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CreatorIQ and the business behind the influence
A creator can make a brand feel human. CreatorIQ sells the machinery that lets a large company repeat the trick - without losing track of the content, the money or the risk.
Tubular Labs Built a Telescope for 25 Billion Videos - and Sold the View to Media’s Biggest Players
YouTube was only the opening act. Tubular Labs spent 14 years turning the unruly social-video universe into a dataset that publishers, brands and agencies can actually interrogate - then became a key piece of Chartbeat’s media software stack.
Clootrack
Clootrack is an AI-driven customer experience analytics platform that helps enterprises understand the 'why' behind customer behavior. It ingests structured and unstructured feedback - surveys, reviews, call transcripts, chats, social and support tickets - across 95+ languages and 1,000+ integrations, then applies unsupervised thematic analysis and GenAI agents to surface the drivers of churn, NPS, returns and satisfaction in near real time. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs Shameel Abdulla and Subbakrishna Rao, the company positions itself as a faster, more granular alternative to survey-first Voice-of-Customer suites.
i-Genie.ai
i-Genie.ai is an AI-powered consumer insights platform that replaces traditional surveys and focus groups by synthesizing hundreds of billions of digital signals - Google searches, social posts, transcribed videos, ratings and reviews - into real-time, actionable intelligence on what consumers think about every product, brand and trend. Its agentic copilot Presto lets marketing, insights and innovation teams ask natural-language questions and get data-backed answers across 25+ countries and 20+ languages. Major consumer brands including Unilever, Coca-Cola, Kenvue, Bayer, Danone and Clorox use it to spot trends, benchmark brands and accelerate product R&D.
Placer.ai
Placer.ai is a location intelligence platform that turns anonymized mobile-device signals into foot-traffic, trade-area, and audience analytics for the physical world. Founded in 2018, it gives retailers, commercial real estate firms, brands, hospitality operators, and government agencies the same kind of click-level visibility that e-commerce takes for granted - but for stores, malls, restaurants, and Main Streets. The company crossed $100M ARR in 2024 and serves thousands of customers.