SafeGraph is a technology company.
SafeGraph has raised $61.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at SafeGraph.
SafeGraph has raised $61.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
SafeGraph has raised $61.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
SafeGraph's investors include Kevin Hartz, C2 Investment, CRV, Draper Associates, Founders Fund, Brian Bendett, IDG Ventures, LGF, Merus Capital, Aaron Jacobson, Colin Bryant, Alexander Rosen.
Key people at SafeGraph.
SafeGraph is a geospatial data company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, specializing in curating high-precision, up-to-date datasets on global points of interest (POI), including details like building footprints, visitor patterns, foot traffic, and attributes such as brand affiliations, open hours, and co-tenancy.[1][3][5][6] It serves enterprises, researchers, nonprofits, and data scientists across sectors like retail, real estate, insurtech, fintech, urban planning, and market research by providing clean, ethically sourced data for applications in site selection, competitive intelligence, risk assessment, consumer behavior analysis, and decision-making.[1][2][3][4][5] SafeGraph solves the challenge of fragmented, outdated, or imprecise location data through monthly refreshed datasets built via machine learning, web crawling, and third-party licensing, enabling precise geospatial analytics without extensive cleaning.[5][6]
The company powers tools for organizations like Sysco, INRIX, Clearchannel, Dosh, and RCLCO, demonstrating strong growth momentum through integrations with platforms like Databricks (using Delta Lake and Delta Sharing for scalable data pipelines and secure sharing), Esri, Snowflake, AWS Redshift, and CARTO, which reduce data access time from months to minutes and support petabyte-scale processing.[2][3][7]
SafeGraph was founded in 2016 to address the critical need for fresh, reliable POI data in a rapidly changing world of physical places, starting with a narrow focus on becoming the definitive source of truth for global locations.[1][5][6] While specific founders are not detailed in available sources, the company emerged from recognizing gaps in traditional POI providers, which often lacked comprehensive coverage of non-commercial sites like parks, warehouses, or EV stations and required heavy data prep.[6] Early traction came from its commitment to veracity, ethical sourcing (e.g., differential privacy at Census Block level), and a unified schema, quickly attracting partners in data-intensive fields and building a dataset updated monthly via advanced curation methods.[1][5][6]
Pivotal moments include adopting Databricks for handling massive historical datasets, enabling efficient unification and ML model feeding, and pioneering Delta Sharing for rapid, secure data exchange, which solidified its role in democratizing geospatial data.[2]
SafeGraph rides the surge in geospatial analytics and location intelligence, fueled by AI/ML demands for precise, real-time data in dynamic markets like retail foot traffic post-pandemic and urban planning amid electrification (e.g., EV stations).[1][2][6][7] Timing is ideal as businesses shift to data-driven decisions amid fragmented sources, with SafeGraph's monthly updates countering static datasets and enabling trends like event impact analysis (via PredictHQ) and unified identifiers (via Placekey/CoreLogic).[6][7] Market forces favoring it include exploding petabyte-scale data needs, cloud-native ecosystems (Databricks, Snowflake), and regulatory pushes for privacy, positioning SafeGraph to influence the ecosystem by standardizing POI data and accelerating innovation in insurtech, fintech, and AI applications.[1][2][5]
SafeGraph is poised to expand its dominance in global places data, potentially deepening AI integrations for predictive modeling (leveraging its 10 patents in data management and ML) and custom enterprise solutions amid rising demand for hyper-local insights.[1][2][6] Trends like multimodal data fusion (e.g., POI with events/demographics) and edge computing will shape its path, enhancing accuracy via ongoing ingestion and partnerships. Its influence may evolve from data provider to ecosystem enabler, standardizing geospatial infrastructure much like its opening mission to empower builders with the world's most accurate POI dataset.[5][7]
SafeGraph has raised $61.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $45.0M Series B in March 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2021 | $45.0M Series B | Kevin Hartz, C2 Investment, CRV, Draper Associates, Founders Fund, Brian Bendett, IDG Ventures, LGF, Merus Capital, Aaron Jacobson, Colin Bryant, Alexander Rosen, Ridge Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, Storm Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Aaron Levie, Augusto Marietti, Ben Porterfield, Dylan Field, Greg Brockman, Jeremy Stoppelman, Julia Hartz, Larry Augustin, Peter Sonsini, Ryan Shea | |
| Apr 1, 2017 | $16.0M Series A | .406 Ventures, Kevin Hartz, Acequia Capital, ACME Capital, Adverb Ventures, Chloe Sladden, Bonfire Ventures, Broadway Angels, C2 Investment, Canaan Partners, Catapult Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures, CRV, Equity Alliance, Flex Capital, Fortress Investment Group, Founders Fund, Brian Bendett, Joe Kraus, Human Augmentation Syndicate, IDG Ventures, Kohala Ventures, LGF, Looking Glass Capital, M34 Capital, Matrix, Aaron Jacobson, Nexus Venture Partners, NFX, Omidyar Ventures, Quiet Capital, Reach Capital, Rethink Impact, Alexander Rosen, Ridge Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, South Park Commons, super{set}, The Finger Group, The Venture Reality Fund, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Aaron Levie, Aayush Phumbhra, Andy Bechtolsheim, Augusto Marietti, Ben Porterfield, Charlie Songhurst, Dylan Field, Ethan Beard, Gary Lauder, Georges Harik, Greg Brockman, Jeremy Stoppelman, Julia Hartz, Matthew Sutton, Rene Reinsberg, Ryan Shea, Sam Shank, Shervin Pishevar, Shishir Mehrotra, Travis May, Yan-David Erlich |
