Node

Node is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company that emerged from stealth in July 2017. Rather than indexing web pages as a conventional search engine does, its patent-pending technology indexes people, places, products and companies, and models the relationships among them. At the time of its launch the company reported having assembled roughly half a billion profiles, and it combined this external data layer with a customer's own data.

The product was positioned as "searching without using a search box": instead of typing queries, users receive recommendations about which opportunity to pursue. Node was integrated with Salesforce, allowing customers to pose questions such as which company would be most interested in a given product; the system returns the recommended target, an explanation of why it was surfaced, and suggested messaging for the outreach. Founder and CEO Falon Fatemi described the longer-term ambition as building an intelligence layer for the internet, with potential applications beyond sales and marketing, including consumer use cases such as matchmaking.

Founding story

Node grew out of a personal project by founder and CEO Falon Fatemi. She analyzed the introductions she had made among friends and colleagues over the prior five years, emailing contacts to ask what had resulted from each introduction, and found the introductions had led to millions of dollars in investments, sales and partnerships. She characterized herself as having acted as "the node" within her own network, connecting the right people at the right time.

Traction

As of July 2017 the company stated it had generated over $100 million in customer revenue and optimized $4 billion in revenue for businesses and marketers, and that its index held roughly half a billion profiles.