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BeenVerified found its customers by losing the wrong ones
The founders wanted websites to buy trust. Consumers wanted something more practical: a way to look up the stranger, the number, or the car in front of them.
red violet knows who’s calling. That is the business.
A phone number is a small clue with a long paper trail. red violet turns that trail into identity intelligence, selling the same underlying technology to investigators, enterprises, and real estate agents who would rather meet a stranger with their eyes open.
Kofile and the Trouble with Forever
A public record can survive three centuries and still fall apart in your hands. Kofile’s business begins with that predicament - and ends with making the past easier to search.
The Government Form That Refused to Die
GovOS made a business out of the chores citizens notice only when they go wrong - permits, records, taxes, signatures and payments. Its rise, and one costly migration that did not work, explain both the promise and the limits of digital government.
The Campaign Researchers Who Prefer to Arrive Before the Trouble
Jones Mandel sells campaigns an unusual luxury: discovering the damaging fact while there is still time to decide what it means. Its real product is not the dossier. It is the extra day before the story breaks.
VR Research reads the fine print before you sign
A polished pitch can survive a meeting. Can it survive the county records office? VR Research turns public documents into pointed questions for investors, lawyers, and campaign strategists.
Nesbitt & Parrinello knows where the receipts are
A vote, a donation, a forgotten filing. Nesbitt & Parrinello turns the public record into usable intelligence for progressive campaigns - and puts a price on being prepared.
PeopleConnect Helps You Find People - and Hide Your Own Report
TruthFinder, Intelius and Classmates sit inside a company that turns personal history into a consumer product. With free report suppression and OmniWatch identity protection, PeopleConnect also serves the person who would rather stay out of the search results.
Granicus Owns the Boring Stuff at City Hall - Now It Wants to Be Government's AI Front Door
The software best known for council agendas and government email alerts now touches 30 billion digital experiences a year. Its next bet is that a governed AI agent can turn the municipal website maze into a useful front door.
Josh Levy Spent His Last Dollars on TV - Then the Servers Crashed
A failed identity product, a last-chance television commercial and seventeen years of iteration turned a high-school friendship into a portfolio of public-data brands. Josh Levy's useful lesson is less glamorous than the usual startup gospel: find a paying customer before you celebrate the financing.
They Burned $550,000 Selling Trust. Then The Lifetime Value Co. Learned to Sell Curiosity
Josh Levy and Ross Cohen spent 11 months pitching an identity badge nobody would buy. Their pivot - from asking people to verify themselves to helping customers investigate the world around them - became a portfolio of data products used by millions.