Dataminr is a company.
Dataminr has raised $181.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Key people at Dataminr.
Dataminr has raised $181.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Dataminr builds an AI platform that discovers real-time events, threats, and risks from over 1 million public data sources, including text in 150 languages, images, video, sound, and sensor data, delivering the earliest warnings to enable faster decision-making and crisis response.[2][3][4] It serves thousands of users across multinational organizations—more than two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100 companies—plus public sector agencies, NGOs, newsrooms, nonprofits, financial services, healthcare, energy, media, first responders, and universities, solving the problem of delayed awareness in high-impact situations like natural disasters, cyber threats, and geopolitical events.[1][2][3][7] Valued at $4.1B, Dataminr shows strong growth momentum through products like Dataminr Pulse for security teams, First Alert for public sector and nonprofits (with free/discounted access), and a partner network, while committing to social impact via AI for Good initiatives in humanitarian aid and STEM education.[2][3][5]
Dataminr emerged from over a decade of building high-quality labeled datasets from crowd-generated social media data, pioneering hybrid AI for anomaly detection in public sources.[6] Founders Ted Bailey, Jeff Kinsey, and Sam Hendel—drawing from expertise in data science and real-time technologies—launched the company around 2009-2010 to transform publicly available data into actionable intelligence, starting with newsrooms and expanding amid rising demand for crisis management tools.[2][6] Pivotal early traction included advance warnings during Hurricane Harvey for port closures, aiding supply chain security, and a 2019 UN partnership for humanitarian response, which accelerated adoption across sectors.[6]
Dataminr rides the explosive growth of AI-driven real-time intelligence amid escalating global risks—cyber threats, climate disasters, supply chain disruptions, and geopolitical instability—where organizations need sub-second visibility from public data to outpace traditional monitoring.[2][3] Timing aligns perfectly with AI advancements in multi-modal processing and LLMs, positioning Dataminr as a leader in a fast-growing market for predictive risk mitigation, distinct from general AI by focusing on public-source event discovery.[3][4][6] It influences the ecosystem by powering over 650 newsrooms, enabling UN humanitarian responses, and fostering partnerships that integrate its alerts into enterprise systems, while its nonprofit programs democratize AI for social good, amplifying collective intelligence in crises.[2][5][6]
Dataminr is poised to dominate as AI evolves toward hyper-real-time, multi-modal threat detection, expanding its partner network and AI for Good initiatives to capture more public-private collaborations amid rising global volatility.[3][5] Trends like edge AI, advanced sensor fusion, and regulatory demands for resilient operations will fuel growth, potentially pushing valuation beyond $4.1B through deeper enterprise penetration and nonprofit scaling.[2][3] Its influence may evolve into an indispensable infrastructure layer for risk-aware decision-making worldwide, turning public data chaos into a strategic edge that keeps organizations—and societies—a step ahead of unfolding events.
Key people at Dataminr.
Dataminr has raised $181.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Dataminr's investors include Acequia Capital, ACME Capital, Activant Capital, Angelic Ventures, BoxGroup, Caffeinated Capital, Canaan Partners, Contour Venture Partners, FJ Labs, Flex Capital, GSR Ventures, Kickstart Fund.
Dataminr has raised $181.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $130.0M Series D in March 2015.
