Dataminr
Dataminr is an artificial intelligence company. The company's private sector product, Dataminr Pulse, is used by corporations to monitor real-time events, and to aid with crisis response by providing playbooks, messaging tools and post-event documentation. Dataminr's First Alert technology is used by first responders, such as those helping to provide aid during natural disasters and other emergency events. Similar applications can be achieved by social surveillance vendors such as Feedly, Geofeedia, Raven Pack, Semantic Visions, ShadowDragon, and Signal AI.
Dataminr employs around 800 people and is headquartered in New York. The company has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Bozeman, and Seattle, as well as London, England, Dublin, Ireland, Melbourne, Australia, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
History
Dataminr was founded in 2009 by Yale University graduates Ted Bailey, Sam Hendel and Jeff Kinsey. Dataminr came to wider notice when it issued an alert that Osama bin Laden had been killed 23 minutes faster than major news organizations.In 2014, Dataminr entered into a partnership with CNN and Twitter, resulting in Dataminr for News, a tool to "alert journalists to information that’s emerging on Twitter in real time."
The company went on to detect clusters indicating future spikes in 14 different US states. Seven days later, all 14 states were hit hard by the coronavirus. Dataminr partnered with the UN in May 2019 to equip thousands of UN personnel with Dataminr's First Alert product for the public sector.
Dataminr's social media intelligence contract for the FBI was taken over by Zerofox at the end of 2020.
On the morning of January 5, 2021, Dataminr allegedly warned Capitol security officials of troubling online public chatter that would soon become the January 6 riot.
In July 2021, Dataminr conducted its first M&A transaction when it acquired WatchKeeper, a UK-based geovisualization platform. In the acquisition, Dataminr combined WatchKeeper's geovisualized data layers with its Pulse platform to provide context around events. A few months later, in October 2021, Dataminr acquired Krizo, a real-time crisis response platform based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
In 2025, Dataminr announced three separate funding rounds. In March 2025, it raised $85 million from NightDragon and HSBC. In April 2025, a further $100 million was obtained from Fortress Investment Group and NightDragon in the form of convertible debt. And then in September 2025, Dataminr completed an additional $300 million convertible debt financing round, again led by Fortress and NightDragon.
In October 2025, Dataminr announced plans to acquire cyber threat intelligence firm ThreatConnect for $290 million in cash and equity.