Skopenow

Market position

Skopenow is a private, New York-based cybersecurity company categorized across threat intelligence, compliance and risk, digital identity and legal technology verticals. Related companies identified by similarity include ShadowDragon and Blackdot Solutions. The company reports adoption by 20% of the Fortune 500, 50+ U.S. government agencies, 10 of the top 20 insurance carriers, 3 of the top 5 litigation firms, 10 of the top 20 retailers and 4 of the 5 largest banks.

Skopenow emphasizes a single centralized platform that consolidates investigative research within existing workflows, dozens of purpose-built AI models for fraud and threat detection, event-based situational awareness combining media, traffic cameras, crime data, news, satellite imagery and message boards in one dashboard, and visual link analysis across entity networks. It also stresses that it functions as a data processor rather than a records database and holds SOC 2 certification.

Technology

The platform fuses crime data, consumer and public records, news, media, social media profiles, web articles, traffic cameras, satellite imagery and message boards, applying dozens of purpose-built AI models to identify case-relevant fraud and threat indicators. Capabilities include entity search with automated report generation, network link analysis with visualizations, real-time location analytics and situational awareness dashboards, and live-editable reports exportable to PDF.

Go-to-market

Access is restricted to qualified and vetted organizations; prospective users request a trial or pilot through an online form, and pricing is quoted through the sales team. The company supports demand generation and community engagement through a blog, research guides and whitepapers, free monthly virtual OSINT trainings, a public webinar series, and sponsorship of community safety initiatives and events.

Global security teams, insurance carriers, law enforcement, government agencies, loss prevention teams, law firms, financial institutions, executive protection teams and educational institutions, as well as journalists and licensed private investigators; access is limited to vetted organizations.

Geography

Skopenow is headquartered in New York City, New York, and reports customers around the world, including more than 50 U.S. government agencies.

History

The company describes three phases: a launch phase beginning in 2015, when it was built to help organizations understand internet data and went through Techstars while raising from venture funds and angels; a growth phase in which it recruited OSINT investigators and developers and developed the Workbench tool with advanced processing and detection models; and a scale phase in which the platform expanded to five products (Grid, Pre-Check, Workbench, Link Analysis and Rabbit) serving more than 1,500 customer organizations.

Risks & controversies

Skopenow's service relies on aggregating publicly available personal and business data, which brings privacy exposure; the company states it is not a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA and that its data may not be used for employment, housing, insurance or credit eligibility decisions, and it operates a personal-information redaction request process. As a data processor, it notes it cannot control how customers use information obtained through its services.