AlphaSense
Unicorn · $4BNew York, US · 3,358 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors
AlphaSense provides a financial research and market intelligence platform that combines standardized financials, consensus estimates, filings, earnings transcripts, broker research, and AI-generated answers for analyzing and benchmarking companies. It serves financial and corporate teams with tools for company analysis, valuation and modeling, competitive benchmarking, and deal sourcing across public equities, M&A transactions, and private funding rounds.
Also known as AlphaSense
Founders & leadership
Investors · 9
Also in the syndicate · 3
Valuation · disclosed
Disclosed eventsSource: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed — follow each entry's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026AlphaSense operates a market intelligence and search platform that applies AI to a large library of business and financial content, including equity and broker research, company filings, event and earnings transcripts, expert call transcripts, news, trade journals, and public and private company financial data, alongside customers' own internal research documents. The company states its content set spans more than 500 million premium financial and business documents, including Tegus expert transcripts, and that outputs are delivered with sentence-level citations.
The platform is organized around research workflows rather than isolated search: generative AI features produce synthesized answers to complex questions, a Deep Research capability applies reasoning models across selected content sets, and add-ins allow users to generate slide decks and reports in the platform, build and iterate on financial models in Excel, and populate presentations in PowerPoint. Solutions are packaged by segment, including investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, asset management, consulting, life sciences and healthcare, technology/media/telecom, energy, industrials, and consumer goods and retail.
Business model
Enterprise software platform sold to corporations and financial institutions, with a free entry point ("Get Started for Free") and solution packages organized by industry and function; the platform combines licensed third-party content, proprietary expert transcripts, and AI search and generation tools.
Traction
The company reported over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500, in July 2024, and states on its website that it is trusted by more than 7,000 of the world's largest enterprises. It reported over 1,500 employees globally as of July 2024.
Latest developments
Closed the acquisition of Tegus and a $650 million financing at a $4 billion valuation in July 2024. Subsequent announcements include the release of Deep Research and platform add-ins for generating decks, reports and financial models, sponsorship of Fierce JPM Week with a presentation on AI trends in drug discovery and R&D investment, and inclusion on Inc.'s 2025 Best in Business list.
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Market position
Positions itself as a market intelligence and search platform for public and private company research; the company states it is trusted by over 7,000 enterprises on its website and cited over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500, in its July 2024 release.
Emphasizes a proprietary and licensed content set that combines expert call transcripts, broker research, filings and private company data with AI search, integration of customers' internal content, and cited, traceable AI outputs.
Technology
AI-driven search and generative AI applied to curated financial and business content, including semantic search features such as Smart Synonyms, generative answers with sentence-level citations, and Deep Research using generative AI reasoning models over selected content sets. Integrations extend to Excel and PowerPoint for model building and deliverable generation.
Go-to-market
Large enterprises and financial institutions, including investment banks, hedge funds, private equity and asset management firms, consultancies, and corporate strategy, competitive intelligence and R&D teams in life sciences, technology, energy, industrials and consumer sectors. Named customers include Salesforce, Dow, ODDO BHF, YH2 Capital, Recurve Capital, and Royalty Pharma.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Finland, India, and Singapore; the Tegus acquisition added locations in Chicago, Vancouver, and Waterford, Ireland.
History
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York City. In June 2024 the company announced the signing of an agreement to acquire research platform Tegus, closing the transaction on July 8, 2024 for $930 million and adding Tegus employees and offices in Chicago, Vancouver, and Waterford, Ireland. Tegus had itself previously acquired BamSEC and Canalyst.
Compiled by commissioned research from 2 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsAlphaSense closed its acquisition of Tegus, a provider of expert research, private company content, financial data and workflow tools, adding Tegus employees and offices in Chicago, Vancouver, and Waterford, Ireland. The signing had been announced on June 11, 2024.
$930M source ↗
Round co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners with new investors J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Blue Owl Capital and Alkeon Capital, plus existing investors CapitalG and Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
$650M source ↗
AlphaSense introduced Deep Research, applying generative AI reasoning models across users' content sets, along with add-ins to generate slide decks and reports in-platform, build financial models in Excel, and populate presentations in PowerPoint.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 2
primary sources listed
- AlphaSense Click herealpha-sense.com · web
2 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does AlphaSense do?
- AI-based market intelligence and search platform for financial and corporate research teams.
- Who founded AlphaSense?
- AlphaSense was founded by Raj Neervannan, Jaakko (Jack) Kokko, Jack Kokko.
- Who are AlphaSense's investors?
- AlphaSense's investors include Alkeon Innovation, CapitalG, Centana Growth Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, Vendep Capital, Innovation Endeavors.
- Where is AlphaSense headquartered?
- AlphaSense is headquartered in New York, US.