Tellagence
Founded 2011 · 29 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Tellagence offers contextual AI for analyzing language-based data from social media, internal data, surveys, and press coverage. The platform uses patent-pending AI to extract sentiment, themes, and strategic insights from unstructured conversational data for brand strategists, analysts, and teams across industries.
Founders & leadership
Tellagence was founded in 2011 by Willow Hill, Matt Hixson, and Nitin Mayande.
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Willow HillCCO, Co-Founder
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Matt HixsonCo-Founder and CEOMatt Hixson spent nearly a decade at Tripwire, where he moved from assistant controller and corporate controller into roles in finance, business development, product operations, and social media strategy, ending as technical assistant to the CEO. He co-founded Tellagence in 2011.
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Nitin MayandeChief Scientist and Co-FounderNitin Mayande co-founded Tellagence in 2011 after six years at Intel Corporation as a program manager and researcher. He also worked as a senior data scientist and manager at Nike from 2015 to 2018 before returning to Tellagence.
Investors · 1
Portland Seed Fundlisted by Portland Seed FundPortland · $25K
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Tellagence do?
- Tellagence offers contextual AI for analyzing language-based data from social media, internal data, surveys, and press coverage. The platform uses patent-pending AI to extract sentiment, themes, and strategic insights from unstructured conversational data for brand strategists, analysts, and teams across industries.
- Who founded Tellagence?
- Tellagence was founded by Willow Hill, Matt Hixson, Nitin Mayande in 2011.
- Who are Tellagence's investors?
- Tellagence's investors include Portland Seed Fund.

