Private equity has plenty of databases. Gain is betting that connecting the evidence matters more than collecting another pile of it.
Intelligent Media has spent more than 25 years making a contrarian bet: publicity data becomes useful only after somebody checks the work. Its hybrid of software, human verification and custom reporting turns a flood of mentions into a brief a publicist can actually use.
A consultancy born around digital identity sold its signature event, turned years of buyer evidence into software, and raised $8.5 million to make market intelligence behave less like a report and more like infrastructure.