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
ENTERPRISE
INFRASTRUCTURE
FINTECH
BITCOIN
PAYMENTS
DATA AS A SERVICE
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
MOBILE-FIRST ENT. APPS
INTELLIGENT ENT. APPS
OPEN SOURCE
RETAIL TECH
MARKETING TECH
STEALTH MODE
ENTERPRISE
APPLICATIONS

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 are
generating 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, and
software 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
Finance
Financial market data for investment in public companies, data on start-ups & private companies, and consumer & business
credit ratings providers.
Market Intelligence
Companies providing information / data relevant to a company's market which is normally difficult to locate and is related to
the 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 data- from 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 annual
economic 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 top
three 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 in
companies like Factual, Premise Data, and Near.

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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60
89
86
65
50
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
NumberofCompanies
8
YoY – Number of companies founded
Planet Labs Snowball Finance Spire Orbital Insight Farmer's Business Network Leverfun
App Annie Enigma Premise FiscalNote Zeotap YPCredit
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 Model
Total
Funding
Example
22 2010.4 13
Market Intelligence > Digital
Competitor Intelligence
243M
App Annie
2010, San Francisco
21 2010 18
Market Intelligence > Consumer
Intelligence > DMP
343M
Lotame
2006, Columbia
38 2008.5 25 Geospatial > Location 278M
Factual
2007, Los Angeles
59 2007.6 37 Geospatial 663M
MapmyIndia
1992, Delhi
25 2006.4 14
Intelligence > Consumer Data
169M
Datalogix
2002, Westminster
29 2005.1 14 Traffic 198M
Inrix
2004, Kirkland
62 2004.9 45
Intelligence
992M
Metamarkets
2010, San Francisco
118 2004.1 43 Marketing 520M
Hitwise
1997, New York City

Niche Upcoming Sectors
No. of Companies
Founded
Average
Age
No. of Companies
Funded
Business Model
Total
Funding
Tracxn Picks
42 2012.2 13 Marketplace 31M
Quandl
2011, Toronto
38 2009.2 17 Public Data 124M
Socrata
2007, Seattle
17 2009.2 11 Social Data 330M
Dataminr
2009, New York City
96 2006.4 33 Marketing > Lead Generation 497M
Inside View
2005, San Francisco
14 2006.2 8 Geospatial > Satellite Based 311M
Planet Labs
2010, San Francisco
13 2003.2 9
Market Intelligence > Product
Intelligence
58M
Indix
2010, Chennai
11 2006 5
Marketing > Lead Generation >
Tech Leads
93M
RainKing Software
2007, Bethesda

Scope of Report
Investment Trend
Who is Investing
Sub Sector Analysis
Useful Links
Company List
Team
1
11

YoY – Number of Rounds and Total Funding
Note: The funding includes debt rounds also.
$181M
$121M
$556M
$298M
$479M
$490M
$776M
$1.6B
$290M
36
39
58
66
71
120
117
111
39
0
28
56
84
112
140
0
360
720
1080
1440
1800
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
NumberofRounds
FundingAmount(inMillions)
Funding Amount Number of Rounds

YoY – Number of Rounds by Stage
14 13
31 31
22
7
6
10
15
20
21
9
5
6
3
7
8
3
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
NumberofRounds
Seed Early Late

YoY – Funding by Stage
$14M $8M $10M $31M $22M $4M
$58M $63M
$103M
$107M
$147M
$73M
$56M
$119M $43M
$211M
$457M
$24M
0
140
280
420
560
700
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
TotalFundingAmount(inMillions)
Seed Early Late

Average Ticket Size – Early Stage
$1.0M
$0.9M
$0.7M
$1.4M $1.4M
$1.1M
$2.7M
$5.9M
$7.1M
$5.4M
$6.9M
$4.5M
$8.9M $8.6M
$11.1M
$10.8M
$15.8M
$11.8M
0.0
3.6
7.2
10.8
14.4
18.0
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Seed Series A Series B

Top investments in last one year
Company
Funding
Amount
Round
Name
Date Investors
sportradar.us
Sportradar
(San Francisco, 2010)
$44M Series C 10/01/2015 Revolution
factortrust.com
FactorTrust
(Atlanta, 2006)
$42M Series C 11/01/2015 ABS Capital Partners, MissionOG
creditbenchmark.com
Credit Benchmark
(London, 2012)
$20M Series B 07/01/2015 Balderton Capital, Index Ventures
crimsonhexagon.com
Crimson Hexagon
(Boston, 2007)
$20M PE 03/01/2016 Sageview Capital
discern.com
Discern
(San Francisco, 2009)
$20M Series A 09/01/2015 Artiman
orbitalinsight.com
Orbital Insight
(Palo Alto, 2013)
$20M Series B 06/01/2016 GV, CME Group, Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel
sourceintelligence.com
Source Intelligence
(Carlsbad, 2008)
$18M Series B 01/01/2016 Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors

Top investments in last one year
Company
Funding
Amount
Round
Name
Date Investors
vertoanalytics.com
Verto Analytics
(Espoo, 2013)
$16M Series B 06/01/2016
EQT Ventures, Conor Venture Partners, Open Ocean, VisionPlus Fund,
Finnish Industry Investment
axelspace.com
Axelspace
(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.com
RunTitle
(Austin, 2012)
$8M Series A 10/01/2015 Founders Fund, Deep Fork Capital, Austin Ventures
datarepublic.com.au
Data Republic Pty Ltd
(Sydney, 2014)
$8M Series A 05/01/2016 Qantas Loyalty, NAB, Reinventure Group
zeotap.com
Zeotap
(Berlin, 2014)
$6M Series A 08/01/2015 Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital
allyapp.com
Ally
(Berlin, 2014)
$5M Series A 12/01/2015 KfW
arabiaweather.com
Arabia Weather
(Muscat, 2006)
$5M Series A 11/01/2015 Silicon Badia, Wamda Capital, DASH Ventures, Jabbar
leverfun.com
Leverfun
(Beijing, 2015)
$5M Seed 07/01/2015 Shichun Wu, Future Capital

Funnel view of Sector
Percent of
Previous
36%
82%
46%
159
65
114
246
301
838
0 180 360 540 720 900
M&A & IPO
Late
Series B
Series A
Funded
Founded
Number of Companies

Scope of Report
Investment Trend
Who is Investing
Sub Sector Analysis
Useful Links
Company List
Team
9
19

Most Active Investors in Sector
17
15
14
13 13
12
11 11 11
10
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
NEA Sequoia Capital Founders Fund IA Venttures Rembrandt
Venture Partners
Index Ventures Accel Felicis Ventures First Round
Capital
DFJ Venture
TotalNumberofCompanies
Oanda App Annie Credit Karma DataSift InsideView Oanda comScore Credit Karma Planet Labs Planet Labs
The Climate
Corporation
Snowball Finance Planet Labs PlaceIQ LiveRamp
The Climate
Corporation
MyHeritage Planet Labs NinthDecimal
The Climate
Corporation

Where are Top Investors investing
NEA
Sequoia
Capital
Founders
Fund
IA
Venttures
Rembrandt
Venture
Partners
Index
Ventures
Accel
Felicis
Ventures
First Round
Capital
DFJ Venture
Market
Intelligence
App Annie
Near
LiveRamp Metamarkets
LiveRamp
SensorTower
comScore
Krux
LiveRamp
NinthDecimal
BrightKite
Finance Oanda
Snowball
Finance
Credit Karma
Oanda
Credit
Benchmark
Lenddo
Credit Karma
CrunchBase
Geospatial
Location kit
Placemeter
Orbital Insight
Cityzenith
Planet Labs PlaceIQ Factual
Planet Labs
GeoAPI
Planet Labs
SimpleGeo
Planet Labs
Marketing Mattermark
Rapleaf
RunTitle
InsideView
Rapleaf
Mattermark
Rapleaf
Clearbit
Social Data Topsy DataSift Gnip, Inc.
Weather
The Climate
Corporation
The Climate
Corporation
The Climate
Corporation
The Climate
Corporation
The 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
3
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
3
23

Top IPOs
IPO Date Company Overview
Funding
Amount
Sep-2016 carlsolutions.com
Carl Data Solutions
(Vancouver, 2015)
Data collection, storage and analytic solutions for Bigdata as a service
Scharfe Group
Jun-2014 markit.com
Markit
(London, 2001)
Financial information services company.
General Atlantic, Prime Ventures $250M
Jun-2013 urthecast.com
UrtheCast
(Vancouver, 2010)
Real time HD video of Earth $14.5M
Dec-2012 arcontech.com
Arcontech Group PLC
(London, 1979)
Real time financial market data
Jan-2011 nielsen.com
Nielsen
(New York City, 1922)
Global Information and measurement company.
Harbourvest Partners, AlpInvest Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Stockwell Capital, Centerview Capital
Nov-2011 ancestry.com
Ancestry
(Provo, 1983)
Online genealogy platform
America Online, Crosslink Capital, Spectrum Equity, EPIC Ventures, Industry Ventures, Pivotal Group,
Compaq, Hercules Capital, AlpInvest Partners, Signal Peak
$146.2M
May-2009 digitalglobe.com
DigitalGlobe
(Longmont, 1993)
Geospatial data using sattelites
Wavemaker Partners
Apr-2007 comscore.com
comScore
(Reston, 1999)
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
$376.93M

Major Acquisitions
Date Company Acquirer Deal Size Overview
Total
Funding
Jun-2016 l2c.com
eMarketer
(New York City, 1996)
axelspringer.de $250M
Data on digital marketing, media, and commerce.
Stripes Group
$25M
Apr-2016 onsemble.ws
Crosswise
(Tel Aviv, 2013)
Oracle.com $50M
Cross-Device Identification Mapping
ZhenFund, Emerge, Giza Venture Capital, OurCrowd and Horizons
Ventures.
$5M
Apr-2016 asset4.com
Global Spec
(East Greenbush, 1996)
ieee.org Undisclosed
Database of engineering and industrial products
Warburg Pincus
$20M
Mar-2016 iriworldwide.com
Markit
(London, 2001)
ihs.com $5.5B
General Atlantic
$250M
Feb-2016 compendiabio.com
Veda
(Sydney, 1967)
equifax.com $1.9B
Credit information and analysis in Australia and New Zealand
Jan-2016 brightkite.com
The Weather Company
(Atlanta, 1978)
ibm.com Undisclosed Weather data and forecast
Jan-2016 sensenetworks.com
OPIS
(Gaithersburg, 1977)
ihs.com $650M Oil Price Information Service provider
Dec-2015 datamarket.com
Interactive Data
(Bedford, 1968)
intercontinentalex
change.com
$5.2B
Financial 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
6
26

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 Generation
Relationship Science (2010, $121M)
$504M
MARKETPLACE $31M
Advertising
BDEX (2014, $2M)
Finance & Economic
QUANDL (2011, $18M)
FINANCE
Public Market Investment
Bloomberg (1981)
Private Market
Owler (2011, $19M)
$1.3B
Credit Information
Equifax (1899, IPO)
GEOSPATIAL
Satellite Imagery
Planet Labs (2010, $186M)
Location
Factual (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 Intelligence
App Annie (2010, $156M)
$1.4B
Product Intelligence
Etilize (2000, Acq)
Consumer Intelligence
Nielsen (1922, IPO)
27

Top Business Models by Funding
$1.3B $1.3B
$663M
$521M
$330M
$263M
$198M
0
280
560
840
1120
1400
Market Intelligence Finance Geospatial Marketing Social Data Weather Traffic
TotalFundingAmount(inMillions)
# Cos. 135 226 59 118 17 35 29
Avg. FY 2002.6 2003.3 2007.6 2004.1 2009.2 2003.6 2005.1
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 the
external environment of the company.
Consumer Intelligence Industry Intelligence Digital Competitor
Intelligence
Data related to opportunity,
forecast, trends, market
volume analysis etc
Data related to competitors'
strategy, their pricing,
investments, organization
changes etc
Data related to product
pricing, attributes etc.
Companies offering data related
to consumer understanding,
loyalty/satisfaction.

Market Intelligence – Entrepreneur Activity and
Investment Trend
$34M
$15M $18M
$40M $42M
$20M
$81M
$337M
3
2
4
6
4
11
16
14
0
4
7
11
14
18
0
80
160
240
320
400
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
NumberofRounds
YoY – Total Funding and No of Rounds
$992M
$242M
$58M $35M
0
240
480
720
960
1200
Consumer Intelligence Digital Competitor
Intelligence
Product Intelligence Industry Intelligence
BM wise Investment
3
7
17
8
17
14
10
6
0
4
7
11
14
18
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
NumberofCompaniesFounded
YoY – No. of Companies Founded
77
17
8 8
4 3 2 2
0
18
36
54
72
90
United
States
United
Kingdom
Germany India France Israel Argentina Finland
NumberofCompanies
Distribution of Companies across Countries

Market Intelligence – Most Funded Companies
Company Overview Business Model
Funding
Amount
comscore.com
comScore
(1999, Reston)
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
Intelligence > Digital Media
Analytics
$376.93M
appannie.com
App Annie
(2010, San Francisco)
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
datalogix.com
Datalogix
(2002, Westminster)
Aggregator of offline purchasing data
NEA, General Catalyst Partners, IVP, Costanoa, Sequel Venture Partners, Breyer Capital, Wellington
Management
$86.5M
similarweb.com
SimilarWeb
(2007, London)
Web Measurement & Online Competitive Intelligence
Naspers, Docor International, Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, NFX Guild
$65.1M
lotame.com
Lotame
(2006, Columbia)
Data management platform
Emergence Capital Partners, Battery Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Betaworks, Hillcrest Management,
TrueBridge Capital Partners, Pinnacle Ventures, R.J. Finlay & Co.
Intelligence > DMP
$63.69M
bluekai.com
BlueKai
(2007, Cupertino)
Data management platform and 3rd party data marketplace
Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures, GGV Capital, Split Rock Partners, Homebrew, Infinity Ventures,
Pinnacle Ventures
Intelligence > DMP
$56.89M
krux.com
Krux
Cross-Screen Data Management Platform
Accel, IDG ventures, Temasek, Sapphire Ventures, Ulu Ventures, The Entrepreneurs' Fund, Visionnaire
Ventures, Sapphire Ventures
Intelligence > DMP
$48M
ninthdecimal.com
NinthDecimal
Mobile Audience Intelligence Platform
Norwest Venture Partners, DFJ Venture, Trident Capital, Panorama Capital, Comcast Ventures, DFJ Frontier
Intelligence > DMP
$47M

Finance – Business Model Description
Financial market data for investment in public companies, and data on start-ups & private companies, and consumer & business
credit ratings providers.
Public Market Investment Private Market Investment Credit Information
Data on privately owned companies and
startups for investment purpose.
B2B and B2C Credit information providersCompanies providing data to support
decision making about investments in
public companies.

Finance – Entrepreneur Activity and Investment
Trend
$11M $5M
$36M
$2M
$13M
$46M
$190M
$283M
4 4
8
3
6
15
15
20
0
5
10
15
20
25
0
60
120
180
240
300
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
NumberofRounds
$619M
$504M
$68M
0
140
280
420
560
700
Public Market Investment Credit Information Private Market Investment
BM wise Investment
5
11 11
14
20
30
28
18
0
7
14
21
28
35
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
105
37
19
7 6 5 5 3
0
24
48
72
96
120
United States India Canada Netherlands
NumberofCompanies

Finance – Most Funded Companies
Funding
Amount
creditkarma.com
Credit 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.com
Markit
(2001, London)
General Atlantic, Prime Ventures
Finance > Public
Market Investment
$250M
oanda.com
Oanda
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
Finance > Public
Market Investment
$117M
premise.com
Premise
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
xueqiu.com
Snowball Finance
(2011, Beijing)
Online finance information service provider
Sequoia Capital, Renren, Morningside venture Capital
Finance > Public
Market Investment
$53.2M
factortrust.com
FactorTrust
(2006, Atlanta)
Provider of consumer data, analytics and risk scoring solutions on those underserved by traditional
banking channels
ABS Capital Partners, MissionOG, Archbrook
Finance > Credit
Information
$43.62M
xignite.com
Xignite
(2000, San Mateo)
Market data cloud solutions and API provider
StarVest Partners, Startup Capital Ventures, QUICK, Altos Ventures
Finance $36.89M
themarkets.com
TheMarkets
(2000, New York City)
Aggregator of sell side research and earnings estimate models
Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers
Finance > Public
Market Investment
$30M

Geospatial – Business Model Description
Location, earth imagery, and geographic data providers.
Location Satellite Based
Companies which provides satellite based
earth imagery data to the customers.
Companies offering location based data.

Geospatial – Entrepreneur Activity and
Investment Trend
$9M
$2M
$16M
$9M
$5M
$10M
$32M
3
1
2
3 3
2
5
5
0
1
2
4
5
6
0
7
14
21
28
35
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
NumberofRounds
$312M
$279M
252
266
280
294
308
322
Satellite Based Location
BM wise Investment
2
7
6
3
6
8
1
3
0
2
4
5
7
9
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
36
8
4
2 2 2 1 1
0
8
16
24
32
40
United
States
United
Kingdom
Canada Germany Italy Spain Argentina China
NumberofCompanies

Geospatial – Most Funded Companies
Company Overview
Business
Model
Funding
Amount
planet.com
Planet 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
Geospatial >
Satellite Based
$183.1M
skyboximaging.co
m
Skybox 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
factual.com
Factual
(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.com
PlaceIQ
Location data provider for mobile advertising
IA Venttures, kbs, Iris Capital, US Venture Partners, Social Leverage, Valhalla Partners, Harmony Partners, Raptor
Group, Social Leverage
Geospatial >
Location
$52.75M
mapmyindia.com
MapmyIndia
(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
loc-aid.com
Locaid
Mobile location-enabler
Florida Growth Fund, Intersouth Partners, HIG Ventures, H.I.G. Capital
Geospatial >
Location
$37.7M
orbitalinsight.com
Orbital Insight
(2013, Palo Alto)
Understanding global trends through image processing and deep learning
Sequoia Capital, GV, CME Group, Lux Capital, Bloomberg Beta, In-Q-Tel, citizen.vc
Geospatial >
Location
$30.2M
blackbridge.com
BlackBridge
(1998, Berlin)
End to end solutions for geospatial value chain
Business Development Bank of Canada, BMO
Geospatial $20.18M

Marketing – Entrepreneur Activity and Investment
Trend
$12M
$0.2M
$3M
$6M $5M
$2M
$12M
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NumberofCompanies
Business Model Description
Companies providing data to marketers for lead generation.
Lead Generation

Marketing – Most Funded Companies
Funding
Amount
relsci.com
RelSci
Web based platform to build business relationships
Salesforce, RIT Capital Partners, MacAndrews, Hearst Communications, Starr Companies,
gasparglobal.com
Contacts
$121.3M
insideview.com
InsideView
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
Business information
$88.96M
rainkingonline.co
m
Rain King Software
(2007, Bethesda)
IT Profiling Database
Spectrum Equity
Tech Leads
$67.5M
netprospex.com
NetProspex
(2006, Waltham)
B2B Lead Generation and Enrichment
American City Business Journals, Spring Lake Equity Partners, Edison Partners
Contacts
$27.5M
spoke.com
Spoke
(2002, San Mateo)
Crowdsourced people & business information
US Venture Partners, Sierra Ventures, Partech Ventures, DCM
Marketing > Lead Generation $25.1M
hgdata.com
HG Data
(2010, Santa Barbara)
Technology installation database.
Updata Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures
Tech Leads
$23M
duedil.com
DueDil
(2010, London)
Bloomberg for private companies
Oak Investment Partners, Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Playfair Capital, Oak
Investment Partners
$22M
data.com
Data.com
Source of accurate business data Marketing > Lead Generation >
$17.95M

Social Data – Entrepreneur Activity and
Investment Trend
$12M
$3.0M $2M
$17M
$24M
$38M
$0.4M
$130M
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NumberofCompanies
Business Model Description
Social data e.g. twitter feeds, FB posts etc. providers.

Social Data – Most Funded Companies
Company Overview
Business
Model
Funding
Amount
dataminr.com
Dataminr
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
datasift.com
DataSift
(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
crimsonhexagon.c
om
Crimson Hexagon
(2007, Boston)
Social Media Monitoring and Analytics Platform
Rose Tech Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Sageview Capital, Beacon Angels, Golden
Seeds
Social Data $34.15M
topsy.com
Topsy
Real-time public social data Indexer
SV Angel, Founders Fund, Ignition Partners, BlueRun Ventures, Western Technology Investment
Social Data $32.2M
unmetric.com
Unmetric
(2011, Chennai)
Social media benchmarking company
Nexus Venture Partners, JAFCO Asia
Social Data $8.7M
gnip.com
Gnip, Inc.
(2008, Boulder)
Provides Social Data Crawling for Enterprises
First Round Capital, Foundry Group, SoftTech VC, Darwin Ventures
Social Data $6.64M
likely.co
Likely
(2011, Shoreditch)
Social data analytics provider
Charlotte Street Capital, New World Private Equity
Social Data $1.6M
leadsift.com
LeadSift
(2012, Halifax)
Social intelligence platform
Salesforce, Innovacorp, OMERS Ventures, East Valley Ventures
Social Data $1.39M

Scope of Report
Investment Trend
Who is Investing
Sub Sector Analysis
Useful Links
Company List
Team
2
42

Interesting Seed Companies
Total
Funding
semantics3.com
Semantics3
Online database of products & prices
Y Combinator, Golden Gate Ventures
Market Intelligence >
$2.15M
secondmeasure.com
Second Measure
(2015, San Mateo)
Credit card transaction data provider
Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures,
Foundation Capital, FundersClub, S2 Capital, LLC, Scrum Ventures
Finance $2M
planetos.com
Planet OS
(2012, Sunnyvale)
Cloud Platform for Industrial IoT and Earth Observation Data
Intertrust
Geospatial > Location $1.4M
oddup.com
Oddup
(2014, Hong Kong)
Data driven approach to assess invest-ability of startups
Kima Ventures, Big Colors
Finance > Private
Market Investment
$1.13M
dataweave.com
DataWeave
(2011, Bangalore)
Cloud based data visualisation and analytics platform
Blume Ventures, TLabs, 5ideas Startup Superfuel
Market Intelligence $270K
stockstreams.net
StockStreams
(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
Total
Funding
runtitle.com
RunTitle
(2012, Austin)
Mineral Ownership Information database in the US
Founders Fund, Austin Ventures, Deep Fork Capital, SURGE Ventures
Marketing > Lead
Generation
$12.03M
inventure.com
Inventure
(, 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
Finance > Credit
Information
$11.2M
ravellaw.com
Ravellaw
(2012, Palo Alto)
Legal search & analytics
NEA, North Bridge Venture Partners, Ulu Ventures, The Experiment Fund, Work-Bench, Xfund
Legal $9.2M
smartprocure.us
SmartProcure
(2011, Deerfield Beach)
Cloud based repository of government purchase data
New Ground Ventures, Govtech Fund
Public Data > Public
Procurement
$7.9M
placemeter.com
Placemeter
Platform that senses and unlocks data about activity in physical places
NEA, Qualcomm Ventures, TriplePoint Capital, Techstars, Collaborative Fund, FundersClub,
blisce
judicata.com
Judicata
Legal Analytics
Khosla Ventures
Legal $7.8M
zeotap.com
Zeotap
(2014, Berlin)
Actionable Premium Data From Telecom Operators
Iris Capital, Capnamic Ventures, HitFox Group
Consumer
Intelligence > DMP
$7.7M
zoominfo.com
Zoom Information
(2000, Waltham)
Business Intelligence Platform
Vulcan, Venrock, Ascent Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Flagship
Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures
Marketing > Lead
Generation >
$7M

Total
Funding
nav.com
Nav (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
Finance > Credit
Information
$6.5M
crosswise.com
Crosswise
(2013, Tel Aviv)
Cross-Device Identification Mapping
Giza Venture Capital, OurCrowd, Horizons Ventures, Horizon Ventures, ZhenFund, Pereg
Ventures
$5M
aire.io
Aire
(2014, London)
Company offering credit scores to individuals using machine learning algorithms.
Accion, SparkLabs Global Ventures, Tom Glocer, Barclays Accelerator, Craigie Capital
Finance > Credit
Information
$1.4M
zapr.in
Zapr
(2012, Gurgaon)
TV viewership data repository
Flipkart, Micromax Informatics, GSF India, TA Ventures, Pix Vine Capital
digitalglobe.com
DigitalGlobe
(1993, Longmont)
Geospatial data using sattelites
Wavemaker Partners
Geospatial > Satellite
Based
oanda.com
Oanda
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
Finance > Public Market
Investment
$117M
spire.com
Spire
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

Total
Funding
factual.com
Factual
(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
krux.com
Krux
Cross-Screen Data Management Platform
Accel, IDG ventures, Temasek, Sapphire Ventures, Ulu Ventures, The Entrepreneurs' Fund,
Visionnaire Ventures, Sapphire Ventures
Market Intelligence
> Consumer
Intelligence > DMP
$48M
enigma.io
Enigma
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.com
Indix
(2010, Chennai)
SaaS based Big Data product intelligence platform
Nexus Venture Partners, Nokia Growth Partners, Avalon Ventures, Tola Capital, Anthemis Group,
Milliways Ventures
Market Intelligence
> Product
Intelligence
$29.49M
creditbenchmark.com
Credit Benchmark
(2012, London)
Credit risk data aggregator from multiple banks
Index Ventures, Balderton Capital
Finance > Credit
Information
$27M
near.co
Near
(2012, Bangalore)
Location intelligence platform providing real-time information on places, people and products.
Canaan Partners, Sequoia Capital, Telstra, Global Brain
Market Intelligence
> Consumer
Intelligence > DMP
$25.5M

Interesting Series B Companies
Total
Funding
hgdata.com
HG Data
(2010, Santa Barbara)
Technology installation database.
Updata Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures
Marketing > Lead
Generation > Tech Leads
$23M
windward.eu
Windward
(2010, Kloten)
Maritime data and analytics company
Horizons Ventures, Aleph Venture Capital
$15.8M
lenddo.com
Lenddo
(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
Finance > Credit
Information
$14M
placed.com
Placed
(2011, Seattle)
Location Analytics
Plug and Play Tech Center, Madrona Venture Group, Two Sigma Ventures
estimize.com
Estimize
Crowdsourced financial estimates provider
WorldQuant, Contour Venture Partners, Longworth Venture Partners, Euromoney
Institutional Investor PLC, Valuestream Labs, agilicllc.com
Investment
$9.5M
streetlightdata.com
StreetLight 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.com
Heckyl
(2010, Mumbai)
Real time financial information & news analytics for markets & businesses
Seedfund, IDG Ventures India
Investment
$4.75M

Interesting Late Stage Companies
Total
Funding
comscore.com
comScore
(1999, Reston)
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
Consumer Intelligence >
Digital Media Analytics
$376.93M
creditkarma.com
Credit 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.com
Markit
(2001, London)
General Atlantic, Prime Ventures
Investment
$250M
planet.com
Planet 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
Geospatial > Satellite
Based
$183.1M
dataminr.com
Dataminr
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.com
App 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
Digital Competitor
Intelligence
$156M
ancestry.com
Ancestry
(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.com
RelSci
Web based platform to build business relationships
Salesforce, RIT Capital Partners, MacAndrews, Hearst Communications, Starr Companies, gasparglobal.com
Marketing > Lead
Generation > Contacts
$121.3M

Total
Funding
climate.com
The Climate Corporation
Climate data provider for farms
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
Weather $99.42M
sportradar.com
Sportradar
(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.com
Skybox 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.com
InsideView
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.com
Datalogix
(2002, Westminster)
Aggregator of offline purchasing data
NEA, General Catalyst Partners, IVP, Costanoa, Sequel Venture Partners, Breyer Capital,
Wellington Management
$86.5M
rainkingonline.com
Rain King Software
(2007, Bethesda)
IT Profiling Database
Spectrum Equity
Tech Leads
$67.5M
premise.com
Premise
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.com
SimilarWeb
(2007, London)
Web Measurement & Online Competitive Intelligence
Naspers, Docor International, Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem, NFX Guild
$65.1M

Total
Funding
datasift.com
DataSift
(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.com
BlueKai
(2007, Cupertino)
Data management platform and 3rd party data marketplace
Redpoint Ventures, Battery Ventures, GGV Capital, Split Rock Partners, Homebrew,
Infinity Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures
Consumer Intelligence > DMP
$56.89M
socrata.com
Socrata
(2007, Seattle)
API development and management
OpenView, Morgenthaler, Frazier Technology Ventures, Canvas Ventures, In-Q-Tel,
Sapphire Ventures
Public Data $54.5M
xueqiu.com
Snowball Finance
(2011, Beijing)
Online finance information service provider
Sequoia Capital, Renren, Morningside venture Capital
Investment
$53.2M
placeiq.com
PlaceIQ
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.com
MapmyIndia
(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.us
Sportradar
Data & content of professional sports, leagues, and events in the United States
Revolution
Sports Data $44M
exelate.com
eXelate
Centralized Big Data Management Platform.
Viola Group, Menlo Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Trident Capital, Newspring Capital
Consumer Intelligence > DMP
$31M

Top Funded Deadpooled Companies
Total
Funding
focus.com
Focus
Online research and lead generation for enterprises.
Lightspeed Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, GGV Capital, Leader Ventures
Marketing > Lead
Generation
$12.2M
brightkite.com
BrightKite
(2007, Burlingame)
Product research platform
DFJ Venture, Techstars
$2.09M
sportsweatherstats.com
Sports Weather Stats
Studies weather's impact on professional sports team and player
Sports Data $100k
inkwire.io
Inkwire
(2010, Cupertino)
Instant analysis platform for investment professionals. Finance > Private Market
Investment
snolr.com
Snolr
(2010, Lucknow)
Platform offering data analytics based stock market analysis Finance > Public Market
Investment

Scope of Report
Investment Trend
Who is Investing
Sub Sector Analysis
Useful Links
Company List
Team
2
52

Useful Links
Slide Title Content Platform Link
List of All Companies in readable format Companies Link
Upcoming Sectors Entrepreneur Activity Link
Top investments in last one year Investment Trend Link
Investors Most Active Investors Link
Major Acquisitions Exit Outlook - Acquisitions Link
Market Intelligence – Most Funded Companies Sub Sector Understand Link
Finance – Most Funded companies Sub Sector Understand Link
Marketing – Most Funded Companies Sub Sector Understand Link
Social Data – Most Funded Companies Sub Sector Understand Link
Top Funded Deadpooled Companies Companies Link

Scope of Report
Investment Trend
Who is Investing
Sub Sector Analysis
Useful Links
Company List
Team
4
54

Data as a Service – Company List
COVERS THE FOLLOWING SECTORS
Finance
Market
Intelligence
Marketing Geospatial
Social
Data
Traffic Weather
Public
Data
Marketplace Trade Automotive

Finance (1/54)
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 collect
business 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 data
insights for inflation tracking, food security monitoring, channel checks for brands, etc. Backed by Google
Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Harrison Metal. Customers include Bloomberg, which redistributes Premise
data 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 and
reference market data into apps and devices. Xignite Market Data Distribution is a private-labeled service that
helps exchanges, over-the-counter (OTC) brokers, multilateral trading facilities and data vendors distribute tick
data directly to their clients. The company also offers Xignite Enterprise Data Distribution which is a fully
managed, cloud-based solution designed to help financial institutions drive data adoption and reduce data costs.
$36.89M
StarVest Partners, Startup Capital
Ventures, QUICK, Altos Ventures
Prevedere Inc [Columbus, 2012]: Prevedere provides Big Data predictive analytics to large enterprise
customers, private equity, and investment firms. Analyst and Data Scientist across finance, procurement, sales
and 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 gain
higher returns on investment. Customers includes Racetrak, Hamilton, Aecom, Momentive etc targeting
software, networking and hardware in several industries and specialties including mobile commerce, cloud
computing, health care, education and Big Data.
$7.9M
Foundation 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 and
Wealth Management. They provide a BrightScope Rating suite which reviews more than 200 unique data inputs
per 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

Finance (2/54)
Powerlytics [Philadelphia, 2011]: Powerlytics’ market intelligence platform provides a comprehensive, accurate
and granular consumer and business financial data available. Underpinned by the financial statements of 27
million business and 144 million households, Powerlytics' platform and products allow for insights to understand
risk, identify market opportunities and conduct predicative analytics, analysis and research.They enable the
creation of predictive analytical models, score sectors, conduct precise benchmarking and market sizing reports,
or perform detailed economic business and marketing research.
$4.84M
CME Group, Ben Franklin Technology
Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania
360kompany [Vienna, 2012]: 360kompany helps businesses of all sizes to verify and check their international
trading 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 21
million European businesses and a total of 1 billion filings. Also provides an Enterprise API to power third-party
business applications and an advanced user interface to international business background information. Is an
official contracting partner of the Common Register Portal of the German States, the official and registered
Clearing Office of the Republic of Austria, distributor of the European Business Register (EBR) as well as the
Swiss 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 and
certified 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 price
information. The company charges per bushel service fee for its trading platform. Transportation is handled by
buyer/seller. It offers services for growers, mills/elevators/merchandisers/brokers, and industry analysts and
researchers; and manufacturers, co-packers, and retailers.
$3.08M
Omidyar 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 all
the 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, the
company 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, and
numerous other entities with products and services for Financial Advisors uses Meridian IQ directory.
$2M Stonehenge Growth Equity

Finance (3/54)
Second Measure [San Mateo, 2015]: Second Measure uses the data of billions of credit card transactions to
analyze macroeconomics trends in real-time. Their dataset covers more than 1% of all U.S. consumer spending
to monitor the live performance of public and private companies. Second Measure has two products: a web
application that they are targeting more towards analysts and a data feed that they make available to
researchers. Through Second Measure, investors can dig through operational metrics like revenue and customer
growth, retention and cohort analysis, while also benchmarking companies against their competitors to track
overall 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 institutional
investment 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 development
of features, making the whole process marginally cheaper. By making the system 100% web-based they bypass
B2B 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 allow
consumers keep up with content related to the financial markets and publicly-traded companies. Offers a
curated research platform designed to track the flow of information for watch-lists containing up to 100
keywords (Stock symbols, hashtags, people, products, etc) across a wide variety of content distribution channels
including 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 on
the board owner's personal preferences.
$317.5K Tech Wildcatters
Timetric [London, 2008]: Timetric provides suite of products and services that allows clients to identify market
and investment opportunities, assess competitive threats, manage and understand risk and improve business
practices, decision-making and regulatory compliance. Timetric provides intelligence and analysis for sectors
such as Banking, Insurance, Wealth, Construction, Accountancy and Mining. Timetric offers proprietary as well
as specialized industry data, analysis, and generates reports. Has won TechCrunch’s London Mini Seed Camp
2009. In 2011 the company was acquired by Progressive Media Group, a PE firm.
Anthemis Group

Finance (4/54)
Bureau van Dijk [London, 1991]: Bureau van Dijk specialises in providing company information and business
intelligence. Product range includes databases of company information and business intelligence for individual
countries, 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 the
Environmental Tracking (ET) Index Series, a market mechanism designed to address climate change risk for
investors. 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 companies
according to their greenhouse gas emissions and levels of transparency. The company provides investors with
corporate carbon emissions data, portfolio carbon footprinting and reporting services, as well as low carbon
indexes 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 on
open data from various sources (such as French Customs), data is structured, selected and processed to
generate benchmark price references. The company partners with companies, brokers, agencies and institutions
worldwide. They provide it with data insights on their markets and regions. Besides the web format, the
company also offers API to the clients. subscription based revenue model. Backed by Open Data Incubator and
has raised €99.6K in funding.
Open Data Incubator
Quantec [Pretoria, 1998]: Quantec specialises in marketing, distribution and support of economic & financial
data country intelligence and statistical, econometric and decision analysis software. Quantec also provides
consultancy in custom economic and financial database solutions, economic analysis and forecasting, and
market analysis and segmentation. The company is affiliated with The Economist Intelligence Unit, Stata
Corporation, and EViews as their Africa representatives and partners. Its offerings can be categorised under 4
domains- Data: delivers comprehensive data sets covering macro & regional economic, industry and
international trade data via its web-based EasyData Platform; Software: provides statistical, econometric and
decision 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 the
internet; 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.

Finance (5/54)
Quanton Data [New York City, 2013]: Quanton Data is a data information company serving the institutional
investment community. The company identifies and partners with companies that have unique and interesting
data and then brings that data to investors seeking differentiated insights into company and sector
performance. Quanton was acquired by Guidepoint in May 2016
YipitData [New York City, 2012]: Yipit analyzes web data for institutional investors. Its operations can be
categorized in two segments. For shoppers, Yipit.com aggregates the best deals and offers available online and
identifies the most appropriate for each user based on their unique preferences. The company works with
partners such as Groupon, LivingSocial, Gilt, Travelzoo, and hundreds more. For investors, YipitData aggregates
online data about publicly traded companies to derive their operating performance. Its portfolio includes
Groupon, Alibaba, Workday, Netflix, MercadoLibre, eBay, JD, ServiceNow, Veeva and more. The company
license 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- based
platform. They aggregate trade data from big exchanges and normalize the statistics in a visual interface. They
also create visuals about the whole crypto currency ecosystem. The first product is a view showing all
transactions and blocks happening in realtime in the Bitcoin network in user's browser using a WebGL earth
globe. The company is in stealth mode as of May 2016
Economena Analytics [Beirut, 2011]: Economena Analytics is a specialized economic information service
provider covering the Lebanese and Middle East markets. The company facilitates research and investment
analysis 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 data
along with proprietary interactive charting tools to facilitate the visualization and analysis of data. All data and
documents are sourced by Economena from third-party information providers, including official sources and
private sector associations. Subscription based revenue model.

Finance (6/54)
Quadrant [New York City, 2014]: Quadrant aggregates economic indicators from public sources and offers it to
its clients. The company claims to have aggregated over 400000 economic indicators from over 1000 public
sources. The company curates and standardises menus of key indicators for over 2000 countries. Users can
chart 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 and
consulting service provider. Global Insight was formed in May 2001by merger of Data Resources Inc and
Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates. Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial and
political coverage of countries, regions and industries. Global Insight covers industries such as autos, energy,
agriculture, steel, telecommunications, trade, tourism, healthcare, and construction. Its offerings include
subscriptions or projects, which are delivered via its website, printed publications, conferences, reports, and
presentations. Global Insight also offers software that provides navigation, analytical tools, and presentation
capabilities, and its consulting services advise clients on issues that affect their competitive position, investment
strategy, and policy positions.
Bigfind [Mumbai, 2014]: BigFind is a DaaS platform for business information providing access to market
research reports, company filings, statistical & macro-economic data from authoritative sources. Claims to be
crawling data from 250,000 authoritative sources every day. It categorizes each public business report into 24
industries, time period, company, content, region etc.
Barchart Market Data [Chicago, 1934]: Barchart is a financial technology firm focused on market data and
trading solutions. The company sources market data directly from exchanges around the world, and collect
information from fundamental data providers, new and government agencies, associations and weather data
providers. Apart from data collecting, processing and distributing Barchart facilitates future order routing for
brokers and individuals through its trading software. Barchart also offers off-the-shelf and custom solutions for
institutional clients that encompass data feeds, website content, software and enterprise data management.
Clients include companies in financial services, wealth management, proprietary trading, media, technology, as
well as agriculture, energy, metals and other commodities.

Finance (7/54)
Tofler [Gurgaon, 2013]: Web platform that delivers comprehensive and up-to-date information on all
companies, 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 of
facets of companies in India. Claims to have 50k+ unique visitors a month. Clients include big banks and private
equity firms. Also offers a browser plugin to get instant access to information on a company and allows for
building marketing list for email or direct mailing campaigns.
Activist Insight [London, 2012]: Activist Insight provides detailed information on shareholder activism including
news, profiles and performance. Activist Insight Online provides live filing and news alerts on, over 800 detailed
activist investor profiles, unique stats on activist campaigns and proxy battles, and much more. A free trial of the
database and a monthly newsletter subscription is available on request. Activism Monthly Premium is an online
and print magazine featuring interviews with activist investors, fund managers and advisers, as well as unique
data from its database.
Proxy Insight [London, 2013]: Proxy Insight is the source for global shareholder voting data.Combining detailed
investor voting information with the actual principles used by each institution, Proxy Insight is an essential tool
for issuers, their advisors and asset owners. Helps corporations understand why and how their shareholders
vote their proxies. With over 45 million voting records covering 22,000 corporations, Proxy Insight is the most
comprehensive source for the actual voting behavior of key global shareholders. In addition, the service offers
over 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 nearly
70 countries and publishes daily inflation series for over 20 countries and PPP indices for 6 economies. Most of
their series start in 2007-2008. PriceStats has partnered with State Street Global Markets to
update daily inflation series in more than 40 countries through their client research portal, IR3. PriceStats
gathers price information for key economic sectors: food & beverages; furnishing & household products;
recreation & culture; clothing & footwear; housing, electricity & fuel; and health. BPP - MIT Sloan spun off
company.

Finance (8/54)
Zauba Technologies [Bangalore, 2014]: Zauba Corp is a business research platform gathering info on
companies, trading and documents . It provides officially sourced information on businesses incorporated in
India and United Kingdom. It also provides financial data, shareholder information and contact information of
limited companies. New home buyers can use it to assess financial capacity of developers. It also provides
information to exporters and importers regarding India's bilateral trade reports that shows top traded products
and their values. Claims to track all Indian major ports on daily basis and import details for more than 6000 ports
across 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 areas
of fixed income, equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, institutional sales and equity research, as well
as 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 provides
data on firms and professionals in the financial services industry. The company also provides data hygiene
analysis and recommendations report; data feeds that supply dataset for integration into any custom
relationship management or other data systems; discovery profile for custom relationship management; and
consulting 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, providing
data free. In beta testing mode.

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 address
information, industry sector codes and company identifiers. Avox sources and manages legal entity data for
financial institutions across 255 jurisdictions and has validated reference data associated with more than 1.8
million 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 a
community that collectively addresses client, issuer and counterparty data quality issues. Subscription based
monetization 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 in
extraction, standardization and organization of US public company financial data from company filings. Has
partnered with Quandl to sell its data sets. Provides redistribution rights to subscribed developers. Subscription
based monetization model.
LegiStorm [Washington, 2006]: LegiStorm LLC is a non-partisan, for-profit company that researches, verifies and
publishes 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 and
employment 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 service
that provides credit tools with Credit Report Cards, which summarizes a consumer’s credit report into
components graded with an A-F letter grade. Credit Score Simulator, which simulates the effect of certain
financial actions on credit scores and credit monitoring, sends an email alert when something important
changes in a consumer’s TransUnion credit report. It also offers financial account monitoring through account
aggregator service Yodlee which allows consumers to track their bank, credit card, savings and loan transactions
and balances in Credit Karma’s interface. Their revenue model includes paid advertisement of relevant financial
products to its consumers. It also provide analytics for the companies that use Credit Karma as a platform to sell
services.
$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

Finance (10/54)
Credit Information
FactorTrust [Atlanta, 2006]: FactorTrust provides underbanked consumer data, analytics and risk scoring
solutions to a variety of lenders. The Atlanta-based company utilizes an internal team of predictive analytics
experts and statisticians combined with a deep, proprietary database of underbanked consumer loan
performance 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 an
unparalleled view of the underbanked community. This unique data, along with FactorTrust’s data modeling and
analytics, serves lenders throughout the US, UK and Canada in one of the largest and fastest growing consumer
segments, the underbanked.
$43.62M
ABS Capital Partners, MissionOG,
Archbrook
Credit Information
Credit Benchmark [London, 2012]: Credit Benchmark gathers, aggregates, anonymizes credit data from multiple
banks and then delivers it in a highly secure, confidential and legally-compliant manner. Its systems maximize
data 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 risk
teams. Its system specifically produces estimates for probability of default and loss given default, used for risk
management and more broadly as benchmarks in the financial industry. The model allows it to offer insights on
unrated 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 collects
and maintains records of an individual's payments pertaining to loans and credit cards. This information is then
used to create Credit Information Reports (CIR) and credit scores which are provided to lenders in order to help
evaluate 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 of
Baroda, Union Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, HSBC and Aditya Birla Trustee Company.
$19M
India 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 link
their social networking accounts to their Lenndo account and complete their profiles to generate the
LenddoScore. This score can be used on websites providing financial products to consumers for financing or to
get 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

Finance (11/54)
Credit Information
Inventure [Los Angeles, ]: InVenture is a mobile technology company providing simple credit scoring and
accounting tools for emerging markets. Collects borrowers data through SMS and builds a credit score which
then lenders can refer to while providing loans. Apart from financial help Inventure also offers financial literacy
and 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 financing
they need to grow and effectively manage their business. They do this giving business owners tools to take
control over their credit profiles--offering both personal and business credit data and insights for free. With the
goal 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 tools
that help members build business credit and a marketplace that makes it easy for them to use credit to create
the 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 leverages
alternative payment and asset data to create new predictive credit, collection and marketing scores for over 260
million 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 credit
score for nearly every company in the United States. These scores are based on publicly available data, as well
as data provided by their users. This approach allows business owners to have active and meaningful impact on
their credit reputation and opens the door to additional features including better trade agreements, new
customers, and more favorable capital opportunities.
$2.5M
Credit Information
YPCredit [Beijing, 2015]: YPCredit uses big data technology to provide various credit services. It collects
personal information and business information and thereafter analyses the information which about customer
transactions. 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

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 for
them, especially users with no prior credit history. It also provides APIs to lenders, to be integrated in their
systems, to provide credit scores of the applicants applying for the loans on their platform. The API was built to
provide real time response.It has been counted amongst the 10 hottest Fin-Tech startups in London and in Top
15 Financial startups in Europe.
$1.4M
Accion, 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 clients
in the decision making, giving the best information in terms of quality, efficiency, transparency. Utilizing the
modeFinance 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 every
company across the world. modeFinance elaborates the ratings by using proprietary method: MORE Multi
Objective Rating Evaluation.
$1.4M CORVALLIS
Credit Information
Equifax [Atlanta, 1899]: Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency. It gathers and maintains
information 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 non
credit 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, personal
and specialty finance companies and other financial institutions. From 1999, Equifax began offering services to
the 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 whom
you do business. Provides SME or individuals the information to know if other people with whom they are
considering 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 and
others.
$195K

Finance (13/54)
Credit Information
Compuscan Information Technologies (Pty) Ltd [Stellenbosch, 1994]: Compuscan is a credit reference bureau
that collects, validates, loads, verifies, houses, and distributes business and consumer credit information in
South Africa. Its products & services offerings include account verification services, bureau summary variables,
codix ( automated decision support tool), columbus (online tracing tool), compuloan (debtor management
system), CompuScore ABC (suite of credit bureau scores), credit check, credit bureau data, employment
confidence index, income predictor, load defaults, marketing services, person verification services, proloan (
loan servicing, management, tracking and collections software platform), and Xcelerator (automated application
processing and filing system). In addition, the company also offers individual solutions, such as personal credit
reports, 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 in
three segments: U.S. Information Services, International, and Consumer Interactive segments. The U.S.
Information Services segment provides consumer reports, risk scores, analytical services, and decisioning
capabilities; and online data, marketing, and decision services. The International segment offers online data
services, marketing services, credit reports, analytics, decision services, and other value-added risk management
services; 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 every
various sectors. The Group focuses on developing innovative products and services to help businesses make
smarter, more informed decisions throughout the customer life cycle. The Group counts many of the UK's
leading companies, including all of the clearing banks, several major international lenders, media
communications 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, in
partnership with its management team
GTCR
Credit Information
Dagong Global Credit Rating [Beijing, 1994]: Dagong global Credit Rating is a credit rating agency based in
China. The company offers professional risk evaluation services; and credit ratings for short-term financing
bonds, medium-term notes, hybrid capital bonds, enterprise bonds, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, asset-
backed securities, detachable convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds of listed company shareholders, financial
bonds, SME collection bills, and subordinated bonds. In addition, the company conducts surveillance credit
rating on domestic financial institutions, including banks and insurance companies; and issuing credit risks
ratings accordingly. Also, the company operates a credit management school that provides credit rating teaching
to students. Dagong is headquartered in Beijing, China and has offices in Hong-Kong & Europe.
Mandarin Capital Partners

Finance (14/54)
Credit Information
EFL [Lima, 2010]: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is an innovative financial-technology company which
employs psychometric and nontraditional applicant data to create credit scores to measure risk and potential
among new and existing small businesses. EFL, a product of its early Harvard research, has been recognized by
the G-20 as one of the most innovative approaches to SME finance globally, and is supported by numerous
international organizations, both public (IFC, IADB, G-20) and private (over a dozen of the largest financial
institutions across 26 countries in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.) EFL identifies high
potential 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 and
mobile data. It provides three major scores on an applicant: 1.Authenticity: Measures how likely an online
identity is real and trustworthy.; 2.Network quality: Measures the depth of the network, based on interactions
with other people and their background.; 3.Financial Credibility: Estimates a person's income percentile based
on 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 tailored
for social marketing, sale lead scoring, personalized offerings, and credit risk. Trusting Social is the winner of
Future of Money and Technology Startup Competition (2014), and among top 10 fintech startups in Americas
presenting 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. As
opposed to other credit rating agencies which charge for the credit reports after trial, ClearScore claims to
provide lifetime free access to credit score and reports to the consumer. The credit score and reports are
extracted from Equifax. The company generates revenue from commission it gets after a consumer buys a
financial 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 analytical
tools 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, motor
vehicles and insurance. It also collects 'lifestyle' data from on- and off-line surveys. The company's largest
operation is Experian North America, a consumer credit reporting agency that is considered one of the three
largest American credit agencies along withEquifax and TransUnion.
SPARK Venture Management

Finance (15/54)
Credit Information
LendProtect UK Ltd. [Atlanta, 2008]: LendProtect is the provider of consumer data, analytics, and risk scoring
solutions on those underserved by traditional banking channels. LendProtect has compiled a comprehensive
data on the underbanked market in the industry on portfolios that report data daily, in real time. This daily loan
performance data on underbanked consumers is analysed in order to provide instant lending decisions using the
company’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. The
company offers a web-based tool to businesses to help them learn about their customers before they engage in
business with them, including past payments histories with other vendors. The company operates on a
crowdsourced model. Businesses can submit complaints about customers on the platform. Then, the company
acknowledges the consumers that they have been posted on the platform. This opens a line of communication
in its internal arbitration process for the two parties to engage and try to settle their differences. It is free to
upload 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 the
due diligence, checking up on customers and suppliers, researching competitors, and tracking their own
businesses. Company & director information are gathered from various sources including Companies House, the
Registry Trust and local Gazettes. Its offerings include credit reports, director reports, company house
document, 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 within
the UK and overseas. Its online portal provides credit information on over 256 million companies across 221
countries. 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 Wyse
Leasing, and became a stand-alone company in 2005. In 2009, successfully completed a management buyout
and rebranded itself to ConCredo Ltd. Has won 'Credit Information provider of the Year' at the Institute of Credit
Management Awards 2014 and has been selected as finalists for 2015. Also, awarded 'Small Business of the
Year' at the Buckinghamshire Business Awards 2014.

Finance (16/54)
Credit Information
Graydon [Harrow, 1888]: Graydon UK provides online credit information and credit management solutions. The
company offers credit report, ledger management, risk monitoring, automated credit decision, fraud
prevention, marketing list, data integration, other credit report, and procurement and supplier selection
solutions. The company also provides credit management and portfolio software. Graydon UK Ltd. was founded
in 1888 and is based in Harrow, United Kingdom. Graydon UK Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Graydon Holding
N.V.
Credit Information
Ormsby Street [London, 2014]: Ormsby Street develops CreditHQ for SMBs to track credit status, payment
performance and general financial health of more than 7 million companies. CreditHQ takes data from
companies house and major credit supplier D&B, and uses that to provide financial insights to SMBs. CreditHQ
started life as a ‘credit score subscription' product for Barclays bank. Core technology is based around the
Microsoft Azure platform, and deliver primarily into web and email channel, the most widely used environments
for this kind of data, though they're increasingly integrating directly to other applications via APIs. They're based
in .NET and use relational and big data database storage platforms for their data storage and analysis of
companies. 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 New
Zealand. It provides credit reporting, credit scoring, and marketing analytics services. Veda has two operating
segments 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 assess
commercial 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 help
consumers improve their financial literacy, negotiate better credit offers, protect their identity and
belongings, and safely purchase used vehicles. International comprises the operating businesses outside
Australia. These include New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and Saudi Arabia. The Company was
previously known as Baycorp Advantage, which was a merger of Australian company Data Advantage and New
Zealand Company Baycorp in 2001.

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Credit Information
Infocredit Group [Strovolos, 2011]: Infocredit Group provides reports which provide information for the
principals 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 are
provided by the company.
Credit Information
Credit Angel [Macclesfield, 2014]: Credit Angel provides credit scores and reports to UK based individuals to
help 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 by
CallCredit.
Credit Information
Destácame [Santiago, 2014]: Destácame helps people to use their utility bills like electricity, water and
telephone in order to demonstrate to banks and large stores that they are responsible and worthy of good
credit conditions.
Credit Information
Credit Kudos [London, 2015]: Credit Kudos uses consumer transaction data to build highly accurate and
transparent credit score-cards and affordability metrics. The product makes decisioning possible for unbanked
as well as those with nonexistent or thin credit files. It is backed by Entrepreneur First, Europe-based leading
pre-seed investment programme for technical founders. Offers APIs to online lenders wherein the borrowers
have to authorize access to their data.
Credit Information
Check Business [London, 2013]: Check Business is an online service that provides credit and risk rating of
businesses in the UK in partnership with Equifax. It allows members to look up and monitor credit scores for any
UK business, partnerships and sole traders. The reports and ratings can be accesses by searching for company
name, registration number or VAT number.

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