# PredictHQ

> PredictHQ is a demand intelligence company that aggregates, verifies and enriches data on real-world events - concerts, sports, conferences, public holidays, severe weather, school breaks and more - into a single API-first source of truth. Companies plug this verified context into their forecasting models, AI systems and operational workflows to explain and predict demand shifts they would otherwise miss. Founded in Auckland in 2015 and now headquartered in San Francisco, PredictHQ counts Uber, Domino's, Expedia Group, Instacart, Walgreens and IHG among its customers, and says its data can explain more than 60% of demand variability.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Campbell Brown (Co-founder & CEO), Mike Ballantyne (Co-founder), Robert Kern (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Roughly 50-120 employees across offices in San Francisco and Auckland (estimates vary by source)
- **Products:** Features API, Beam (Relevancy Engine), Forecasts, Events API, WebApp & data marketplace delivery
- **Notable:** Built a verified global events dataset spanning 50M+ events across 19 categories from thousands of sources., Raised $33M+ from top-tier investors including Sutter Hill Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners., Adopted by major enterprises including Uber, Domino's, Expedia Group, Instacart and Walgreens.

## Products & services

- **Features API** — 100+ prebuilt, model-ready features derived from global events and demand signals, built on PredictHQ's real-world context graph to drop directly into ML pipelines and skip months of feature engineering.
- **Beam (Relevancy Engine)** — Analyzes a customer's historical demand data to identify and quantify which event types actually influence their business - per location - and predicts which will matter next.
- **Forecasts** — A forecasting engine powered by real-world event intelligence, using over 50 million verified events rather than historical patterns alone, with accuracy gains cited up to 30%.
- **Events API** — Programmatic access to verified real-world events across 19 categories - concerts, sports, conferences, public holidays, school breaks, severe weather and more - structured from thousands of public and proprietary sources.
- **WebApp & data marketplace delivery** — Access to PredictHQ intelligence via a web application and through partners including Snowflake, AWS Data Exchange and Databricks.

## Achievements

- Built a verified global events dataset spanning 50M+ events across 19 categories from thousands of sources.
- Raised $33M+ from top-tier investors including Sutter Hill Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- Adopted by major enterprises including Uber, Domino's, Expedia Group, Instacart and Walgreens.
- Grew from an Auckland startup into a San Francisco-headquartered category leader in demand intelligence.
- Became one of New Zealand's most-watched tech exports, profiled as a potential billion-dollar business.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — PredictHQ and Expedia Group published joint forecasts projecting $8.1B+ in traveler spend across North American host cities between June and August 2026.
- **2025-01** — PredictHQ repositioned as a 'real-world context platform for AI and forecasting,' emphasizing use of verified event data to train and ground production AI models.
- **2024-01** — Launched Forecasts, an event-intelligence-powered forecasting engine citing accuracy gains up to 30%.

## Links

- Website: https://www.predicthq.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/predicthq
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/PredictHQ
- GitHub: https://github.com/predicthq
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PredictHQ
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/predicthq

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Last updated: 2026-07-11