG), a European Directories Group company.

Lead Generation

hashedge [Bangalore, 2013]: Hashedge is a simplified B2B leads contact & social data platform targetedtowards sales & marketing enthusiasts, who are looking to increase their sales. Their aim is to empowerbusinesses to succeed in B2B sales & marketing by providing accurate and affordable contact and social data.Shut down.

Lead Generation

Sparklane [Paris, 2009]: Sparklane (formerly Zebaz) specialises in collecting and processing business informationabout companies and decision makers based on big data technology. The company offers Sparklane formarketing and sales. Its SaaS-based platform allows marketers to identify targets using marketing segmentationcriteria and target them based on hyper criteria. In addition to that, users can create data visualisation for betterunderstanding and export the data in standard formats. Also, offers API on request, for customised integration,and data cleansing & enriching services.


http://www.alertresearch.com/

http://www.dr3data.nl/

http://www.hashedge.com/

http://www.sparklane-group.com/


Marketing (14/32)


Lead Generation

Corpdata [Teignmouth, ]: Corpdata specialises in providing B2B marketing data for marketing campaigns.Corpdata only researches data from our UK based call-centre. Records are researched on a rolling 6-month cyclemeaning that Corpdata can boast an average data age of just 94 days. Corpdata offers 4 classes of products: UKBusiness Database, Trade Database (IT Trade, Telecom Trade, Marketing & Media Trade, Building &Construction Trade), Focus Databases (IT Focus, Telecom Focus, Fleet Focus, Call Centre Focus), and SpecialistDatabase (Database for the specific audience). Microsoft, TalkTalk, Samsung and others are among itscustomers.

Lead Generation

Data HQ [Chelmsford, 2001]: Data HQ specialises in providing mailing list and data marketing services to themarketers. The company offers Mailing Lists (business mailing list, corporate list, business startup list, consumerlist), Data Intelligence, Database Services, and Marketing Automation services. The company was founded in2001 and is based in Chelmsford, Esses, UK.

Lead Generation

Lifestyles Online [ , 2006]: Lifestyles Online Limited provides targeted consumer data for the United Kingdomand European online and offline direct marketing teams. Its product and service offerings include LeadGeneration: delivers real-time consumer leads to marketing teams from both agencies and clients direct;List/Data Rental: postal data, email data, telephone data, and mum and baby data for the rental purpose; andWhite Label Technology. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Bath, United Kingdom. As ofFebruary 15, 2013, Lifestyles Online Limited operates as a subsidiary of Callcredit Information Group Limited.

Lead Generation

Marketscan [Chichester, 1982]: Marketscan is a provider of B2B data solution for email, telephone, and directmail marketing. Its product and service offerings include Business data supply: includes direct mail data,targeted email data, telephone data, and others; Data Cleansing & Analysis; Consultancy & advisory Services.The company is the winner of "Outstanding B2B Data Provider" for the third year running at DBM 2015. Perrys,CORGI, Calor, The Health Insurance Group and other companies are among its customers.


http://www.corpdata.co.uk/

http://www.datahq.co.uk/

http://www.lifestylesonline.co.uk/

http://www.marketscan.co.uk/


Marketing (15/32)


Lead Generation

Sales Inside Inc [San Ramon, 2008]: SalesInside is a marketing service company focused on B2B data solution.The company offers full spectrum of service for marketing and sales purpose such as database analysis,cleansing, repair, provisioning, appending and maintenance services. The company specialises in "Role-based"and "Title-based" lead generation. Apart from the B2B lead database the company also offers contentsyndication and marketing automation solution. Google, Lexi-Nexis, VMWare, NVP and others are among itscustomers.

Lead Generation

Mail Prospects [Houston, 2006]: Mail Prospects is an email marketing service provider that offers lists ofprospective clients to various industrial sectors. The company offers business mailing lists, B2B mailing lists,targeted mailing lists, custom mailing lists, industry mailing lists, technology users' mailing list, direct marketingsolutions and ongoing sales leads. Manta Media, International Data Corporation, IMS Health, Nokia, Med PanelInc, and others are among its customers

Lead Generation

eBusiness Prospects [Las Vegas, 2003]: eBusiness Prospects provides comprehensive information about thecompanies, industries and people to the businesses for multichannel digital and offline marketing purposes. Thecompany offers business sales leads and mailing leads, appending services, and industry lists. The companyaggregates data from Yellow and White Page Directories, Federal, State and lower level government data, PublicRecords, State Licensing Boards, Phone Directories, Web Forms, Online and Offline Surveys, Trade Shows,Company Statistics Provider, B2B Portals and Leading Newspapers and Magazines, New business registrationsand incorporations, and more. Provides Data to the client via Email (Excel Format) or FTP a link for download.Can also mail out a CD or DVD with the data files at an extra cost along with shipping charges. Provides data inthe Microsoft Excel (.csv), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and Notepad (.txt), aCT! formats.

Lead Generation

Thomson Data [Frisco, 2009]: Thomson Data is a data-driven digital marketing solution provider. the companyprovides responsive marketing data intelligence solutions that can be custom built. Its offerings includeTechnology Users list (contact name, title, email, company name & address, size, SIC no, Industry etc);Marketing List: mailing list of executives as per industries, GEO locations, and professionals. Apart from listdatabase the company offers marketing services such as search engine optimization, search engine marketing,pay per click, social media optimization, web designing and development and e-commerce. The company workswith clients in SMEs to fortune 500. Oracle, Panasonic, Queen's University and others are among its customers.


http://www.salesinsideinc.com/

http://www.mail-prospects.com/

http://www.ebprospects.com/

http://www.thomsondata.com/


Marketing (16/32)


Lead Generation

Grow Data, Inc [Okemos, 2012]: Grow Data is a provider of consumer marketing and mailing lists. Grow Dataprovides bad credit or credit score based leads, B2B and business marketing, consumer financial marketing lists,homeowner marketing lists, medical and non-profit email marketing lists. Claims that all of its mailing lists arescreened with the NCOA (National Change of Address) and USPS (United States Postal Service) address lists.

Lead Generation

RSL Communications, Inc. [New York City, 1996]: BrandBASE is an online database focused exclusively on theCPG industry, developed by RSL Communications. BrandBASE includes these classes: Food and Beverage, HBA,DTC, Prescription Pharmaceuticals, Household, Beer, Wine and Liquor, Tobacco/E-cigarettes. BrandBASE coversthree areas: Companies, Contacts and Brands. Company information includes the physical address, main phonenumber and Web address, plus a comprehensive list of all the brands the company owns. Companies are brokenout into four regions (Northeast, Southeast, Central, West and Canada) and segregated by size (1st Tier –advertising revenues $75MM+ and 2nd/3rd Tier). Subsidiary companies are indicated when applicable.Contactinformation includes full name, title, email address, direct dial or extension and department. Brand assignmentis indicated when this information is available. Brand information includes the broad class (e.g. HBA), group (e.g.Oral Hygiene) and specific category (e.g. Toothpaste). Employs a team that makes the phone calls, scours tradepublications, sifts through corporate websites and mines various online resources to acquire relevant data.Licensed based revenue model. RSL Communications also publishes PromotionLINK, an online newsletter thatannounces upcoming promotion opportunities.

Lead Generation

NetWise Data [Boca Raton, 2011]: NetWise Data provides data products to risk and collection industry, B2Bmarketing, and loss prevention industries. Its risk and collection data solution includes: transaction POE data,bank data, incarceration data products and social network reports; B2B marketing solution includes businesscontact files and domain registration products; Loss prevention data solution includes NetWise PRM whichprovides data about re-selling of objects on internet to assist law enforcement agencies and retailers.

Lead Generation

Dataprovider [Groningen, 2008]: Dataprovider provides reports on information extracted from websites. Thecompany has developed in house software which crawls the data from the web. Apart from web, the companyalso get its data from Alexa. The company reindex all the sites that it tracks every 8 weeks. Clients can downloadresults in .CSV format or use API. Monthly subscription based pricing. Dataprovider is used for sales leadgeneration, competitive research, technology trends and much more.


http://www.growdata.com/

http://www.brandbase.com/

http://www.netwisedata.com/

http://www.dataprovider.com/


Marketing (17/32)


Lead Generation

Leadbook [Singapore, 2013]: Leadbook uses data science to gather business data such as company data,executive data to help the sales people target appropriate people. It also helps the clients update theinformation that is contained with them such as email Ids, telephone contacts etc. Its B2B sales leads platformwith unlimited access to the largest verified business database in Asia. Leadbook’s database of 15m+ companyprofiles, 60m+ executive contacts, real-time enrichment and advanced predictive scoring helps you build theultimate prospect lists.

Lead Generation

Fundoodata [Noida, 2005]: Fundoodata provides database of companies in India for research, accountmapping, CRM integration to generate B2B sales leads. Offers business information, business contacts includingverified email ids, phone no, and name of top management. Provides 14 search filters such as company type,entity, turnover, employee wise, and employee size. Salesjobscafe.com is also an integral part of Fundoodata. Itprovides the job opportunities in sales and marketing. And recently the company has launched the Sales Foruma platform to share the views on Sales. Subscription based revenue model. Google, HSBC, Flipkart, Airtel, Wiproare among its customers.

Lead Generation

LeadVie [Las Vegas, 2015]: Leadvie offers premium lead buying solution to auto insurance companies. Leads aregenerated by its internal media team. Leadvie's internal media team purchases all media for online ads then thecompany tracks the visitors who have visited the ads and then identify the potential leads. The company doubleverifies the information about the leads before they are sold. HIPAA compliant IT infrastructure to make sure alldata passed through its platform is secure.

Lead Generation

True Influence [Vienna, 2008]: TrueInfluence is a data driven lead generation company. Its offerings includeDemandgen- enables clients to target and interact with key decision makers through its Content Syndication andOpportunityBase platform; Data Products such as InsightBase- provides predictive, behavioral and socialinsights to help sales and marketing teams; TechInstallBase. True Influence Data Products are based upon arapidly-expanding repository of over 20 Billion Intent Signals, Over 3 Million companies and 28 Million business-to-business contact records. The company collects these data through signalling sources such as email opens &clicks, webcast reg, content download, website content read, blog content read, social media activity, andsearch. The company also has a verification team to verify all the data which has been collected. Amazon, Cisco,Comcast, Dell, HP, IBM etc are among its customers.


http://www.leadbook.com/

http://www.fundoodata.com/

http://www.leadvie.com/

http://www.trueinfluence.com/


Marketing (18/32)


Lead Generation

Relato [San Francisco, 2015]: Relato is a Bay Area startup devoted to mapping entire markets to improve salesand marketing efforts. Using data companies share about themselves on the web Relato create a graph ofcompanies and how they relate to one another. It uses this graph to drive sales and marketing efforts of itscustomers. As of December 2015, the company is in beta mode.

Lead Generation

Leady [Prague, 2012]: Leady.com is a marketing tool which identifies the visitors of your web. The systemidentifies the companies which visited your website, finds out what they were interested in and fills in theirreturns, emails, phones, names etc. Able to identify over 4 million companies in more than 37 countries. Insome countries, such as Germany, the Czech Republic and others, the application can even identify smallbusinesses and include more information, such as turnover, telephone numbers, people to be contacted andmore. Collect the following data: type of browser, resolution, installed extensions, fonts, device type, colordepth, IP address and more. Sources most of the data from Google Analytics & Adwords.

Lead Generation

Dataline, Inc [Princeton, 2000]: Dataline is a provider of consumer marketing information, digital audiences,and custom modeling and analytic services. Dataline has over a billion consumer database. Apart from data itoffers analytics tool: Audience Predictor and DataLink Taxonomy which can be leveraged by marketers informulating multi channel marketing strategies. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered atPrinceton.

Lead Generation

All Global Resources [Santa Ana, 2002]: All Global Resources, a subsidiary of AGR Group, specialises inproviding lead database for the retail energy industry. Has collected data using satellite, internet, andproprietary Global-Net system. Delivers leads in the format of your choice: .txt, .csv, .xls or .mdb

Lead Generation

infofree.com [Omaha, ]: infofree.com is a cloud-based software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system that provides salesleads, mailing lists, business credit reports, e-maill lists, and other relevant databases. Can be connected withCRM package for $49.95 a month. Freemium monetization model. The Infofree.com content is compatible withthe following platforms: Oracle CRM, Salesforce CRM, Microsoft CRM, Nutshell CRM, Goldmine CRM, Sage ACT!CRM, Highrise CRM, Zoho CRM, NetSuite CRM, SAP CRM, Constant Contact, RightNow Technologies, Responsys,Vertical Response, and Dun & Bradstreet. Founded by infoUSA founder Vinod Gupta.


http://www.relato.io/

http://www.leady.com/

http://www.datalinedata.com/

http://www.allglobalresources.com/

http://www.infofree.com/


Marketing (19/32)


Lead Generation

The Data Partnership [Suffolk, 2001]: The Data Partnership provides data for businesses in a wide range ofsectors across the UK including finance, insurance and charity to use for direct and telephone marketingpurposes. Its data service offerings includes consumer data, business email & mailing marketing list, dataauditing and creative marketing solutions. Founded by Victoria Pooley and John Pooley in 2001.

Lead Generation

iLeads [Newport Beach, 1996]: iLeads is a a lead generation company focused on the insurance, mortgage andfinancial service verticals. It offers customer acquisition solutions, such as insurance lead, mortgage lead, realestate lead, and LiveConnect solutions; lead analytics, including real-time collateral analysis and fraudprevention platforms, lead level quality and funding metric reporting solutions (for lenders), up to datecollateral analysis and dispositioning solutions (for existing leads or customer databases), and lead real-timequalification solutions (for call based sales organizations). The company also provides home and mortgage leadgeneration sites; and marketing mailing list, data application programming interface, and call center compliancesolutions.

Lead Generation

GoLeads [Omaha, 2000]: GoLeads specialises in providing sales leads and mailing lists to companies. Databaseofferings include 15 million US business leads, 220 million US residential leads, 200 million email addresses, 2million new businesses, and 2.5 million farmers and ranchers. Their leads search parameters for businessesinclude geography, annual sales and number of employees, while their residential lists can be narrowed byhome value, age, annual income, and more. GoLeads.com also offers Specialty Databases, with access to brandnew businesses, new homeowners, renters and more. They also have marketing programs, which whenregistered for will help you to maximize the success of leads you pursue. Has a number of different membershipgiving a different level of access.

Lead Generation

Global Data [Delhi, 2010]: Global Data specializes in producing and providing B2B and B2C leads across varioussectors. Its internet generated leads are 100% opt-in, which means they are compliant with the CAN SPAM ACT2003. Consumer data sector specializes in live and 24 hour data for businesses. This data is all permission basedwhere consumers have declared an interest in a third party contacting them for advice. Business data sectortargets both commercial and new business opportunities as well as keeping extensive lists on business trends,profile and company statistics. The company's data can be used for multiple purposes which includetelemarketing, direct mailing, telesales, lead generation, social campaigns, email marketing campaigns etc.


http://www.thedatapartnership.com/

http://www.ileads.com/

http://www.goleads.com/

http://www.theglobaldata.com/


Marketing (20/32)


Lead Generation

Olympus Research [London, 2014]: Olympus Research provides commercial data for SMBs. The companyprimarily focuses on providing UK GAAP accounting data. Other than that the company also providescommercial property data, consumer segmentation data and other 40 more data sets. The company's datasetsare widely used for research in: corporate finance and M&A, compliance, competitor intelligence, site locationanalysis, academic and business development. The company was founded in 2014 and based in UK.

Lead Generation

Invision Holdings INC [ , 1997]: Invision Holdings Inc. is a privately held, self-funded company offering leaddatabase in almost all verticals to the companies. The company also provides email verification, license to resellthe data, lead management platform, and B2B data compiling services. The company is based in North Carolina,USA, and offers lead database on a monthly subscription basis.

Lead Generation -Business information

InsideView [San Francisco, 2005]: Insideview provides a platform that aggregates information about customersand updates the CRM systems. The company aggregates 30,000 sources, such as Twitter, Facebook, Reuters,and SEC filings. It feeds this data through APIs into a company’s marketing or sales lead environment. InsideViewfor Marketing is used by customers to fill in data such as a contact’s title or other data that can be used toaugment a lead profile. InsideView’s sales tool adds information that tells the salesperson more about theprospect, the size of the customer and additional related insights. Won the 2013 Software & InformationIndustry Association (SIIA) CODiE™ Award for the Best Sales & Marketing Intelligence Solution. The company iscourting Linkedin developers who will be cut off due to the policy change by Linkedin.

$88.96M

Rembrandt Venture Partners, Emergence Capital Partners,

Foundation Capital, Split Rock Partners, Greenhouse Capital

Partners, Big Sky Partners, JDM CAPITAL CORP, Novirian Capital,

Spring Lake Equity Partners


DueDil [London, 2010]: DueDil is the largest source of free private company information in the UK and Ireland.Its offerings include private company information, key financials, legal dealings, reviews, and ratings regardingcompanies and professionals. Corporate financiers, lawyers and business owners are among its customers.DueDil has been shortlisted for two Guardian Digital Innovation 2012 awards and has been featured inpublications such as Telegraph, TechCrunch, the FT, Wired, The Guardian, GigaOm and The Wall Street Journal.

$22MOak Investment Partners, Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Playfair

Capital, Oak Investment Partners


http://www.olympusresearch.com/

http://www.invisionholdings.com/

http://www.insideview.com/

http://www.duedil.com/


Marketing (21/32)



Data.com [San Francisco, 2004]: Earlier known as JigSaw Data, Data.com is an online business directory ofcompanies and business professionals used by sales, marketing and IT professionals to generate business leads.A large database allows members to exchange and share the business information of more than 29 millioncontacts from over 4 million companies. Jigsaw for Salesforce is a cloud-based automated system for acquiringand managing CRM records within a user's Salesforce.com account.

$17.95M


Mattermark [San Francisco, 2013]: Mattermark is a data platform for VCs which uses machine learning toaccess data from Twitter, news sites, SEC filings, LinkedIn, AngelList, CrunchBase, and the company’s ownproprietary Startup Index in order to spot potential opportunities and track existing startups. Besides it alsooffers users to query, track and organize companies by stage, vertical and geography and download this data toExcel or PDF. Subscription based revenue model. The platform was launched in 2013 and is based San Francisco.

$16.8M

Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, 500 Startups, Foundry Group,

Felicis Ventures, Data Collective, Flybridge Capital Partners, Great Oaks

Venture Capital, Structure Capital, Pejman Mar Ventures, Slow Ventures,

Fuel Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Sherpa Capital, Version One Ventures,

SierraMaya360, Arena Ventures


Zoom Information [Waltham, 2000]: ZoomInfo is a source of business information on people and companies inthe world. ZoomInfo enables sales and marketing professionals to find leads, recruiters to uncover talent andbusiness professionals to find detailed information on people and companies. ZoomInfo’s semantic searchengine gathers publicly available information from the Business Web — millions of company websites, newsfeeds and other online sources, then automatically compiles it into easy-to-search and easy-to-read profiles.ZoomInfo currently has profiles on more than 95 million people and 7 million companies, and its search engineadds over 20,000 new profiles monthly. Major customers include Yahoo!, Microsoft, Oracle, PepsiCo, and 20%of the Fortune 500 companies. recently won Silver awards in three categories of the ninth annual Stevie®Awards for Sales & Customer Service

$7M

Vulcan, Venrock, Ascent Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital

Ventures, Flagship Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures


Unomy [Tel Aviv, 2012]: Unomy is a unique Sales & Marketing Intelligence platform. with a database of morethan 80 million professionals and 7M companies, the platform enables marketers to gain more informationabout the company as a whole, including revenue, investments, employees, news, competitors and more. thecompany was founded in 2012 and is headquartered at Tel Aviv. Monthly subscription based monetizationmodel. The company is backed by Altair Capitals, Wingate Ventures, and ValueShine Ventures.

$2.4MJANVEST Capital Partners, AltaIR Capital, LETA Capital, Valueshine


http://www.data.com/

http://www.mattermark.com/

http://www.zoominfo.com/

http://www.unomy.com/


Marketing (22/32)



Corporama [Paris, 2010]: Corporama, a french firm specialises in aggregating legal and financial data of Frenchcompanies. User can identify relevant contacts and access their mail and phone contact, enhance the businessdialogue (latest news, key documents, web 2.0), follow all the new business of a company (email alert),generate list of companies targeted for new business opportunities. Monthly subscription based monetizationmodel.

$512K


Hoover's [Austin, 1990]: Hoover's Inc., a subsidiary of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, offers proprietarybusiness information through its online platform and integrated workflow solutions. Hoovers gathersinformation by semi-legitimate means such as scouring SEC filings, cold calling companies, and reviewing otherpublic documents. The company was founded in 1990, went public on July 21, 1999, and was acquired by TheDun & Bradstreet in 2003.

FTL Capital


CG Consulting [Richmond, 2002]: CG Consulting is a direct marketing and data intelligence house specializing inlead generation, market research and business intelligence across the African marketplace. The company offerscorporate B2B data lists, targeted email blasts, consulting on how to approach Africa, outbound telemarketing,customer prospecting and profiling and market research. Its Database360 product includes corporate B2B datafor the entire African continent including South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Egypt ,Morocco, Ivorycoast etc. The company serves IT, telecoms and mining sectors.


Companywiki [Delhi, 2003]: Company-Wiki is platform which provides information on various companies inIndia along with a feature of content collaboration, where owners of the company, also the general public, canprovide content about company. Provides information about the registration status of the company, itsregistered office address, contacts details, directors and other useful information. The information is collectedfrom the information provided by the companies by way of regulatory filings. Part of Corporate ProfessionalseSolutions Pvt Ltd (CPES), part of the Corporate Professional Group.


http://www.corporama.com/

http://www.hoovers.com/

http://www.database360.co.uk/

http://www.companywiki.in/


Marketing (23/32)



Global Business Register [Waterford, 2007]: Global Business Register Ltd provides a single access point toofficial company documents from official registries all over the world. From status to accounts, all thedocuments come directly from official company registers and are provided on customers' screen in minutes.Core product, the official information retrieval, is available online at any time and in any place. It helpscompliance officers, accountants, lawyers and consultants to access official information without the language orcurrency difficulties. Also provides multiple compliance and accountancy tools, such as the VAT number check,which allows you to check VAT numbers of thousands of companies. Developing tools such as automated sign-up process, which means that a customer will kick start the compliance process, while registering.Headquartered at Waterford, Ireland.


Ventes [Singapore, 2013]: VENTES delivers ideal new prospects, buying signals and business intelligence oncompanies and executives in the Asia Pacific region. The Intelligence Engine uses predictive analytics andmachine learning to build ideal customer persona and identify sales opportunities. Subscription based revenuemodel.


aiHit [ , 2007]: aiHit has created and maintains a database of over 16 million company profiles from across theworld. The aiHit engine automatically identifies corporate web-sites and extracts structured data from thesesites to create a profile including a description of the organisation, the names and titles of key executives,contact information, clients and investors. These profiles are updated every few days and aiHit is unique inproviding a structured history of changes to organisations, based on the historic snapshots of their web-site. Thedatabase currently used by academics, corporate researchers, business and market analysts, financial servicesand credit scoring companies. User can look at aiHitdata free of charge but will need to register to look at morethan a few companies or to download data, but registration is free. Will be releasing a range of advanced,chargeable products as well. aiHit was acquired by Matchdeck, the business-to-business matching engine inAugust 2015.


http://www.globalbusinessregister.com/

http://www.ventes.io/

http://www.aihitdata.com/


Marketing (24/32)



Orb Intelligence [Palo Alto, 2013]: Orb Intelligence crawl information on the Web and from government filings ,curates it and provide it via API to marketing software vendors. Database contains standard firmographics suchas address, number of employees, estimated revenue and SIC/NAIC category, as well as specific informationsuch as technologies installed on the website, if the company raised any funding and when and other. Besides,the company offers algorithms for smart marketing decisions and prospecting solutions for B2B marketingagencies.


Lead411 [Santa Fe, 2001]: Lead411 provides company profiles, business news, sales leads, business addresses,and daily lead alerts. Monthly subscription based monetization model. The company was founded in SantaBarbara in 2001.


Data Publica [Paris, 2011]: Data Publica specializes in aggregating information on french companies which isbeing offered to businesses by its product C-Radar. Develops datasets through various data sources(Public/Open). Subscription based revenue model.


Companyinfoz [Pune, 2015]: Companyinfoz is an online search engine for company details and directorsinformation of Indian companies. Companies can be searched by their type like LLP, Pvt Ltd, limited and also bycity and state. Provides information about address, registration date, ROC code, the active and inactive status ofthe company along with the details of working directors. Also provides recommendations about similar andnearby companies to the company searched. Aggregates public information from sources like official registriesand published government data.


http://www.orb-intelligence.com/

http://www.lead411.com/

http://www.data-publica.com/

http://www.companyinfoz.com/


Marketing (25/32)


Lead Generation -Contacts

RelSci [New York City, 2010]: Relationship Science LLC develops a Web based platform to build businessrelationships. The RelSci Platform provides real-time, people-driven intelligence on influential decision makersand across the public, private, financial and nonprofit sectors. Path Finder and the other relationship mappingtools on the RelSci Platform give users the ability to run paths between any entity (person, place, list) to anyother entity and get a sense of how they might be connected. It serves clients in investment banking, privateequity, hedge fund, wealth management, corporate, marketing and professional service, non-profit, andaccounting and law companies, as well as Fortune 1000 companies. The company was formerly known asConnectivity Data Systems LLC and changed its name to Relationship Science LLC in September 2012.

$121.3M

Salesforce, RIT Capital Partners, MacAndrews, Hearst

Communications, Starr Companies, gasparglobal.com


NetProspex [Waltham, 2006]: Netprospex offers B2B professional contact data and data management. Featuresinclude continuous data management, target market analysis, improved inbound lead intelligence and targetedaudience acquisition. Partners with 3rd party data sources to increase lead intelligence and provides lists formarketing. Claims info on over 2 million companies.

$27.5MAmerican City Business Journals,

Spring Lake Equity Partners, Edison Partners


Jigsaw [San Mateo, 2004]: Jigsaw is a marketplace for contact information. It consists name, title, emailaddress, direct phone, address of any executive of any company. Jigsaw used to pay people to upload otherpeople's information but later they changed their business model. Users are awarded point for uploadingcontacts that can be used to download other people's contact. In April 2010, the company was acquired bySalesforce.com for $142 million in cash, plus a performance based earn out of upto 10% of the purchase price.

$12M Austin Ventures, El Dorado Ventures


Social123 [Roswell, 2010]: Social123 is a social sourced data solution that offers B2B contact database. Thecompany identify all the missing or inaccurate records in its customers databases and enrich it with more than35 fields of social data like industry, title, company, skills, group, affiliations and more. Apart from recoveringand enriching existing database, Social123 will validate the email addresses to determine validity as well as a riskassessment. Also, provides B2B search engine to create hyper-targeted lead lists. The company aggregates theself reported data from various sources and cross checks it. Monthly subscription based revenue.

$4.75MVocap Investment Partners, Linch

Capital, Ellis Communications


http://www.relsci.com/

http://www.netprospex.com/

http://www.jigsaw.com/

http://www.social123.com/


Marketing (26/32)



Salezeo [Paris, 2011]: Salezeo provides a SaaS Sales Prospecting Software with an integrated crowdsourcedprospect data base. Salezeo works as a Social Network for Sales Professionals with a crowdsourced database ofdecision makers. To obtain contact details of a prospect, members have to provide a new contact or update anexisting contact. In addition relevant social and business information about companies and prospects is addedvia web crawling of social networks and websites by search engines developed by Salezeo. Salezeo develops andmarkets a software in SaaS mode for prospect management with built-in access to the crowdsourced database.This Sales Prospecting Software (SPS) provides the possibility for sales directors to allocate territories andtargets, and monitor and measure the sales team’s prospecting activities.

$1.9M Newfund


EmailDataGroup [Westerville, 2009]: Email Data Group provides email marketing services to companies andagencies. Providers of "eCampaigner", an online tool for smart prospecting that helps automate the leadgenerating process, follows up interested business prospects, and highlights brand image. Also, offer"CampaignHawk", a self-service campaign management tool to create, execute and track results from emailcampaigns. In addition to that, the company offers B2B data list for lead generation. Email Data Group’s clientsrange from small and mid-sized companies to big Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies.Operates out ofAustralia, UK, USA, South Africa and Canada.


Dunlop Marketing [New York City, 2001]: Dunlopmarketing is a provider of personalized healthcare industrylists, technology lists, and specific lists to marketers across the globe for their b2b campaigns. The company wasfounded in 2001.


eCible [Paris, 1999]: eCible is a provider of b2b marketing data list and marketing solutions for multi-channelb2b campaigns. The company offers a database of over 4 million business decision makers over 14 Europeancountries. Data attributes include email, phones, postal addresses, websites, etc. The company offers onaverage six key decision makers per company. The database can be filtered by job title, geography, NACE/SICcodes, number of sites, size & turnover etc. In addition to the B2B data, the company offers marketing solutionsto the clients. Canon, Dell, BlackBerry, American Express and others are among its customers.


http://www.salezeo.com/

http://www.emaildatagroup.net/

http://www.dunlopmarketing.com/

http://www.ecible.com/


Marketing (27/32)



Introye [Fourways, 1983]: Introye specialises in providing B2B database and collation/management ofdatabases. The company offers ProspectingDatabase: pre-profiled company database loaded at clients' site;Lists: for a promotional mailing or telemarketing campaign, Introye provides a list of potential target marketwith the data attributes such as geographic area, nature of business, size of company by number of employeessplit monthly and weekly, site and group, Head office/branch/standalone, fleet composition, Medical Aid, travel,financial year end, bank ; Research; Permission-based emails; database cleansing, and database managementsolutions.


Email Database Store Pvt Ltd [Pune, ]: Email Database Store specialise in providing email database. ProvidesIndian email database pack, separate database pack for each state & city of India, Indian profession-wise emaildatabase packs, apart from this it also has world email database pack. Database packs of some most popularcountries like USA, UK, UAE, etc. also available. According to the company all email database packs is collectedfrom highly trusted and genuine resources like well-known online shopping mall, websites related to particularcategory, websites related to particular geographical area, etc. Claims to have internal contacts in such trustedand genuine resources, they are providing fresh and quality database on monthly basis. Fixed price and acceptsmoney through Paypal and PayU money.


SMARTe Inc [San Jose, 2005]: SMARTe provides B2B Contact Databases with business name data discovery,append, opt-in data solutions. Smarte inc focused industries like Software, Networking Services, Telecom,Financial Services to generate higher ROI through sales & marketing campaigns, companies need valid andrelevant contact information.


ReadyContacts [San Jose, 2012]: ReadyContacts is a B2B marketing intelligence company.Product offeringsinclude Targeted - curated database creation solution; Attendbase- attendee intelligence solution that analyzesocial data streams around events and conferences to discover attendees, influencers and interest groups withfull contact information; Listmunk - platform from where customers can acquire curated marketing lists;ReDiscover - helps B2B marketers to re-identify business contacts who were customers or prospects but movedon to another company.


http://www.introye.com/

http://www.indianemailsdatabase.in/

http://www.smarteinc.com/

http://www.readycontacts.com/


Marketing (28/32)



TowerData [New York City, 2001]: TowerData, Inc. provides multi-channel direct marketing services with aspecialty in Email solutions. It offers Email, postal, postal data processing, phone, real-time data, demographic,and list services. The company serves retail, business services, publishing, non-profit, and politics clients.TowerData, Inc. was formerly known as Eppend Inc. and changed its name in 2003.


Immaculate Prospects [ , 2003]: Immaculate Prospect is a provider of opt-in email list of consumers, businessesand technology with a broad range of selections. Business mailing lists are compiled from multiple data sourcessuch as telephone directories, government filings, annual reports and over 20 million phone calls to verifyinformation.


DirectMarketingData [Simi Valley, 2012]: Direct Marketing Data (DMD) offers a multitude of marketingsolutions from direct mailing lists, consumer mailing lists, business mailing lists, opt-in email marketing, dataappend, telephone append, and customer database hygiene, to general consulting.


Ameriumdata [Plano, 2009]: Amerium Data offers direct B2B marketing solutions. The company owns andmaintains over 30 million opt-in mail records that are sourced through subscriptions from their online portals,surveys and monthly newsletter mail outs. Provides services such as lead generation, market research, SEOservices, data appending, email campaign, business lists, and competitive intelligence lists. Google, Dell, SAP,Oracle are among its customers.


Spokeo [Pasadena, 2006]: Spokeo is a people search platform. User can find people related information such asphone, address directories, social networks, photo libraries or any other digital footprint. Spokeo’s peoplesearch platform uses proprietary technology to organize information into comprehensive yet easy-to-understand online profiles. Spokeo curates data from various sources including public data and data accessedthrough third party vendors. Founded in 2006 by a group of Stanford graduates, Spokeo is a privately-heldcompany based in Pasadena.


http://www.towerdata.com/

http://www.immaculateprospects.com/

http://www.directmarketingdata.com/

http://www.ameriumdata.com/

http://www.spokeo.com/


Marketing (29/32)


Lead Generation - Tech Leads

Rain King Software [Bethesda, 2007]: RainKing provides sales intelligence information on technology,marketing and finance professionals in North America and Europe. The company offers RainKing IT that deliverscustomer-contact intelligence reports to the user; and RainKing Marketing that delivers sales and marketingintelligence reports. It also provides RainKing DealStorm that delivers leads to the users. In addition, thecompany offers IT and marketing sales support services. Customers access RainKing through a simple SaaSapplication, and can easily integrate data and intelligence seamlessly with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics,Marketo, Eloqua and other platforms. Cients include Siemens Enterprise communications, TrackMaven, CASTSoftware, and Global Knowledge.

$67.5M Spectrum Equity


HG Data [Santa Barbara, 2010]: HG Data indexes more than one billion unstructured documents across theopen Internet, the archived Web and offline resources to produce a detailed, accurate census of B2B technologyinstallations in use at companies globally. Included among the many resources indexed are B2B social media,case studies, press releases, blog postings, government documents, content libraries, technical support forums,website source code, job posting and much more. HG tracks technologies such as cloud services, CRM, datacentre solutions, enterprise applications, network computing, communication technologies, enterprise content,hardware, marketing performance management, web oriented architecture, IT governance, productivitysolutions, project management, software, and vertical markets. HG sells subscription-based access to itsdatabase to technology firms who use the data for sales, marketing and competitive intelligence.

$23MUpdata Partners, Rincon Venture

Partners, EPIC Ventures


Datanyze [San Mateo, 2012]: Datanyze is a lead management and prospecting tool powered by data technology. Datanyze helps businesses understand who is using their competitors' software and when they started orstopped using it by crawling tens of millions websites each day. It integrates with 3rd party solutions to provideinformation about leads and contacts directly in the web application. Customers also have access to all ofDatanyze claims to takes information right from their Salesforce.com accounts. Its customers includeKISSmetrics, Brightcove, Edgecast and Dyn etc.

$2MAngelList, Google Ventures, IDG

ventures, Linden Mobile Ventures


http://www.rainkingonline.com/

http://www.hgdata.com/

http://www.datanyze.com/


Marketing (30/32)



Corporate360 [Kollam, 2012]: Corporate360 is a IT sales information company. Offers IT installed-base andcompetitive intelligence data sets through its Tech SalesCloud platform. Platform is powered by Big DataAnalytics, Predictive Analysis, Patterns & IT Sales research, Tech SalesCloud offers sales-ready campaign data fortechnology marketing teams. SalesCloud features include IT contacts, IT Org charts, IT installation details, LeadScore, Upsell-Cross sell indicators and Sales leads. The data platform is offered as a subscription service withreal-time data refresh and on-going data maintenance support. Claims Oracle, HP, Dell (with 300+ globalcustomers) as its clients and a revenue over $1M as of May, 2014 with 90% of revenue coming from NorthAmerica and European markets. Incubated at Startup Village in Kochi. HQ is in Singapore with most employeesbased in Kollam, India.

$200k


DiscoverOrg [Washington D.C., 2006]: DiscoverOrg is an IT Sales Intelligence Platform. The company operates acall center designed to gather extensive information on the information technology and Finance departments of15,000 Fortune Ranked Mid-Market and SMB companies. The data gathered and constantly updated includes ITOrg Chart, contact name, direct phone number, direct email address, exact title, reporting structure, exactaddress, IT budget, number of IT employees, key technology initiatives and technologies deployed. DiscoverOrgcustomers are both Fortune Ranked and Startup companies selling both hardware and software and recruitingand staffing services.

TA Associates


SimilarTech [Tel Aviv, 2013]: SimilarTech is a website profiler, lead generation, competitive analysis andbusiness intelligence tool providing technology adoption and usage analytics for the internet. Its data providesinsights on three separate levels- list of the technologies a website uses, track and detail on an individualtechnology, track and list an entire category of technologies. The company has developed crawlers and haspartnered with SimilarWeb. Data can be used for lead generation, customer retention, and market research.The company also offers API. Charges $200/month for 25,000 Monthly API calls.


http://www.corporate360.us/

http://www.discoverorg.com/

http://www.similartech.com/


Marketing (31/32)



List2u.com [Tempe, 1998]: List2u.com provides technology users lists, medical marketing lists, B2B email lists,3D users lists and renewable energy lists. Emails and phones included on all lists. Its technology user list includeCRM users, ERP users, computer users, software users, SCM users, VARs and mobile apps; B2B Email Lists: areby industry, SIC codes, NAICS codes, titles and by locations worldwide; Business Services include B2B leads, dataappend and SEO services. targets Doctors, Physicians, Surgeons, Dentist, Nurses and Veterinarians in the US.Sources of data include: Yellow page directories, business white page directories, leading business magazinesand newspapers, County Courthouse and Secretary of state data, annual reports, business directories, internetsearch engines, SEC filings, new business registration and incorporations, and postal service information. DDC,Electric Cloud, Aldon, CIM and others are among its customers.


Procure Data [Los Angeles, 2003]: Procure data builds and markets database of IT company profiles. Providesdetailed and comprehensive contact information of the key decision makers of the IT industry such as the CEOs,CFOs, CIOs, Directors, Managers, Presidents, VPs, etc. The company provides wide range of lists from its coredomain such as task based, revenue based, region based software industry lists and many more. Subscriptionbased monetization model.


BuiltWith [Manly, 2007]: BuiltWith is a website profiler, lead generation, competitive analysis and businessintelligence tool providing technology adoption, e-commerce data and usage analytics for the internet.BuiltWith tracks widgets, analytics, frameworks, content management systems, advertisers, content deliverynetworks, web standards and web servers. Products include a sales intelligence, lead generation and marketanalysis tool for web technology, and an API for automating web technology request lookups. Also, providesweekly trends in internet web technology usage and global e-commerce sales trends.


iProfile [ , 1993]: iProfile focuses on providing insights on companies’ IT departments. iProfile maintainsidentities on professionals that work in companies with over $10M in annual revenue, across most majorgeographies in North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. In addition toproviding intelligence iProfile provides instant notifications when major IT purchasing decisions are about to bemade, and when key IT decision makers move to or from customer's target account. Also, iProfile provides RESTAPI which can return XML or JSON output. Leading technology companies, such as Adobe, CSC, Dell, and IBM areamong its customers. The company was acquired by DiscoverOrg in August 2015.


http://www.list2u.com/

http://www.procuredata.com/

http://www.builtwith.com/

http://www.iprofiledata.com/


Marketing (32/32)



Salesify [Redwood City, 2005]: Salesify specializes in offering B2B customer intelligence products. Products areTechleads Online and Market Insights. Techleads Online enable users to track the install base of 10,000+different hardware, software, and SaaS products for complementary or competitive replacement technologycampaigns, with a 90% accuracy on B2B install base data. Market Insights collates and analyzes billions of datapoints to provide customer business intelligence and B2B data analytics through intelligence tools likeinteractive reports, charts and visualizations. Salesify, Inc. was formerly known as SaleBuild, Inc. and changed itsname to Salesify, Inc. on August 21, 2008. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Redwood City,California. As of September 30, 2015, Salesify operates as a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.


http://www.salesify.com/


Geospatial (1/15)


MapmyIndia [Delhi, 1992]: MapmyIndia provides digital map data, navigation, tracking, and LBS products, andGPS & GIS based systems integration services. Its product range includes portable GPS navigator devices, in-dashnavi-tainment systems, mobile apps and printed maps & books, among others. Raised four rounds of fundingbetween 2006 and 2011 totalling over $42 million from investors like KPCB, Sherpalo India, QualcommVentures, Nexus and Zenrin Co. In April 2014, Lightbox Ventures acquired stake in the company held bySherpalo India and KPCB. In December 2015, Flipkart bought 34% stake in the company in a deal that values thecompany at around $260 million or Rs 1,600 crore. In that round, Flipkart invested up to $5 million in primarycapital, and bought a stake of about 32% from MapmyIndia's early investors - Lightbox and Nexus.

$46.4MFlipkart, Nexus Venture Partners,

Qualcomm Ventures, KPCB, Sherpalo Ventures, Zenrin, Lightbox Ventures

BlackBridge [Berlin, 1998]: BlackBridge provides end-to-end solutions across the geospatial value chain. Thisincludes satellite operations, ground station services, data center and geocloud solutions, and worldwidesatellite imagery distribution through over 100 BlackBridge partners, combined with the creation of value addedproducts and services. Their product RapidEye consists of Space segment with 5 satellite constellation formultispectral imagery and Ground segment to process and analyze the imagery.

$20.18MBusiness Development Bank of

Canada, BMO

OmniEarth [Arlington, 2014]: OmniEarth is a geospatial analytics firm. OmniEarth specializes in imageprocessing, data fusion, big data and predictive analytics and caters to enterprises, governments andconsumers. They have partnered with satellite imagery providers as well as other aerial imagery providers forthe required imagery data. Has plans of launching their own satellite constellation by 2018. OmniEarth currentlyworks with two California districts to meet their water conservation goals.

$5MBorealis Ventures, Space Angels

Network

Rezatec [Didcot, 2012]: Rezatecs remote sensing platform aggregates satellite, airborne and ground data andthrough its mapping, measuring and monitoring landscape intelligence services, provides critical decisionsupport services for global organisations. Users access Rezatec analytics through subscription to the Rezateclandscape intelligence portal. Among its solution sets, Rezatec enables yield optimization for commodity cropsin the agribusiness sector; water catchment pollution and soil erosion forecasts in the water utilities sector; andpipe bursts and subsidence movements in the energy and utilities sectors. Rezatec users include major U.K.utilities, agribusinesses, consulting partners and government. The company as raised more than $1.4 million in aseed financing round from Run Capital with support from the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels andexisting shareholders.

$1.43MHBS Alumni Angels Association, Run

Capital


http://www.mapmyindia.com/

http://www.blackbridge.com/

http://www.omniearth.net/

http://www.rezatec.com/


Geospatial (2/15)


Remote Sensing Metrics [Chicago, 2009]: RS Metrics specialises in providing applications and data from analysisof satellite & aerial imagery. It offers retail chain parking lot traffic analysis to determine year-over-year trafficgrowth, market share, and competitor’s forecasts; and industrials and construction monitoring for trackingchange and progress on inventory, production, employment growth, distribution, and construction schedules atone or more locations. The company also provides data for other industry sectors, such as distribution,transportation, shipping, mining, and energy, as well as macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP andemployment. Corporates, investors, and government are among its customers.

Satellite Imaging Corporation [Houston, 2001]: Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC), a privately held technologycompany, provides global satellite imaging and processing services for a number of industries, including oil andgas, mining, cadastre, tax mapping, construction, environmental, forestry and agriculture.The companyspecializes in mono and stereo satellite imaging technology producing seamless orthorectified Satellite Imagingmosaics DEMs and 3D terrain models for many industries using GIS and CAD applications including, flightsimulations, terrain modeling, engineering and construction using high and medium resolution mono and stereosatellite image data.

HERE [Berlin, 2012]: HERE offers Maps for more than 190 countries, voice guided navigation in 95 countries inmore than 50 languages and live traffic information for 41 countries. Entire city or country map can bedownloaded at a time for offline use. These maps are developed by Nokia. Here also developing 3D street maps,which are essential for autonomous vehicles, for better navigation. It is formerly Navteq from 1986 to 2008upon acquisition by Nokia, Ovi Maps from 2008 to 2011, and Nokia Maps from 2011 to 2012. On 3 August 2015,Here was sold to a consortium of German carmakers Audi, BMW, and Daimler which aims to create highresolution 3D maps for autonomous cars.

Location

Factual [Los Angeles, 2007]: Factual is a location platform that provides global location data and tools enablingmobile app developers, publishers, and advertisers to create personalized, contextually relevant mobileexperiences. Its core product is its Global Places data, which provides location data covering 65 million localbusinesses and points of interest in 50 countries. It creates real-world user profiles with demographic,geographic, and behavioral information generated by analyzing geo-behavioral patterns. Factual Place Rank is arelative approximation of the place’s significance according to its electronic footprint; it is supported as a sortoption by default. The rank itself is not available as a value in the API or download. Commercial consumers ofthe datasets include MoPub, Groupon, Smaato and Adelphic among others.

$62M

Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures, Index Ventures, Founder

Collective, Felicis Ventures, Data Collective, Heritage Group, Miramar Venture Partners, Miramar Ventures,

Altpoint Capital Partners, Haystack Partners


http://www.rsmetrics.com/

http://www.satimagingcorp.com/

http://www.here.com/

http://www.factual.com/


Geospatial (3/15)


Location

PlaceIQ [New York City, 2010]: Provides location intelligence for mobile advertising. Aggregates and Analyselocation data from multiple sources (e.g. Twitter) to add context of a location and allows advertisers to do moreaccurate consumer segmentation based on real life behavior, interest and time. Uses patented technology forprofiling a user based on his mobile device.

$52.75M

IA Venttures, kbs, Iris Capital, US Venture Partners, Social Leverage,

Valhalla Partners, Harmony Partners, Raptor Group, Social Leverage

Location

Locaid [San Francisco, 2005]: Locaid is a Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) company. The company specializes inproviding location-based API services for its enterprise and consumer-facing business clients. Their service isutilized through over 415 million mobile devices, such as those from AT&T, Bell, Boost Mobile, Cricket, Rogers,Sprint, TELUS, T-Mobile, Verizon, and others. They enable mobile developers to locate over 350 million devicesfor enterprise authentication, fraud management, consumer location services and opt-in mobile marketing. It ismerged with Location smart on 19th Feb,2015.

$37.7MFlorida Growth Fund, Intersouth

Partners, HIG Ventures, H.I.G. Capital

Location

Orbital Insight [Palo Alto, 2013]: Orbital Insight claims to analyze imagery from satellites, drones and otherUAVs to gain meaningful insight into global trends using deep learning algorithms. These programs can betaught to find and analyze data points of interest. Target sectors include retail, real estate, agriculture,commodities etc. Raised Series A funding of $8.7 million.

$30.2MSequoia Capital, GV, CME Group, Lux

Capital, Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel, citizen.vc

Location

Skyhook [Boston, 2003]: Skyhook is a global location network with more than 2 billion geocoded access pointsand over 2.5 million venues. Its products are Context Accelerator & Precision Location which can be used byapps, publishers, adtech, devices. Context Accelerator enables advertisers to build contextual personas of theiraudience based on their real-world activities. Skyhook aggregates these anonymous consumer personas intolayers of context assigned to areas and venues. Precision Location combines Wi-Fi with GPS, Cell Towers, IPaddress and device sensors to give the accurate positioning. Their customers include giants like Apple, Samsung,Sony and Mapquest. Got acquired by TruePosition in 2014 for an undisclosed amount.

$16.8M

Nokia, Intel, Bain Capital Ventures, RRE Ventures, Common Angels, Bain Capital, Stage 1 Ventures, Converge

Venture

Location

Placed [Seattle, 2011]: Placed is a location-driven insights and mobile ad intelligence platform providing reportson consumers’ offline behaviors. Connecting the physical and digital worlds, Placed gives brands, agencies,publishers and ad networks the ability to target location at scale, measure the offline impact of mobile ads, anddeliver actionable insights into consumer behavior.

$13.4MPlug and Play Tech Center, Madrona Venture Group, Two Sigma Ventures


http://www.placeiq.com/

http://www.loc-aid.com/

http://www.orbitalinsight.com/

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/

http://www.placed.com/


Geospatial (4/15)


Location

Location kit [Washington, 2013]: Location Kit offers SDKs for developers to enable location based services ontheir mobile applications. They claim to provide high accuracy location, low battery drain, automatic venuerecognition, contextual location data and the location analytics. They also enable enhanced location capabilitiesand personal experiences to the mobile applications without needing to possess the location expertise. Theyeven provide custom reporting and advanced data services for enterprises.

$12.75MNEA, Grotech Ventures, Swan &

Legend Venture Partners

Location

SimpleGeo [San Francisco, 2009]: SimpleGeo provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure (API) that makes iteasy to add location-aware features to applications. The company was founded in 2009 by Matt Galligan andJoe Stump and was acquired by Urban Airship in October 2011 for approximately 3.5 million USD.

$9.81MFirst Round Capital, Redpoint

Ventures, Foundry Group, Lowercase Capital, Freestyle

Location

StreetLight Data [San Francisco, 2010]: StreetLight Data collects, refines, and contextualizes data to provideactionable information for the retail and transportation industries. The StreetLight Data product suite featuresStreetLight InSight, an online application which provides empirical, dynamic data about the visitors to nearly anysite in the U.S. in just a few seconds. StreetLight's Route Science engine utilizes a unique approach to organizingdata across space and time organizes and provides useful information about consumer mobility. Access andmaintain data repository a wide variety of sources, both public and private. The company serves retail, financialservices, commercial real estate, and urban planning and transportation engineering sectors.

$9.5MOsage Partners, Deutsche Telekom,

Vision Ridge Partners, Engie, Telekom Capital

Location

Placemeter [New York City, 2012]: Placemeter uses algorithms and live feeds from traffic cameras to collectfoot traffic data on people outside of businesses, inside them, walking past, and in public places. Has aconsumer app to show how crowded a certain outlet is. Has B2B plans, with application for retailers and urbanplanners. Also uses data from crowd, using their unused smartphones and Placemeter app. Founder-CEO holds 7patents and a PhD in image processing, and has 20 yrs experience in computer vision. Was incubated atTechstars New York in 2013.

$7.83MNEA, Qualcomm Ventures, TriplePoint Capital, Techstars, Collaborative Fund,

FundersClub, blisce


http://www.locationkit.io/

http://www.simplegeo.com/

http://www.streetlightdata.com/

http://www.placemeter.com/


Geospatial (5/15)


Location

Cityzenith [Chicago, 2009]: Cityzenith, formerly Screampoint, aggregates data from sources such as: public(Open Data), IoT and M2M (real-time operational) and citizens (Social Media) and makes it available through astandard and open platform. They also have a facility to build apps called 5D smart apps that leverage this datain the form of apps. An app marketplace is available as well (5D Smart App Market). Their product is not publiclyavailable as of late Dec. 2014. Has announced partnerships with Amsterdam, Barcelona, and San Francisco todevelop apps for their respective cities.

$6.2M Sequoia Capital, Mumbai Angels

Location

AirSage [Atlanta, 2000]: AirSage pioneers in providing population location, analytics and movement informationbased on wireless signaling data. AirSage captures the location when a device makes contact with a cell tower.These locations are stripped of personally identifiable information and bundled together into a compressed CSVfile format. Currently, providing data for for the majority of the U.S. and Puerto Rico, with some exceptions forvery rural or remote areas. AirSage collects, stores, and analyzes data in real-time and data is typically deliveredin a compressed CSV file format. AirSage can provide data back to January 2009 for year-over-year or seasonalcomparisons.

$6Mconstellationventures.com, Partners

for Growth

Location

Digital Map Products [Irvine, ]: Digital Map Products provides tools for location based analysis. Their productportfolio comprises of spatial development Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service applications, andlocation data. They also provide various mapping APIs for developers. They cater to more than 600 customers insectors including real estate, government, utilities, and claim to reach millions of users with our innovativecloud-based solutions.

$4.4M Keiretsu Forum, Technology Ventures

Location

Locationary [Toronto, 2009]: Locationary created Saturn, the management and exchange platform for localbusiness places data. Saturn helps companies improve their local business profiles by making it easy to convertand integrate different data sources into their custom format. Saturn also offers a new type of API thateveryone can use to exchange this info. Legacy APIs distribute data in the provider’s format which makes itdifficult to integrate with the subscriber’s internal databases which are usually in a different format. WithSaturn, users can push information in whatever format they are using, and their subscribers can receive real-time updates in whatever custom format they need.

$2.5M

MaRS, Plaza Ventures, Genwealth Ventures, Trellis Capital, MaRS

Investment Accelerator Fund, EVP, MaRS IAF


http://www.cityzenith.com/

http://www.airsage.com/

http://www.digmap.com/

http://www.locationary.com/


Geospatial (6/15)


Location

Mapsense [San Francisco, 2013]: Mapsense is a mapping and geospatial analysis company. It provides tools tofilter, search, and visualize location data at any scale. They also provide APIs for developers for use in their appsor websites. Currently in beta phase. Apps, advertisers, financial institutions, researchers, governments etc canbe potential customers.

$2.5MRedpoint Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Formation 8, TenOneTen,

Amplify.LA

Location

Planet OS [Sunnyvale, 2012]: Planet OS provides platform which enables users to access geospatial sensordatasets. Originally, founded as Marinexplore to discover ocean public datasets soon extended its service tocover land, air, and space based sensor and machine data. It offers Data Manager that is designed for real-timeocean, air, and climate data to organize and distribute data assets in one location; Data Studio, a map-basedinterface for data exploration, visualization, and aggregation; and Data Browser, a solution to locate individualentities within data repository and explore the relationships between them. The company’s solutions are usedin offshore and maritime, aerial and land, and remote sensing/satellite. Planet OS Inc. was formerly known asMarinexplore Inc. and changed its name to Planet OS Inc. in June 2014. The company was founded in 2012 andis based in Sunnyvale, California.

$1.4M Intertrust

Location

Location Inc [Worcester, 2000]: Location, Inc. builds and sources location-based data and tools for risk analysisfor corporate users in the United States. It offers crime data and crime risk, fraud risk/e commerce lossprevention, vehicle collision risk index, real estate and house values, appreciation rates, school data and ratings,lifestyle and demographics data, neighborhood reports, and site selection search engine. The company hasdeveloped a search engine for location analysis called NeighborhoodScout. Customers are from real estate,property and casualty insurance, direct marketing, corporate and employee relocation, site selection, and frauddetection industries. Licenses data via an XML feed using an API. Pricing is based on types of data required, typeof use, and volume. Has raised seed, Series A and Series B funding.

$1.17M Slater Technology Fund


http://www.mapsense.co/

http://www.planetos.com/

http://www.locationinc.com/


Geospatial (7/15)


Location

locomizer [Manchester, 2013]: Locomizer offers a set of Cloud-based, real-time data APIs powered by its coregeo-behavioural user interest profiling technology - The Audience Discovery Engine. Geo-Behavioural UserInterest Profile API: Retrieves customer interests from their location history and outputs distinctive user interestprofiles essential for relevant targeting, recommendations, all kinds of personalization and user matching. Geo-Behavioural Interest Graph (Footfall API): Provides a detailed, rich, contextual knowledge of any given place byfootfall interests and day part. The data feed is a result of aggregating, anonymising, and extrapolating ofindividual user interest profiles to the whole population. Accepted to B2B startup accelerator Collider12(London, UK).

$854.77kCollider12, Collider, Impulse VC,

Phystech Ventures

Location

Kites [Hong Kong, 2012]: Kites empowers developers to build revolutionary location based application bysupplying location data updating in real time. In 2014, the company had built a database of over 100 thousandplace listings in 200+ categories. Started building location database on additional cities across Asia. The companywas acquired by Cathay Pacific Airways in 2014.

$500K Cyberport

Location

Urban Mapping [San Francisco, 2004]: Urban Mapping provides mapping functionality and on-demand dataservices to enable the development of online mapping applications. Mapfluence is a powerful mappingplatform, offering over 10,000 variables to visualize and analyze data using maps, tables and charts which areaccessible via APIs. Their product Context is a suite of lifestyle and behavorial analytics combined withgeaographies which gives context to a location. Bing, MapQuest and Yahoo! as well as enterprises like CoStarGroup, Tableau Software and CoreLogic have been utilizing Urban Mapping’s geospatial data and technology.Maponics acquired Urban Mapping.

$400k STN Labs

Location

Avenace Incorporated [Seattle, 2009]: Avenace operates Avenace Exchange platform which powers audiencemeasurement of physical places. The Avenace Exchange collects persistent location and demographicinformation of audiences and helps users in making business, community development, and personal decisionsbased on how people move about in their communities. It automatically and periodically collects location anddiagnostic information of its audience for creating aggregated and anonymized audience reports for its users,including companies, city planners, and individuals, as well as for data analysis purposes. The company alsoenables users to pick trading partnerships and receive payments from trading partnerships formed amongbusinesses and community members listed as clients on the Exchange.

$25k


http://www.locomizer.com/

http://www.kites.hk/

http://www.urbanmapping.com/

http://www.avenace.com/


Geospatial (8/15)


Location

inAtlas [Barcelona, 2010]: InAtlas provides location analytics and competitive intelligence solution to enterpriseand SMBs. It offers InAtlas Places which is a location analytics solution to improve critical decision making suchas right location for new businesses, geographic patterns of economic behaviour, for public authority strategiesand private investments etc. Also offers InAtlas Enterprise solution in which they design tailored location reportsand generate them online with information and KPIs continuously updated. These solutions are based on thedata sourced from public databases with demographic, social and economic components as well as business.

Caixa Capital Risc

Location

GeoAPI [San Mateo, 2008]: GeoAPI is a location services platform by Mixer Labs. They have been collecting data(like Flickr, Foursquare, YouTube, Weatherbug) and made it query-able via their API to provide a reverse look-upservice to help application makers get more information about where their users are. Twitter acquired GeoAPI'smaker Mixer Labs in Dec, 2009.

Sequoia, Felicis Ventures, Baseline Ventures

Location

PiinPoint [Kitchener, 2013]: PiinPoint enables businesses to make intelligent decisions about where to locate.Geo-enable business data by using mapping and location analytics tools and maximize return on investment.

Y Combinator, Real Ventures, Creative Destruction Lab, Navitas Capital,

Rotmans, Garage76

Location

WiseTown [Perugia, 2016]: WiseTown is a multi-platform product consisting with one specific mobile app and aportal. It aims to collect and catalog data about the city using social networks. Apart from this, Wise Town(W.I.S.E. stand for Web Information Stream Enhancer) offers to developers tools (API) for interacting with otherapplications. Project is based on the Open Data philosophy. The product operates in the following sectors:Urban decoration, waste management, public and private mobility, environmental monitoring, public security,urban green spaces. It allows a citizen and not only, to create geo-located alerts that will be directly sent to thecompetent authorities. They will be in charge of the managing and solving of appearing problems as soon aspossible. Part of Finodex accelerator program. Developed by TeamDev srl.


http://www.inatlas.com/

http://www.geoapi.com/

http://www.piinpoint.com/

http://www.wise.town/


Geospatial (9/15)


Location

Open Business [Udine, 2015]: Open Business XT has developed a tool for geomarketing and big data analyticsfor catchment area analyses, location planning, branch network optimization. Open Business delivers insightsand allows to determine the market potential on a local basis, organizing and bringing together informationabout demand, supply and services available on a certain area or specific location. Part of FIWARE acceleratorprogram.

Location

Local Data Company [London, 2003]: The Local Data Company provides a database of retail & leisurebusinesses for publishing or analysis. The company offers Data & imagery, which provides points-of-interestdata for web and mobile markets; Points of Interest, a database of retail and leisure businesses that includesphotos, descriptions, attributes, and opening times; desktop reports that provide the fascia name, a digitalimage, retail classification/ mix, occupancy, contact information, historical occupancy, and exact location ofretail outlets and vacant premises; and field research and data collection services. The company’s data isavailable to license as raw data via its online analysis tools and through its bespoke reports. Its data is used byonline publishers, mobile and telecommunication providers, mapping companies, property professionals, mediaand print companies, news services directories and others. The Local Data Company Limited was founded in2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Location

GeoDirectory [Ireland, ]: GeoDirectory provides a database of buildings and addresses in the Republic ofIreland. The company offers GeoAddress Locator: directory of Irish consumers and businesses; GeoAddress:address database; GeoBusiness: address of every business in the republic of Ireland; GeoBusiness Locator;GeoBuild; and GeoForecaster. The company employs a team which goes into the field and collects real-timeaddress data.I ts database is being used by local, national and international companies.

Location

Navteq [Chicago, 1985]: NAVTEQ is a provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nokia,and fully merged into Nokia in 2011 to form part of the Here business unit. NAVTEQ digital maps provide arepresentation of the detailed road network including up to 260 attributes such as turn restrictions, physicalbarriers and gates, oneway streets, restricted access, relative road heights, addresses, signage, and speedrestrictions. NAVTEQ database also contains millions of Points of Interests (POIs) for routing applications.NAVTEQ maintains its own map database, street level imagery, and utilizes multiple sources of data to providetraffic information. The company was founded in 1985 by Barry Karlin and Galen Collins.


http://www.openbusinessxt.com/

http://www.localdatacompany.com/

http://www.geodirectory.ie/

http://www.navteq.com/


Geospatial (10/15)


Location

URBAN4M [Miami, 2011]: URBAN4M is producing hyper-local analysis and informative visuals using their urbananalytics to enable location based decisions more logical. For this they’ve created a customizable platform thatallows users to indicate their individual preferences. They use their licensed, public and proprietary in-housedata, proprietary modeling, methodologies and deliverables to brung analytic perspective on location.Theyprovide apps and ranking metrics for people to discover, compare and evaluate the PLACEs that best matchtheir needs.

Location

Loqate [San Bruno, 2009]: Loqate develops global location intelligence solutions for its clients. Its servicesenable customers to make better use of their location data in areas, such as data quality, direct marketing, frauddetection, insurance risk assessment, transaction monitoring, logistics and supply chain, and online paymentprocessing, as well as geolocation information systems (GIS), mapping, and location based services. Offerssolutions such as Data Quality & Master Data Management, Location/GIS, address management tools for CRM,location big data solutions. The company serves large Fortune 1000 companies worldwide.

Location

UberRetail [Pasadena, 2011]: UberRetail (Part of UberMedia) collects location data about the people andprovide it to its clients based on which they can make informed decision about retail site selection. User has toinput a polygon drawn around the address of the retail business where he is interested in learning about visitortraffic and the report will provide valuable data about the customer base in that area. The Service uses datacollected from mobile phone users who have agreed within their apps and phone settings to enable locationinformation. It combines mobile phone data with proprietary technology to generate the information. Providethree proprietary data views that are designed to help make intelligent business insights: Common EveningLocation, Common Daytime Location, and Path-to-Purchase. Subscription based revenue model.

Location

Competitive Analytics Professionals [Northport, 2004]: Competitive Analytics Professionals (CAP) providescomprehensive competitive intelligence data for retail, restaurant, and service businesses. CAP's locationdatabase has over 39000 shopping center, over 1.1 million retail stores, and over 3.5 lacs restaurant across USA& Canada. Its data can be purchased through its web portal or from its data resellers.


http://www.urban4m.com/

http://www.loqate.com/

http://www.uber-retail.com/

http://www.caplocations.com/


Geospatial (11/15)


Location

Maponics [White River Junction, 2001]: Maponics specialises in defining and building geographic boundaries athyperlocal level. The company’s GIS mapping data products include Neighbourhood- delineates the geographiesin the areas where people live, work, and socialize; Residential- data about the residential areas in and aroundmetros; Hospital- data and attributes for more than 4,900 acute and emergency care hospitals and VA medicalcenters in the U.S. and over 600 emergency care facilities in Canada; Social Places- comprehensive geofenceproduct consisting of destination and venue boundaries, shopping boundaries, and college campus boundaries;School- comprehensive dataset that includes school districts, school attendance zones (SAZ), and public as wellas private school locations; Context and Maps & Reports covering US & Canada geographies. Data is accessiblethrough API and other formats.

Location

LotaData [San Francisco, 2015]: LotaData connects the digital and physical realms by providing location-basedreal-time situational context to service providers, ad networks, mobile operators, device manufacturers and appdevelopers. Provides mobile SDK integration to call for location-intents for the users' devices.

Location

ALLMAPDATA [Brentford, 2012]: allmapdata (part of Mapmechanics) is a provider of spatial data for GIS, BI andlogistics applications. Data ranges from maps with detailed speed and navigational attribute information (suchas bridge heights, banned turns etc), to hourly population counts derived from mobile phone usage to detailedpublic transport timetable information embedding in an app that helps users create catchments and routesbased on walking, using buses and trains etc. Clients include Tesco, Henkel, RISCAuthority among others.

Location

Hyllo [Oakville, 2015]: Hyllo enables developers to generate hyper-location apps using variety of sensors anddata from multiple venues and vendors. Hyllo uses Ambient temperature sensors, people counters, proximitybeacons, and sound level meters to give apps hyper-location awareness. Ideal for SaaS, web apps, mobile apps,desktop apps, wearables and everything IoT related. With Hyllo users are able to get answers of questions suchas how many people are at their favourite bar/restaurant/theatre? Where is a place to study that's not toocold? When is the best time to go to the grocery store? Which are the most relevant sensors my app shouldmonitor. Hyllo API as part of a browser plugin, directly website and even in mobile applications allows you tosee how users behave across all channels. Also, Hyllo gives chance of monetizing to persons who owns sensorsby giving them up to 10% of the monthly subscription fees paid by each developer to access sensors.


http://www.maponics.com/

http://www.lotadata.com/

http://www.allmapdata.com/

http://www.hyllo.io/


Geospatial (12/15)


Location

AggData [DuPont, 2006]: AggData is a data service provider specializing in location based information, such ascomplete geocoded lists of retail chain locations. Caters custom requests. AggData extracts the data from acrossthe web, and focuses on primary sources rather than third party sources. AggData was started in 2006 as a sideproject. That small side project in 2006 is now a company of 15 employees, with over 1900 lists, continuouslygrowing. Provides services to many large corporations, including Petco, Starbucks, and Morgan Stanley.

Satellite Based

Planet Labs [San Francisco, 2010]: Planet Labs was founded on the idea of taking a new approach to satelliteimagery. The company boasts that it has created a cost-effective model for photographing the Earth’s surface. Itsends dozens of low-cost satellites into space at once, which end up circling the planet and providing imageryfor collecting radical datasets for numerous applications such as measuring agricultural yields, monitoringnatural resources, or aiding first responders after natural disaster. These images updates at a much fastercadence than previous satellites. Has launched more than 100 micro satellites as of Sep 2015.

$183.1M

First Round Capital, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, IFC, AME Cloud Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, DFJ Venture, Innovation Endeavors, Data

Collective, Western Technology Investment, Rothenberg Ventures, CBC Capital, Lux Capital, Capricorn, Industry Ventures, Double Bottom

Line Investors, Westly Group, Raptor Group, Fall Line Capital, HighGear

Ventures, DBL Partners

Satellite Based

Skybox Imaging [Mountain View, 2009]: Skybox Imaging (Skybox) offers high-resolution satellite imagery, high-definition video & analytics services by combining web technologies and a constellation of microsatellites. Byoperating the world’s first (claimed) coordinated microsatellite constellation (Cubesat based), Skybox servescommercial and government customers to make more informed, data-driven decisions. Acquired by Google inJune of 2014. Co-founded by Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwickand Ching-Yu Hu.

$91M

Canaan Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Norwest

Venture Partners, CrunchFund, Asset Management Ventures, Leader Ventures, Y Ventures, Peterson

Partners, Draper Associates

Satellite Based

Axelspace [Tokyo, 2008]: Axelspace is Tokyo based company specialises in developing microsatellites for earthimagery collection. The company's first satellite "WNISAT-1" was launched in 2013. It is a purely commercialsatellite ordered by Weathernews, a weather information company. Axelspace launched its second satellite"Hodoyoshi-1" in 2014, and demonstrated the possibility of micro-satellite businesses. Currently the company isin a process of developing three micro-satellites that are anticipated to launch in 2017. The satellites are dubbed“GRUS,” which will be utilized for agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and disaster monitoring.

$15.8M

ITOCHU Technology Ventures, SMBC Venture Capital, Mitsui, Softbank

Investment, Weathernews, Energy and Environment Investment, Global

Brain, Seibu Shinkin Capital


http://www.aggdata.com/

http://www.planet.com/

http://www.skyboximaging.com/

http://www.axelspace.com/


Geospatial (13/15)


Satellite Based

UrtheCast [Vancouver, 2010]: UrtheCast provides the world’s first (claimed) near-live HD video feed of Earthfrom space. Its camera systems and service are accessible online and will allow users to access the twoUrtheCast cameras from their homes to examine places or events. Customers include Pepsi. Has announced anew contract valued at approximately US$9M, to provide a range of engineering services and related spacehardware to an international customer. Announced a profit of $6M in Q4 2014.

$14.5M

Satellite Based

GeoOptics [Pasadena, 2006]: GeoOptics Inc., an environmental data company, provides data and relatedservices to scientists and decision-makers around the world from sensors deployed on a constellation of smallsatellites in low Earth orbit. It develops constellation of small satellites to perform atmospheric sensing forweather forecasting, climate monitoring, and long-term environmental monitoring and research. The data isused in industries such as transpacific shipping, trans-polar air-traffic, crop yields, power grids, technologicalinfrastructure, off-shore oil exploration, wind power generation, and carbon trading.

$5.15M

Satellite Based

Satellogic [Buenos Aires, 2010]: Satellogic aims to build a constellation of nano-satellites to image earth in highresolution and real time. Satellogic's satellites are quicker to build and more affordable compared to traditionalsatellites. They plan to deploy enough satellites to cover every point on Earth. Its primary competitors are PlanetLabs, UrtheCast and SSL.

$2MNXTP Labs, Enzyme Venture Capital,

Valor Capital Group

Satellite Based

ImageSat International [Tel Aviv, 1997]: ImageSat International, the owner and operator of the EROS-A andEROS-B high/very high resolution earth observation optical satellites, is provider of advanced, integrated,remote sensing based solutions. Its services include Integration of imaging sensors, Interpretation and analysisof imagery, Photogrammetry and mapping, Training in geospatial intelligence topics, Establishment of imagingsatellites ground stations

The Challenge Fund-Etgar

Satellite Based

DigitalGlobe [Longmont, 1993]: DigitalGlobe is a provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery andgeospatial solutions. DigitalGlobe owns and operates a constellation of high-resolution commercial earthimaging satellites and aerial network. Together they are capable of collecting over 1 billion km² of imagery peryear. They provide map platforms for Microsoft's Bing and Nokia's Here.

Wavemaker Partners


http://www.urthecast.com/

http://www.geooptics.com/

http://www.satellogic.com/

http://www.imagesatintl.com/

http://www.digitalglobe.com/


Geospatial (14/15)


Satellite Based

BlackSky Global [Tukwila, 2013]: BlackSky Global offers satellite imaging as a service. BlackSky is a wholesaleprovider of pixels. The company follows a “pay-per-picture” business model and can capture images of singlesites or cover larger areas, as well as provide video at one frame per second. BlackSky is scheduled to deploy itsfirst six spacecraft by the end of 2016, with the first launch currently planned for Q1 2016. By the end of 2019,BlackSky plans to have 60 satellites in orbit. BlackSky customers include companies, governments, institutionsand individuals. BlackSky is an independent entity wholly owned by Spaceflight Industries.

Satellite Based

Geospatial [Minneapolis, 1995]: East View Geospatial (formerly East View Cartographic) is a provider ofauthoritative geospatial data and GIS production services and solutions. EVG's holdings include all types ofgeospatial data including vector & raster data, digital elevation models (DEM), satellite & aerial imagery,topographic maps, nautical & aeronautical charts, geological maps, bathymetric data and atlases. Serves Energy& Natural Resource, Avionics, and Telecom companies, Defense and Intelligence contractors, Land Use &Engineering firms, Humanitarian organizations and Academic institutions.

Satellite Based

EarthDefine [Issaquah, 2013]: EarthDefine is a provider of high resolution spatial data products. Has createdhigh volume Geographic Image-Based Analysis (GEOBIA) data platform that can integrate multiple streams ofgeospatial information to create high value products. Currently, they are creating the largest high resolutionbaseline tree cover database for the coterminous United States through their SpatialCover Tree Canopy product.

Satellite Based

Earth-i [Guildford, 2013]: Earth-i provides satellite imagery and data services from the DMC3/TripleSatConstellation of three Low Earth Orbit high resolution multispectral optical satellites. The DMC3 Constellationprovides capabilities, including daily global revisits, supporting unique operational applications across a range ofmarket sectors such as defence, security & intelligence, energy and natural resources, environmental anddisaster response, maritime monitoring and observation, agriculture, civil and local government, urbanmanagement/Smart cities, mapping, commercial and insurance.


http://www.blacksky.com/

http://www.geospatial.com/

http://www.earthdefine.com/

http://www.earthi.space/


Geospatial (15/15)


Satellite Based

DEIMOS IMAGING [Boecillo, 2006]: Deimos Imaging, S.L. owns and operates satellites that provide earthobservation imagery services for agriculture, forestry, and monitoring applications. It offers single strip, multi-pointing, single pass stereo, and tessellation imaging services. The company also provides geospatial productsand services for government agencies and defense contractors for border and maritime surveillance; andproducts for the detection of potential illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activities and identification ofprobable polluting vessels; and information for specific areas of interest, which include biodiversity hot spots,water bodies, and urban areas. The company serves aerospace, defense, transport, telecommunications,security, energy, and environment markets. It offers products through a network of distributors and resellers inEurope, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, the Russian Federation, the CIS countries, Asia,Oceania, and internationally, as well as through its online catalogue.

Satellite Based

DMCii [Guildford, 2004]: DMC International Imaging specialises in earth imaging. It provides satellite imagery,archived data, related project services, and manages the DMC satellite constellation. The company manages theDisaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), a constellation of Earth observation satellites. It is a satelliteconstellation that delivers high frequency imaging anywhere on the globe from an established and growingcollection of satellites. The constellation is coordinated by DMCii to deliver high quality commercial earthimaging services. DMCII is a wholly owned subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)


http://www.deimos-imaging.com/

http://www.dmcii.com/


Social Data (1/4)


Dataminr [New York City, 2009]: Dataminr extracts extract value from social media for clients in the financeand government sectors. Currently servicing both buy-side and sell-side financial firms, as well as municipal andfederal clients in the government sector, Dataminr has developed a broad suite of modular desktop and APIproducts. Services include custom signal creation, integration of internal proprietary data sets, historical back-testing, and accommodation of all compliance and site-specific deployment needs.

$179.57M

Fidelity Investments, WorldQuant, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, IVP,

Venrock, GSV Capital, Glynn Capital, Expansion Venture Capital, Deep Fork Capital, Adorable Foxie, Conversion Capital, Wellington Management,

Wharton Equity, BoxGroup

DataSift [Reading, 2010]: DataSift enables companies to aggregate, filter and extract insights from the billionsof public social conversations on Twitter, leading social networks and millions of other sources. DataSift providesaccess to both real-time and historical social data to uncover insights and trends that relate to brands,businesses, financial markets, news and public opinion. Delivered as a cloud platform, DataSift clients includecompanies with requirements for social media monitoring, social CRM, business intelligence, financial tradingand news monitoring applications. DataSift is a certified Twitter data reseller partner.

$64.2M

Insight Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, IA Venttures, Scale Venture

Partners, Northgate, Daher Capital, Cendana Capital

Crimson Hexagon [Boston, 2007]: Crimson Hexagon provides a social media monitoring and analytics platformwhich can index a torrent of data points from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Weibo, blogs, forums, and more. Itclassifies online content by identifying statistical patterns in words.It benchmarks and track the performance ofsocial media accounts to identify which content is driving engagement and understand conversation sentiment.Also enables companies to track competitor activity. Recently unveiled a new image analytics service as part ofits ForSight analytics platform which lets brands analyse the social media sphere where their logos are beingshared. A certified Twitter partner, it has access to the Twitter "firehose". Recieved Series B investment fromCharles F. Dolan, the founder and chairman of Cablevision Systems Corporation.

$34.15M

Rose Tech Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital,

Sageview Capital, Beacon Angels, Golden Seeds

Topsy [San Francisco, 2007]: Topsy is a social analytics company that provides real-time analysis of publicconversations. Offers tools that help companies mine Twitter for sentiment analysis. Is a certified Twitterpartner and maintains a comprehensive index of tweets, numbering in hundreds of billions, dating back toTwitter's inception in 2006. Topsy Pro Analytics is a commercial web dashboard application that allows users toconduct interactive analysis on keywords and authors by activity, influence, exposure, sentiment, language orgeography. Acquired by Apple in Dec, 2013 for over $200 Million.

$32.2MSV Angel, Founders Fund, Ignition

Partners, BlueRun Ventures, Western Technology Investment


http://www.dataminr.com/

http://www.datasift.com/

http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/

http://www.topsy.com/


Social Data (2/4)


Unmetric [Chennai, 2011]: Unmetric provides brands competitive intelligence about other brands by trackingtheir social campaigns through hashtags, viral videos, facebook apps etc. performing content analysis on socialnetworks and Comparing brands based on criteria like their social audience growth, customer engagement rate.Provides intelligence on 10,000+ global brands across 30 industry sectors. Clients includes brands like Subway,Campbell’s, Toyota and agencies like MRY, M Booth, Golin Harris and Zocalo Group.

$8.7M Nexus Venture Partners, JAFCO Asia

Gnip, Inc. [Boulder, 2008]: Gnip is a provider of social data. Was the first to partner with Twitter to make theirsocial data available, and since then have been the first to work with Tumblr, Foursquare, WordPress, Disqus,StockTwits and more. Gnip delivers social data to customers in more than 40 countries, and Gnip’s customersdeliver social media analytics to more than 95% of the Fortune 500. Gnip is headquartered in Boulder, Colo.,and has offices in San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C.

$6.64MFirst Round Capital, Foundry Group,

SoftTech VC, Darwin Ventures

Likely [Shoreditch, 2011]: Likely is a provider of social data analytics. Likely has created a unique data set ofmore than five billion social interactions – such as follows, shares and comments – to better understand howpeople cluster around things they are passionate about. By looking at brands as a collection of “passion points”,Likely have found that it is significantly easier to discover the people that are most likely to engage with abrand’s content, understand what content will resonate most with them and attract them to a brand’s socialmedia presence. Coca-Cola and the British Government had used its services.

$1.6MCharlotte Street Capital, New World

Private Equity

LeadSift [Halifax, 2012]: LeadSift helps businesses mine social data on sites like Twitter and Foursquare for saleslead generation. Plans to incorporate Facebook and LinkedIn later on. The algorithm is able to detect the anyform of short text and generates sales lead. Founded in 2012 and is based in Canada.

$1.39MSalesforce, Innovacorp, OMERS Ventures, East Valley Ventures

Buzzilla [Tel Aviv, 2008]: Buzzilla is social media monitoring and analysis tool. Provides an up-to-the-minute“situation report” of online conversations about the brand, company, and product category, reflectingconsumer opinions and experiences. Buzzilla's system locates all mentions of predefined terms and sends animmediate email alert whenever they occur.

$1M


http://www.unmetric.com/

http://www.gnip.com/

http://www.likely.co/

http://www.leadsift.com/

http://www.buzzilla.com/


Social Data (3/4)


Spot Influence [Boulder, 2009]: Spot Influence is a social data provider, making it easy to find the best peopleon any topic.The Spot Influence API identifies topical Influencers on any search term, across all of social media,ranking every content creator on their topical Reach Relevance and Impact. In addition, the API can provideoutlet, interest, and topical Influence data for any person creating content.The API is capable of handlingmillions of calls per day.

$359k Techstars

Social Media [Pittsburgh, 2011]: Social Media Information (SMI) is a Pittsburgh-based tech company thatcollects and deciphers publicly available information on social media and open Internet sites for clients to usefor anything from simple tasks to monitor social media, to pre-employment background checks by socialchannels, to due diligence on global alternative investments. Its technology searches Social Media sites fortargeted information that users provide, and returns that information to users in an organized and manageableformat. Customers are from consumer reporting agencies, human resources departments, private investigators,legal researchers, and insurance claims adjusters. Per transaction based revenue model.

Innovation Works

KPI6 [Rome, 2015]: KPI6 listens to 500 million new daily conversations on Twitter, 80 million new Tumblr postsand 2 million WordPress articles plus all archives dating back to the first posts and analyses them. Offers Time-series and social network graphs to figure out what's going on. Use machine learning techniques to generatepredictions of future outcomes based on what is said on social media.

Rumors Monitoring [Yerevan, 2015]: Rumors Monitoring is a real-time media intelligence platform based ontraditional and social media content which monitors, analyzes and makes predictions to improve individual’s ororganization’s PR activity. Periodically collects online media content and stores by language, date and country.Determines sentiment in texts using machine learning algorithms.

BuzzNumbers [Bondi, ]: BuzzNumbers helps companies understand the billions of conversations happeningacross social media, news, blogs, forums, video and websites. Customers are typically corporatecommunications, marketing, HR, market research and customer service teams. Has patents pending on itsworldwide applicable "Geographic Locational Relevance" algorithm. Customers include Microsoft, RedBull,Optus, Samsung, Phillips,Government, WeightWatchers and more.


http://www.spotinfluence.com/

http://www.smiaware.com/

http://www.kpi6.com/

http://www.rumorsmonitoring.com/

http://www.buzznumbershq.com/


Social Data (4/4)


Hottolink [Tokyo, 2000]: Hottolink gathers the whole social data, mainly Japanese everyday, stores it in theirsystem, analyzes, and develops analysis application which is very easy to use for people in Japan. Also providesconsultation. Has raised series C and backed by Salesforce Ventures.

Socialgist [Boulder, 2000]: Socialgist is the provider of social media data including Chinese Microbloggingplatform Sina Weibo. It supports the largest users of social media data in the world, including enterprise-classsocial media listening applications, business intelligence algorithms, and predictive models for finance andresearch. Socialgist provides two core services, sourcing of specific social media data sources and datamanagement. Customers not only include both global brands, but also the most diverse collection of SocialMedia sources in the industry.

Datagnion [Vienna, 2014]: Datagnion aggregates, filters and analyses public Facebook data such as postings,status updates or comments. These analyses will be delivered through a powerful API to clients and can easilybe integrated into mobile apps, media monitoring systems and other applications.


http://www.hottolink.co.jp/

http://www.socialgist.com/

http://www.datagnion.com/


Traffic (1/8)


Inrix [Kirkland, 2004]: Inrix offers real-time, historical, and predictive traffic information solutions (harvestedfrom anonymous GPS locator devices). Provides connected car services parking, fuel POI & pricing local search &geocoding, traffic cameras and routing (SDK for integration is also available). Through Inrix Total Fusion, itprovides traffic data service that uses real-time, predictive, and historical traffic information. Inrix Real-TimeFlow that helps to develop real-time traffic data and traffic speed maps and Inrix Nationwide Traffic Alerts thatprovides real-time congestion alerts for roadways. The company also provides Inrix Real-Time Incidents thatprovides real-time reporting of traffic incidents. Acquisitions include ITIS Holdings and Parkme.

$133.1M

Bain Capital Ventures, KPCB, Intel Capital, Venrock, August Capital,

Fontinalis Partners, Bain Capital, ORIX USA, Porsche, Pharus Capital

Management

Miovision [Kitchener, 2005]: Miovision Technologies uses video and web-based technologies, to monitor trafficand analyse traffic data. Using a combination of specialized hardware, a web platform and analytics, they canmonitor and report on a variety of traffic data with an accuracy of 95% or more. Web platform allows easysharing and management of data. Has multiple cities as customers.

$24M

Comerica, InvestEco, Plaza Ventures, Renewal Funds, Golden Triangle Angelnet, MacKinnon, Bennett &

Company

Sensys Networks [Berkeley, 2004]: Sensys Networks uses hardware sensors to monitor, analyse and report ontraffic data. Applications based on this data include: real-time traffic & infrastructure monitoring, accurate &reliable traveler information systems and enhanced incident response. Their systems can also be used to forautomatic data based decision systems for traffic control and routing. Has over 150 customers in 40 US states,and 10 countries.

$16.8MHorizon Ventures, Siemens Venture

Capital, Fuse Capital, Voyager Capital

ITIS Holdings [Altrincham, 1997]: ITIS Holdings plc, through its subsidiaries, provides road traffic informationand data services in the United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, the United States, Israel, and internationally. Itoffers TrafficScience, a software platform that enables users to get information about their journeys throughvarious media, such as Web, mobile phone voice messages, short message text, email, radio, digital, and phone.The company also provides a range of applications, including interactive voice response, an automated trafficinformation service to users on their mobile phone; and RDS-TMC that delivers traffic information via a sub-carrier of FM radio. In addition, it offers hosted services for TrafficScience; and deployment of TrafficSciencewith DRIVE, which include sourcing appropriate data, implementing the platform, and delivering the resultanttraffic information to applications. It primarily serves public sector, automotive, mobile, media, and fleetmarkets.

$10.9M Smedvig Capital


http://www.inrix.com/

http://www.miovision.com/

http://www.sensysnetworks.com/

http://www.itisholdings.com/


Traffic (2/8)


Ally [Berlin, 2014]: Ally is a free, local transport app. Ally is an urban mobility app that lets you comparetimetables, prices and durations for different routes and modes of transport. Routing across various modes oftransport including public transport, taxis, your own bike route, car sharing or bike share. The app works inGermany, Zurich and London.

$5M KfW

Urban Informatics Corporation [Atlanta, 1999]: Urban Informatics Corporation (Formerly IntellioneTechnologies Pvt Ltd) provides real time traffic data. Urban Informatics’ (UI) has developed Metro Traffic Engine(MTE) which can instantly analyze traffic quantity and road speeds – standard information for live-trafficreports. Also, MTE can create reports on traffic patterns and can even provide statistical and demographicinformation about the traffic from any given time. The MTE anonymously monitors the locations of mobilephones using network measurement reports (NMRs) that are already present in mobile phone networks andproprietary positioning system manages and delivers that data instantly to any third party. The company wasfounded in 1999 and was acquired by Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc. in Feb 2011. Founded by RonHerman.

$3.8M

TrafficCast [Madison, 1999]: TrafficCast International engages develops technologies, applications, and contentbased on digital traffic data to provide travel time forecasting and traffic information. company uses accidentreports, weather conditions, road sensors and the global positioning system for its reports. Trafficcast analyzesreal time data from over 450,000 miles of roadways in United States. In 2009 navigation system providerTomTom NV signed a deal with Trafficcast to provide real-time information about traffic, weather patterns andthe cheapest nearby gasoline to TomTom's first wireless navigation device.

$3.75MPhenomenelle Angels Fund, Women

Angels, Ceres Venture Fund, NEW Capital Fund

MetroTech [Alpharetta, 2011]: MetroTech uses traffic and security camera feeds to gather and analyse trafficdata. This data can be used to better synchronize traffic lights. City planners can take advantage of this data tobetter design intersections and widen lanes to ease traffic flow. The data also has telematics and self drivingvehicle applications. In use at a 100 intersections in Santa Clara, California. Has reduced stops by about 18k perday.

$1.1M Atlanta Technology Angels


http://www.allyapp.com/

http://www.uinformatics.com/

http://www.trafficcast.com/

http://www.metrotech-net.com/


Traffic (3/8)


Ma3Route [Nairobi, 2012]: Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data andprovides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports. Also offers API for developers.

$25k

Tele Atlas [S-Hertogenbosch, 1984]: Tele Atlas specialises in digital mapping and delivers digital maps and realtime traffic information for business and consumer application. Has map coverage of more than 200 countriesand territories worldwide with offices in 24 countries. Euronext exchange listed company.

Artiman, TeleSoft Partners, Mobility Ventures, Oak Investment Partners

SpeedInfo [San Jose, 2002]: SpeedInfo provides traffic data using its solar-powered Doppler radar combinedwith its wireless network design expertise. The autonomous speed sensors are attached to existinginfrastructure such as light or sign poles, and real-time traffic flow data are then sent via the AT&T® Wirelessnetwork. The company headquarters is located in San Jose, CA.

Costella Kirsch

Urban Engines [Los Altos, 2012]: Urban Engines offer a SaaS solution for tracking traffic congestion. Using dataaggregated from travel cards, and GPS data from public transport, Urban Engines builds a detailed model ofpublic transport utilization. Urban planners can utilize this data to understand and improve traffic congestion.Their solution can also help planners implement an incentive system to alleviate congestion during peak traveltimes with rewards for commuters using off peak hours. Has been used in Singapore (MRT system) to reducepeak hour travel time by 7% to 13%. Investors include Eric Schmidt of Google.

Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, GV, Sherpalo

Ventures, Samsung Venture Investment


http://www.ma3route.com/

http://www.teleatlas.com/

http://www.speedinfo.com/

http://www.urbanengines.com/


Traffic (4/8)


ITO World [Ipswich, 2006]: ITO World Ltd focuses on collecting, aggregating, managing, and analyzing complexpublic transport and spatial data, including real time data feeds. The company provides transport DMP thatdelivers solutions for the travelling public using the data from the available transport services; ITO Visualizationsthat provides platforms and bespoke visualization based on big datasets; ITO Go that publishes transportmarketing materials with the online solution; ITO Map that allows users to make informed decisions and sharetheir findings with business intelligence solutions; and ITO tools that provides various data quality tools thatvalidates and helps to improve data. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered at Ipswich, UnitedKingdom.

Iceni Capital

Cellint [Lod, 2004]: Cellint is a global provider of traffic information systems based on mobile networks. Cellint’sproprietary patented technology utilizes pattern matching analysis on anonymous, real-time data extractedfrom the signaling links of mobile networks for all active mobile phones. This platform (TrafficSense) is used bycellular operators to provide road traffic information services and optimize their RF performance. The highresolution traffic information service is available to multiple user groups such as: Mobile phone subscribers,navigation providers, government agencies, road operators, and mapping & media portals.

Terracap Ventures

Innovative Data Solutions [Dublin, 2013]: Innovative Data Solutions offers automated traffic counting solutionsfor temporary surveys to government organisations and consulting firms. Traffic counting is done through CCTVvideo footages. It has also developed solutions for classifying traffic by direction.

LewatMana.com [Jakarta, 2008]: Aggregates traffic information based on crowd sourced CCTV feeds, imagesand comments from individual subscribers to provide live traffic data on a map which helps for route planning.The company is based out of Jakarta, Malaysia which is infamous for traffic jams and the service is available forJakarta only. LewatMana mainly monetizes through its B2B (data feed subscription via API and ad revenue) andB2C business models (paid app, in-app-purchases and premium operator service). It is currently funded by itspromoters and revenues. It was awarded the 2011 Netextplorateur of the year award in Paris and Google mapshas partnered with it for providing local content.


http://www.itoworld.com/

http://www.cellint.com/

http://www.idaso.ie/

http://www.lewatmana.com/


Traffic (5/8)


Tracsis [Leeds, 2004]: Tracsis group specialises in solving a variety of data capture, reporting and resourceoptimisation problems along with the provision of a range of associated professional services. The Group’sproducts and services comprise four principal revenue streams: Software- Industry strength resourceoptimisation and rail management software that covers a variety of asset and information classes; ProfessionalServices- Consulting and technology related professional services across the operational and strategic planninghorizon; Remote Condition Monitoring- Technology and reporting for critical infrastructure assets in real time,to identify problems and aid with preventative maintenance; and Data Capture and Analytics: Collection,collation and analytical services of traffic and passenger/customer data within rail, traffic and pedestrian richenvironments. Tracsis has offices in the UK and Australia which service projects in Europe and Australasia.

Tele-Traffic [Longwood, 2012]: Tele-Traffic is a major developing U.S. traffic gathering and reporting companywith U.S. operations based in sunny Orlando, FL. We are the only traffic company in the U.S. that gathers anddelivers traffic data at the local level, offering full reporting services and solutions to radio and television, as wellas powering the the first on-demand, continuously updated, real-time voiced traffic product in the world. Tele-Traffic's product offerings include: Tele-Traffic APP Product- traffic reports fully voiced traffic app, free app foriPhone/iOS and Android; Tele-Traffic DASHBOARD Product- locally gathered traffic data in the country,delivered directly through its streamlined Tele-Traffic Dashboard broadcaster product; and Tele-TrafficVOICESTREAM Product.

Total Traffic Network [Atlanta, 1995]: TTN sells raw traffic data to two categories of customers: personalnavigation device manufacturers (e.g., Garmin, TomTom) and automakers (e.g., BMW, Mazda), which, in turn,sell subscriptions to their customers. Currently, customers with valid subscriptions can access the dataanywhere in the U.S. or Canada with TTN’s data service (http://www.totaltraffic.com). TTN delivers real-timetraffic data via in-car and portable navigation systems, broadcast media, wireless, and Internet-based servicesusing a key journalistic approach to verify data sources. Through its network of publicly available and privatelyheld assets, TTN provides incident, event, construction, congestion, and impact information for customers, andclaims to be the leading company in North America providing a traffic subscription service to consumers.


http://www.tracsis.com/

http://www.tele-traffic.com/

http://www.totaltraffic.com/


Traffic (6/8)


Citi Logik [London, 2011]: Citi Logik has developed a big data platfrom to address the planning and operationalneeds of smarter cities. The platform captures and displays anonymised mobile phone data in near real time foranalysis by experts in transport and town planning. Citi Logik comprises three divisions: Data processing division,Enterprise service division- manages complex assignments which require the deployment of professionalservices, predictive analytics and anonymised network data; and business solution division- delivers replicabledata offerings and services to the Intelligent Mobility, Smarter Cities and Built Environment markets. Haspartnership with esri UK, Tracsis, and AWS.

Decell Technologies [Delaware, 2000]: Decell Technologies leverages its unique technology to provide accurate,real time traffic information. Decell performs sophisticated fusion and smart analysis of several raw datasources, such as Cellular Floating Car Data (CFCD) derived from mobile phones and location data from GPSequipped devices. Decell provides the navigation, transportation, media, government,and mobile markets withswift-i traffic®, Decell's premium real-time traffic information. Data attributes include traffic load level,estimated travel time and delay, traffic congestion tendency & recognition, incident data and exact location ofqueue heads based on accurate flow measurements. Also provides predictive and historical data. Offers servicesin Greater Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Bratislava, and Greater Tel Aviv. Decell has received strategic financingfrom Holland Venture,a leading international venture capital firm, and Inventech,a subsidiary of Lapidoth Israel.

VDS Corporation [Oakland, 2013]: VDS offers products based on their core technology, the Kinematic Map. Itaggregates millions of vehicle traces to create an accurate, information-rich roadway map (mined from GPS andother vehicle sensors). It depicts how roads are used, which enables detection of unsafe maneuvers,trajectories, respond to traffic controls, and provide accurate warnings to manage conflicts with other vehicles,and reliably setting an autonomous vehicle's path and speed. Solutions based on their Kinematic map includeADAS, driving automation, usage based insurance and fleet management. Backed by the NSF, partners includeVolpe, Mercedes, IBM, Aegis Tech and 2lemetry.

Sectrum Traffic Data Incorporated [ , 2012]: Spectrum Traffic Data Inc specialises in collecting street trafficdata. Its street traffic data consists of intersection turning movement counts and vehicle classification,Roundabout count, gap and saturation flow studies, trip generation studies, travel time studies,origin/destination and route determination studies. The company has employed the Miovision TechnologiesInc. (Miovision) automated computer-based video analytics solution. The company was founded in 2012


http://www.citilogik.com/

http://www.decell.com/

http://www.vds-corp.com/

http://www.spectrumtraffic.com/


Traffic (7/8)


SMART-Interaction [Rome, 2012]: Smart-I offers smart monitoring solutions. Their system is deployed on streetlighting collects data such as: traffic data & flow, weather conditions, identification & classification of movingobjects (cars, pedestrians, bicycles), detection of dangerous events, and natural brightness of the scene. Aremote server allows storage, statistics, visualization, and interface with the street lamps remote controlsystem. By switching on street lighting only when traffic or people are present, significant energy savingsof up to 50% can be realized. Other applications include: accident monitoring, parking, adaptive traffic lights andsecurity applications.

Tracsis Traffic Data [Leeds, 1989]: Skyhigh (Part of Tracsis plc) specialises in traffic and transport research, datacollections, and information analysis. The company collects traffic and transport data such as vehicle flow data,movement data, on and off street parking demand and capacity, vehicle speeds, public transport usage, and nonmotorised users data through various surveys. The company was established in Leeds, UK in 1989 and beganoperating in Australia in 2005.

Sensebit [Stockholm, 2007]: Sensebit develops products within the wireless sensor networks field with a focuson traffic information. Sensebits web based analytics tool Traffic web monitors development in traffic flow usingsensors data. Sensebit products are used by traffic authorities, municipalities, cities and private companies togather and analyze traffic data. Sensebit customers include Lund and Nacka city in Sweden.

SBOING.net [Thessaloniki, 2009]: SBOING implements an internationally patented, collaborative,crowdsourcing, Web-2.0 / Web-3.0 technology for collecting, processing and distribution of road informationand traffic data to provide improved routing for satellite navigation devices (GPS navigators). Users of suchdevices record their routes and exchange them with free maps and traffic data from all over the world, enjoyingbetter routing, faster map updates and more accurate routing time estimates, compared to all other navigatorsand routing services. Three kinds of commercial editions. Has contacted with 20 businesses for B2Bcollaboration.


http://www.smart-interaction.com/

http://www.skyhightraffic.com.au/

http://www.sensebit.se/

http://www.sboing.net/


Traffic (8/8)


MHTC [Coventry, 2000]: MHTC specialises in traffic and transport data collection. Provides transportinformation to clients to support their transport studies and development proposals using a combination ofstandard survey techniques and procedures such as traffic observation, video and registration plate recording aswell as face to face interviews. Currently operates throughout the UK and Ireland. Major data supplier to TRICSand Dept for Transport.

TransportAPI [London, 2010]: Placr's TransportAPI is a transport data aggregator that takes multiple transportdata feeds and aggregates them into a restful API. The company collects public transport information such astimetable, live departure and disruption information from open data feeds from key industry sources atTraveline, Network Rail and TfL. The company has received grants from the Technology Strategy Board in theInformed Personal Travel, Digital Services Feasibility and Internet of Things Feasibilities programmes. Customersare Transport for London, Heathrow Airport, IKEA, Toothpick, Screenreach and hundreds of developers anddigital agencies. The TransportAPI powers apps such as CityMapper, UK TravelOptions andhttp://placr.mobi andsupplies data to live transport widgets embedded in web pages.


http://www.mhtc.co.uk/

http://www.transportapi.com/


Weather (1/10)


The Climate Corporation [San Francisco, 2006]: The Climate Corporation's technology helps farmersprotect and improve their farming operations with uniquely powerful software, hardware andinsurance products. They examine weather data to provide insurance program to farmers in the UnitedStates. Their proprietary Climate Technology Platform combines hyper-local weather monitoring,agronomic data modeling, and high-resolution weather simulations to deliver mobile SaaS solutionsthat helps farmers make better informed operating and financing decisions. In addition ClimateCorporation has also developed three tangential products - Precision Planting, Solum and Field scripts tocomplement their services. Company was acquired by Monsanto in 2013 for over $1B and it functionsindependently in San Francisco.

$99.42M

First Round Capital, NEA, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Atomico,

Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, Google Ventures, Glynn Capital, Allen

& Company, Western Technology Investment, Anthemis Group, Code Advisors, TenOneTen, Juvo Capital

Spire [San Francisco, 2012]: Spire (formerly NanoSatisfi) provides micro satellite based services. Currentapplications include maritime vessel tracking using the Automatic Identification System transponders requiredon certain ships. Another focus is providing weather data using GPS radio occultation. Aiming to launch 25 smallsats in 2015. Targeting applications such as global trade, weather, shipping & supply chain, illegal fishing, andmaritime domain awareness.

$66.5M

Bessemer Venture Partners, Scottish Enterprise, Promus Ventures, RRE

Ventures, Mitsui Global Investment, Grishin Robotics, Lemnos Labs, Han

Hai Investment, Jump Capital

Earth Networks [Germantown, 1993]: Earth Networks, Inc. operates weather and climate sensor networksworldwide. The company offers weather and lightning observations, Web-based weather visualization andforecasting solutions, alerting systems, lightning safety solutions, early warning systems, data feeds, lightningnetworks, weather cameras, weather stations, LCD weather display solutions, and meteorological services. Itserves consumer, agriculture/food security, aviation, broadcast, energy/utility, government, oil and gas, sportsand recreation, and transportation sectors, as well as business operations, communities and cities, schools anduniversities, and gulf clubs and resorts. Earth Networks, Inc. was formerly known as AWS ConvergenceTechnologies, Inc. and changed its name to Earth Networks, Inc. in January 2011. The company was founded in1992 and is based in Germantown, Maryland.

$43.9MHarbourvest Partners, Polaris

Partners, Allegiance Capital - Oil and Gas, Sequoia China, WWC Engineering

Weather Analytics [Bethesda, 2005]: Weather Analytics provides statistically stable climate and forecast dataformed by collection of historical, current, and forecasted weather content, coupled with proprietary analyticsmethodologies. In addition, Weather Analytics offers more than 580 weather variables (such as air temperature,wind speed and solar radiation) for enhanced weather intelligence and risk mitigation.

$15.8M Kinetic Ventures, In-Q-Tel


http://www.climate.com/

http://www.spire.com/

http://www.earthnetworks.com/

http://www.weatheranalytics.com/


Weather (2/10)


Understory, Inc. [Boston, 2012]: Understory generates real-time, localized, weather data, gathered by a patent-pending, weather sensor. The hardware designed by Understory detects rain, hail, winds and other weatherevents directly at the Earth’s surface where the risk to life and property is greatest. The information collected byUnderstory is analyzed and processed to create real-time datasets and views of the movement and intensity ofweather events to provide better insight and early detection of risks. Understory's weather stationgenerates three-dimensional wind, rain, and hail observations as well as temperature, pressure, humidity,lightning strikes, and ambient light. First customer is American Family Insurance and is being deployed in Kansascity (suffers from extreme weather conditions). Bolt accelerator alum.

$9.47M

True Ventures, RRE Ventures, Gener8tor, VegasTechFund, SK Ventures, Bolt, Monsanto, CSA

Partners, 4490 Ventures, VTF Capital

Weather Decision Technologies [Norman, 1999]: Weather Decision Technologies is a weather content andweather decision support provider. Product offerings include SkyWise-weather data repository for appdevelopers, weather radio and apps for mobile and support system to organizations internationally. WDT hasbeen awarded Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000 status after experiencing 80 percent annual growth during its first fouryears and continued rapid growth in the past few years.

$7.9M Syncom Venture Partners, i2E

Arabia Weather [Muscat, 2006]: ArabiaWeather is built on its ability to analyze and interpret weatherinformation, transforming raw weather data into accurate forecasts and helping individuals and corporationsunderstand the practical implications on their daily operations. ArabiaWeather Inc. owns a consumer portalArabiaWeather.com which produces daily weather news, daily nature and science-related news, weatherforecasts for over 5K locations in Arab World countries, the weather forecasts is covering hour-by-bour, 5 days,and up to 14 days ahead, and life-Style weather. ArabiaWeather operates in 2 market segments: B-2-C | B-2-B, and targets all individuals in the region as well as companies that have operations that are impacted byweather (such as aviation, agriculture, construction, oil & gas, logistics).

$7MSilicon Badia, Jabbar, DASH Ventures, Mena Venture investments, Wamda

Capital

Weather Trends International [Bethlehem, 2006]: Weather Trends International specialises in providing yearahead reports and long range forecast data feeds to the clients. Also provides suite of products and services,including short range and year-ahead global forecasts and analytical assessments for grains, sugar, energy, andother weather driven commodity markets. Provides weekly and historical business weather updates, weatherversus sales analysis report, seasonal marketing planner, and weather alerts. The company serves retailers,manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural firms, financial equity and commodity analysts,consumers, and humanitarian organizations worldwide.

$5.5MKodiak Venture Partners, Innovation

Capital


http://www.understoryweather.com/

http://www.wdtinc.com/

http://www.arabiaweather.com/

http://www.wxtrends.com/


Weather (3/10)


Meteo [Tel Aviv, 2011]: Meteo-Logic is a pioneer of Big Data and Algorithm based Power & Weather forecast,making forecast more accurate, scalable and affordable. Founded in 2010, the company had set as a mission toenable businesses all around the world receive online, high resolution and accurate Power & Weather forecaststo allow better decision making and improve profitability.Currently it uses the weather data and combines itwith Algo-Trading to use it in Energy Commodity Trading Markets

$3M Horizons Ventures

y Riskpulse [Austin, 2007]: Stormpulse tracks potential storms from the moment they're identified by officialsources as tropical disturbances through the entire storm life cycle. Constantly aggregates data from theNational Hurricane Center, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, The National Weather Service, and more. Data isbeing used by a broad range of industries including energy, transportation, defense, healthcare, and retail.Stormpulse also offers Riskpulse, a risk management platform that gathers, elevates and visualizes external riskdata.

$2.74M 500 Startups

The Sunshine [San Francisco, 2014]: The Sunshine is a crowdsourced weather information provider. Traditionalweather services utilize satellites, expensive weather stations and meteorological radars, which are often fewand far in between. Sunshine has developed a weather application through which it quizzes user from time totime. It uses that information to learn their preferences and sending them the most personalized forecasts. Thecompany aims to create the weather layer on the maps by deploying a high resolution ground observationnetwork.

$2MGreat Oaks Venture Capital, Morado

Ventures, Monthly Ventures, BBG Ventures

Metwit [London, 2012]: Metwit enables access to crowdsourced weather and environmental data for servicesthat deal with geolocalized information. Allows submission of crowdsourced weather and environmental datafrom mobile apps and devices. Provides crowdsourced weather API, web weather widget and weather serviceson mobile & web.

$25k Seed Startup


http://www.meteo-logic.com/

http://www.stormpulse.com/

http://www.thesunshine.co/

http://www.metwit.com/


Weather (4/10)


StormGeo [Bergen, 1997]: StormGeo provides weather forecast services in the areas of offshore, onshore,media, renewables, shipping, and aviation. The company offers MetOcean forecasting to provide decisionsupport to offshore operations, routing and rig moves, response forecasting, ocean watch, hurricane advisory,dedicated meteorologist, and statistics and report services for the offshore industry; and business continuity,and alert and monitoring services for the onshore industry. It also provides broadcast and online weatherservices for media; services in the areas of offshore wind, onshore wind, traders, power generation, and energyand utilities for renewables; and helicopter operations/planning, airport weather forecasting, and observertraining services for the aviation industry. In addition, the company offers fleet management solutions to helpclients to accurately plan and track their voyage, and manage their entire fleet; and route advisory services forthe shipping industry. StormGeo was established in Bergen, Norway, in 1997 as a spin-off from TV2. Themajority shareholders of StormGeo are EQT and DNV GL, holding 56.2 % and 26.4% of the shares respectively.

EQT, Reiten, VestLand, EQT

MeteoGroup [London, 1986]: MeteoGroup is a weather forecasting company. The company offers forecasting,support, monitoring, and consultancy services; and studio, graphics, and training services. It also providesinformation on the traffic jams. The company also offers WeatherClips, a service in which the documents forweather show are created and rendered with the latest available data for the next weather show. In addition,the company offers WeatherSuite, a professional weather presentation tool to present a weather show; andMeteoEarth, a real-time television weather forecasting tool, which is used to show weather developmentsanywhere across the world. It serves transport, energy, agriculture, maritime, port cast, media, sports,meteorological research, specialist services, and other industries. MeteoGroup is backed by General Atlantic.

General Atlantic

Foreca [Helsinki, ]: Foreca is a digital weather data provider. Its product and service portfolio ranges fromready-to-use graphical elements and applications to raw data interfaces. Foreca weather forecasts is based onits state-of-the-art utilisation of available weather models. One of its key competencies is in over 5 dayforecasts. Customers include some of the worlds largest and most advanced companies.


http://www.stormgeo.com/

http://www.meteogroup.com/

http://www.foreca.com/


Weather (5/10)


World Weather Online [Manchester, 2008]: World Weather Online provides global weather forecast andweather content for websites, business and travel industry. The company Specializes in worldwide City andTown, Sailing, Hill and Mountain, Ski and Sports weather. Has developed own weather forecasting model whichdelivers reliable and accurate weather information for any geo-point in the world. Its weather model runs alongwith other metrological models like European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, WorldMeteorological Organization, NASA weather satellite imagery, NOAA GFS2 model and JMA model for researchand training purposes. Currently operate two high-tech weather data centres; one situated in Denmark and theother in Germany. Also has dedicated team members working in the UK, USA and India. Freemium revenuemodel.

AerisWeather [Excelsior, 2008]: AerisWeather creates custom weather solutions for weather-sensitivebusinesses. AerisWeather has four divisions: Consume, Develop, Visualize, Manage. The Consumer area allowsclients to get the weather directly in their hands by utilizing their mobile apps and local weather page. TheDeveloper division includes sophisticated AerisWeather API, Aeris Graphics and Overlays, and AerisWeatherSDKs. The Aeris Weather API is available to developers for free; however, the free API plan is limited. There areseveral paid plans that range from basic to enterprise level. Visualize contains professional Weather ForecastVideos. The Manage part includes solutions for an array of industries. Some of these solutions include AerisEnterprise, an advanced weather forecasting and alerting tool and AerisWeather Consulting, which offersweather forensics for a variety of legal issues.

Forecast [Troy, 2013]: Forecast.io is a weather forecast service created to power the Dark Sky App for iPhoneand iPad. In March 2013, Forecast.io was launched as its own separate weather service, and theForecast APIwas made available to developers so that they could incorporate Forecast.io weather data and functionality intothird-party applications. Applications and websites using Forecast.io weather data include DuckDuckGo, Sagaapp, Weather Line app and Dark Sky. The Forecast API can be used to retrieve weather data, including currentconditions, minute-by-minute forecasts, hour-by-hour forecasts and day-by-day forecasts for most locationsworldwide. The API can be used for both non-commercial and commercial applications, and 1,000 API calls perday max are free of charge. There is a charge of $1 per 10,000 (that is, 0.01 cent) for API calls that exceed the1,000 per day for free limit. Forecast.io is backed by a wide range of data sources, which are aggregatedtogether statistically to provide the most accurate forecast possible for a given location.


http://www.worldweatheronline.com/

http://www.aerisweather.com/

http://www.forecast.io/


Weather (6/10)


The Weather Company [Atlanta, 1978]: The Weather Company pioneers in providing weather forecasts, news,content, and data to the clients. The company claims to offer the most accurate, personalized and actionableweather data and insights to consumers and businesses via Weather’s API, its business solutions division, and itsown digital products from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground(wunderground.com). The company serves media, aviation energy, insurance, and utility industries. In 2016, thecompany was acquired by IBM.

FarmHub [San Francisco, 2012]: Hardware and software platform for agriculture setups, from gardens to multi-acre farming operations.Functioned formerly as Apitronics.com. Now, pivoted to providing accurate weatherdata, collected from local weather station and seamlessly integrated with the cloud for real time decisionmaking. Cloud data is available through its API.

Weather Source [Salem, 2004]: Weather Source has developed proprietary databases of weather data.Develops cutting-edge weather information products, historical weather data, and current and forecast data.Assembles data from dozens of government sources with multiple layers of quality checks, and are constantlyadding more sources. The Weather Channel, Coca-Cola, Walmart, MasterCard, Nasa are among its customers.

Weather ex Machina [Athens, 2012]: Weather ex Machina aggregates and compares third-party weatherforecasts with real-time weather conditions in order to measure forecasting accuracy per location andforecasting provider. In order to do this, the company use real time data from thousands of public weatherstations. Also, they are developing a unique mobile app that will collect clients own weather data using anumber of techniques, essentially turning clients mobile phone into a weather station. The company use thisinformation to make even better personalized predictions for clients and the people around them. By usingexisting underutilized data, cutting-edge technology and unexploited approaches, the company providespersonalized hyper-local, weather forecasts of unmatched accuracy.


http://www.theweathercompany.com/

http://www.farmhub.net/

http://www.weathersource.com/

http://www.weatherxm.com/


Weather (7/10)


OpenWeatherMap [Mountain View, 2011]: OpenWeatherMap is a crowdsourcing web service that providesfree weather data and forecast API. Provides wide range of weather data - maps with current weather, weekforecast, precipitation, wind, clouds, data from weather stations, data from radars. Weather data is receivedfrom global meteorological broadcast services, more than 40 000 weather stations and radars. All data areprocessed by unique mathematical algorithms developed by OpenWeatherMap specialists. Provides weatherdata to startups, developers, professionals, and enterprise. Subscription based revenue model.

Weather Underground [San Francisco, 1993]: Weather Underground provides real-time online weatherinformation for web users, and news and media outlets. It develops custom weather sites for TV stations andInternet portals, as well as offers various newspaper weather services. The company also providesWunderPhotos, a section that enables members to upload and share photographs of weather related content;WunderMap, an interactive weather map that allows users to choose from various weather layers, which areplotted on a map interface; and weather related blogs. Weather Underground, Inc. was founded in 1993 and isbased in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As of July 2, 2012, Weather Underground, LLC operates as a subsidiary of TheWeather Channel, Inc.

Onsemble [Niwot, 2009]: Onsemble collects the high-up wind data by putting sensors on cell phones towers,and using new tools. Onsemble takes all of this wind data — from wind speed to direction to temperature —collected every 10 minutes and sells it as a subscription package to companies that already sell weatherforecasting services. The company was funded, incubated and acquired by Houston’s Torch Energy Advisors.

PressureNet [Toronto, 2011]: PressureNet is a product developed by Cumulonimbus. It provides weather andclimate forecasting. It crowdsources weather data using its open source platform that collects data fromAndroid smartphones called the PressureNet SDK, and provides a feed of this data for atmospheric researchthrough PressureNet API. The company is also building apps on top of the PressureNet SDK such as PressureNet:for sensor data collection; Patient Zero, and Doodlecam Beta. Simple access through HTTPS and data returned inJson.


http://www.openweathermap.org/

http://www.wunderground.com/

http://www.onsemble.ws/

http://www.pressurenet.io/


Weather (8/10)


HailStrike [Plano, 2010]: Dynamic Weather Solutions has developed HailStrike, a cost effective hail tracking toolproviding instant and accurate graphical meteorological data that equips and empowers roofing companies,adjustors, insurance companies and various other service industries whose customers were impacted by severeweather. In addition, it offers HailStrike App for iPhone and iPad.

Baron Weather [Huntsville, 1990]: Baron Services in providing critical weather intelligence to its clients. Thecompany provides aviation solutions in the areas of in-flight aviation weather, aviation operations, pre-flightaviation weather, and aviation radar and integration solutions; and broadcast solutions covering on-air, radar,Web tools, alerting, and weather data. It also provides ground solutions comprising Mobile Threat Net andThreat Net Plus, which enable users to track storms and view radar data; and NavWeather, which provides viewon weather and road conditions. In addition, the company offers integration solutions, including dataprocessing, visualization, weather prediction and detection, and distribution; marine solutions, such as satellite-delivered marine weather, Internet-delivered weather with subscription service options for the United Statesand Canada, and Internet-delivered marine weather data for international waters; and weather radar sensors invarious configurations.

Speedwell Weather [Harpenden, 1999]: Speedwell Weather is the provider of global weather data, forecasts,software and settlement data for the weather risk market. Speedwell supplies historical and real-time weatherdata for tens of thousands of sites across the globe. Have direct data supply agreements with a wide range ofnational meteorological services. Its data products include SuperPack® which provides access to world-wideweather data sets. Also provides the Speedwell Weather System (SWS), the pre-eminent weather derivativepricing and risk management software and weather derivative service.

the climate data factory [Paris, 2015]: The Climate Data Factory provides ready to use climate projection data.The company centralises and make the data easy to use (standardized, quality checked, appropriate licence,etc.) by a larger community (scientist and businesses) so they can use it in their applications for the benefit of all(better prepared for climate change). As of December 2015, the company is in stealth mode.


http://www.hailstrike.com/

http://www.baronweather.com/

http://www.speedwellweather.com/

http://www.theclimatedatafactory.com/


Weather (9/10)


Weather Trends International [Bethlehem, 2002]: Weather Trends International specialises in providing yearahead business weather forecasting data (temperature, rainfall, snowfall). Year-ahead forecasts and businessguidance predicting seasonal sales volume, when to run advertising campaigns, commodity price forecasts,available for 6.4 millions locations in all 195 countries. Clients include retailers Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl's,AutoZone, Walgreens and suppliers Johnson & Johnson, Anheuser-Busch, SCJohnson, 3M, Energizer, financialfirms JP Morgan, Citi and over a 100 more Fortune 1,000 companies. Subscription based revenue.

meteoblue [Basel, 2006]: Meteoblue is a weather company spin-off from the University of Basel, producesdaily weather forecast. Has global 30-year hourly weather history. Customers in more than 20 countries since2012. Meteoblue DATA can be accessed in following ways- per meteoblue pointAPI (http-request), per FTPserver, as .txt or csv files, as PORT interface, through pointPro interface, for manual download as DATA-STREAM,through pointPro interface, for automated download as .xml feed, for automated download or insertion into awebsite.

AllisonHouse [Chicago, 2003]: AllisonHouse is a data aggregation and integration company providingdependable high-resolution weather data to storm chasers, emergency managers, federal and state agenciesand the general public. Its products Chaser, Hunter & Maps are available on monthly subscription basis.Provides radar data, lightning data, Meso Analysis, surface observation data etc.

AccuWeather [State College, 1962]: AccuWeather markets weather products and services. Also runs the free,advertising-supported website AccuWeather.com, an online weather provider. AccuWeather's forecasts andservices are based on weather information derived from numerous sources, including weather observations anddata gathered by the National Weather Service and meteorological organizations outside the United States, andfrom information provided by non-meteorological organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agencyand the armed forces.


http://www.weathertrends360.com/

http://www.meteoblue.com/

http://www.allisonhouse.com/

http://www.accuweather.com/


Weather (10/10)


PlanetiQ [Bethesda, 2012]: PlanetIQ specialises in launching microsatellites to provide real time data aboutatmosphere and planet. PlanetIQ uses signals from GPS satellites, but not for positioning. Instead, it measuresdistortion in these signals to learn about the atmosphere through which they passed. PlanetIQ's satellites watchthe GPS satellite rise and set on earth's horizon and calculates the bend in angle and time difference in reachingthe signals to the Earth. The fleet would generate about 5.5 million readings a day, which would be integratedby a computer on the ground into a 3-D map of atmospheric data. PlanetiQ is backed by Moog, Moog BroadReach, Millennium Engineering and Integration, and Earth Investments LLC.


http://www.planetiq.com/


Public Data (1/10)


Socrata [Seattle, 2007]: Socrata is a Seattle-based cloud software company, focused exclusively ondemocratizing access to government data. Socrata invented 'Socrata API Foundry' to make the rapidimplementation of an API-first, digital strategy at scale, easy and cost-effective to empowers a business analystto create an open developer-ready API in minutes, enables administrators to optimize APIs for different accessand workload patterns, supports device-agnostic security and privacy controls, with metadata management andturnkey cloud infrastructure scales elastically to handle fluctuating demand.

$54.5MOpenView, Morgenthaler, Frazier

Technology Ventures, Canvas Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Sapphire Ventures

Enigma [New York City, 2011]: Enigma centralizes and connects thousands of siloed public databases.Enigma taps into 100,000 public data sources from state and federal records to SEC filings to lists of frozenassets in the UK all the way to Crunchbase. Then develops simple and smart way to sift through and findconnections in publicly available data. Potential customers are from journalism, academia, and financeindustries. Has partnership with HBS, Gerson Lehrman Group, S&P Capital IQ, and the New York Times.Subscription based monetization model. Won TechCrunch Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in2013.

$34.62M

American Express, NEA, TriplePoint Capital, Crosslink Capital, Comcast Ventures, New York City Seed, Two

Sigma Ventures, NYTimes

Vertical Knowledge [Chagrin Falls, 2007]: Vertical Knowledge, LLC collects, processes, and leverages opensource data and provides data solutions to financial, media and marketing companies. Has been in the datacollection business for over 15 years. Collects open-source data and deliver actionable insights to the mostdemanding and sophisticated markets & clients in Finance, Risk, Security, Intelligence, Commercial etc.

$8.8M Marker

SpazioDati [Trento, 2012]: SpazioDati is a Semantic Big Data curation company. By leveraging Big Data &Semantic Web technologies, SpazioDati develops APIs and Web Widgets that tap into multidimensional livedataspaces, which aggregate hundreds of open and proprietary european data sources. SpazioDati also offersData Augmentation services to help small and large organizations to exploit the value of their information aswell as services to help them manage the entire data lifecycle.

$1.9M CervedCom, Trento Rise


http://www.socrata.com/

http://www.enigma.io/

http://www.vertical-knowledge.com/

http://www.spaziodati.eu/


Public Data (2/10)


DataMarket [Reykjavik, 2008]: Datamarket is an Icelandic company which specialises in providing access to andvisually displaying data from public and, to a lesser extent private institutions and companies. It offers countrystatistics, industry topics, data providers, topic pages, recently updated data, and highlights. The company alsoprovides data related services, data aggregation, interactive data applications, and custom integration projects.Datamarket accesses data from various public institutions and private consultancy firms. Won 'The MostInteresting Web' and 'The Best Service and Information Web' by Iceland web industry association in 2011. As of31 October, 2014 DataMarket is operating as a subsidiary of Qlik Technologies Inc.

$1.2M Frumtak ventures

Public Insight Corp [Hudson, 2012]: Public Insight is a software platform that analyses publicly available data.Public Insight integrates and interconnects data from a variety of data sources including the Census Bureau,American Community Survey, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), National Center forEducation Statistics, Common Core of Data, U.S. Federal Student Aid, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Centers forMedicare and Medicaid Services, and many others. Public Insight offers a free subscription level that providesusers with access to current and historical data with limited analysis. Cost-effective subscription plans areavailable for additional graphing options, data export, filtering, custom reporting and analysis, and advancedvisualizations.

$620k

Evolita [Caesarea, 2011]: The Evolita platform is a Web based service that essentially functions as a sort ofWikipedia for business intelligence. It gathers data from a variety of trusted sources, processes the the databased on parameters set by the user and presents them in a visual report framework. The company servesbusiness and academic customers.

$550K Nielsen Innovate Fund

Factabase [Dubai, 2009]: Factabase improves public statistics dissemination globally. It bridges the gap betweenpublic databases and the public seeking statistics by locating, repackaging and then distributing statistics. Hasbuilt and currently manage an extensive and search-able database of more than 80 countries (mostly emergingeconomies) from thousands of sources and are adding more and more countries and sources. Data can be usedby developers of all sorts through widgets and APIs to help build exciting new services or enhance their currentservices.

$500k


http://www.datamarket.com/

http://www.publicinsightdata.com/

http://www.evolita.com/

http://www.factabase.com/


Public Data (3/10)


Ontodia [New York City, 2011]: Ontodia specialises in big linked open data solutions for smart cities. It doesthis by using its "crowdknowing" technique to create Collective Knowledge Systems that leverage "semantics,statistics, algorithm and the crowd" to develop self-reinforcing Linked Data Networks. Provides solutions forgovernment of all sizes and sectors that utilize open data. Its offerings include Analytics as a service- actionableinsights from raw data aggregated from various public and private sources, Data Publishing- professionalsupport for hosting, installing, customizing, and maintaining your Data Portal using CKAN, and Data Services-data gathering, cleaning, enriching and visualization services.

$350k

Mediatrac [Jakarta, 2010]: Mediatrac develops AI technology to connect granular data automatically withouthuman intervention. Mediatrac has built a repository of Geo-Demographic and Linguistic data. The companyanalyzes the complete data universe and enriches clients’ data to gain deeper insight. Its technology productsconsist of BuzzRevo, NewsRevo, ReTale (retail tracking application), Map Dashboard and Data IntegrationTechnology. Mediatrac services include Marketing Mix Modelling, Brand Performance Monitoring and Analysis,Personalized Consumer Engagement, Brand Ambassador and Key Opinion Leader, Personalized Loyalty Program,Consumer Segmentation, and Area Segmentation.

Alpha JWC Ventures

Environmental Data Resources, Inc. [Shelton, 1990]: EDR is a provider of environmental risk information onbuilding, properties, & businesses along with platforms to analyze & report the datasets to professionals infinance, real estate, government, environment, corporate, and legal sectors. The company offers variouspackages that help in making due diligence projects. Sanborn maps that provide historical information, RadiusMaps to determine the physical settings of a property, directory of historical cities, historical aerials,topographic maps, and property reports. The company created and maintains the National Environmental DataInformation System, or NEDIS, its proprietary aggregate database of environmental records and historical landuse information culled from public records and private sources. The company serves environmental engineersand consultants; corporations; banks and financial firms; commercial real estate professionals; governmentagencies; legal and government firms; and home buyers, sellers, and agents. The company is a subsidiary ofDaily Mail & General Trust Plc.

DMG Information


http://www.ontodia.com/

http://www.mediatrac.co.id/

http://www.edrnet.com/


Public Data (4/10)


ThinkData Works [Toronto, 2014]: ThinkDataWorks provides Namara platform which allows users to browseOpen Data released by all levels of government in a single instance. By opening up access to data abouttransportation, education, health care, and more, Namara is helping app developers, civil society organizations,and businesses find innovative ways to tackle problems and digest new information.

EVP, MaRS IAF

Statista [Hamburg, 2007]: Statista is the statistics data portal which has aggregated data on over 80, 000 topicsfrom over 18, 000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.comprovides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct accessto quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest ormarkets. data sources include market research reports, such as the Ipsos Affluent Survey published annually byIpsos Media, Simmons National Consumer Studies and Consumer Insights from Scarborough Research, as well astrade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. The portal has over 3.5 million users a month.Some of the datasets available on the platform is free but premium account is required to access much of theplatform.

Grazia Equity

Catalist [Washington D.C., 2006]: Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over240 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Its database contains185 million registered voters – a unified national voter file – collected from Election Officials in all 50 states andthe District of Columbia. Its commercial data contains about 55 million unregistered individuals with fields suchas household attributes, purchasing and investment profiles, donation behavior, occupational information,recreational interests, and engagement with civic and community groups. The company also integrate data fromthe Census, specialty data, and media market geographies. the company offers data subscription, analytics andmodels, web-based software for its database and, data integration solutions. Data & Analytics firms,membership organizations, elected office campaigns, caucuses, & pacs, voting & civil rights groups, issueadvocacy organizations, strategists & consultants, academic & research institutions, polling firms, and digitalmedia companies are among its customers.

Rose Tech Ventures


http://www.thinkdataworks.com/

http://www.statista.com/

http://www.catalist.us/


Public Data (5/10)


BrightPlanet [Sioux Falls, 1999]: BrightPlanet has developed patented technology that enables it to tap intounstructured web data from the Surface Web, Deep Web, and even places on the Dark Web. Its serviceofferings include Data-as-a-service: customized structured datasets from web data, and Global News Data Feed:allows customers to access over 9000 global news sources, collect information in any language and translate itfor analytics. Global News Data Feed can be integrated into third party analytics tools. Global News Data Feedcan be accessed through BrightPlanet Search Dashboard or RestAPI. Charges $500 per user for full data access.

Sherpa Partners, Bluestem Capital, AAVIN

Eproc [Jakarta, 2014]: Based in Indonesia, Eproc gives a electronic tender system which is a service to helpcompanies or SMEs in providing E-procurement services or hold a tender.

Core Data Source [Tulsa, 2010]: Core Data Source is a national wholesale criminal data provider. The data isFCRA compliant and is available to the clients upon request. The company specialises in national criminal,statewide criminal, sex offender, most wanted, eviction, international criminal, SSN Trace, address trace, countycriminal, federal pacer, FACIS, and Smart Search. The company is founded in 2010 and is headquartered atTulsa, Oklahoma.

SmartGov [Cambridge, 2013]: SmartGov is working on ways to aggregate, geo-reference and normalize thepublicly released data, creating in the process a search engine for clients such as government, corporate houses,and NGOs. Its products are GeoStat which allows users to monitor the socio-economics of their locations ofinterest and Budget which allows local governments to display their budget books on interactive visualizationsrather than PDF. Founded at the University of Cambridge in 2012 by a team of economists, statisticians, andcomputer scientists, SmartGov has since received many awards.The company is backed by the University ofCambridge, the Royal Society of Arts, Unltd and incubated at Microsoft Ventures.


http://www.brightplanet.com/

http://www.eproc.id/

http://www.coredatasource.com/

http://www.smartgov.co/


Public Data (6/10)


Beijing Datatang Technology Co. Ltd [Beijing, 2010]: Datatang provides professional services of data collecting,processing, and labeling in China. The core capability of Datatang is to provide customized data service. Inaddition to that the company also operates a crowd sourcing platform, Crowdtang. Datatang manages an offlinecontractor team, consists of professionals in language processing, computer vision and graphics, machinelearning, to extract information from unstructured data, reorganize, and polish the data into desirable format.For APP developers, the company provides data from API and collecting real-time user-end behavior data bySDK. IBM, Microsoft, BMW, Samsung, Sony and other big names are among its customers.

How India Lives [Delhi, 2014]: How India Lives is a search engine for public data on India. It is a web-basedapplication that organises public data on India in a database and makes it available to users in a searchable,comparable, downloadable and visual format. Across all devices. It aims to be the largest repository of publicdata on India and a tool to aid decision-makers take actionable, real-world decisions. It is targeted at companyofficials, researchers, economists, analysts, government officials, students, and journalists, among others. As ofApril 2016, they have launched the beta version of its website and has over 13,000 users spread across India,USA and UK. Currently, the data is available free for the users but the team is working to introduce a freemiummodel, along with a significant upgrade in the volume of data and the quality of the visual interface. Hasreceived $16K in grant from Tow-Knight Foundation in 2012.

CiviData [Bend, 2010]: CiviData is a provider of on-demand business intelligence for the public sector. Thecompany creates “business intelligence” by collecting, maintaining and organizing information from the publicsector and providing easy to use analytical and reporting tools to inform and support decisions of public sectoragencies, publicly regulated utilities and other organizations that provide local public services. Presently,CiviData collects utility rate component data for residential, commercial and industrial customers and relatedfinancial statement information for the three municipal utilities- Water, Wastewater and Stormwater. The datacan be used for improve organizational performance, informing appointed and elected officials, and pressreleases.


http://www.datatang.com/

http://www.howindialives.com/

http://www.cividata.com/


Public Data (7/10)


HDScores [Baltimore, 2012]: HDScores is a food safety focused data informatics startup that puts publiclyavailable data into a actionable and consumable format (easy to read, search and understand), starting withrestaurant health department inspection reports. Restaurant & Chains can access nationwide food safetydatabase for their establishments and their competitors for food safety quality assurance/control, reputationand brand protection. While consumers can access the portal to gain information about food sanitation andcleanliness specific to a restaurant. Has created a single source for over 615,000 establishment's data, availablevia Web, Apps (iOS/Android) & API. Updating entire database on a weekly basis. Founded in Baltimore,Maryland in 2012 and completely bootstrapped by the founders

Datafiniti [Austin, 2011]: Datafiniti provides instant access to web data for businesses. It enables users tocompare prices, assortment, and reviews across multiple online retailers; acquire lists for lead generation,review monitoring, and directory sites; and view data for a global real estate market and track new listings.Offers three kinds of API- Business API, Product API, and Property API. Experian, Acxiom, Mailchimp, DHL areamong its customers.

Inzyte [Ernakulam, 2014]: Inzyte, product of Quadloops Technologies, is a platform for extracting structureddata out of the web and exporting it to variety of formats. Unstructured and semi-structured data from all overthe web can be provided to the user in structured formats - CSV, SQL, NoSQL datastores, JSON, API etc. Theproduct is currently in private beta. Quadloops technologies was incubated at the Startup Village.

Anomaly [London, 2013]: Anomaly42 develops products that collects, connects, extends and refinesunstructured and structured data to understand it quickly and identify anomalies. Offres products Confero &Contextus. Confero aggregates and unifies vast amount of data from sources such as log files, spreadsheets andtables, emails, documents, images and videos, external data such as open data, mobile data, sensor data(Internet of Things) and web data. Contextus enables users to track the data lineage, enrich it, and visualize theanomalies & trends. Anomaly42 recognised as a “Cool Vendor in Information Governance and MDM, 2015" byGartner.


http://www.hdscores.com/

http://www.datafiniti.co/

http://www.inzyte.com/

http://www.anomaly42.com/


Public Data (8/10)


Data-Planet [Bethesda, 1989]: Data-Planet's Data-Planet™ platform delivers a massive repository of publicly,privately, and commercially sourced statistical data. All of the data in the system are time-series data. The dataavailable in the Data-Planet repository are accessible through two complementary interfaces: Data-PlanetStatistical Datasets and Data-Planet Statistical Ready Reference. Product cost varies according to type ofinstitution and size of user population.

FedAPI [Washington, 2012]: FedAPI uses crawlers, algorithms, crowdsourcing, and other methods to capturethe US government data. They correlate it and then give access to enterprise and government applicationdevelopers through easy to use APIs.

Doorda [London, 2013]: Doorda aggregates and provides local and national open datasets and has createdunique reference datasets. UK government's initiative to promote transparency, accountability and efficiency ingovernment has resulted into growing number of open data releases covering areas such as health, crime,property and the census. Doorda aggregates these open datasets periodically and provide access to people andbusinesses via Doorda API and extract via JSON or CSV format. The company also provide Data as a service toprovide customized mash-ups and investigate the availability of open data sources relevant to your area ofinterest.

Niinja [Chicago, 2012]: Ninja is an NSN search tool for Federal Logistics Information System Datasets. Ninjaretrieves FLIS data from the Department of Defense each month. The source files are regularly posted on DLA'se-Reading Room, as required by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Monthly subscription basedmonetization model. Ninja was developed by Vital Axiom, which was founded in 2012 and is based in USA.

Knoema [Washington, 2011]: Knoema provides access to a large number of databases related tosocioeconomics and environmental, and provides visualization tools. Knoema claims to have 450 million timeseries data across 900+ topics. Knoema allows users to build charts/tables, download data in excel format, savedata views and share with friends. Currently, they are focusing on Universities as their potential customers.Founded in 2011, the company is based in Washington, DC, with R&D and data teams located in Perm, Russiaand Bangalore, India.


http://www.data-planet.com/

http://www.fedapi.com/

http://www.doorda.com/

http://www.niinja.co/

http://www.knoema.com/


Public Data (9/10)


Building Permits

BuildFax [Asheville, 2008]: BuildFax, a division of BUILDERadius, is the creator of a national database ofhistorical building permit data across the United States. It collects data on new construction, major systemsrepair, additions, renovations, roofs, pools, demolitions, contractors and more. Customers are from insurance,financial services, inspection, and appraisal industry as well as real estate industry. Currently covers over 60percent of the U.S. commercial and residential building stock with 6 billion data points.

$13MEnvironmental Data Resources, Inc.,

DMG Information

Building Permits

Civic Insight [San Francisco, 2012]: Civic Insight makes official information about buildings and constructionprojects available to the public in an easy-to-use interface. Also, develops visualizations that show how a city ischanging over time

Energy

EnerKnol [New York City, 2012]: EnerKnol is a New York based energy policy data and analytics company.Product offerings are EnerKnol Data which is a web based subscription software enabling users to accesscomprehensive range of federal, state, and local energy policy information, in real-time using a proprietaryalgorithm; EnerKnol Research which is a macro and industry level analyses around the fragmented governmentpolicies that affect the energy market. Launched New York energy week to foster collaboration and investmentin New York's rapidly growing energy economy. The company is backed by On Grid Ventures LLC.

Public Procurement

SmartProcure [Deerfield Beach, 2011]: SmartProcure collects government purchasing data and share it amongother government agencies and government vendors. The data is gathered through Freedom of Information Actrequests. The company aggregates purchasing order from schools, local, state and federal agencies.Government vendors uses this system to see who buys their products, how much they pay and who theypurchase them from. Government agencies uses this system to identify prospective vendors, evaluate pricingparameters for each procurement, confirm vendor performance, and share lessons-learned. For vendors itoffers SmartSearch and SmartExport. For government agencies it offers SmartSearch, SmartAgency andSmartPortal. The database is free for government but government vendors have to pay a subscription fee.

$7.9M New Ground Ventures, Govtech Fund


http://www.buildfax.com/

http://www.civicinsight.com/

http://www.enerknol.com/

http://www.smartprocure.us/


Public Data (10/10)


Public Procurement

Spend Network [London, 2013]: Spend Network is a comprehensive and publicly available repository ofgovernment transaction data. Government and the businesses that sell to government can access this data onpublic purchasing. Spend Network has published over 30m transactions, worth in excess of £878bn. Thecompany has grown out of Ticon, a small consultancy focused on government procurement and payments,founded by Ian Makgill and is based in UK.

Socio-Economic

Headlight Data [Austin, 2011]: Headlight is an online data system that enables local economic and workforcedevelopment agencies to produce data-intensive websites on their local economy. Headlight uses open datafrom federal agencies, or data provided by the local organization. Headlight has two products currently: theHeadlight portal and Career Headlight. The Headlight portal aggregates all economic, demographic, workforce,and social time-series data into a single website in customizable dashboards. All data is updated automaticallywhen it is released through an automated batch process. Career Headlight is a web app that helps students andadult workers identify career that are in demand in their local community and where to find the education. Bymatching students to job demand. A key feature of Career Headlight is the use of statistical modeling to simplifythe ONET system and to bring job creation forecasts down to the county level.

Socio-Economic

Stat.io [Cambridge, 2012]: Stat.io is working on ways to aggregate, geo-reference and normalise the publiclyreleased data, creating in the process a search engine 'SmartGov' for clients such as government, corporatehouses and NGOs. Its products are GeoStat which allows users to monitor the socio-economics of their locationsof interest and Budget which allows local governments to display their budget books on interactivevisualizations rather than PDF. Founded at the University of Cambridge in 2012 by a team of economists,statisticians and computer scientists, SmartGov has since received many awards.The company is backed by theUniversity of Cambridge, the Royal Society of Arts, Unltd and incubated at Microsoft Ventures.

Socio-Economic -Demographic

Social Explorer [New York City, 1999]: Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information aboutthe United States. The site contains 39 billion data points, 200,000 variables, and 15,000 interactivemaps.Also,the site provides thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790. Subscription basedmonetization model. Customers include The New York Times, GE, MIT, Stanford University, Yale University andmany more.


http://www.spendnetwork.com/

http://www.headlightdata.com/

http://www.stat.io/

http://www.socialexplorer.com/


Marketplace (1/10)


Data Republic Pty Ltd [Sydney, 2014]: Data Republic has created a technology platform that allows companies,governments and other organizations to share data in a secure way via an exchange. The company hasdeveloped data banking service. It allows companies such as banks and wireless carriers, which have obtainedpermission from customers, to sell data to companies that want to get a fuller picture of their customers’activities for ad targeting and other purposes. Using Data Republic’s platform, for instance, a bank might be ableto get access to their flight information so it knows when they’re traveling overseas and can avoid cancelling thecredit card it might otherwise suspect of being stolen. Or the data could be used by retailers to better targetcustomers with personalized ads or offers. For now, Data Republic is taking a cut based on the amount of datagetting exchanged, but later the company will take a cut of what data buyers pay to access data on theexchange. Recently, the company had raised AU$ 10.5 million from Qantas Loyalty fund, NAB Ventures, andReInventure Fund. They already had raised a little under $ 2 million from Australian investors, includingWestpac.

$7.58MNAB, Qantas Loyalty, Reinventure

Group

Big Data Exchange [Coral Springs, 2014]: BDEX's data exchange platform (DXP) is a real time data marketplace.Its technology enables data buyers to acquire data in real time similar to stock exchange. Data Partnershipsinclude: Neustar, LiveRamp, CrossPixel, Signal and more.

$1.7M

Datacoup [New York City, 2012]: Datacoup is a personal data emarketplace Lets users aggregate and sell theirown anonymous personal data. Users connect their social profile (FB, google+, twitter etc) and debit card to theplatform. It creates a dashboard which shows the data attributes (gender, education, monthly spending etc) thathave been pulled from each connected account. Each attribute contributes to the overall base price listed foruploaded data. When data is uploaded and reviewed then Datacoup puts the data into data market whereretailers, brands buys that data. When the data is purchased, Datacoup will notify by email and the purchase willbe recorded in user's market activity log and displayed on a graph. User gets paid out. Currently support socialand financial data.

$440K


http://www.datarepublic.com.au/

http://www.bigdataexchange.com/

http://www.datacoup.com/


Marketplace (2/10)


DataStreamX [Singapore, 2014]: DatastreamX provides a platform to enterprises to generate revenue via sellingthe data they generate. It has an API for both buyers to stream data to their apps after they subscribe to it andsellers to transfer data from their sensors to the platform and offer it for sale. It generates revenue via thesubscription of buyers and sellers. The company was incubated at JFDI Asia in 2014.

$389.65k Joyful Frog Digital Innovation

Terbine [Nevada, 2014]: Terbine is a data marketplace for world's physical data (such as carbon emissions,power line loading and crop density). Businesses can sell data they’re already collecting, buy data generated bymyriad sources, or both. The renewable energy division of a power utility might stream solar farm data into theTerbine Marketplace, or a commodities brokerage could buy data collected from millions of smart meters foranalysis. The possible uses for sensor data are endless, and timely with the growing waves of big data analytics,cloud computing systems, robotics, autonomous vehicles, virtual and augmented reality displays, and muchmore. As of December 2015, the company is in stealth mode.

$250k Incapture Technologies

Powr of You [London, 2013]: Powr of You is a personal data marketplace. Platform helps individuals get paid forthe data that they share online while staying anonymous. Individuals need to login & signup and then platformwill collect their social media activity data, anonymises it and sells it to the brands. Shares revenue with theindividuals.

Collider

The Data Exchange [Bangor, 2011]: The Data Exchange facilitates the purchase and sell of data and creation ofcontracts formalizing these relationship. Buyer can see the sample and ask the question before buying data.Uploaded and purchased data directly moves to the DataVault only accessible to members of user'sorganization. All user data is encrypted at rest using AES 256 standards. Data is protected in transit via SSL & TLScryptography.

Solidea


http://www.datastreamx.com/

http://www.terbine.com/

http://www.powrofyou.com/

http://www.thedataexchange.com/


Marketplace (3/10)


Data Marketplace [California, 2010]: Data Marketplace is a marketplace for financial data. User submits requestto Data Marketplace, and the site will send those requests to its database of data aggregators, programmers,and consultants who specialize in finding financial data and essentially transferring it into a readable format.Providers then post data resources to Data Marketplace site, provide descriptive metadata, and also set a price.Data can also be posted on the site without a request, that users can search for. Data Marketplace takes a 14%cut of each transaction on the site, from the provider. Data Marketplace handles all of the payment processingand allows users to directly purchase and download resources in an accessible format online. Data Marketplaceis funded by Y Combinator. The company was acquired by Infochimps in 2010.

Y Combinator

BlueDME [Neuilly-sur-Seine, 2015]: Blue DME is a Data Exchange allowing data acquisition and monetizationbetween companies. It helps Marketing, Sales and Operations departments to improve their performance whilebuilding upper insights and/or making money while monetizing their digital assets. The company find, price andsettle data trades. Currently targeting customers in banking and insurance sectors.

waaex [Bogota, 2014]: Waaex is a marketplace for consumer behavior data. The company has developedWaaex app using which consumers can take selfies, add their mood icon, relevant topic, share it, and receivesome questions from brands, answer them and get paid.

Tile Data Processing Inc [Montreal, 2015]: Tilepay is a platform that enables users to control access to theirdata for their IoT devices. The Internet of Things data marketplace allows users to offer their data in exchangefor money, coupons and rebates. By using Bitcoin block chain technology ,the registration, authenticity, securityand available data will be broadcasted over the decentralized ledger. The owner of the devices publish theirdata profile via marketplace and then companies are able to purchase data.


http://www.datamarketplace.com/

http://www.bluedme.com/

http://www.waaex.com/

http://www.tilepay.org/


Marketplace (4/10)


datalette [Boston, 2006]: Datalette is the marketplace for fundamental datasets. The company was started in2006 by Sasa Zorovic. In 2010, Datalette was acquired by Bloomberg.

SeismicZone [Calgary, 2013]: SeismicZone, powered by Katalyst, is an e-commerce website designed toaccelerate the E&P decision-making processes through online marketing of quality assured seismic data. Theonline marketplace now features 84,351 sq km/32,568 sq mi of 3D data and 3.34 million km/2.07 million mi of2D data available for license. SeismicZone gives exploration stakeholders access to current seismic data availableacross the globe.

AdThink Media [Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, 2001]: BIG is a user data exchange platform. That enables publishers andadvertisers to trade anonymous data about web users. This gives publishers a new, completely transparentincome stream. It also allows advertisers to target their advertisements better, displaying them to the rightpeople at the right time and, in doing so, reducing the cost of acquiring customers. BIG has developed anexclusive algorithm that makes it possible to apply the bidding principle to data and determine price on a supplyand demand basis. The BIG web app is accessible on a self-service basis and open to all. Data transmission iscompatible with all display ad buying platforms and leads databases. Also offers the first DMP free.

Evidencity, Inc [Washington D.C., 2014]: Evidencity is a marketplace that connects data buyers around theglobe to the local data providers. The company has partnered with local providers from around the globe(typically reporters) to provide access to local offline data. Obtaining offline data is achieved on the platform'sordering system, which gives buyers access to what is publicly and legally available in their country of choice, aswell as the price per item. This platform includes a case management system as well as an online library of everydocument, buyers obtain from local providers. As they complete more orders, all of their data will becentralized and organized securely on the platform. Data offered by providers through the marketplace iscurrently focused on the traditional due diligence data needs- Legal, Finance and Compliance industries. Countrycards are used in the Evidencity marketplace to connect buyers to local providers. They ensure continuity forevery order, and detail what data can be obtained in the marketplace, by country.


http://www.datalette.com/

http://www.seismiczone.com/

http://www.big.exchange/

http://www.evidencity.com/


Marketplace (5/10)


Kasabi [Birmingham, 2010]: Kasabi is an online data marketplace. There are a number of open datasetsprovided on the Kasabi platform. Datasets include the CIA World Factbook, the BBC's Programs, or NASA'sspacecraft dataset. Provides consistent developer APIs that work across all types of data within the marketplaceand a simple subscription approach that removes the frustration of working with different licensing and pricingregimes. Data publishers can license and brand data through the marketplace to reach a global community ofdevelopers. All data is hosted on Kasabi’s secure and reliable data platform. The company had shut down itsoperation in July 2012.

DEX [Singapore, 2012]: DEX is a data marketplace for both public and private datasets. The platform has a widerange of data catered for developers, data scientists and businesses.

Geocento [ , 2011]: Geocento is a online provider of satellite and drone imagery, leveraging their technology forfree image search, selection and planning. They provide "EarthImages" which is a suite of online applicationsand APIs that provide users of satellite images with the tools that they need to locate, select and plan imageryfrom the multitude of civilian satellites, both in terms of new acquisitions and data archives.

Tranquant [Toronto, 2014]: Tranquant is a data marketplace to match buyers and sellers of data in advertisingindustry. Sellers can sell their data collected through a mobile app or service. Buyers can buy data for marketingand advertising for specific segment audience that they need.


http://www.kasabi.com/

http://www.dex.sg/

http://www.geocento.com/

http://www.tranquant.com/


Marketplace (6/10)


Data4You [Wilmslow, 2015]: Data4You is a marketplace for targeted, accurate and affordable B2C and B2Bdata. The company provides B2C data for customer acquisition, retention and enhancement for any sector fromleisure & travel to motoring, healthcare and finance. Data attributes can be age, gender, household income ortheir purchasing habits, our selection criteria, mobile, landline, and email. Its B2B data includes the contacts ofsenior decision makers in the sales targeted companies, and is for construction, finance, retail, services, andwholesale. Data4You also provides services for email broadcasting and database cleansing and auditing. ICOregistered company and sources data from trusted ICO and DMA registered sources.

VenPath [Brooklyn, 2015]: VENPATH is the data marketplace for apps to monetize valuable user data in ananonymous, and privacy compliant manner. Only approved buyers can access the marketplace, and apps canselect what data they provide, how often they provide it, and who has the ability to purchase their data.

Diggen [San Diego, 2012]: Diggen offers cloud based marketplace platform Middleware using which marketerscan access consumer data and integrate that with their marketing tools. Diggen’s horizontal service reduces thetotal cost of ownership eliminating development, integration and maintenance costs.

CLOUDEO [Munich, 2012]: CloudEO is a geo collaboration platform for geodata and GIS software products. ItsCloudEO Workbench brings together geodata and GIS software from multiple vendors. Solution is fullyvirtualized, based on VMware, and typically provide access to the Virtual Machines via Horizon View, whichutilizes the PCoverIP protocol. Offers a wide variety of products, that ranges from satellite and aerial imagery toelevation data, vector maps and various value added products. Pay per use models for data and software.

V10 Data inc. [Laval, 2013]: V10 Data Inc is the automotive data marketplace. V10 collects, tags, standardizes,analyzes, resells and makes universally accessible the vast amount of data. Data on cars (engine, make,mechanics, road tests, etc.), different automotive markets (news, market data, etc.), and automotive consumers(profiles, purchasing processes, etc.). Charges commission on the data that sellers sells.


http://www.data4you.co.uk/

http://www.venpath.net/

http://www.diggen.com/

http://www.cloudeo-ag.com/

http://www.v10data.com/


Marketplace (7/10)


Kyper [Cambridge, 2015]: Kyper Data Technologies allows user to view and buy professional grade data. Also,offers web based technologies to analyse the data. Data can be accessed with Kyper’s standardized APItechnology. Its data catalogue includes datasets related to market, news, financial, social media, web traffic, realestate, census, weather and agriculture. Has partnered with the data partners. Kyper's data and analytics toolscan be used in quantitative research, real time monitoring (market, weather, brand info etc), and apps andwebsite construction.

Red Lion Data [Ottawa, 2011]: Red Lion Data is a marketplace for business location and point of interest (POI)data in USA & Canada. Data comes from retailer (business) locator service. Data is available in CSV format. Datais updated in three months. Customers uses data in application mash-ups, mobile apps, business locatorservices, business directories, geo-mapping products and services, market and competitive analysis and businessintelligence.

vitaTrackr [Baltimore, ]: vitaTrackr is a health data marketplace. vitaTrackr marketplace consists of 4architectural components: data source interface, data destination interface, consumer portal, vitaTrackrmarketplace engine. All aspects of vitaTrackr's operations that involve health care data are fully HIPAA andHITECH compliant. The patient/consumer gets their personal data for free, since the cost of gathering andhousing it is borne by the businesses and organizations that find value both in specific, individual data, and indepersonalized aggregate data

weogeo [Portland, 2006]: WeoGeo Market is a complete web-based platform that unleashes data locked up inproprietary formats. WeoGeo connects customers with data providers, accelerating the sales process thatmakes both much happier. Customers get data within minutes of discovering it and in the format they need.Providers know their data is being sold around the clock and around the world without them needing to lift afinger. It was acquired by Trimble.

Geolocarta [Brisbane, 2012]: Geolocarta is an online spatial data and survey record database marketplace. Userneed to register and then he is able to download the survey datasets uploaded by other surveyors. Geolocartaenables users to be paid whenever their datasets are used. As of November, 2015 the company is in stealthmode.


http://www.kyper.com/

http://www.redliondata.com/

http://www.vitatrackr.com/

http://www.weogeo.com/

http://www.geolocarta.com/


Marketplace (8/10)


Social Data Collective [New York City, 2014]: Social Data Collective allows consumers to share their personaldata in exchange of product and services. Social Data Collective has partnered with the brands who will use thisdata for better customer acquisition. Consumers can share personal data such as browsing history, mobile appsdata, financial transaction history, wearable & IOT data. In exchange the company will give them gift coupons,products and other services. Launched in 2015.

Big [Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, 2001]: BIG is a user data exchange that enables publishers and advertisers to tradeanonymous data about web users. BIG has developed an exclusive algorithm that makes it possible to apply thebidding principle to data and determine price on a supply and demand basis. The BIG web app is accessible on aself-service basis and open to all. Data transmission is compatible with all display ad buying platforms and leadsdatabases. SaaS solution. Also, offers the first DMP free. Advertisers need to create an account, declare & tagdata sources, build segments, generate audience analytics report, and consolidate first party data for free. Toacquire 3rd-party data based audiences using Segment Targeting, Search History Targeting or Browsing HistoryTargeting they need to pay a minimum amunt of $ 100. Part of AdThink Media Group.

CercaClienti.it [Rimini, 2015]: Customapp is a marketplace for lead generators through a smart and interactivemap easy to use. Companies can select their customers in real-time filtering leads based on Place, Price,Urgency, Budget and more. Customapp is the reverse eBay. Finalist of the Wind Startup Award.

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dmi.io [Denver, 2013]: dmi.io is an online B2B marketplace for buying and selling business data acrossindustries and across data types (with an early focus on value-added public records, Oil & Gas data, andInternet-of-Things data). Conceptually a hybrid between “eBay for data” and “a Commodities Exchange forData.”


http://www.socialdatacollective.com/

http://www.this-is-big.com/

http://www.customapp.co/

http://www.dmi.io/


Marketplace (9/10)


Dawex [Lyon, 2015]: Dawex is a secure platform designed to operate data transactions for all businesses. Sellersgives the precise description of their data, decides who can use that data sets, sets conditions and usage rightsfor the data. Buyer can search and evaluate the quality of data and can negotiate price for customized data-setsdirectly with the seller or via Dawex platform. Dawex ensures the data's compliance with data rules andregulations and synchronizes the technical transfer of data with the actual payment. Once the buyer commit topurchasing Dawex locks the data so that seller can not edit the datasets.

qDatum Data Exchange [Berlin, 2014]: qDatum Data Exchange is a single point exchange for selling and buyingraw and aggregate data. Data provided on the marketplace comes from the different industries. Customers arefrom various industries including NGO, research organizations or public institutions. qDatum Data Exchange alsoprovides SaaS solution for the organizations. The qDatum platform caters for intense machine-to-machine(M2M) data exchanges and provides a standard API to use for both data providers and data consumers. Theinteraction with the qDatum Data Exchange can be carried out either through the user-interface or the API.Supports multiple formats, such as XML, Json, xlsx, CSV, geo-Json etc. once a dataset is in the system, a dataconsumer can extract it in any other format. Still in a beta form. Accepted into the Microsoft VenturesAccelerator Program. Raised undisclosed amount in a venture round in August 2014.

xDayta [Phoenix, 2013]: xDayta is an open marketplace where one can sell and buy datasets. The companyfacilitates trades, brokers transactions, indexes data pricing, and regulates trading. Datasets are available invariety of formats including spreadsheets and word documents. Also available in various categories such asmarketing, sells, technology, demographics etc.

Financial & Economic

Quandl [Toronto, 2011]: Quandl is a data marketplace which provides financial and economic data through API,website, and libraries for Excel, Python, R, MATLAB and more. Aggregates data from authoritative sources likeNASDAQ, Zacks, EDI, Data Yes and others. Its collaboratively-curated portal hosts over 8 million time-seriesdatasets. Open platform. Anybody can buy, sell, store or share data on Quandl.

$20.2MGrowX Ventures, August Capital, iGan

Partners


http://www.dawex.com/

http://www.qdatum.io/

http://www.xdayta.com/

http://www.quandl.com/


Marketplace (10/10)


Personal

DataWallet [San Mateo, 2015]: DataWallet is an online marketplace that allows user to sell their data tocompanies looking to buy data. Companies looking for data come on to the platform and post the requirementand purpose and then DataWallet match the request with data submitted by users. All data is 100% anonymizedso one can not trace back the source of data. DataWallet pays to users in exchange of their data. Customers arefrom well known consumer facing companies to lesser known B2B firms. The company is backed by angelinvestors Tim Draper and Marc Benioff.

$300K Alchemist Accelerator

Personal

Handshake [Southall, 2012]: Handshake is a secure marketplace for personal data. User can share data with thebrands of their choice and get rewarded for it. User have to make a profile and then brands will contact the userthrough the app depending on their profile and then both can negotiate on the price of data. The company hasbeen audited by SSAE 16 and has applied for ISO 27001 certification. Currently in beta mode.

$150K

Personal

Yes Profile [Paris, 2011]: Yes Profile is the platform where users can sell their personal data such as age,favourite products, preferences etc to the brands. Users have to register on the site and then they can sell theirpersonal data to the brands of their choice and earn money. In addition to that users can also avail exclusivedeals from the brands.

Personal

Nimbee [Zurich, 2015]: Nimbee allows users to fully create, own and sell personal data. Its an instantmessenger where users create their personal profile and chat with friends and the app collects little bits of dataeveryday. Users have full ownership over their data and can decide themselves if they want to sell it to earnmoney or not. Earned money can be cashed out to a bank account, used for online purchases or given to acharity.

Personal

CitizenMe [London, 2013]: CitizenMe is a personal data marketplace where individuals can trade data andinsights anonymously with brands and receive cash rewards for every interaction. Uses data from social APIs,survey data to provide users with personal insights using a Bayesian machine learning engine which are privateand invisible to CitizenMe. Lets users control data choices and understand its use by others. Collaborated withCambridge and Sheffield universities.


http://www.datawallet.io/

http://www.handshake.uk.com/

http://www.yesprofile.com/

http://www.nimbee.co/

http://www.citizenme.com/


Trade (1/8)


Panjiva [New York City, 2006]: Panjiva is an information source for the Global Trade community. It has data onmore than 10 million companies across 190 countries. It helps enterprises in identifying new suppliers, providesnew leads for global suppliers and intelligence. In 2013, it was featured in Inc. 500's Annual List of America'sFastest-Growing Private Companies.

$5.6MBattery Ventures, Rose Tech Ventures,

Harrison Metal

Datamyne [Miami, 1992]: Datamyne provides detailed, authoritative data on the import-export trade of some50 countries across 5 continents including US trade with over 200 markets. Offers access to a searchabledatabase of import-export trade related to cargos, markets, and trading partners. Aggregates data from bills oflading, manifests, and customs declarations in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Servesimporters/wholesalers & exporters, financial & industry analysts, chemical companies, legal practitioners,manufacturers, transportation & logistic service providers, management consultants, health & nutrition, andenergy industries.

$2M Praesidian Capital, Kemper

Trade Spy [Delhi, 2006]: Trade Spy specialise in providing custom data of India and statistics in matters ofimport export and other international trade related terms. User can find prospective buyers and sellers, exportimport data of India,India Exports Data, India Imports Data or Indian Exporters Importers associations. Thecompany provides import & export data for aluminium, cement, ceramic, chemical, cosmetic, cotton, electronic,fruit, fertilizer, and paper. Apart from Indian import export data the company also offers China import exportdata and import data for UK & US.

Tradeinfosales [Nanjing, ]: Tradeinfosales helps businesses in finding new trading partners, monitoringcompetitors' shipments, and tracking their current suppliers and customers by providing them with access toimport and export data. Sources from the shipping databases of Customs agencies in the United States, LatinAmerica, and India. Some of the customers include Walmart, Volkswagon, Samsung, Pfizer, etc. Sold on afreemium model with the price for premium plans starting at $99 per month.

TradeInfo365 [Tenafly, ]: TI365 is a global trade information analysis system providing trade database sourcedfrom various official mission or business partners from more than 10 countries. Provide import trade records for10 countries, such as North America, Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, UK, Korea.Apart from its TI365 platform the company also provides China import-export data, China trade reports, andChina enterprise credit reports. Pricing starts at $ 99 PM.


http://www.panjiva.com/

http://www.datamyne.com/

http://www.tradespy.com/

http://www.tradeinfosales.com/

http://www.tradeinfo365.com/


Trade (2/8)


Tradeviews [London, 2012]: Tradeviews specialises in providing trade statistics for Dry Cargo. The companyaggregates its data from Customs authorities. They cleanse the data, forecasts the missing data, and preparesthe reports. Subscription based business model. Prices varies as the commodities changes.

Trade Kompass [Bucharest, ]: Trade Kompasss is the provider of import and export data in Russia, Ukraine,Belarus, Kazakhstan, USA, India, China, and Latin America. Provides data such as importer/exporter contact info,trade value, traded product metrics, etc. Users can choose the time span, country, industry and HS codes to getrelevant data. Claims to have over 20 million records in their database. Some of the customers include Liptosa,Export Secret, Bord Bia, Mainstream etc.

Trade Genius [Faridabad, 2010]: Trade Genius specializes in providing India & international trade data. TradeGenius” owns a professional import and export trade research team composed of Indian & Internationalexperts. The company provides Indian trade data of more than 100 ports of India. It also provides import-exportdata for argentina, Perú, Colombia, Chile, Ukraine, Mexico, Uruguay, and Bangladesh. Apart from offering data,the company also provides market research, sales prospects identification, suppliers evaluation, andcompetitive analysis to the clients.

Eximpulse [Delhi, ]: Eximpulse offers report based import - export data. User can search data on basis of HScode, Country, Port of Discharge, Month etc. Users can use statistics on international trade to identify markets,monitor prices, and manage monetary, tariff and foreign exchange policies. Its database enables users to getinsights such as who is importing/exporting; what quantity and price; date of shipment; port & country.

Think Real [Guangzhou, ]: Think Real provides market and commodities trade intelligence provider. The focuseson providing global trade data, research, company analysis, latest industry market dynamics, database service tohelp enterprise clients with strategies issues and business development. The company employs analyst teamthat conducts data mining, processing and analysis with scientific methodologies. The company offers Chinatrade analysis, manufacturer to business IE database, global IE database, price tracking on commodities ofchemical related industries. Apart from the data, the company offers market monitoring and research reports.


http://www.tradeviews.net/

http://www.tradekompass.com/

http://www.tradegeniusindia.com/

http://www.eximpulse.com/

http://www.think-real.com/


Trade (3/8)


Export Genius [Delhi, 2011]: Export Genius is a market research company of Foreign Trade. Provide Export andImport Trade and Shipment Data of USA, UK, China, Russia, Brazil, India, Argentina, Mexico, Sri Lanka and other20 countries. Export Genius collect this information from Various Countries Customs, Ports and ShippingCompanies. Also provides import export analytical reports and statistical reports of any commodities which areimported and exported via sea, air or land. Subscription based monetization model. Export Genius is Founded inyear 2011 and is located at New Delhi, India.

Zauba [Bangalore, 2012]: Zauba.com is developed and managed by Legumex Impex Private Limited. Zauba is aprovider of key trade intelligence and corporate information. Gathers trade data from all major ports in Indiaand have information on more than 50,000 products exported from or imported into India. Zauba's corporateinformation is sourced from official registers and from published government data.

Planetexim.Net [Mumbai, 1992]: Mahavir Law House specializes in the business of processing & providingdatabases on Export-Import related information including Foreign Trade Statistics. The company publishesmonthly database covering Export Import Daily Data, Exim Policy, all Notification related to DGFT, CBEC and thesame information is made available through online access. The company provides online export & import dailydata along with address of Indian exporters and importers as a complimentary with data subscription. MahavirLaw House also specialises in Global Export Import Shipment Data. Mahavir Law House was incorporated in1992.

sicex.com [Bogota, 1923]: Sicex is the Quintero Hnos Ltda Website. Company Founded in 1923 specialises in theforeign trade data supply. Only company that offers Colombian maritime movement detailed data, based onshipment knowledge. Its product offerings include SISMAR-Columbia: daily information about imports andexports of maritime cargo movements sourced from the maritime transport documents (Bill of Lading B/L) daily,in the Colombian ports; SISMAR USA Import: maritime imports made through the American seaports; SISDUAN-World Trade: information about imports and exports reported by the customs offices from over 51 countries.The source of the information are the public documents of imports and exports declarations, issued by eachcustoms department of every country. Apart from above data products, the company also provides customresearch and consulting service.


http://www.exportgenius.in/

http://www.zauba.com/

http://www.planetexim.net/

http://www.sicex.com/


Trade (4/8)


GoTradeData [ , ]: GoTradeData is the trade data search website with the imports and exports done by 51countries. User can access and download the complete reports for only USD30. User can search an importer orexporter, a product or HS Code of the product. It allows them to identify the potential clients, identify suppliers,get to know the FOB$ and CIF$ values of the merchandise, open new markets, know and analyze thecompetition, know the market share, the countries of origin or destiny and much more.

MAACS Global [New York City, 2011]: MAACS Global is a provider of import/export data sourced directly fromcustoms. Provides data related to shipping, product, and supplier contacts. Data is sold through a monthlysubscription, where the data is emailed on a daily basis till the end of subscription or through one-time historicalinformation request for any specific time interval. Also provides trade finance and funding solutions, marketingto sourcing, and shipping of products for buyers and sellers. Has offices in Chennai, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Zaapr [Bangalore, 2015]: Zaapr offers business relevant data around companies. Offers import-export data,corporate data (directors, authorized/paid up capital, registration details, etc) and IFSC data across branches.Founded by Anil Verma.

Zepol [Edina, 2002]: Zepol provides subscription access to U.S. trade data tools that contain near real-timestatistics on U.S. imports and exports. It offers TradeIQ, a U.S. customs bill of lading data that provides access toanalyze import shipments into the United States, and find containerized shipment details; and TradeView thatprovides access to recent and historical trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The company also providesComplianceIQ, a trade data tool that enables U.S. importers adhere to U.S. government import regulations. Itserves transportation, chemical, food and beverage, textile and apparel, industrial, consumer products, andlegal industries. The information comes from U.S. Customs, other government sources and also is gathered fromvessel manifests filed at various ports.


http://www.gotradedata.com/

http://www.maccsglobal.com/

http://www.zaapr.com/

http://www.zepol.com/


Trade (5/8)


Seair Exim Solutions [Delhi, 2009]: Seair Exim provides import/export shipment database for the needs ofimporters and exporters. Data is collected from custom department. Subscription based service. Founded in2009 and is based in New Delhi.

JML International [Toronto, 1988]: JML International specialises in providing Mexico trade statistics, especiallyMexico import/export data. Apart from the trade report, the company also offers trade services such ascompetitive analysis, market analysis, sourcing & supplying for mexico and Latin America. JML has partneredwith Monex Canada to provide international business payment facility to its clients.

EXIM GENIUS [Rajkot, 2012]: Exim Genius specialises in providing Indian trade data. Its offerings include Indianexport data, Indian import data, Indian port data, and Indian trade statistics.

Shipping Spy [Phoenix, 2011]: ShippingSpy.com is a searchable database that spans all maritime importsentering the United States. ShippingSpy.com covers specific information about the exporter (shipper), importer(consignee), and product information. Users also have the availability to search other criteria found on the Bill ofLading.

Dalian Infobank Co., Ltd [Dalian, 2004]: SINOIMEX (Dalian Infobank Co., Ltd) is a provider of trade statistics ofmajor trading countries in the world. The data has been used by government, institutions, associations, collegesand companies. Data comes from official source for example their local customs or national statistics agency.Usually the company collects bill of lading data, declaration data, importer and exporter listings or statisticaldata. Currently, its trade database covers 159 countries and continuously growing.


http://www.seair.co.in/

http://www.jmlinternational.com/

http://www.eximgenius.com/

http://www.shippingspy.com/

http://www.sinoimex.com.cn/


Trade (6/8)


JOC Group Inc. [ , ]: PIERS gathers raw import Bills of Lading for all waterborne cargo vessels that enter and exitports in the United States, sourced byU.S. Customs and Border Protection. Additionally, PIERS staff reportersmanually collect export Bills of Lading from each port in the United States. These import and export recordsaccount for 17 million Bills of Lading collected by PIERS per year. The raw data is subsequently verified,analyzed, and synthesized with supplementary data sourced from The United Nations, United States Census,Dun& Bradstreet, and direct international country sources for use in PIERS trade intelligence tools. The synthesis ofthese multiple data sources forms the foundation for PIERS trade intelligence resources. PIERS also provideshistorical records dating from 1950 to the present. Apart from the data, the company also provides businessintelligence tools for lead generation, fraud detection, to monitor contractual compliance, and to find buyersand suppliers. The company was founded in mid 1970.

Kalalu & Sons [Rajkot, ]: Kalalu & Sons helps exporters-importers or manufacturers to identify overseas marketsrelated to their products by providing them with import-export data. Their data includes port-wise, month-wise,chapter-wise and product-wise export shipment data. Also provides USA Bill of Lading data. Provides Export-Import data for China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri-Lanka, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, Uruguay, Colombia, Chille andPeru.

Alphaliner [Neuilly-sur-Seine, 2000]: Alphaliner is an independent research company providing ship data,service data, information, news, and statistics. This data is hosted and marketed by AXSMarine. Its offeringsinclude: fully searchable containership register and services directory; commercial histories of ships, with latestfixtures, sales and orders; weekly newsletter summing up salient developments, corporate news, financialresults, new lines, new ships etc; monthly monitor offering detailed statistics and facts on the worldcontainership fleet and market figures; and idle ship tracking services. Alphaliner customer base includes all themajor container shipping operators, the leading shipbrokers, and owners of container tonnage, as well as banks,port authorities, terminal operators, logistics companies and shippers. Subscription-based revenue model.

Container Trades Statistics [Woking, 2008]: CTS Provides globalised Container Shipping statistics on TEUvolume movements and Price indices. CTS can provide detailed reports on container movements on a port toport basis as well as aggregated global reports. CTS is the exclusive agent of World Liner Data Limited (WLDL),promoting and selling liner shipping container data on its behalf. The WLDL database is derived from datasupplied by many of the world's major container shipping lines.


http://www.piers.com/

http://www.kalalunsons.com/

http://www.alphaliner.com/

http://www.containerstatistics.com/


Trade (7/8)


Import Radar [Barcelona, 2015]: Import Radar tracks worldwide shipping activity to provide clients current andrecent activities in the import-export business. Its shipping databases reveals suppliers, importers, products,volumes, and a lot more. Clients can search the manifests using any combination of data fields-everything fromshipper to consignee, importer and exporter, plus the product description, date, country of origin and dozens ofother data points. Using this data clients can identify suppliers, connect with new customers, and learn abouttheir competitors’ supply chains. Basic plan starts at Euro 49.

BoxTradeIntelligence Limited [Jersey, 2010]: BoxTradeIntelligence is a joint venture between senior containershipping executives and MDS Transmodal. The company specialises in providing relevant market analysis ofSupply and Demand to the container industry. Provides Tonnes, AllTEUeq (all estimated TEU) and LoLo TEU(maritime loaded TEU) data for 240 countries which can be grouped into regions and subregions for all 62 SITC(Standard International Trade Classification) 2 digit commodities. Demand data is sourced from World CargoDatabase and supply data from its containership databank. License based revenue model.

Cybex Exim Solutions [Noida, 2006]: Cybex Exim Solutions is an export import data tracking, data mining anddata processing firm offering export import data, trade reports, shipment data and foreign trade data of India,China, USA, UK, Russia and other major nations. The reports are based on a combination of multiple productkeywords, harmonized codes or any pre-defined parameter to give the most accurate and relevant information.Subscription based revenue model.

Impex Statistic Services [Mumbai, 1998]: Impex Statistic Services specialises in providing daily list of importsand exports data from the indian ports. The company provides the data from 35 ports/ICDs/Airports Thecompany's team 'picks by hand' the list of data from the ports. Customers are from Importers/ExportersTraders, Industries, Customs House Agents, Logistic Companies, Freight Forwarders. Shipping Agents, MultiNational Companies and other Service providers sectors.

ImportGenius [Scottsdale, 2006]: ImportGenius is a web application that allows businesses to searchinternational trade records. The company’s database contains every shipment entering the United States,allowing businesses to access contact information for each of their competitor’s overseas suppliers, or each oftheir overseas supplier’s U.S. customers. Access to the database is sold as a monthly subscription.


http://www.importradar.com/

http://www.boxtradeintelligence.com/

http://www.cybex.in/

http://www.importexportdata.co.in/

http://www.importgenius.com/


Trade (8/8)


InfodriveIndia [Delhi, 1996]: InfodriveIndia group is the provider of export import competitive intelligence withover 80 Countries export import information. the company provides export import competitive intelligencefrom over of 80 countries customs from Bill of Lading, Shipping Bills and Bill of Entries. Claims that they servemore than 21,000 clients in 80 countries with export import reports on over 22,000 products. Apart fromimport-export data the company also provides Nitva BI tool. Pricing starts at rupees 12K per annum.

ClipperData [Louisville, 2013]: ClipperData provides comprehensive datasets, analysis, and commentary onglobal crude and refined product movements. The company tracks movement on a vessel by vessel, cargo bycargo and dock to dock basis. The company sources its data using a combination of data collection techniqueand exclusive licensing arrangements with data providers. The company then delivers data directly to the clientsdesktop on a data-cube platform that enables them to drill down, filter, chart, and export inside the browser. Inaddition, the company also provides daily and weekly reports to give insights into emerging and evolving trends.The company serves clients in energy, logistics, and financial sectors.


http://www.infodriveindia.com/

http://www.clipperdata.com/


Automotive (1/5)


Dataium [Nashville, 2009]: Dataium is the compiler of online automotive shopping behavior. Dataium observesautomotive shoppers across automotive websites and then aggregates, indexes and summarizes this data intoinsights. The company offers VisiCogn Knowledge Center, a browser-based enterprise level business intelligencereporting utility that provides access to and analysis of data collected from VCU deployments; VisiCogn INSITEStandard, a dealership Website performance tool that uses big data to aggregate the data set containingobserved online automotive shopping behavior; VisiCogn Enterprise, an enterprise reporting platform designedspecifically for large dealer groups with multiple Websites, technology providers, and large organizations;specialized in-market lead solutions based on an aggregated view of various North American online automotiveshoppers; and a la carte reports and dashboards to INSITE and Enterprise users. In addition, the company offersconsulting and research services to support the automotive professionals in the areas of local dealerships andexecutive positions of OEMs, as well as analytic knowledge across various automotive functional disciplines. Itserves automobile manufacturers, automotive dealers, dealer groups, automotive portals, Website providers,and technology and service providers.

$748k

Autodata Group [Maidenhead, 1975]: Autodata specialises in providing technical information to theautomotive aftermarket. According to the website, data is licenced directly from over 80 manufacturers.covering 29000 models worldwide. Its product offerings include Autodata for Vehicles: web application whichprovides access to technical information for over 29000 models, across80 different vehicle manufacturers. Thisallows workshops to efficiently carry out complex diagnostics and repair procedures, as well as day-to-dayservicing and maintenance operations. Autodata for Motorcycles: all the data required for routine servicing andrepairs procedures on all major manufacturers. Apart from above products, the company also offers large scaleand bespoke solutions for corporate customers and developers. Subscription based revenue model.

Bowmark Capital

CarProof [London, 2000]: CarProof is a Canadian vehicle history reporting company. Product offerings includeCarProof Verified - detailed vehicle history report including a guaranteed cross-Canada enforceable lien search.CarProof Verified BC- CarProof Verified & data from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, CarProofClaims- vehicle history report for when you’ve already been provided with lien information, CarProof Claims BC-CarProof Claims reports with the data from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, and QuickProof-screening tool for cars that are 10 years or older, that confirms whether or not a vehicle is damage-free. DataSources include auto auctions, Ministries of Transportation, lien registry offices, insurance companies andothers across USA & Canada.

Hellman & Friedman


http://www.dataium.com/

http://www.autodata-group.com/

http://www.carproof.com/


Automotive (2/5)


DiskDrive [Cape Town, 1996]: DiskDrive specialises in providing passenger and light commercial vehiclespecifications data in South Africa. Its products include new & used car database, AutoIntel software: vehiclecomparison tool; DiskDrive Flash Drive: new vehicle guide for motor industry; and personalised solutions. Thecompany supplies its vehicle specification data to motor finance companies, banks, insurers, motoring websitesand sales and lead management applications.

Lightstone [Johannesburg, 2005]: Lightstone Auto provides data-driven insight, online market intelligence, andnew vehicle sales data to the South African motor industry. Its product offerings include AutoStats: a platformfor the delivery of NAAMSA new vehicle sales statistics including exports of new vehicles from South Africa;AutoMSA: auto market segment analyser; Go: vehicle specifications and comparisons information to customers;SmartMapping: competitor new vehicles sales data; AutoParc: information assisting with parts and distributionplanning for dealerships across South Africa; AutoDSA: provides marketing insight into the race, age, gender,income group and location of buyers across South Africa; and AutoRVF: Provides lookup of Future\ResidualValues on retail, trade, cost and auction values for both new and used vehicles in South Africa. In addition tothat the company offers electronic workflow and signature solution that securely automates the vehicle financeand insurance process; mobile & web app for vehicle verification, dealer target settings, and forecastings. Thecompany serves OEMs, financial institutions, insurance, dealers, and component manufacturers.

Lizeo Online Media Group [Lyon, 2009]: Lizeo Online Media Group offers tyre professionals trade and marketdatabases within Europe. The company offers reference databases in the domains such as private passengercars, commercial vehicles, trucks and heavy duty good vehicles, and 2 wheels.In addition to that, the companyhas developed a tyre comparison site Rezulteo. The company also offers TyreDoc: a database of over 700 rangesof tyres sold in the various European markets; TyreSelector: a tool used to find compatible tyre fitmentdimensions for a given vehicle in compliance with trade regulations; TyreFox: a tool used to follow the day-to-day price positioning strategies of retailers on almost 170 online shops in Europe; TyreBI: a business intelligencetool enabling data from various reference sources to be cross-referenced; TyreDealer: a database that compilesthe characteristics (more than 100 criteria) of 200 on- and offline distribution networks in Europe and Russia;yreMonitor: a service that monitors and analyses comments posted on web-community Websites; and rz-retail:tyre sales solution for tyre distributors. The company serves tyre-manufacturers, tyre-retailers and car makers inEurope and in Russia.


http://www.diskdrive.co.za/

http://www.lightstoneauto.co.za/

http://www.lizeo-online-media-group.com/


Automotive (3/5)


Chrome Data Solutions [Memphis, 2011]: Chrome Data Solutions specialises in providing automotive data andcontent to the North American automotive retail industry, including internet portals, OEMs, lenders, automotiveretailers, and solution providers. Its product offerings include applications (AutoPlanner, Carbook Pro, CarbookShowroom & PC Carbook Plus); Web Service (Automotive description services, best offer, chrome construct,chrome incentive service); Data Products (Incentive watch, New Vehicle Data, third party mapping); and media& editorial services. The company is a JV created by the merger of Chrome Systems Inc, a Dealer TrackCompany, and Autodata Solutions Inc, a division of Internet Brands.

ROADTODATA [London, 2004]: ROADTODATA is a research company that provides market data and intelligencesolutions to vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, leasing and finance, and rental companies in the United Kingdom,France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Its solutions include PRO, a suite of Web-based applications to supportanalysis with automotive professionals related to pricing, product planning, research, and marketing areas;Market ScoreBoard, an online report generator that helps in the production of reports; and Automotive MarketBulletin that delivers the latest news of price changes, new models or derivatives launched, specifications, andoption changes to the clients desktop. The company also offers CARCHOOSER that help to show end-users thecomparisons between vehicle makes, models, and derivatives; DATAFEED services, which provide data requiredfor the business; and Analytical Services that comprise all aspects of the positioning and performance ofvehicles, such as product positioning, market performance, and ownership performance. In July 2007, thecompany was acquired by R.L. Polk & Company.

R.L. Polk & Company [Englewood, 1870]: R.L. Polk & Company specialises in providing automotive informationand marketing solutions to the automotive industry. The company was started as a publisher of businessdirectories. In 1921, they started to publish statistical information on cars and trucks in operation. In 1999, thecompany acquired CARFAX which later was acquired by IHS. Its solutions enable customers to analyze andforecast market potential, improve owner loyalty, interpret and apply vehicle identification numberinformation, optimize dealer network, manage after-sales and aftermarket operations, and plan and managemultichannel target marketing. It offers its automotive insights across various disciplines, including aftermarket(manufacturers, dealers, and suppliers); automotive dealer agencies; automotive dealers; automotivemanufacturers; commercial vehicle market; equipment and part suppliers; finance organization; governmentorganizations; insurance companies; media companies; research organizations; and recreational vehicle,motorcycle, and boat manufacturers, dealers, and suppliers worldwide. In July 2013, the company was acquiredby IHS.


http://www.chromedata.com/

http://www.roadtodata.com/

http://www.polk.com/


Automotive (4/5)


DataOne Software [Beverly, 1999]: DataOne Software is a pioneer in providing data and content solution to theautomotive industry. The company offers basic VIN data, extended data, promotional content, service schedulesmanagement, and third party mapping services. Additionally, it provides data extraction, data aggregation, VINdecoding, data cleansing, appending media content, and data distribution services. The company caters toinsurance, transportation, marketing, financial services, and warranty service contracts industries. DataOneSoftware is a subsidiary of Dominion Enterprises. The company was founded by James M Donaher in 1999 andacquired by Dominion Enterprise in 2007.

AutoCheck [Costa Mesa, 1980]: AutoCheck (Part of Experian Group) is a vehicle history report provider.AutoCheck provides information about the vehicle's title, registration and usage history. AutoCheck also looksfor lemon vehicles; vehicles designated as rentals, taxis or fleet usage; abandoned or forfeited vehicles; recordsof theft; and loan/liens that represent ownership interests or unpaid judgments. AutoCheck may not provideinformation on every accident in which a vehicle may have been involved. AutoCheck has the patentedAutoCheck Score to help its customers assess a vehicle's predicted reliability and compare it to similar cars in itsclass. Data comes from sources such as state departments of motor vehicles (DMVs), auto auctions, Canadianmotor vehicle departments, consumer protection agencies, auto dealers and other state agencies. All dataacquired from these sources meet either the federally mandated Drivers Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) and/orother industry guidelines. Provides reports on vehicles pertaining to US & Canada. Subscription based revenuemodel.

instaVIN [San Diego, 2009]: instaVIN is an authorized provider of data from the National Motor Vehicle TitleInformation System (NMVTIS). instaVIN data is available for modern and classic passenger cars and light trucks,(RVs), motorcycles, and heavy trucks. instaVIN reports provide DMV title history, salvage, insurance total lossand other critical vehicle information. instaVIN reports include title data from NMVTIS, which provides real-timetitle and salvage information. Over 100 data points are checked on every report. instaVIN reports also includeadditional sourced and proprietary information not available to other history report providers including theftdata, sales listing information, open lien data with the financial institution disclosure, impound and towingevents and minor accident data where available. instaVIN reports are also compliant with California's salvagesticker law, which mandates that dealers provide a NMVTIS based history report to buyers. Vehicle historyreports starts at $2.99.


http://www.dataonesoftware.com/

http://www.autocheck.com/

http://www.instavin.com/


Automotive (5/5)


MOTOR Information Systems [Troy, 1903]: Motor Information Systems (Part of Hearst Corporation) providesautomotive data sourcing and integration solutions. It offers custom print and data services, includingdatabases; FleetCross that provides custom database, software, and network solutions to the transportation andequipment industry, as well as offers customized parts and service referencing systems for vehicles, equipment,and parts through the Internet; and data portals for integration into branded Websites. The company is alsoengaged in OEM parts research and database management for the automotive aftermarket, as well as offersOEM parts lookup and data retrieval systems. In addition, the company offers information on various vehicles torepair/collision shops; and information on product offerings, such as replacement parts, services and supplies,and tools and equipment of various professional shops. Further, it publishes magazines for general and specialtyrepair shops, gasoline service stations, new car and truck dealers, and retail stores doing repair work, as well asfor the Chinese automotive maintenance and repair market.

Carfax, Inc [Centreville, 1984]: CarFax is a web based service that provides vehicle history reports to individualsand businesses on used cars and light trucks for the american and Canadian marketplaces. Company's coreproduct offering is vehicle history report. Apart from vehicle history report the company offers free productsand services such as myCarFax- vehicle service information service, vehicle research service, car safety andreliability ratings, and Carfax used car listings. CarFax claims to access information from 15 billion records.Sources include U.S. state title and registration records, auto and salvage auctions, Canadian motor vehiclerecords, rental and fleet vehicle companies, consumer protection agencies, state inspection stations, extendedwarranty companies, insurance companies, fire and police departments, manufacturers, inspection companies,service and repair facilities, dealers and import/export companies. In 2013, IHS acquired Carfax.


http://www.motor.com/

http://www.carfax.com/


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