TLcom Capital, is an Africa focused tech VC, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and London. TLcom had been investing since 1999 in Tech, Media, Mobil and Internet companies across Europe, US and Africa, which is the exclusive focus of its most recent TLcom TIDE Africa funds. TLcom manages total commitments of approximately 300 million USD in these sectors via a series of dedicated investment vehicles. Our investment strategy is to identify, back and assist world class entrepreneurs and management teams with disruptive technologies and business models, compelling intellectual property and deep market knowledge. We primarily target companies focused on Africa as a prime market, in the following investment themes: Access to Data Service; Financial Services; eCommerce; B2C applications (including but not limited to: health, education, energy, media and entertainment); and Software solutions to corporates and SMEs.

TLcom Capital Partners

Thomson Reuters is a multinational media and information firm that delivers critical information from the financial, legal, risk, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets. The company sells electronic content and services to professionals primarily on a subscription basis. Its financial and risk segment offers news, information, and analytics, as well as enabling transactions that bring together communities to allow trading, investing, financial, and corporate professionals to connect. This segment also provides regulatory and operational risk management solutions.  The legal segment offers critical online and prints information, decision tools, and software and services to support legal, investigation, business, and government professionals. This segment’s products and services include legal research solutions; know-how solutions; software-based workflow solutions; compliance solutions; marketing, finance, and operations software; litigation support tools; and business development and legal process outsourcing services.  The tax and accounting segment provides integrated tax compliance and accounting information, software, and services for professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms, and the government. The intellectual property and science segment offers intellectual property and scientific information, and decision support tools and services that enable governments, academia, publishers, corporations, and law firms to discover, protect, and commercialize new ideas and brands. Thomson Reuters also operates Reuters, which provides real-time multimedia news and information services to newspapers, television and cable networks, radio stations, and websites.

Thomson Reuters

Innogest is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 with offices in Turin, Milan, Geneva and San Francisco. It manages investment funds for a total value of about €200 million and it invests in  startups mainly in the healthcare and digital sectors mainly in early stage phase. Innogest partners with main local and international research centers and technology transfer offices. In the healthcare field, Innogest invests with a focus on medical devices, diagnostics and digital health and with particular attention to therapeutic areas such as cardiovascular, neurology, and oncology. In the digital field, Innogest invests with a focus on foodtech, fintech, fashion-tech and lifestyle verticals

Innogest Capital

Founded in 2001, Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global asset management firm dedicated to delivering consistent, uncorrelated absolute returns in all market environments. BAM's disciplined investment approach focuses on true alpha generation by combining a deep fundamental research team with an active risk management culture. The firm has offices in the United States, London & Hong Kong with more than 500 employees representing greater than 45 countries.

Balyasny Asset Management

ARC Angel Fund invests in seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. We focus primarily on Software, IT, Internet, Tech-Enabled Services, Business Services, Digital Media, Mobile, Healthcare IT, among others. The Fund has a primary focus towards NYC and the surrounding North-East and Mid-Atlantic area companies. ARC Angel Fund invests in industries with which its members have experience, with investments averaging $50,000 to $150,000, each, over the life of the investment.  ARC Angel Fund is a member-led Angel Fund. An Angel Fund is, in essence, a hybrid model between an Angel Group and a Venture Fund. The members of ARC Angel Fund range from experienced Angel Investors and Partners in VC Funds, to executives of successful companies.  Their members bring their own expertise to the table and can actively participate as much as they like in the Fund's investment decisions.

ARC Angel Fund

Tribeca Early Stage Partners is a network of financial professionals that finances, advises, and supports early-stage FinTech companies. It was formed in 2014 as a FinTech-focused angel club and has brought together a network of entrepreneurs and business leaders with deep domain expertise in institutional finance and technology.  With approximately 50 accredited investors, they have the collective experience and perspective that touches virtually every facet of the institutional finance landscape.

Tribeca Early Stage Partners

Elevate Innovation Partners (“EIP”) is a leading Early-Stage Venture Capital Fund that is uniquely positioned to provide access to the most promising companies in New York, South East US, California as well as promising fintech companies in Europe and India.  EIP is an active fund that closely monitors its investments by working with management and company boards. We believe that the most successful funds take active roles to help guide its portfolio companies to a successful future and investors to effective exits.   Our team consists of experienced industry experts that can provide our companies with unprecedented access to know-how and connections that will create value for both investments and investors. Through our global network, we have access to proprietary deal flow, allowing us to select the best deals verified by our rigorous due diligence process.

Elevate Innovation 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

Nasdaq is a global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information, and public company services. Nasdaq provides the infrastructure, tools, and strategic insights tailored for the capital-market opportunities of today and the expectations of tomorrow.

Nasdaq

DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.  As a firm with no outside investors, we have a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.

DRW Venture Capital

As part of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, GS Growth is the firm’s investment platform dedicated to providing preferred equity and mezzanine capital to high-growth companies. As of June 2019, Goldman Sachs' investing groups (Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Principal Strategic Investments, and Private Capital Investing) have combined to form the GS Growth team. The team targets investments of $20-250 million.

GS Growth

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

BAM Elevate

Cuebiq

Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights.The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platform offers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services.

<div><p>Cuebiq is a location-based technology providing first-party location data and analytics tools for marketers and agencies to provide targeted ads and performance measurement of ad campaigns. The firm offers several solutions including 1) Workbench, a customer data platform (CDP) providing access to first-party location data, 2) real-time analytics tools to measure and attribute ad spend, and 3) audience segmentation tools that can be activated on demand-side ad platforms (DSP) or directly through Cubeiq.          The firm has a privacy-first approach to data gathering, providing access to 100+ online and offline customer data points while being compliant with key privacy regulations including CCPA and GDPR.          The firm has also entered into ~40 technology partnerships, including MediaMath, The Trade Desk, Yahoo, Kochava, and LiveRamp. In November 2021, the firm joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Accelerate Program making Cuebiq’s Workbench available on the AWS marketplace.</p></div>

Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

<div><p>Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights. The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platform offers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services. Cubeiq was founded in 2015 and is based in New York.</p></div>

Deriving insights from uncommon data streams

Alternative Data

<div>
  <p>
    Cuebiq is a location-based technology providing first-party location data and analytics tools for marketers and agencies to provide targeted ads and performance measurement of ad campaigns. The firm offers several solutions including 1) Workbench, a customer data platform (CDP) providing access to first-party location data, 2) real-time analytics tools to measure and attribute ad spend, and 3) audience segmentation tools that can be activated on demand-side ad platforms (DSP) or directly through Cubeiq. 
     
    The firm has a privacy-first approach to data gathering, providing access to 100+ online and offline customer data points while being compliant with key privacy regulations including CCPA and GDPR. 
     
    The firm has also entered into ~40 technology partnerships, including MediaMath, The Trade Desk, Yahoo, Kochava, and LiveRamp. In November 2021, the firm joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Accelerate Program making Cuebiq’s Workbench available on the AWS marketplace. 
  </p>
  <p>
    In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the firm provided free access to location-based dashboards to provide insights on mobility flows, traveler analytics, and social inequality.  
  </p>
  <p>
    In January 2021, the firm raised an unknown amount in a debt financing round led by Espresso Capital. As of its last equity funding round in May 2018, the firm had 1,300+ users across a variety of sectors and had experienced a 3.2x YoY increase in revenue and a 2.4x YoY growth in its user base. 
  </p>
</div>


<div>
  <p>
    Outbrain is an algorithm-based content recommendation and discovery platform that curates native advertising content from the open web, providing personalized content for brands to increase customer engagement. Outbrain&rsquo;s customers include leading news media outlets such as CNN, MSN, and Sky News, serving more than a billion monthly users (by September 2021). Outbrain also allows content publishers to amplify its reach by supplying content to the platform. As of September 2021, customers could access 7,000+ online content sources including content by the Washington Post, Guardian, and BBC.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    Outbrain has been a pioneer in the content recommendation space and was the first to introduce an algorithm-based content recommendation in 2008. It was also the first to introduce a self-service platform for content recommendation in 2012. Outbrain has made a series of acquisitions over the years while making enhancements to its product offerings. In May 2021, it tested &ldquo;QualityRatings,&rdquo; a tool that implements quality guidelines for the content featured on its platform while using machine learning and AI to create a more personalized user experience. In April 2022, Outbrain&rsquo;s platform was 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9907">
      <u>integrated with ID5</u>
    </a>
     to provide a privacy-first customer identification solution. In September 2022, the firm launched 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13122">
      <u>Keystone</u>
    </a>
    , a business optimization solution for publishers. In November 2021, 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6992">
      <u>Outbrain acquired vi</u>
    </a>
    , a contextual video intelligence platform for USD 55 million to grow it's CTV and other display ads offerings. 
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Funding and financials</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    Outbrain&rsquo;s revenue model is structured as a &ldquo;pay per click&rdquo; model with the revenue being shared with publishers of the content. In FY 2022, the firm 
    reported a revenue of USD 992.1 million (a 2% YoY dip). For the 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16860">
      full year of 2023E,
    </a>
     the firm expected to achieve a minimum Ex-TAC gross profit of USD 237 million and generate an adjusted EBITDA of at least USD 28 million. 
  </p>
  <p>
    Outbrain was listed on the NASDAQ in July 2021, where it raised USD 160 million at a valuation of USD 1.25 billion. Ahead of its listing, Outbrain also raised USD 200 million in the form of senior subordinated secured notes from Baupost Group. Since then the firms share price has fallen steeply, and as of July 2022 the firm was&nbsp; worth USD 300 million, equivalent to a ~75% drop in its value. In response, Outbrain is reported to have 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11880">
      <u>shed ~3% of its total workforce</u>
    </a>
    . 
  </p>
</div>


Outbrain

<div>
  <p>
    Marin Software is an adTech firm offering a suite of solutions for brands looking to conduct search, social media, and ecommerce advertising. The firm&rsquo;s &ldquo;MarineOne&rdquo; solution enables Brands to integrate their data under a single platform; coupled with machine learning tools, marketers can optimize ad spending across multiple platforms. In the case of search and social media advertising, Brands can increase their visibility across a number of search engines and social media platforms including Google, Facebook, and Apple Search Ads.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    In recent years the firm has been making enhancements to transform its Marine One Software as a complete marketing campaign management &amp; intelligence solution. In line with the firm expanded its ecommerce advertising solution capabilities by increasing the number of integrations to include Criteo&rsquo;s commerce media platform and Instacart&rsquo;s advertising platform. In 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/12159">
      <u>2022</u>
    </a>
    , the firm rolled out a number of new product and features including 1) MarinOne bidding, the firm's ad bidding marketplace, 2) MarinOne support, to enable advertisers to improve ad performance with multi-edit ad scheduling solutions, 3) social rules engine, to help automate workflows, and 4) 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15019">
      <u>Budget Optimizer</u>
    </a>
    , an ad budget management solution. More 
    recently, in April 2023, the firm introduced an automation tool 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17565">
      &ldquo;MarinOne Scripts,&rdquo;
    </a>
     which integrates Python scripting with its MarineOne platform, providing marketers with customized and data-driven solutions to optimize campaigns.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Key customers and partnerships</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    As of October 2021, several brands from varied industries, including Nissan, American Eagle outfitters, and Harmony, use the firm&rsquo;s solutions.
  </p>
  <p>
    In 2021, the firm made a number of new initiatives in 2021, including an 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/7635">
      <u>integration with Amazon Ads</u>
    </a>
     and a 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6973">
      <u>partnership with CitrusAd </u>
    </a>
    to expand the ecommerce capabilities of its platform. More recently, in January 2023, the company announced an 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16172">
      integration with Yahoo
    </a>
     to broaden access to programmatic ad content. 
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Funding and financials</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    Marin Software was listed on the NASDAQ in March 2013, raising USD 105 million and was valued at USD 432 million. However, since then the firm has been experiencing a decline in performance; in 2022, the firm recorded a revenue of 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16613?industryIds=62">
      USD 20 million (a 18% YoY drop)
    </a>
     compared to the ~USD 100 million revenue in 2016. The reasons analysts cite for this are 1) weaknesses in its search advertising model and 2) not selling digital ads, which is a growth area for lead generation firms.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
  </p>
</div>


Marin Software

<div>
  <p>
    Founded in China, Terminus claims to have the first account-based marketing (ABM) platform that unifies the marketing and sales teams&rsquo; roles under a single platform. Terminus specializes in B2B marketing and, according to the firm, its &ldquo;Terminus Data Studio&rdquo; has one of the largest B2B account databases, which by September 2021, covered more than 70 million businesses. Terminus&rsquo;s customer data platform (CDP) is fully integrated with its marketing automation platform, through which teams can run multi-channel targeted campaigns across many channels including email, ad networks, live chat, and the web. This can then be analyzed with Terminus&rsquo; suite of analytics and attribution tools. In March 2023, the firm 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17406">
      launched Prospect Engine,
    </a>
     a new data solution, to help users identify high-quality accounts and contacts displaying buying signals. 
    By September 2021, Terminus served more than 1,000 customers, including Salesloft, Foundry, and Quantum Workplace.
  </p>
  <p>
    According to a study done by Forrester (in Q2 2020), Terminus has been recognized among the ABM platform leaders. 
  </p>
  <p>
    Through a series of acquisitions, Terminus has transformed into a marketing cloud platform offering a range of services. Its two latest acquisitions took place within 12 months. In November 2020, it acquired Growflare, a lead generation and account-based intelligence platform catering to B2B startups, followed by B2B CDP Zylotech in September 2021. Terminus hoped to capitalize on these to build the most comprehensive ABM platform on the market.
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Funding and financials</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    Terminus raised USD 50 million in debt financing from CIBC innovation banking in November 2021. The funding was used to support international expansion, product development, and further acquisitions. In February 2021 when it raised USD 90 million in Series C funding, it was valued at approximately USD 400 million.
  </p>
</div>


Terminus

<div>
  <p>
    Founded in France, Brevo 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18241">
      (formerly Sendinblue)
    </a>
     began as an email marketing automation platform catering to small and medium-scale businesses (SMB). It has since extended its services to become an all-in-one marketing platform catering to 300,000+ customers across 180 countries by end December 2022. The range of services found on Brevo&rsquo;s platform includes email and SMS marketing, customer relationship management (CRM) tools, landing page creation, and Facebook ad management, among others. In November 2022, the firm launched an 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14388">
      <u>integrated meetings solution</u>
    </a>
     that brings together scheduling, video conferencing, and payment solutions. In March 2023, the company 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17462">
      unveiled &ldquo;Conversations&rdquo;
    </a>
     to manage customer conversations across messaging channels in one centralized location.
  </p>
  <p>
    Brevo&rsquo;s platform is compared with other well-known competitors such as Mailchimp and Hubspot and is commended for its live support and fair pricing, making it a strong contender in the SMB space.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    The company has expanded its product offering through a series of acquisitions during 2021-2022. Brevo acquired three firms in September 2021 for USD 47 million: 1) Metrilo, a provider of customer analytics and marketing services for ecommerce stores, 2) Chatra, a live chat messenger app for increasing online sales, and 3) PushOwl, a customer re-engagement website that uses web-based push notifications. In March 2022, the firm 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9009">
      <u>acquired MeetFox</u>
    </a>
    , a meeting scheduling and video conferencing platform. In September 2022, the company 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13360">
      <u>acquired Yodel.io,</u>
    </a>
     an Austrian cloud-based phone system provider, to enable additional customer touchpoints, and reduce the overall digital marketing spend for SMBs. In February 2023, the firm 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16271?industryIds=62">
      acquired Captain Wallet,
    </a>
     a mobile wallet marketing platform, to broaden its reach internationally. In December 2023, 
    Brevo
     acquired 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24833">
      WonderPush and Octolis,
    </a>
     two customer interaction platforms, to expand its CRM capabilities.
     &nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Funding and financials&nbsp;</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    Brevo raised USD 160 million in its Series B round in September 2020 with participation from Bridgepoint, Bpifrance, Blackrock, and Partech. The firm planned to utilize the funds to increase its presence in the US, where it has experienced a 100% YoY growth since 2018. 
  </p>
  <p>
    The firm achieved 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15834">
      <u>USD 100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)</u>
    </a>
     at the end of 2022 while maintaining a positive EBITDA position.&nbsp;
  </p>
</div>


Brevo

<div>
  <p>
    Acquia provides a digital experience platform (DXP) to support medium to large enterprises that use Drupal, an open-source content management system (CMS) that provides the back-end infrastructure for websites and by September 2021, powered approximately 2.1% of websites on the internet. The core product offered by Acquia is a marketing cloud that provides a full suite of services to manage the customer journey. The platform features a customer data platform (CDP), unifying data across multiple sources; sales automation tools to deliver personalized marketing campaigns across multiple delivery channels; marketing campaign management tools to manage distributed marketing teams; and a content management platform to organize and monitor content.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    Having been built on the Drupal framework, which does not require any programming skills to implement, Acquia&rsquo;s marketing cloud claims to be more accessible and agile than enterprise cloud solutions provided by incumbents such as Adobe and Oracle. In 2021, Gartner&rsquo;s Magic Quadrant report named Acquia a leader in DXP platforms, while a study done by Forrester (in July 2021) found that customers of Acquia&rsquo;s DXP solutions experienced a payback on their investment in less than six months, generating an average return on investment (ROI) of 589% over three years.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    Acquia has made several investments and enhancements to its DXP platform. In January 2021, Acquia, in partnership with Commercetools and Lucidworks, launched &ldquo;Acquia Digital Commerce,&rdquo; a service for creating personalized digital shopping experiences for customers. The firm has also added a number of self-serve features to its CDP such as 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11422">
      <u>&ldquo;right to erasure&rdquo;</u>
    </a>
     to bolster the privacy and security features of its platform to cater to enterprise users. 
  </p>
  <p>
    In September 2021, Acquia acquired Widen Enterprises, a digital asset management (DAM) and product information management (PIM) software company, for an undisclosed amount. As a result, customers can have a fully integrated experience on the platform, while the acquisition also added a further 700+ customers. In November 2023, the company acquired Monsido, a website accessibility and optimization solution from CivicPlus, to expand its platform capabilities.
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Key customers and partnerships</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    By September 2021, Acquia counted one in four Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson &amp; Johnson, Bayer, and Xerox, among its customers.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    In June 2022, Acquia 
    <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11352">
      <u>partnered with Workato</u>
    </a>
     (enterprise-level workflow automation platform) to integrate with Acquia&rsquo;s CDP to expand enterprise use of the platform. The integration added 100+ technology integrations compatible with Acquia&rsquo;s marketing cloud.&nbsp;
  </p>
  <p>
    <b>Funding and financials</b>
  </p>
  <p>
    Acquia was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in September 2019 for USD 1 billion. 
  </p>
  <p>
  </p>
</div>


Acquia

Marketing automation provides measurement and attribution solutions to measure marketing effectiveness

The in-game advertising segment is in development and has a niche relevance to this area

Personalization tools are mainly used in AdTech and marketing campaign automation

Uses AI/ML to enable marketing automation, making it a core part of many companies' products

Metaverse advertising is being explored by AdTech segments for in-game advertising

Startups offering tools for finding and attracting potential customers with targeted ads.

Startups providing tools for gathering, cleaning and enhancing customer data to provide deep analytics.

<div>
  <p>
    Cubeiq is a business intelligence company that provides its clients with consumer behavior and trend insights. The company offers its clients with marketing, retail, research, and publisher services. Its marketing platform offers audience targeting, offline campaign attribution, performance analytics, and location insights. Its retail platform offers footfall analysis, site selection, and audience and geo-behavioral consumer insights. Its publisher platform offers audience segmentation, campaign attribution, and data monetization services. Cubeiq was founded in 2015 and is based in New York.
  </p>
</div>


<div>
  <p>
    NETGEAR (NASDAQ: NTGR) is a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers. The Company's products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless (WiFi and LTE), Ethernet and powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. The product line consists of wired and wireless devices that enable networking, broadband access and network connectivity. These products are available in multiple configurations to address the needs of the end-users in each geographic region in which the Company's products are sold. NETGEAR products are sold in approximately 28,000 retail locations around the globe, and through approximately 27,000 value-added resellers, as well as multiple major cable, mobile and wireline service providers around the world.
  </p>
</div>


Netgear

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  <p>
    Neudata’s SaaS catalogue of 5,000+ dataset reports provides tools for users to easily search, source, manage and compare data.
  </p>
</div>


Neudata

<div>
  <p>
    Orbital Insight is a geospatial analytics company, used by data-driven organizations that need to understand the changing physical world. Our SaaS technology unlocks global insights, anywhere and anytime, revealing hidden infrastructure, supply chain, socio-economic and geopolitical trends. That’s because our cloud solutions use AI, computer vision and data science to ingest, analyze and transform billions of geospatial data points (including satellite, cell phone “pings”, AIS, SAR, aerial, connected devices, etc) into actionable intelligence used to make superior business and policy decisions. Orbital Insight was established in 2013 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
  </p>
</div>


Orbital Insight

<div>
  <p>
    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.
  </p>
</div>


Planet Labs

<div>
  <p>
    Premise is a data and analytics platform that empowers decision-makers with real-time, actionable intelligence. By combining the power of a global network of on-the-ground contributors with industry-leading data science and machine learning Premise is ‘The Source of Ground Truth.’ A $66M Series C venture capital organization, we are backed by Valor Equity Partners, Social Capital, Google Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, among others.  Premise is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Portland.
  </p>
</div>


Premise

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

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.

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