Base Operations
Founded 2019 Β· 36 employees on LinkedIn Β· 9 known investors
Base Operations provides standardized, location-level threat intelligence and risk analytics for corporate security teams, offering 0-100 risk scores, mapped incident data, and forecasting across thousands of cities worldwide. It helps enterprise security programs run faster threat assessments, benchmark risk across their global footprint, and justify security investments with quantified metrics.
Also known as Base Operations Inc
Investors Β· 9
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Base Operations is a Washington, DC-based threat-intelligence company that aggregates and standardizes local crime and unrest data into a SaaS platform used by corporate security departments of multinational organizations. The platform lets users assess threats, prioritize risk, monitor a location footprint and generate reports, with analysis available at country, city, district and sub-mile levels (the company cites 0.75-mile and 0.1m granularity in different product descriptions). Its core metric, BaseScore, is a 0-100 risk score that weights incidents by crime severity, normalizes for population density and is designed to be comparable across borders and thousands of locations; scores are refreshed monthly with threshold alerting. Additional components include BaseFusion (fusing customer internal incident data with Base Operations data), an API, prepared reports, and Base Report, a self-service threat assessment for a single address.
The platform draws on tens of thousands of data sources covering more than half a billion incidents, supplemented by a proprietary dataset built for "data poor" locations where official crime and unrest data is unreliable, unavailable or infrequently updated. Coverage extends to more than 5,000 cities and, as announced in a company product post, 95% of the world's leading business cities. Machine-learning-based forecasting provides 3-, 6- and 12-month threat-level outlooks for specific locations.
Earlier in the company's history the product line consisted of Base Enterprise, a subscription SaaS product connecting corporate security departments with employees based in or traveling to emerging markets (features included employee check-in for crisis management, routing, real-time notifications, emergency plans and visualizations), and Base Impact, a free service for tourists and foreign visitors. At that stage data was aggregated with natural language processing and clustering from crowdsourcing, social media, government statistics and partner data.
Founding story
Cory Siskind founded Base Operations in spring 2018 (Gust lists April 2018 as the founding date) after first conceiving the idea in winter 2016 while pursuing an MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management and an MPA at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She had previously worked as a management consultant at Booz & Co and at risk consultancy Control Risks in Mexico City, experience that informed the focus on protecting corporate personnel in emerging markets.
Business model
B2B software sold to enterprise security organizations. Earlier reporting described a subscription model based on an annual platform subscription with a variable number of licenses per year for the Base Enterprise product, alongside a free consumer-facing product (Base Impact). Current offerings include a platform subscription, API and data integration, and a self-service Base Report threat assessment whose first report is free.
Annual SaaS subscriptions with per-license pricing (as described for Base Enterprise), plus API/data integration access.
Traction
Company-published case studies describe a Fortune 10 healthcare organization fusing internal incident data across 10,215 sites and cutting risk assessment time by 80%, a Fortune 10 technology company standardizing assessments across 500+ offices in 35 countries, a global 3PL scaling route security analysis 4x, a discount retailer cutting security incidents 75%, a credit union saving $180K annually, and a global apparel retailer targeting $1M+ in annual savings. The company states it was selected by the U.S. Air Force and Space Force for threat intelligence. Earlier traction included a Bain & Company pilot and a Fortune 50 insurance company as a paid customer. Gust listed the company at 5 employees and "full product ready" stage.
Latest developments
Base Operations announced an expansion of global coverage to 95% of the world's leading business cities, underpinned by a proprietary dataset targeting "data poor" locations, and enhanced forecasting with 3-, 6- and 12-month threat-level outlooks. Current site materials promote BaseScore, BaseFusion, an API for GIS/BI integration, a self-service Base Report product delivering an address-level threat assessment in about 90 seconds to three minutes, and selection by the U.S. Air Force and Space Force for threat intelligence.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positions itself as a provider of street-level, standardized threat intelligence that goes beyond city- or country-level risk scores and traditional crime statistics, aimed at replacing manual analyst research. Forbes coverage in 2019 named Verstaan, Stabilas, PredPol and Findyr as competitors and cited a Reuters projection that the global physical security market would reach $127 billion by 2022.
Standardized, cross-border risk scoring (BaseScore) at street-level granularity; proprietary data collection in locations where public crime and unrest data is unreliable or absent; ML-driven forecasting rather than periodic static assessments; fusion of customer internal incident data with external threat data; and an API for embedding location risk into existing GIS, warehouse and BI systems.
Technology
Artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to threat data aggregation, including natural language processing and clustering to fuse crowdsourced reports, social media, government statistics and partner data. The platform normalizes heterogeneous local data into the standardized 0-100 BaseScore, supports geospatial analysis at sub-mile radius, and provides ML/AI-powered forecasting of threat levels over 3-, 6- and 12-month horizons. Data delivery options include a dashboard, exportable reports and an API that can feed GIS layers, data warehouses and BI dashboards.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by scheduled demos, an interactive product tour, a free first Base Report threat assessment as a self-service entry point, published customer case studies, benchmark and threat-assessment reports (US retail security benchmarks, manufacturing reshoring, World Cup 26), and a newsletter cited as reaching 1,100+ security leaders.
Corporate security functions at large multinational enterprises β CSOs/VPs of security, security directors and intelligence analysts β across retail, healthcare, technology, financial services, logistics/3PL, travel and hospitality, manufacturing and business services. Case studies reference Fortune 10, Fortune 500 and top-25 retail organizations, a global 3PL, a credit union and Expedia. Government users include the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Early customers included Bain & Company as a pilot and a Fortune 50 insurance company as a paid customer.
Geography
Headquartered in Washington, DC, United States, with global data coverage: 5,000+ cities and, per a company announcement, 95% of the world's leading business cities, including emerging markets in Latin America, Europe and APAC. Early rollout covered six cities within three months of launch.
History
Founded in 2018 in Washington, DC, the company completed the Techstars Social Impact Accelerator in Austin, Texas, and raised a pre-seed round from Good Growth Capital, Magma Partners, Spero Ventures, Underscore VC and Glasswing Ventures. It was profiled in 2019 as an MIT SecureTech startup with two products, Base Enterprise and the free Base Impact. A $3M Seed 2 round followed. The product subsequently evolved into a street-level threat analytics platform built around the BaseScore risk metric, BaseFusion, reports and an API, with a coverage expansion to 95% of leading global business cities and the addition of machine-learning forecasting.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 5
launches, deals, and filingsCompany website states Base Operations was chosen by the Air Force and Space Force for threat intelligence.
Site promotes Base Report, which generates a BaseScore, crime trends, threat breakdowns and verified intelligence for any address in roughly 90 seconds to 3 minutes, with the first report free.
Company announced a coverage expansion built on a new proprietary dataset focused on 'data poor' locations, plus forecasting with 3-, 6- and 12-month outlooks.
Forbes reported that Base Operations had raised a pre-seed round from Good Growth Capital, Magma Partners, Spero Ventures, Underscore VC and Glasswing Ventures after completing the Techstars Social Impact Accelerator.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Base Operations do?
- Base Operations is a SaaS platform delivering street-level crime and unrest intelligence to corporate security teams.
- Who are Base Operations's investors?
- Base Operations's investors include Glasswing Ventures, Good Growth Capital, Grotech Ventures, Inner Loop Capital, Magma Partners, Mindset Venture, Prefix Capital, Vela Partners and 1 more.