Dataminr, Inc.

Market position

Positions itself as the leading AI platform for real-time event, threat and risk intelligence; third-party recognition includes Fortune's Future 50 list and Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in risk intelligence. Comparable vendors cited in coverage include Feedly, Geofeedia, RavenPack, Semantic Visions, ShadowDragon and Signal AI.

Emphasizes speed and breadth of detection from public data — multi-modal ingestion across text, imagery, video, audio and sensor signals in 150+ languages, layered with proprietary LLMs and agentic context — spanning physical, digital and cyber domains in a single platform rather than a single-channel monitoring feed.

Technology

A multi-modal Fusion AI platform combining more than 50 proprietary large language models: Fusion AI for discovery across text, image, video, audio and sensor signals; generative AI (ReGenAI) that produces live event briefs that regenerate as events unfold; and agentic AI (Intel Agents / Context Agents) that add context to alerts. Coverage is stated at 1M+ public data sources, 150+ languages and 220+ countries, with one company overview citing more than 500,000 sources and 100+ languages.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise and public-sector sales supported by demo requests on the company site, plus channel and partnership motions such as a stated strategic partnership with TD SYNNEX for AI-powered cyber defense; the April 2025 financing was earmarked for accelerating enterprise sales growth and international expansion.

Large enterprises (two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100), more than 100 U.S. government agencies and 20+ international governments, defense and emergency-response organizations, law enforcement, financial services and insurance firms, NGOs, and more than 1,500 newsrooms.

Geography

Headquartered at 6 East 32nd Street, New York, NY 10016. Additional offices are listed in Washington, D.C., Bozeman, Seattle and Arlington in the U.S., and internationally in London, Dublin, Melbourne, Copenhagen and Cluj-Napoca. Coverage is stated across 220+ countries, with financing proceeds directed at expansion in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

History

After its 2009 founding, Dataminr entered a partnership with CNN and Twitter in 2014 that produced Dataminr for News, a tool to alert journalists to information emerging on Twitter in real time. In May 2019 it partnered with the United Nations to equip thousands of UN personnel with First Alert. Its social media intelligence contract for the FBI was taken over by ZeroFox at the end of 2020. The company made its first acquisition in July 2021, buying UK geovisualization platform WatchKeeper and folding its geovisualized data layers into Pulse, followed in October 2021 by Copenhagen-based crisis response platform Krizo. A $475 million Series F was announced in March 2021 at a $4.1 billion post-money valuation. In 2025 the company announced three financings — $85 million in March from NightDragon and HSBC, $100 million in April from Fortress Investment Group and NightDragon, and $300 million in September led by Fortress and NightDragon — and in October 2025 announced plans to acquire cyber threat intelligence firm ThreatConnect for $290 million in cash and equity.

Risks & controversies

Dataminr has faced repeated reporting on surveillance of lawful protest activity. The Intercept reported that the company provided social media surveillance of constitutionally protected abortion-rights protests to the US Marshals; that police departments used Dataminr services during the 2020 George Floyd protests, including accessing social media posts about protest locations and actions, which the outlet described as at odds with claims by Twitter and Dataminr that neither would facilitate domestic surveillance after 2016 controversies; and that between October 2023 and April 2024 Dataminr alerted the LAPD to more than 50 pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Los Angeles, a dozen of them before they occurred, with the University of Houston also using the product to monitor campus protests. Dataminr responded that First Alert identifies breaking news events without regard to the racial or ethnic composition of an area and that the product enables no geospatial analysis of social media posts or users. Separately, its FBI social media intelligence contract moved to ZeroFox at the end of 2020.