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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.
G2
G2 is the world's largest software marketplace and peer-review platform, where business buyers research, compare, and choose B2B software based on millions of verified user reviews. Founded in 2012 by a team of BigMachines alumni led by Godard Abel, G2 turned the messy, vendor-dominated software buying process into something closer to checking restaurant reviews before dinner. Today the platform hosts millions of reviews across thousands of categories, sells buyer-intent data and marketing services to software vendors, and after its 2026 acquisition of Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp reaches more than 200 million annual software buyers.