Dataminr is an artificial intelligence company that provides a real-time AI platform for discovering events, risks, and critical information from public data. The company’s mission is to empower organizations with real-time information to facilitate swift and effective critical decisions. Dataminr aims to revolutionize how organizations detect and respond to critical events and risks in real-time, with the goal of becoming the leading provider of AI solutions that enable clients to make informed decisions quickly. The company serves a global client base across the public and private sectors, including corporations, first responders, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and newsrooms.
Recognized as a leading AI business, Dataminr is known for providing the earliest warnings on high-impact events and critical information, often in advance of other sources. The company’s platform analyzes publicly available data from over one million unique sources, including social media, blogs, and official reports, to identify emerging events and risks. This capability allows Dataminr to deliver actionable insights that help with faster response, more effective risk mitigation, and stronger crisis management. The company has established a reputation for its role in providing early alerts for significant global events.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Dataminr provides a real-time artificial intelligence (AI) platform that detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available data. Its core capability lies in processing vast amounts of information from over one million public data sources, including text, images, video, and sound, in over 150 languages. This allows Dataminr to deliver early warnings to its clients, often ahead of traditional news sources. The company’s AI platform utilizes multi-modal fusion AI to synthesize these various data types, providing a comprehensive view of unfolding events. Recently, Dataminr has incorporated generative AI and launched ReGenAI, which automatically provides and updates descriptions of events as they develop.
Dataminr’s platform is designed for integration into existing client workflows. It offers integrations with various platforms and tools, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, and X Pro (formerly TweetDeck), to facilitate seamless alert delivery and collaboration. The company also provides integrations with security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), and threat intelligence platform (TIP) solutions to enhance cybersecurity workflows. Additionally, Dataminr partners with companies like Esri to integrate its real-time alerts with geovisualization platforms, adding a spatial context to events. These integrations and the platform’s ability to deliver timely, relevant alerts give Dataminr a competitive edge by enabling faster response and more effective risk management for its clients.
Products and Services
Dataminr’s offerings are tailored to different market segments, with its flagship product being Dataminr Pulse. The company’s products are delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.
- Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security: This product provides real-time alerts to help corporations protect their employees, facilities, and business operations. It focuses on use cases such as ensuring the safety of people, securing facilities and events, and maintaining operational resilience.
- Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk: This offering helps organizations strengthen their resilience against digital threats. It addresses digital risk, third-party risk, vulnerability intelligence, and cyber-physical risk.
- First Alert: This is a real-time event discovery solution designed for the public sector, including first responders, emergency management agencies, and humanitarian organizations. It provides early warnings on critical events to enable faster and more effective responses. Dataminr also offers a “First Alert for Nonprofits” initiative, providing free access to qualifying non-profit organizations.
- Dataminr for News: Used by over 1,500 newsrooms, this product helps journalists discover breaking news and receive early indications of significant events. It is designed to be integrated into newsroom workflows.
- Dataminr Intel Agents: A newer capability, these are agentic AI that autonomously generate critical context for real-time events, threats, and risks.
Target Customers
Dataminr’s target customers span the public and private sectors, including global corporations, government agencies, news organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The company serves more than two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100 companies.
These customers benefit from Dataminr’s products and services by gaining early awareness of events that could impact their operations, assets, and people. For corporate clients, this translates to enhanced physical security, supply chain monitoring, and brand protection. Public sector organizations, such as first responders and humanitarian groups, use Dataminr’s alerts to improve situational awareness and response times during crises. Newsrooms leverage the platform to break stories faster and gain a competitive edge in the news cycle. Across all segments, the primary benefit is the ability to make more informed decisions and mitigate risks more effectively by receiving critical information in real time.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces
Dataminr offers its products on the cloud marketplaces of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, and maintains a partnership with Google Cloud that includes technical integrations.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dataminr Pulse is available for purchase in the AWS Marketplace. The product is built on and powered by AWS, which allows customers to procure the service and streamline billing processes through their existing AWS accounts. The marketplace listing details different packages for Dataminr Pulse, including Essentials, Standard, and Team, each offering different levels of features such as geovisualization and incident management capabilities. Dataminr also offers its First Alert product for public sector organizations on the AWS Marketplace.
- Microsoft Azure
Dataminr Pulse is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace through an integration with Microsoft Sentinel. This allows users to integrate Dataminr’s real-time alerts into their Sentinel workflows to help identify and mitigate threats. The integration is designed to enrich Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows by providing contextual intelligence and accelerating incident investigation and response.
- Google Cloud
While Dataminr does not have a direct listing on the Google Cloud Marketplace, it is a Google partner. An integration exists through Google Security Operations, which has a specific data parser for “DATAMINR_ALERT”. This allows for the ingestion of Dataminr’s alert data into the Google Cloud environment for analysis.
Key People
- Founder and CEO, Chairman of the Board: Ted Bailey
- President and Chief Operations Officer: Brian Gumbel
- President, Corporate Initiatives: Peter Bailey
- Chief AI Officer: Alex Jaimes
- Chief People Officer: Whitney Benner
- General Counsel: Gary Hacker
- Chief Partner Officer: Matthew Harrell
- EVP, Product & Engineering: Jason Wilcox
- SVP, Chief Accounting Officer & Controller: Michael Sumberac
- SVP, Public Sector Sales: Paul Tierney
Key Facts
- Headquarters Location: New York, New York.
- Number of Employees: Approximately 800-957.
- Annual Revenue: Estimated to be between $186.8 million and $215 million.
- Parent Company: None.
- Subsidiary Companies: WatchKeeper and Krizo.
- Publicly Listed: No.
Analyst Recognition
Dataminr is recognized by analyst groups in the context of commissioned studies and product listings.
- Gartner includes Dataminr in its Brand Protection Software market on its Peer Insights platform. Dataminr’s product, Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk, is listed within this category.
- Forrester has been commissioned by Dataminr to conduct multiple “Total Economic Impact™” (TEI) studies. These studies have analyzed the return on investment for Dataminr Pulse and Dataminr First Alert. The firm also conducted a study commissioned by Dataminr on the state of enterprise risk management.
- There is no publicly available information that indicates IDC has included Dataminr in its MarketScape reports.
- There is no publicly available information that indicates the Everest Group has included Dataminr in its PEAK Matrix® assessments.
