A private investment firm run by Risto Siilasmaa and Kim Groop. Grounded in a deeply held set of values around entrepreneurship, trust, integrity and helping solve the world’s problems. We partner with strong and ambitious technology entrepreneurs driven by a mission to fix or build something important in the world.

First Fellow Partners

Tribeca Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors. The firm was founded in 2011 by Brian Hirsch and Chip Meakem and is based in New York, United States.

Tribeca Venture Partners

Quantum Strategic Partners is an investment firm focusing on investments, start-ups, project development & equity transactions. QSP seeks to acquire, and in partnership with experienced management teams, build businesses that generate attractive returns on investment.

Quantum Strategic Partners

Triangle Peak Partners conducts private investments in companies where it can work with management and help create value. The firm has a deep background in venture capital and private equity investing in private and public technology, energy, and alternative energy companies. Triangle Peak focuses on Series B through PIPE stage deals.

Triangle Peak Partners

Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs. Our first ticket is 0.1–3M euros depending on the company’s stage. e support the brilliant startup founders by leveraging our extensive SaaS expertise and global networks to expedite their growth.

Vendep Capital

Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineering health, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com.

Innovation Endeavors

Soros Fund Management is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in foreign exchange and currency markets, commodity markets, and futures trading. Soros Fund Management was founded in 1969 and is based in New York, New York.

Soros Fund Management

Viking Global Investors is an investment firm that uses fundamental analysis to select investments across industries and geographies. It is a global investment firm managing more than twenty billion in capital across long-short equity and long-only strategies. The firm was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with offices in New York City, Hong Kong, and London.

Viking Global Investors

Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides institutional and individual investors with investment and advisory solutions, with strategies spanning asset classes, industries, and geographies.  They seek to build long-term relationships based on conviction, sustainable outcomes, and shared success over time. It was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

[AllianceBernstein](http://www.alliancebernstein.com) is a publicly traded global asset management firm, with approximately $735 billion in assets under management at March 31, 2008.

AllianceBernstein

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

Citi

Morgan Stanley, from the number of their offices and employees to the experience of their management and the quality of their financial results, the facts about Morgan Stanley tell an impressive story.  Morgan Stanley and its people have helped redefine the meaning of financial services. The firm has continually broken new ground in advising its clients on strategic transactions, pioneering the global expansion of finance and capital markets, and providing new opportunities for individual and institutional investors.  Morgan Stanley maintained comprehensive corporate governance guidelines for years before corporate governance became headline news.

Morgan Stanley

Bank of America is a financial institution, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk management products and services. They serve approximately 51 million consumer and small business relationships with approximately 5,300 retail banking offices and approximately 16,350 ATMs and award-winning online banking with 30 million active users and more than 13 million mobile users. It offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations in more than 40 countries. Bank of America is a wealth management company specializing in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals around the world. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

Bank of America

Cowen Group is a financial services firm that provides equity and debt financings, investment banking, and other financial-related services. It also offers mergers and acquisitions, and strategic restructuring advisory services. The firm's sector specializes in healthcare, technology, media and telecommunications, information and technology services, consumer, energy, aerospace and eCommerce, industrials, transportation, and biotechnology industries. Founded in 1918, Cowen also has an investment management division that offers actively managed alternative investment products.

Cowen Group

Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. The company offers current accounts, savings products, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide. The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Barclays Corporate Banking

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital is a principal investing and merchant division of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo Strategic Capital provides structured financing to small and mid-cap companies in the United States and Canada. Product capabilities include project/development financing, mezzanine financing, and other subordinated debt financing as well as equity financing, including both preferred and common.

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital

Principia Growth helps standout management teams build innovative and transformative companies.

Principia Growth

Collaborative venture capital to accelerate disruptive technological innovation in AI, data, analytics, fintech, ad tech, DevOps, mobility, aerospace, and infrastructure. They have worked with and invested in visionaries, category killers, disruptors, and inventive leaders. They collaborate with businesses that are disrupting big industries. Help them expand and hyper-accelerate by using a collective ''operators for operators'' approach to scaling.

Trajectory Ventures

CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, invests in remarkable companies transforming the fields of consumer products and services, enterprise tech, cybersecurity, fintech, cryptocurrency, and transportation tech. CapitalG partners with growth-stage companies in their transition from startup to scale-up through hands-on assistance from its in-house growth team and connections to Google's engineering, product, marketing, sales, and people operations experts worldwide. More than 2,500 Googlers and Alphabet leaders have already engaged with CapitalG portfolio companies, including Airbnb, Collibra, CrowdStrike, Curated, DCG, Duolingo, Freshworks, Gusto, ID.me, Lyft, Robinhood, Stripe, UiPath, Whatnot, among others.

CapitalG

Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders of high-growth Internet companies throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth. The firm, a spinout of the Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, was launched in January 2019 and founded by Mary Meeker with Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf.

Bond

BAM Elevate is a growth equity fund that invests in breakout companies in transformational industries poised to compound long-term value.

BAM Elevate

BDT Capital Partners is a private equity arm of BDT & Company that specializes in investments in family-owned and entrepreneurial businesses.

BDT & MSD Partners

Alkeon Capital Management is a service that assists investors with their financial endeavors. Founded in 2001,  Alkeon Capital Management focuses on investing in people and innovation.

Alkeon Capital

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0. It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.

SoftBank Vision Fund

Blue Owl Capital is an alternative asset manager that provides investors access to direct lending and GP capital solutions strategies through a variety of vehicles. The firm's breadth of offerings and permanent capital base enables it to offer a differentiated, holistic platform of capital solutions to participants throughout the private market ecosystem, including alternative asset managers and private middle market corporations.

Blue Owl

J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners is the technology focused late-stage venture and growth equity investment arm within J.P Morgan Private Capital.

J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners

AlphaSense

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that allows professionals to make critical decisions with confidence and speed. The company has nearly 2,000 enterprise clients including financial institutions that use the platform to inform their business decisions. AlphaSense is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P500.

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) technology. The company helps professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from a vast universe of public and private content. This includes equity research reports, company filings, earnings call transcripts, expert interviews, news articles, trade journals, and clients' proprietary research.

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Providing AI-driven market intelligence and workflow automation to give firms an edge

Capital Markets Tech

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform founded in 2011 by Jack Kokko and Raj Neervannan. The company utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to extract insights from a vast collection of public and private content. AlphaSense's platform covers over 10,000 sources, including SEC filings, equity research, earnings call transcripts, expert interviews, news articles, and industry journals. The company's AI-powered search capabilities allow users to quickly find relevant information, summarize key points, and analyze trends across industries and companies.

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Deriving insights from uncommon data streams

Alternative Data

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) technology. The company helps professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from a vast universe of public and private content. This includes equity research reports, company filings, earnings call transcripts, expert interviews, news articles, trade journals, and clients' proprietary research.AlphaSense's technology allows users to surface relevant insights through intelligent search capabilities like Smart Synonyms which understands the intent behind queries to include results with similar meanings. The platform also provides features like sentiment analysis to detect positivity/negativity in text and document trend analysis to visualize keyword mentions over time. In June 2022, AlphaSense's annual recurring revenue exceeded USD 100 million with over 3,500 customers.AlphaSense has acquired companies like Sentieo, a financial intelligence platform for investment managers, and Stream by Mosaic which provides transcripts of expert interviews.Key customers and partnershipsAlphaSense's customers span major corporations across industries like tech, energy, consumer goods, consulting, financial services and more. They include 75% of the S&amp;P 100 companies. In financial services, 75% of top US asset managers and 97% of the Dow 30 banks use AlphaSense.The company has partnered with firms like Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Stanford Bernstein, Refinitiv and Evercore ISI to provide access to their research reports and expert call transcripts on the AlphaSense platform.

TransFICC is a London-based fintech company that provides eTrading technology and connectivity solutions for fixed income and derivatives markets.
TransFICC's core offering is its "One API" platform, which aims to resolve the issue of fragmentation in fixed income markets by providing banks and asset managers with a low-latency, scalable API. The platform enables connectivity to multiple electronic trading venues while supporting a variety of workflows across fixed income products.
TransFICC's services include automated trading workflows, IRS eTrading, and a consolidated tape pilot. The company has developed expertise in providing modern interface technology, resiliency, and business continuity planning to meet the requirements for a consolidated tape provider (CTP) in the fixed income space.
Key customers and partnerships
TransFICC has been running a bond consolidated tape pilot over the past year, hosted in AWS and utilizing production infrastructure and APIs. Multiple market participants, including banks, venues, and asset managers, have tested contributing data and consuming data output via API as part of this pilot.
The company has partnerships with various global banks, such as Citi and HSBC, which have provided feedback on TransFICC's technology and services.

TransFICC

Nitrogen (formerly known as Riskalyze) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides a growth platform for wealth management firms. The platform helps advisors acquire new clients, increase client satisfaction, and retain existing clients. At its core, Nitrogen offers the Risk Number, a quantitative measure of an investor's risk tolerance based on a Nobel Prize-winning academic framework. This data enables advisors to align client portfolios with their risk profiles effectively.
Since its inception in 2011, Nitrogen has invested over USD 50 million in research and development, delivering more than 5 million Risk Numbers to clients. The platform integrates seamlessly with advisors' existing technology stack, including marketing tools, client relationship management (CRM) systems, and asset platforms. It offers lead generation capabilities, customizable marketing resources, proposal generation, light planning support, client engagement features, compliance tools, and risk analysis.
Nitrogen's business model revolves around advisors paying a subscription fee to access the platform's features. As of 2020, advisory firms leveraging Nitrogen experienced organic growth rates of 15% to 45%, significantly higher than the industry average of 3%. The company does not disclose specific revenue figures.

Nitrogen

Clear Markets is a leading company that specializes in developing and operating electronic marketplaces and trading technologies for complex fixed income and credit derivatives products. The company leverages its extensive expertise in building electronic trading systems to facilitate the transition from traditional voice-based trading to electronic platforms. Clear Markets' solutions cater to the needs of major financial institutions across global financial hubs, including Tokyo, London, New York, and Charlotte, North Carolina. The company's management team comprises respected pioneers in the development of the interest rate swap market, bringing a profound understanding of the legal and regulatory landscape governing swaps trading.

Clear Markets

Exabel is a data and analytics platform that enables investment professionals to integrate alternative data and advanced data science tools into their investment strategies. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that allows discretionary managers to complement their fundamental analysis with more data-driven techniques.
Exabel's platform provides features such as hypothesis analysis, predictive modeling, and backtesting, empowering investors to uncover alpha-generating insights from alternative data sources. The platform seamlessly integrates over 50 pre-mapped alternative datasets with fundamental key performance indicators from providers like FactSet and Visible Alpha. It also offers unparalleled flexibility in mapping, forecast composition, and the ability to onboard proprietary data, delivering insights beyond simple backtests.
As of March 2023, a study found that 63% of portfolio managers and investment analysts rated their organization's use of alternative data as 'good', indicating the growing adoption of such data in investment strategies.
Key customers and partnerships
Exabel has established partnerships with several notable alternative data providers to enhance its offerings and reach a broader audience of financial buyers.
In May 2022, Exabel collaborated with People Data Labs, a leading provider of B2B and professional data, to deliver the People Data Labs Insights Platform. This platform provides hedge funds and asset managers with curated insights based on People Data Labs' extensive B2B dataset, leveraging Exabel's analytics capabilities.
Similarly, in June 2022, Exabel partnered with Datayes, an alternative data company offering China-focused datasets. The Datayes Insights Platform utilizes Exabel's platform to provide insights based on Datayes' recruitment data and other China-focused datasets.
Exabel has also joined forces with Eagle Alpha, a prominent player in the alternative data ecosystem, to address the end-to-end challenges of evaluating alternative data. By combining Exabel's analysis platform with Eagle Alpha's expertise, investment teams can efficiently evaluate and integrate alternative data into their investment processes.

Exabel

Earnest Analytics (formerly known as Earnest Research) is a data analytics firm that provides real-time insights and actionable data to institutional investors, companies, consultants, and government agencies. Their structured datasets offer clear signals and tools for in-depth analysis of consumer spending, retail pricing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), foot traffic, and healthcare claims data. Earnest utilizes machine learning algorithms along with expert analysts to deliver accurate investment signals, macroeconomic trends, consumer behavior analyses, and healthcare data.
Initially focused on providing revenue forecasts for public companies using credit card data, Earnest has expanded its offerings to include scanner data, web pricing data, and healthcare data. In November 2022, the company launched its proprietary web platform, Dash, enabling users to track insights across companies, subscribe to earnings surprise alerts, analyze trends, and segment data across various parameters.
Earnest Analytics generates revenue by providing structured data products and analytical tools to its clients through platforms like Snowflake, BigQuery, and S3. As of August 2023, the company increased the panel size of its Orion transaction dataset by 4x, representing credit, debit, and ACH spending data from a more geographically representative sample of US shoppers, with historical data dating back to 2016. In August 2023, Earnest also released its machine learning-based "Reported Metric Predictions by Earnest AI" solution, providing earnings predictions for 450 publicly traded US companies.
Key customers and partnerships
Earnest Analytics was named Snowflake's Retail and Consumer Goods Marketplace Partner of the Year in 2023, recognized for enabling joint customers to understand the consumer economy with real-time data listed on Snowflake Marketplace. The company's clients include leading hedge funds, asset managers, Fortune 500 companies, and industry experts from various sectors such as financial services, consumer goods, and healthcare. Notable clients highlighted in the sources include Rabobank, Hungryroot, and Emory University's Dan McCarthy, who have leveraged Earnest's data for competitive benchmarking, customer behavior analysis, and revenue forecasting.

Earnest Analytics

Platforms that help financial market participants collect, manage, and use traditional and alternative data, derive market insights from news, and provide trade signals to make informed decisions.

Platforms that help institutions such as asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds to develop platforms to trade and operate brokerage services for various financial assets and instruments such as stocks, fixed income securities, derivatives, commodities, and foreign currencies.

Companies that use blockchain technology to share and synchronize data and improve efficiency across the trading workflow and post-trade actions such as clearing and settlement.

Platforms that help companies meet anti-money laundering requirements and provide identity verification tools such as KYC checks.

These platforms provide services such as risk detection, regulatory compliance, risk management, risk intelligence, collateral management, internal processes management, and strengthening of internal controls.

Uses blockchain to automate certain workflows between institutions and capital market participants

Uses GenAI to automate analysis, optimize portfolios, predict market trends, and enhance risk management

Uses AI/ML to process market data and information to derive valuable and timely insights

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform founded in 2011 by Jack Kokko and Raj Neervannan. The company utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to extract insights from a vast collection of public and private content. AlphaSense's platform covers over 10,000 sources, including SEC filings, equity research, earnings call transcripts, expert interviews, news articles, and industry journals. The company's AI-powered search capabilities allow users to quickly find relevant information, summarize key points, and analyze trends across industries and companies.
AlphaSense's product offerings include Smart Summaries, which provides AI-generated summaries of financial documents and earnings calls, and Enterprise Intelligence, which applies AI search technology to customers' internal research and external documents. The platform also features expert call transcripts and the ability to schedule personalized expert calls for deeper insights. In April 2024, AlphaSense surpassed USD 200 million in annual recurring revenue, doubling its revenue in less than two years.
The company has expanded its capabilities through acquisitions, including financial analysis firm Sentieo and expert interview transcription service Stream by Mosaic. In July 2024, AlphaSense completed the acquisition of Tegus, a provider of expert research and financial data, for USD 930 million. This acquisition aims to enhance AlphaSense's content library and strengthen its position in the market intelligence sector.
Key customers and partnerships
AlphaSense serves over 4,000 enterprise customers, including more than 80% of the S&P 500 companies as of April 2024. Its client base spans various sectors, including financial services, technology, and industrial firms. Notable customers include SAP, Google, J.P. Morgan, and 3 million. The platform is particularly popular among investment firms, banks, and consultancies, with users typically paying between USD 10,000 to USD 20,000 annually per seat.
In terms of partnerships, AlphaSense has collaborated with Goldman Sachs, which began delivering its aftermarket research on the AlphaSense platform in 2022. The company has also expanded its global presence by opening a new hub in Singapore to serve the Asia-Pacific region.

Neudata is a leading fintech firm that provides data intelligence services to asset managers, private equity firms, venture capitalists, consultancies, and corporations globally. It specializes in scouting, sourcing, and evaluating alternative datasets across various industries and domains. Neudata's core offering is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that houses a catalogue of over 6,900 dataset reports, enabling users to search, manage, and compare data sources effectively.
The company's strength lies in its unbiased and objective approach to data assessment, as it does not buy, sell, or take commissions from data vendors. Instead, Neudata evaluates datasets based on over 100 unique factors and delivers metadata reports and advice to clients for a fee. This neutral stance ensures that clients receive tailored intelligence aligned with their specific strategies and goals.
In addition to its SaaS platform, Neudata provides expert insights through its team of data scouting professionals based in London, New York, and Shanghai. The company also offers a service called AltDating, which facilitates connections between data buyers and sellers, streamlining the process of finding and acquiring relevant datasets.
Neudata has expanded its offerings to include specialized products like Neudata Scout ESG, launched in February 2022. This tool helps organizations identify and manage alternative data sources related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, enabling them to comply with regulations and build their own ESG evaluation models.
The company has established itself as a prominent player in the alternative data ecosystem, hosting influential events like the London Data Summit, where industry leaders gather to explore the past, present, and future of data. Neudata's commitment to innovation and its collaborative approach have positioned it as a trusted partner for firms seeking to unlock the value of alternative data.

Neudata

Orbital Insight is a leading geospatial intelligence company that provides AI-powered analytics solutions to help organizations gain insights and understand trends from geospatial data. The company's flagship product, the Orbital Insight Go platform, combines multiple data sources such as satellite imagery, anonymized location data, ship GPS, and IoT data to deliver actionable insights through machine learning algorithms. Orbital Insight's technology enables customers across various industries, including government agencies, corporations, and non-profits, to monitor supply chains, analyze land use patterns, detect illegal activities, and make data-driven decisions.
In February 2022, Orbital Insight secured a contract from the US Department of Defense to develop a platform for identifying intentional Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) interference and manipulation operations worldwide. This technology leverages the company's multisensor data stack and AI capabilities to alert analysts about potential jamming and spoofing events, presenting risks to national security and commercial operations.
Orbital Insight has established partnerships with leading Earth observation companies like Satellogic to enhance its data capabilities. In April 2022, the company announced plans to integrate Satellogic's high-resolution satellite imagery and full-motion video into its platform, providing customers with access to higher quality data, improved revisit rates, and lower-cost analytics.

Orbital Insight

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 Planet is a startup based in San Francisco and founded by former NASA employees that collects information about its changing planet via a fleet of compact, highly capable Earth-imaging satellites. The broad coverage and high frequency of Planet's satellite imagery will enable customers with unprecedented access to global and local insights that currently are either impossible or cost-prohibitive to obtain. It designs, builds, and operates the largest fleet of satellites, as well as online software, tools, and analytics needed to deliver data to users. Planet offers a diverse selection of imagery and analytic solutions, all made available online through our platform and web-based tools. They provide geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping users with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions. In addition to California, Planet has offices in Germany and Canada where they deliver market-leading geospatial imagery to a global network of customers and partners in over 100 countries. The Planet's mission is to image the entire Earth every day and make global change visible, accessible, and actionable.
 
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Planet Labs

Premise is a market intelligence platform that enables organizations to obtain real-time, granular insights from a global network of contributors. By blending machine learning with human intelligence, the company's proprietary methodology allows clients to gather and analyze local insights quickly and efficiently from almost anywhere in the world.
Premise transforms client questions into tasks distributed through its mobile app marketplace. Contributors perform these tasks, capturing data through images, surveys, or on-site observations. The collected data undergoes rigorous quality control, including location verification, image analysis, and fraud detection algorithms, ensuring accuracy and reliability. Verified insights are then presented to clients through customized dashboards or exported in various formats for integration into existing systems.
Premise caters to diverse industries, including consumer goods companies, international development organizations, and public sector entities. Its solutions provide actionable intelligence for execution monitoring, consumer behavior analysis, community understanding, and supply chain optimization. With a global reach spanning over 140 countries, the company facilitates data collection from even the most challenging regions.
Premise distinguishes itself through rapid insights gathering, unparalleled data granularity, and stringent quality assurance measures. As of 2024, the company recorded over 25 million submissions per year, garnering trust from industry leaders.

Premise

PriceStats is a company that specializes in transforming data into meaningful tools for economic analysis. The company's primary focus is on developing global, real-time economic statistics using online data. PriceStats produces daily inflation statistics and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) series, which are utilized by various financial institutions and policymakers worldwide. The company's technology leverages online retail prices to reveal offline street price changes, often weeks before official numbers reflect inflation trends. This approach allows for more timely and accurate economic insights, potentially enabling policymakers to better prepare for economic fluctuations.
PriceStats has continuously expanded its product offerings since its inception in September 2010. The company has developed inflation series for numerous countries, including the US, UK, Brazil, Germany, France, Canada, Mexico, Poland, and China, among others. In addition to country-specific inflation indices, PriceStats also produces global inflation series, including World Inflation, Food Inflation, and Fuel Inflation series. The company launched its PPP Series in May 2014, providing charts on real exchange rates, relative prices, and over/undervaluation for various countries compared to the US dollar. In January 2024, PriceStats released the China Aggregate Inflation Series, further expanding its coverage of major economies.
Key customers and partnerships
PriceStats distributes its daily inflation statistics and PPP series through an exclusive partnership with State Street Global Markets and State Street Global Exchange. This partnership, established in May 2011, brings PriceStats' indices to the financial sector. Target clients include hedge funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other financial institutions interested in accessing high-frequency inflation and PPP measures. State Street provides access to these indices through its proprietary research website, Insights.
In addition to its commercial partnerships, PriceStats has demonstrated a commitment to social responsibility. Since early 2020, the company has provided its indicators for free to 16 central banks worldwide to help navigate the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. In May 2022, PriceStats began distributing its Global Food Inflation series to the public on a complimentary basis through its partnership with State Street, aiming to assist policymakers in addressing rapidly rising food prices and supply shortages driven by global events. The company has also collaborated with statistical offices, offering item-level data free of charge to institutions such as the UK Office for National Statistics and the Central Statistics Office of Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.

PriceStats

Generated by sensors. Satellite imagery captures objects on the ground (e.g., cars in a parking lot and ships at a port), lights, pollution, and particulate matter in the air.

Generated by sensors. Collected by a variety of sensors and has many uses including agriculture and other commodities sensitive to the weather.

Generated by sensors. Data gathered from the GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth signals on mobile phones or other electronic devices, which can be used to track consumer movement such as high footfall areas, time spent at specific locations, and routes.

Generated by individuals. Includes website usage (e.g., time spent on a website, actions, and volume of queries), mobile app usage, social sentiment (based on social media posts, news, videos, and online interactions on social media), product reviews, and surveys.

Generated by individuals. E-receipts gathered from consumers on an opt-in basis provide data on user purchases and product demand. Data are anonymized and provided to corporations for targeted marketing.

Generated by businesses. Credit/debit card transaction and POS system data are structured and sought after and are used to track retail and business spending (e.g., sales volumes and prices).

Generated by businesses. Data sources used to assess consumers' creditworthiness such as income and employment information, consumer banking data, payments to specialty lenders, utilities payments, rental payments, and peer-to-peer lending records. Other data types include local prices, business banking records, commercial transactions (e.g., shipping container receipts), supply chain data, and government and corporation data.

Firms that acquire individual data streams and bundle them for sale to investors or structure/analyze the data to create data products for sale to investors.

Alternative data personalizes products/services by leveraging geolocation, social media, and transaction data for businesses

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