Dataminr: Company Profile & Valuation

Dataminr scans more than a million public data sources across text in 150 languages, images, video, audio and sensor signals to flag breaking events before they escalate, sold as Dataminr Pulse to corporations and First Alert to first responders and government agencies. The system famously alerted that Osama bin Laden had been killed 23 minutes before major news organizations reported it, and it warned Capitol security officials about online chatter ahead of the January 6, 2021 riot.

Ted Bailey, Sam Hendel and Jeff Kinsey, all Yale graduates, founded Dataminr in 2009, and the company is headquartered in Manhattan, New York with additional offices in Washington, D.C., London, Dublin, Melbourne and Copenhagen. It employs around 800 people and is used by more than two-thirds of the Fortune 50.

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High minimums, transfer approval, company right-of-first-refusal.

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No. Dataminr is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.

The last valuation is $3.6B.

Lead investors for each round are in the funding timeline.