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</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Dataminr is a global artificial intelligence company that provides real-time information alerts to hundreds of clients in over 70 countries <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dataminr.com/about" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[1]</a>.Founded in 2009, Dataminr employs more than 600 people and is headquartered in New York <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dataminr.com/resources/dataminr-founder-and-ceo-ted-bailey-named-to-inaugural-new-york-tech-power-50-list" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[2]</a>. The company has offices in New York City, Washington D.C., Seattle, London, Dublin, Ireland, Melbourne, Australia and Bozeman, Montana <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dataminr.com/careers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[3]</a>.In 2019, the company ranked #5 on the Forbes AI 50 List <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dataminr.com/press/dataminr-ranked-number-5-on-the-forbes-ai-50-list" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[4]</a>.<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">History[</h2>Dataminr was founded in 2009 by Yale University graduates Ted Bailey <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/ted-bailey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[5]</a> Sam Hendel and Jeff Kinsey. One of Dataminr’s major early successes came in 2011, when it issued an alert that Osama bin Laden had been killed 23 minutes faster than major news organizations <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/01/29/dataminr-for-news-launched/5035717/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[6]</a>.Dataminr’s clients span both public and private sectors, including CNN, USA Today, the United Nations, Airbus, Shell and the New York City Office of Emergency Management <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dataminr.com/customers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[7]</a>.In 2018, Dataminr closed a $391.6 million Series E round of funding that valued the company at $1.6 billion <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.axios.com/dataminr-raises-new-funds-at-16-billion-valuation-36f1d061-7456-4876-8684-6e83d0855b5d.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[8]</a>. The company has raised $577 million in funding to date <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dataminr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[9]</a>.In 2019, Dataminr detected the first signals of the COVID-19 outbreak within public social media posts at 9:11AM EST on December 30, 2019 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dataminr.com/resources/dataminr-delivered-the-earliest-alert-on-covid-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">[10]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">Controversies[</h2>In 2020, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept" title="The Intercept" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">the Intercept</a> released a report that police departments used Dataminr services for surveillance during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests" title="George Floyd protests" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">George Floyd protests</a>, including accessing social media posts about protest locations and actions. As written in the article, "The monitoring seems at odds with claims from both Twitter and Dataminr that neither company would engage in or facilitate domestic surveillance following a string of 2016 controversies."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataminr#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> claimed that the company was just "news alerting."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataminr#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">References[</h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataminr#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFBiddle2020" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Biddle, Sam (2020-07-09). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">"Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr"</a>. The Intercept. Retrieved 2020-07-12.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Intercept&rft.atitle=Police+Surveilled+George+Floyd+Protests+With+Help+From+Twitter-Affiliated+Startup+Dataminr&rft.date=2020-07-09&rft.aulast=Biddle&rft.aufirst=Sam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftheintercept.com%2F2020%2F07%2F09%2Ftwitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADataminr" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataminr#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gizmodo.com/twitter-says-its-partner-dataminr-wasnt-surveilling-pro-1844328988" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">"Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn't Surveilling Protests for Local Cops, Just 'News Alerting'"</a>. Gizmodo. Retrieved 2020-07-12.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Gizmodo&rft.atitle=Twitter+Says+Its+Partner+Dataminr+Wasn%27t+Surveilling+Protests+for+Local+Cops%2C+Just+%27News+Alerting%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftwitter-says-its-partner-dataminr-wasnt-surveilling-pro-1844328988&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADataminr" class="Z3988" /></li></ol></div></div>
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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Dataminr: Career Page</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dataminr.com/press/dataminr-ranked-number-5-on-the-forbes-ai-50-list" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Dataminr Ranked Number 5 on the Forbes AI 50 List</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/ted-bailey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Crain's New York 40 Under 40</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/fintech-ai-data-conf-artificial-intelligence-twitter-wall-street-dataminr-562835" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Axios: Dataminr raises new funds at $1.6 billion valuation</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dataminr" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Crunchbase</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dataminr.com/resources/dataminr-delivered-the-earliest-alert-on-covid-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">Dataminr: Dataminr delivered the earliest alert on COVID-19</a></div></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Twitter_services_and_applications" title="Category:Twitter services and applications" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Twitter services and applications</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0px 0.5em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_company_stubs" title="Category:United States company stubs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States company stubs</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div><a href="https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/the-cia-invests-in-firms-that-mine-social-media-1258.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/the-cia-invests-in-firms-that-mine-social-media-1258.html</a>intercept repost w/ DocumnetCloud: <a href="http://bit.ly/214d99D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243);">http://bit.ly/214d99D</a><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://theintercept.com/2016/04/14/in-undisclosed-cia-investments-social-media-mining-looms-large/</a>SOFT ROBOTS THAT can grasp delicate objects, computer algorithms designed to spot an “insider threat,” and artificial intelligence that will sift through large data sets — these are just a few of the technologies being pursued by companies with investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, according to a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2803266-Iqtdoc.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">document</a> obtained by The Intercept.Yet among the 38 previously undisclosed companies receiving In-Q-Tel funding, the research focus that stands out is social media mining and surveillance; the portfolio document lists several tech companies pursuing work in this area, including Dataminr, Geofeedia, PATHAR, and TransVoyant.<div class="img-wrap align-none width-auto" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em -40px 2.25em -20px; line-height: 1; padding: 0px 20px; width: auto;"><a href="https://cdn01.theintercept.com/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/04/Investmentprocess.png" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;"><img class="alignnone size-article-large wp-image-60424" src="https://cdn01.theintercept.com/wp-uploads/sites/1/2016/04/Investmentprocess-1000x402.png" alt="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -20px; min-width: 0px !important; min-height: 0px !important;" /></a>In-Q-Tel’s investment  process. Screen grab from In-Q-Tel’s website.</div>Those four firms, which provide unique tools to mine data from platforms such as Twitter, presented at a February “CEO Summit” in San Jose sponsored by the fund, along with other In-Q-Tel portfolio companies.The investments appear to reflect the CIA’s increasing focus on monitoring social media. Last September, David Cohen, the CIA’s second-highest ranking official, spoke at length at Cornell University about a litany of <a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2015-speeches-testimony/deputy-director-cohen-delivers-remarks-on-cia-of-the-future-at-cornell-university.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">challenges</a> stemming from the new media landscape. The Islamic State’s “sophisticated use of Twitter and other social media platforms is a perfect example of the malign use of these technologies,” he said.Social media also offers a wealth of potential intelligence; Cohen noted that Twitter messages from the Islamic State, sometimes called ISIL, have provided useful information. “ISIL’s tweets and other social media messages publicizing their activities often produce information that, especially in the aggregate, provides real intelligence value,” he said.The latest round of In-Q-Tel investments comes as the CIA has revamped its outreach to Silicon Valley, <a href="http://federalnewsradio.com/digital-government/2015/10/cia-hits-accelerator-pedal-digital-innovation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">establishing</a> a new wing, the Directorate of Digital Innovation, which is tasked with developing and deploying cutting-edge solutions by directly engaging the private sector. The directorate is working closely with In-Q-Tel to integrate the latest technology into agency-wide intelligence capabilities....TransVoyant, founded by former Lockheed Martin Vice President Dennis Groseclose, provides a similar service by analyzing multiple data points for so-called decision-makers. The firm touts its ability to monitor Twitter to spot “gang incidents” and threats to journalists. A team from TransVoyant has worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan to integrate data from satellites, radar, reconnaissance aircraft, and drones.Dataminr, Geofeedia, and PATHAR did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Heather Crotty, the director of marketing at TransVoyant, acknowledged an investment from In-Q-Tel, but could not discuss the scope of the relationship. In-Q-Tel “does not disclose the financial terms of its investments,” Crotty said. Carrie A. Sessine, the vice president for external affairs at In-Q-Tel, also declined an interview because the fund “does not participate in media interviews or opportunities.”Over the last decade, In-Q-Tel has made a number of public investments in companies that specialize in scanning large sets of online data. In 2009, the fund partnered with Visible Technologies, which specializes in reputation management over the internet by identifying the influence of “positive” and “negative” authors on a range of platforms for a given subject. And six years ago, In-Q-Tel <a href="https://www.iqt.org/historical-snapshot/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">formed</a> partnerships with NetBase, another social media analysis firm that touts its ability to scan “billions of sources in public and private online information,” and Recorded Future, a firm that monitors the web to <a href="http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box;">predict events</a> in the future.<h3 class="p1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 1em 0px; font-kerning: normal; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern">Unpublicized In-Q-Tel Portfolio Companies</h3></div><div>===</div>