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SEMI
For 55 years SEMI has been the connective tissue of the chip industry - the neutral ground where rival equipment makers, materials suppliers and fabs agree on the rules, sizes and safety norms that let a wafer built in one country be tested in another.
S&P Global
It scores the debt of nations, names the index in your retirement account, and prices the oil in your tank. Meet the 165-year-old data company most people have never Googled.
Crustdata
Crustdata is a San Francisco company that supplies real-time company and people data through clean APIs and webhooks built for AI agents. Founded in 2024 and part of Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch, it pulls live data from many primary sources so AI SDRs, recruiting tools, and investment platforms can find the right person, watch for job changes and funding rounds, and act on fresh signals instead of stale databases.
NewsCatcher
NewsCatcher is a news and web search API company that turns the open web into a clean, structured database of real-world events. It pulls from 90,000+ global sources, then deduplicates, enriches, and standardizes the articles so risk, finance, and AI teams can query news the way they query a database. Founded by Artem Bugara and Maksym Sugonyaka, it went through Y Combinator in Summer 2022.
Fcode Labs
Fcode Labs is a Sri Lanka- and Singapore-based software engineering firm that builds AI-first digital products and provides dedicated remote engineering teams. Founded in 2018 by three University of Moratuwa graduates, it delivers digital transformation, machine learning, product engineering, cloud, and Web3 work for clients ranging from the Singapore Ministry of Health and University of Auckland to Sri Lanka's largest conglomerates. In 2026 it launched Forevate, a real-time market-intelligence product.
Patsnap
Patsnap is a Singapore-founded innovation intelligence company whose AI-native platform helps R&D and IP teams search, analyze, and act on the world's patents, scientific literature, and market data. Used by more than 10,000 organizations across 50-plus countries, its flagship Eureka platform applies large language models and specialized AI agents to compress labor-intensive tasks - prior art search, freedom-to-operate analysis, patent landscaping, and drug-discovery intelligence - from weeks into minutes.
Populix
Populix is an Indonesian technology-driven consumer research company that connects businesses, academics and government bodies with a verified panel of more than 700,000 respondents across Indonesia. Founded in 2018 by Cambridge graduates Timothy Astandu and Eileen Kamtawijoyo, it blends a mobile respondent app, a self-serve survey platform (PopSurvey) and AI tooling (the NeXa research assistant and synthetic respondents) to deliver market, policy and society insights faster and more affordably than traditional survey agencies. The Jakarta-based firm has raised about $14.2M to date, most recently a $4.3M Series B in 2025.
9fin
9fin is a London-based, AI-native intelligence platform for the global debt markets. Founded in 2016 by former banker Steven Hunter and former engineer Huss El-Sheikh, it uses machine learning to extract structured data from dense financial documents and pairs that data with news, analytics, and AI-powered workflows. Its platform covers leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, and asset-based finance, and is used by investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, and advisors. In March 2026 the company raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation.
Aiera
Aiera is a New York-based generative-AI platform for financial research that sources, verifies, transcribes and summarizes corporate and investor events - earnings calls, conferences, shareholder meetings and macro announcements. Covering 50,000+ events across 15,000+ global equities each year, it pairs AI automation with human review to deliver transcripts that reach roughly 99.9% accuracy, plus live audio, sentiment analysis, search and enterprise APIs. Founded in 2018 by former Wall Street internet analyst Ken Sena and ex-Amazon Alexa engineer Bryan Healey, Aiera is used by asset managers, banks and research firms, and closed a $25M Series B in 2025 backed by ten of Wall Street's largest research houses with Microsoft as a strategic technology partner.
Apptopia
Apptopia is a Boston-based mobile app intelligence company that turns billions of app performance signals into investor-grade data. Using machine learning and a real-user device panel of 15M+ devices, it estimates downloads, revenue, usage and engagement across thousands of public and private apps, then packages those signals for institutional investors, brands and publishers. More than 200 financial firms use Apptopia to read consumer behavior ahead of earnings, and its metrics are distributed through the Bloomberg Terminal.
BlueMark
BlueMark is an independent impact verification and market-intelligence firm for the sustainable and impact investing industry. Spun out of impact consultancy Tideline in 2020 and led by CEO Christina Leijonhufvud, it audits how asset managers, allocators and issuers measure, manage and report the social and environmental impact of their investments. Its verifications, benchmarks and analytics - including the flagship 'Making the Mark' report and the BlueMark IQ intelligence platform - help investors prove their impact claims are credible and reduce the risk of impact-washing.
CryptoQuant
CryptoQuant is a crypto on-chain and market data analytics platform founded by Ki Young Ju that collects raw blockchain data, enriches it with exchange and entity labels, and delivers it as actionable metrics, charts, alerts and APIs. Often called 'the Bloomberg of crypto,' it serves professional traders, researchers and 200-plus institutional clients, and was the first on-chain data provider listed on CME Group's DataMine marketplace.
Datavations
Datavations is a New York-based, AI-powered market intelligence platform built exclusively for manufacturers and distributors in the building materials and home improvement industries. It aggregates granular, store-level and SKU-level retail data across thousands of stores to give suppliers the cross-retailer visibility they otherwise lack - helping them optimize pricing, inventory, and product assortment, and walk into merchant meetings armed with data their retail partners don't have. Founded in 2020 by Philip Odelfelt, the company raised a $17M Series A in July 2025 led by Forestay Capital.
DataWeave
DataWeave is an AI-powered digital commerce analytics company that helps consumer brands and retailers grow revenue and protect margins online. Its SaaS platform aggregates and analyzes public e-commerce data at massive scale to deliver pricing intelligence, digital shelf analytics, assortment insights, and brand protection to more than 400 global brands and retailers, including Zappos, Costco, and Home Depot.
Grips Intelligence
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that measures daily online and offline product sales, giving brands, retailers, and investors a competitor- and SKU-level map of digital commerce. Founded in Berlin in 2018 by Moritz Thoma and Daniel Schmeh, Grips turns transaction signals into estimates of revenue, units sold, pricing, conversion, and market share so customers can spot growth opportunities and blind spots across marketplaces and direct-to-consumer stores.
KeyData
KeyData (Key Data Dashboard) is a Santa Rosa Beach, Florida based analytics company that turns verified, direct-from-source reservation data into market intelligence for the short-term and vacation rental industry. By integrating directly with property management systems rather than scraping listing calendars, it gives professional property managers, destination marketing organizations, investors and enterprise research teams real-time benchmarks on occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and booking demand. Founded in 2018 and backed by $12.4M in funding, the company reports coverage of millions of properties and thousands of property managers across global markets.
NewtonX
NewtonX is a New York-based B2B market research and intelligence company that connects businesses to hard-to-reach, identity-verified experts. Instead of relying on a fixed panel, its AI-driven Graph scans more than 1.1 billion professionals across 140+ industries to custom-recruit the exact decision-makers a research brief requires, then runs surveys, interviews, and AI-moderated studies on top. Founded in 2016 by former McKinsey consultants Sascha Eder and Germain Chastel with Anuja Ketan, NewtonX serves Fortune 500 companies, top management consultancies, and financial institutions that need trustworthy, fraud-resistant data to make high-stakes decisions.
Plotify
Plotify is a New York-based wealthtech, proptech and fintech company that lets sophisticated and high-net-worth investors around the world buy, finance and manage income-generating residential rental homes in the US and UK through a single app. Its signature 'Plot' - a single tenanted property held in its own single-owner LLC/SPV - bundles underwriting, optional point-of-purchase financing, property management, tenant management, insurance, tax and accounting into a tradable unit, compressing a single-family-rental purchase from an industry-average 52 days to about 10 minutes.
Procurement Sciences AI
Procurement Sciences is a Washington, D.C.-based company building Awarded AI, an AI-native platform that helps businesses find, win and deliver government contracts. Founded in 2022 by Marine Corps veteran and former contractor Christian Ferreira, the platform automates opportunity discovery, bid decisions, proposal drafting, compliance review and delivery across federal, state, local, education and international markets. After its May 2026 acquisition of market-intelligence platform HigherGov, the combined company serves more than 3,000 government contractors - including close to half of the industry Top 100 - and has contributed to over $100 billion in AI-assisted awarded contracts.
Tastewise
Tastewise is an agentic AI platform built exclusively for the food and beverage industry. It combines proprietary consumer panels, market trackers, and trillions of real-time food signals with AI agents trained on food behavior to help brands spot trends earlier, validate new products, win retail and menu placement, and automate marketing and sales. Its tools are used by a large share of the world's leading F&B companies, including Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz and Kroger.
The Tie
The Tie is a New York-based information services company for institutional digital asset markets. Founded in 2017, it built the Crypto SigDev Terminal - a Bloomberg-style workstation that combines real-time news, sentiment analytics, market data, and on-chain data - and has since expanded into staking infrastructure, corporate access and advisory, and compliant institutional messaging. Its clients include hedge funds, market makers, banks, trading venues, and crypto protocols.
VTS
VTS is a New York-based commercial real estate technology company that builds the industry's leading leasing, asset management, tenant experience, and market data platform. Founded in 2012 as View the Space, it consolidates the workflows landlords, brokers, and property teams use to lease, operate, and understand buildings into a single cloud platform, and has increasingly repositioned around AI with products like VTS AI and Asset Intelligence. The platform spans more than 13 billion square feet of real estate and is used by most of the world's largest asset managers.
Crunchbase
Crunchbase is a San Francisco-based platform that catalogs the private markets - companies, funding rounds, investors and the people behind them - and increasingly tries to predict what will happen next. Born in 2007 as a companion database to TechCrunch, it now serves millions of entrepreneurs, investors and sales teams, layering AI-driven funding and exit predictions on top of a dataset covering more than four million companies, sold through subscriptions, an enterprise API and CRM integrations.
LevaData
LevaData is an enterprise SaaS company that builds an AI-powered supply management platform for direct-materials procurement. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, its Cognitive Supply Management platform blends a company's bill of materials and sourcing objectives with real-time market data covering over a billion parts and tens of thousands of suppliers to recommend cost savings, flag risks, and speed up new product introduction. It counts manufacturers and OEMs among its customers and raised a $47M Series C in 2021 led by Banneker Partners.
The Business of Fashion
The Business of Fashion (BoF) is a London-based global media and intelligence company covering the fashion, beauty and luxury industries. Founded by Imran Amed in 2007 as a blog written from his flat in Notting Hill, BoF has grown into an authoritative platform that combines agenda-setting journalism, paid professional memberships, data and advisory work through BoF Insights, online masterclasses, the BoF Careers job marketplace, and marquee events like BoF VOICES and the BoF 500. The Financial Times led its Series B round in 2019, and the company reaches readers and members in more than 200 countries.
Alium
Alium is a New York-based startup building an AI-powered vendor intelligence platform for enterprise software buyers. It runs structured, compensated 1-on-1 interviews with practitioners - the VPs of marketing, CISOs, and IT directors who actually use the tools - then uses AI to synthesize those conversations into ratings and insights. Founded in 2020 by former CB Insights operators Jonathan Sherry and Alexandre Testu, Alium emerged from stealth in January 2025 with $7M in seed funding, aiming to replace pay-for-play review sites and analyst reports with unbiased peer intelligence, starting with marketing and ecommerce technology.
Marketplace.city
Marketplace.city is a Chicago-based govtech company that helps state and local governments source, validate, and procure technology. Its Clearbox platform turns a repository of historical vendor, contract, and pricing data into managed procurement services (Clearbox Procure) and a research subscription (Clearbox Source), aiming to compress technology buying cycles that once ran months or years down to roughly 100 days. Founded out of a 2016 collaboration with New York City's Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation, the company has supported over 200 governments.
Native AI
Native AI is a New York-based market intelligence platform that uses generative AI to build 'Digital Twins' - AI-powered proxies of real consumers assembled from reviews, interviews, surveys and other first- and third-party data. Brands, agencies and market research firms use the platform to chat with clones of their target audience, track products and competitors across the web, and forecast consumer reactions in real time, compressing research timelines that once took weeks into minutes. Founded in 2019 by Frank Pica and Sarah Sanders, the company raised a $3.5M seed round in 2023 and says clients have generated over 275 million Digital Twins to date.
Power Kiosk
Power Kiosk is a Chicago-based SaaS company that runs a cloud-based marketplace connecting retail energy suppliers with the brokers and consultants who buy electricity and natural gas on behalf of businesses. Founded by Northwestern Ph.D. Hamed Babai, the platform pulls fragmented supplier rates, contracts, and market data into one AI-assisted workflow so brokers can quote, compare, and close deals in minutes instead of days. The company says it has managed 16,000+ customers across 34 states and provinces and returned roughly $120 million in savings.
QLU.ai
QLU.ai is a San Francisco-based AI platform built for executive search firms. It scans millions of profiles using live market signals to surface qualified leadership candidates in seconds instead of months, then automates outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone, and text. Founded in 2020 by Fahad Jalal, QLU pairs a 10-billion-plus data-point database with natural-language search, automated market maps, and AI voice callers to help recruiters cut research cycles from weeks to minutes.