AlphaSense
AlphaSense
Type | Private |
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Industry | Search engine |
Founded | 2008 |
Founders | Jack Kokko and Raj Neervannan |
Headquarters | New York,United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Website | alpha-sense.com |
AlphaSense is a privately held technology company headquartered in New York, New York. Founded in 2008 with institutional and private venture funding. [5] The company is the creator of AlphaSense, a specialized search engine for financial services professionals, launched in 2010.
Type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Search engine |
Founded | 2008 |
Founders | Jack Kokko and Raj Neervannan |
Headquarters | New York,United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Website | alpha-sense.com |
History
AlphaSense, Inc. was founded by and in 2008 to apply advanced linguistic search technology to assist investment professionals, to find information in company disclosures.
In 2010, AlphaSense launched its search engine utilizing natural language processing to search through all major filings, earnings calls, conference transcripts and other related documents. In 2012, the search engine added company investor relations presentations for the Russell 3000 constituents to their database of searchable content.
In 2014, the company expanded their searchable data set to include research reports from top brokerages.
In early 2016, the company announced that it had secured an additional $33 million in growth capital [9] and added Dow Jones newswire, which includes Barron's and The Wall Street Journal, to its searchable content sets. [11] In May, the company further enhanced its searchable content set with the addition of real-time news from the Financial Times. [12]
In 2017, the company expanded its content set to include additional news media, as well as trade and industry journals.
Product
AlphaSense is a specialized, web-based financial and company search engine providing users with the ability to search, navigate, annotate and analyze corporate filings and other research documents.
Users can set alerts on saved searches and receive instant notification when research, news, press announcements or new data points are available on companies, industries or any keywords of interest.
The product uses a blend of proprietary linguistic search and natural language processing algorithms to index every word and passage of text, as well as Machine Learning to expand searches to include relevant synonyms.
Awards
Best Artificial Intelligence Technology Provider 2017 [1]
Benzinga Fintech Awards: Best Research Platform 2017 [2]
Best Sell-Side Analytics Product in 2017 [3] and 2014 [28] [29]
HFM US Technology Awards: Best Fintech Solution for Hedge Funds in 2017; [6] Best Mobile Solution in 2016 [5] and in 2015 [5]
CB Insights AI 100 2017: Ranked in top 100 artificial intelligence companies globally [5]
Inside Market Data Awards 2016: Best Big Data and Technology Provider [5]
AlphaSense listed in the 2016 [5] and 2015 [5] Forbes Fintech 50 - The Most Innovative Financial Technology Companies
AlphaSense Ranked 1st in 2015 Deloitte Finland Technology Fast 50 [5]
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2015: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool – AlphaSense [5]
AlphaSense Ranked 104th Fastest Growing Company in the Inc 5000 [5]
Red Herring Top 100 North America 2015 [5]