SOURCE: Wikipedia, captured 2020-06-24
Dataminr is a global artificial intelligence company that provides real-time information alerts to hundreds of clients in over 70 countries.
Founded in 2009, Dataminr employs more than 600 people and is headquartered in New York . The company has offices in New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle, London, Dublin, Ireland, Melbourne, Australia and Bozeman, Montana.
In 2019, the company ranked #5 on the Forbes AI 50 List.
Dataminr was founded in 2009 by Yale University graduates Ted Bailey, Sam Hendel and Jeff Kinsey. One of Dataminr’s major early successes came in 2011, when it issued an alert that Osama bin Laden had been killed 23 minutes faster than major news organizations.
Dataminr’s clients span both public and private sectors, including CNN, USA Today, the United Nations, Airbus, Shell and the New York City Office of Emergency Management.
In 2018, Dataminr closed a $391.6 million Series E round of funding that valued the company at $1.6 billion. The company has raised $577 million in funding to date.
In 2019, Dataminr detected the first signals of the COVID-19 outbreak within public social media posts at 9:11AM EST on December 30, 2019.
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