DeepReason.ai
Acquisition in 2021
DeepReason.ai, a spinout from Oxford University's Computer Science department, specializes in a robust Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform that integrates various enterprise and public data sources to facilitate intelligent reasoning. The platform is distinguished by its ability to unify knowledge across siloed data without requiring migration, and it offers an audit trail that tracks contributing factors, data sources, and certainty behind decisions. Furthermore, it employs a comprehensive AI language to reason over domain knowledge and business rules while maintaining an open architecture that allows for seamless integration with machine learning tools and connections to ontologies and data workflows. This enables organizations to uncover new insights and opportunities from their data effectively.
Owler, Inc. is a community-driven business information and insights platform that enables users to follow, track, and research companies. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an additional office in Coimbatore, India, Owler leverages a community of over 2.7 million business professionals to provide unique insights, including competitor analysis, company revenues, and CEO ratings. The platform features a searchable database with 15 million company profiles and offers real-time updates and news about companies of interest. Users, ranging from executives to sales and marketing professionals, utilize Owler to gain competitive insights and stay informed about industry developments. Owler Pro enhances this experience by providing real-time alerts on significant company events and integrating with user CRM systems, further aiding in strategic decision-making.
Klear is a data influencer marketing platform that assists brands and individuals in enhancing their online presence. Founded in 2011 and based in Haifa, Israel, Klear provides tools for social media listening, analytics, and reporting, enabling users to identify and cultivate relationships with influencers across various sectors. The platform allows brands to track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as brand impressions and follower growth, while also offering insights into competitors' performance. Additionally, Klear enables the segmentation of social audiences by demographics, interests, and other attributes, facilitating more targeted marketing strategies. Originally known as Twtrland Ltd., the company rebranded to Klear in 2015 and has since evolved to support millions of users worldwide in navigating the social media landscape.
Linkfluence
Acquisition in 2021
Linkfluence is a social media intelligence company that focuses on analyzing online conversations to create business opportunities for brands. Its flagship product, the Radarly Product Suite, is a user-friendly, multilingual SaaS tool designed for monitoring and measuring social media interactions. This platform collects relevant conversations about brands, providing actionable insights that can be utilized across various organizational functions. Linkfluence's solutions address needs such as reputation management, influencer engagement, community management, crisis detection, and trend analysis. The company has successfully assisted over 200 prominent brands in Europe to enhance their social media strategies, leveraging data to optimize brand performance and inform decision-making.
Sysomos
Acquisition in 2018
Sysomos Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in Software as a Service (SaaS) social media analytics and intelligence management solutions. Established in 2007, Sysomos provides a comprehensive social intelligence platform designed to assist businesses, brands, advertisers, and agencies in navigating the social media landscape. The platform enables users to listen, measure, understand, and engage with social conversations, offering tools such as Heartbeat for real-time social media management, Sysomos MAP as a search engine, and Sysomos Expion for content planning and analytics. Additionally, Sysomos Gaze monitors images for campaign management, while Sysomos Influence identifies key influencers driving brand engagement. The company’s solutions leverage contextual text analytics and data mining technologies to collect vast amounts of social media conversations from various sources, empowering users to make informed business decisions. Sysomos operates as a subsidiary of Meltwater News US Inc. as of April 2018.
DataSift
Acquisition in 2018
DataSift is a leader in Human Data Intelligence, founded in 2010, which specializes in enabling organizations to extract meaningful insights from human-generated data in real-time. The company has developed a platform that allows businesses to aggregate and analyze data from various sources, including social networks, blogs, news sites, and internal communications, while ensuring consumer privacy is upheld. By providing access to historical social data related to brands, businesses, financial markets, and public opinion, DataSift facilitates the integration of human data into business intelligence tools and processes. The company collaborates with over 20 social networks and content publishers and maintains a partner ecosystem that includes leading advertising and marketing agencies, app developers, and brands.
Cosmify
Acquisition in 2017
Cosmify is a San Francisco-based company founded in July 2014 by Ana Nelson, Eugene Ciurana, and Sriram Krishnan. It specializes in providing a machine learning platform designed to manage and analyze large and complex data sets for improved decision-making. The company's knowledge discovery engine leverages advanced machine learning technology to analyze dynamic data lakes, producing vectorized information that offers customized insights. Notably, Cosmify allows clients to derive valuable analyses without the need to import their internal data into its systems, streamlining the process of data-driven decision making for businesses and professionals.
Infomart
Acquisition in 2017
Infomart, founded in 1986 and based in Toronto, Canada, is a leading media consultancy that specializes in media monitoring and analytics, research and insights reports, and executive summaries. As a subsidiary of Meltwater News Canada Inc., the company has developed a robust platform that provides reliable news and social data, accurate analytics, and valuable insights. Infomart assists marketers and communicators in understanding their brand's media impact through advanced technology and expertise. Over its 30-year history, Infomart has established itself as an essential partner for major players across various industries, delivering integrated solutions that enhance media strategies and campaigns.
Social Media Broadcasts (SMB) Limited
Acquisition in 2017
Social Media Broadcasts (SMB) Limited ("SMB") is a Hong Kong-based big data analytics company focused on developing innovative and sophisticated software-as-a-service ("SaaS") technologies to transform social big data into reliable and actionable intelligence for marketers and professionals. Big data analytics enables organisations to analyse a mix of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to provide valuable business information and insights. SMB's unique positioning is a combination of 1) extensive experience with online and mobile social architectures and technologies, 2) deep understanding of Asian and Western social behaviours and 3) innovative integration of analytical methodologies. The company's leading solution is Klarity - a cloud-based, online dashboard-styled tool that provides social monitoring and listening analytics for enterprises, advertising agencies and governments to measure performance, benchmark against competition, identify trends and gain insights into behaviour. Klarity enables marketers, professionals and analysts to leverage social big data in an efficient and effective manner. The proprietary engine crawls social platforms, mobile channels and influencer networks to track, collect, store and manage granular data. Sophisticated algorithms then segments, refines and interprets the information in a quantitative and qualitative manner to automatically present metrics and analyses through a user-friendly dashboard. SMB successfully launched the first generation of Klarity in mid-2013, which quickly gained positive feedback from both enterprises and advertising agencies. Since then, it has evolved from simply monitoring analytics from social profiles to a complex monitoring and listening tool, drawing on big data from social platforms (from Facebook to Sina Weibo), mobile channels (such as LINE and WeChat) and influencer networks (such as news sites, forums and blogs). Today, Klarity v2.4 has gained recognition and validation from major global brands and multinational clients. Beyond Klarity 2.4, SMB's corporate objective is to broaden Klarity's analytical capabilities to provide an even more advanced and holistic SaaS solution for a wider spectrum of verticals to significantly improve insights - applicable not only towards marketing strategies but also financial analysis, healthcare monitoring, crisis management and predictive forecasting. SMB has a core staff of 12 full-time employees comprising of management, technical and marketing professionals. The team is complimented by notable strategic partners such as Hootsuite, Softbank C&S and HP Hong Kong. Management is further supported by seasoned consultants and advisors with financial, technical and marketing expertise.
Wrapidity
Acquisition in 2017
Wrapidity Limited, founded in 2015 and based in London, specializes in web data extraction, transforming unstructured and semi-structured web content into structured data formats. As a subsidiary of Meltwater News US Inc., the company offers an artificial intelligence-driven platform that automates the process of data extraction from various websites. This innovative approach eliminates the need for expensive engineering resources typically required for building and maintaining web scrapers. Clients simply provide a small sample of the desired data, and Wrapidity's AI determines how to navigate the web, fill out forms, and extract relevant information efficiently. The resulting structured data can enhance search capabilities, recommendations, and analytics for businesses, policymakers, and researchers, thereby streamlining data collection and usage while reducing costs.
Encore Alert
Acquisition in 2016
Encore Alert is a technology company that offers a proactive alerts tool designed specifically for digital marketers. It surfaces relevant social data opportunities in real-time via push notifications, providing actionable recommendations on how to respond effectively. This platform is used daily by mid-market brands such as NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association. Encore Alert is currently seeking seed funding from investors including DC's NextGen Angels and prominent industry figures like Max Wessel (VP of SAP) and Sean Glass (Founder of HigherOne/Acceleprise).
Strategic Planner
Acquisition in 2014
Strategic Planner is a business consultancy firm that specializes in assisting startup to mid-sized companies in developing comprehensive and credible strategic, business, and product plans. Recognizing the challenges these companies face in creating detailed and accurate information for their key areas of operation, Strategic Planner offers an online platform equipped with tools designed to support decision-making processes. The company's mission is to reduce the risk of failure by providing a straightforward platform that helps businesses build better strategic and operational plans, ultimately enhancing their chances of success.
Likealyzer
Acquisition in 2013
Likealyzer is a free online service that assists companies in measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of their Facebook Pages. Founded in 2012 and based in Stockholms Lan, Sweden, Likealyzer evaluates various aspects of a company's Facebook presence, including published posts, company information, and dialogue patterns. By providing customized recommendations based on this analysis, Likealyzer helps businesses enhance their Facebook engagement and increase their chances of success on the platform. The service aims to empower companies to fully explore and optimize their social media potential.
OCULUSai
Acquisition in 2013
OCULUSai is a cutting-edge computer vision company that specializes in mobile image and object recognition technology. The firm focuses on developing software solutions that provide automatic face detection and recognition capabilities in both images and video. By offering advanced image validation services, OCULUSai aims to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of visual data processing, catering to various industries that require reliable image analysis.
The Mobile 360
Acquisition in 2011
The Mobile 360 is a well-read website portal that is visited by many subscribers and readers from all over the world. In fact, according to statistical data provided by the “UC News We-media” platform our website is always ranked in the top 10 list among contributors in the Technology category, of course, we are aiming for the #1 spot, hopefully, we will soon reach there.
JitterJam
Acquisition in 2011
JitterJam is a developer of customer relationship management software that integrates social media monitoring, an intelligent contact database, and a multi-channel digital marketing platform into a comprehensive Social CRM system. Acquired by Meltwater Group in 2011, JitterJam enables consumer-facing brands and agencies to capture and analyze conversations happening in real-time across various digital platforms. The company focuses on community development, allowing brands to engage directly with relevant social communities. JitterJam builds rich social profiles for consumers, going beyond traditional static email lists by unifying contact information across email, mobile, and social channels. Its unique permission marketing system empowers consumers to dictate their preferred communication methods and frequency. This capability allows businesses to conduct highly targeted marketing campaigns, resulting in deeper customer engagement and measurable returns on investment. The platform offers tools for deep segmentation of consumer databases, ensuring that brands can effectively reach their most active and engaged audiences.
BuzzGain
Acquisition in 2010
BuzzGain is a company that empowers individuals and organizations to manage their public relations efforts independently through a "Do It Yourself PR" approach. By providing a fee-based service, BuzzGain significantly reduces traditional PR costs, offering savings of at least 80%. The company features a proprietary application that allows users to effectively engage with digital influencers and media professionals, avoiding spamming tactics. BuzzGain's technology includes advanced cataloging and indexing capabilities, supported by a knowledgeable editorial team that researches and organizes an extensive database of over 100 million blogs, 250,000 video bloggers, 3.5 million micro bloggers, and 30,000 media properties such as newspapers, magazines, and television/radio stations. Additionally, BuzzGain offers customer insight services that connect businesses to essential conversations, enhancing customer acquisition and loyalty while providing valuable market intelligence.