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Dataminr Acquires WatchKeeper, A Real-time Data Geovisualization Platform for Corporate Enterprises
NEW YORK, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

-- The company will integrate WatchKeeper's platform into Dataminr Pulse for 
Corporate Enterprises to further accelerate the growth of its corporate 
business line, which has doubled in revenue growth 3 years in a row

Dataminr, the leading real-time information discovery platform, today announced 
the acquisition of WatchKeeper, an innovative real-time data geovisualization 
platform for corporate enterprises. WatchKeeper's platform will provide 
seamless navigation through layers of internal company data and external 
contextual data in a single pane-of-glass interface alongside Dataminr alerts.

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Combining Dataminr's real-time alerts with WatchKeeper's geo-visualized data 
layers will provide customers with broader context around real-time events that 
adversely impact their organization and disrupt their business operations. With 
hundreds of corporate enterprises across dozens of commercial industries 
relying on Dataminr Pulse, the integration of WatchKeeper's platform will 
enhance the ability of corporate enterprises to assess and respond to events in 
real time.

"Dataminr's real-time event and information discovery platform has 
revolutionized the way corporations learn about events and risks that impact 
their businesses," said Dataminr Founder and CEO Ted Bailey. "By integrating 
WatchKeeper's advanced geovisualization platform into Dataminr Pulse, our 
alerts will be even more deeply integrated into the crisis management workflows 
of corporations, enabling broader contextualization, deeper analysis, and 
faster action."

WatchKeeper, a UK-based technology start-up founded in 2018, has quickly 
established itself among leading corporate enterprises as the most innovative 
and intuitive geovisualization platform for physical security and crisis 
management. With WatchKeeper integrated into Dataminr Pulse, corporations will 
be able to determine when events are occurring near their personnel, 
facilities, assets, and supply chain—and seamlessly visualize their global 
footprint of static and moving assets to better assess the full scope of 
potential business disruptions. WatchKeeper's advanced geovisualization 
platform will also enable rapid navigation through diverse real-time data 
layers of contextual data, ranging from live weather data and traffic data to 
internal company security camera feeds and IoT sensor signals.

"The combination of Dataminr's unparalleled real-time event and information 
discovery capabilities with our data geovisualization platform is the next big 
step in the evolution of physical security and crisis management for global 
corporate enterprises," said WatchKeeper's Founder and CEO, Hugh Farquhar, who 
spent 10 years in corporate security and crisis management at Citigroup before 
founding the company. "During my time inside one of the world's largest global 
corporations, I experienced firsthand the transformative power of seamlessly 
geo-visualizing high-impact events alongside internal company data. With our 
integration into Dataminr Pulse, enterprises will not only now know about 
global and hyper local events in real time, but also have a unified situational 
awareness platform that enables their teams to holistically respond to those 
events far more effectively."

The new, integrated version of Dataminr Pulse will be available to corporate 
customers through an early access program later this year, with wider 
availability planned for early 2022. Relied on by over half of the Fortune 50, 
Dataminr Pulse has established a wide footprint across many commercial sectors 
including technology; finance; retail; food and beverage; transportation and 
logistics; energy; telecom; healthcare; automotive; insurance; and pharma.

The acquisition of WatchKeeper comes on the heels of Dataminr's $475M growth 
capital financing in April 2021 which valued the company at $4.1B. The recent 
infusion of capital is part of Dataminr's strategy to further accelerate the 
growth of the company's corporate business line, which has doubled in revenue 
growth three years in a row as customers have expanded use of Dataminr's 
platform across physical safety and security, reputation risk and crisis 
management, business intelligence, and cyber threat detection.

The acquisition and integration of WatchKeeper in Dataminr Pulse will further 
fuel global corporate client growth, while also enabling the company to address 
an ever-expanding set of corporate use cases. "We have only scratched the 
surface of potential use cases for Dataminr's platform, a horizontal capability 
that will power numerous future applications across the corporate enterprise. 
WatchKeeper's advanced geovisualization platform will accelerate our efforts to 
unlock even more corporate use cases for global corporate enterprises over the 
years to come," said Bailey.

ABOUT DATAMINR

Dataminr delivers the earliest warnings on high impact events and critical 
information far in advance of other sources. Recognized as one of the world's 
leading AI businesses, Dataminr enables faster response, more effective risk 
mitigation, and stronger crisis management for public and private sector 
organizations spanning global corporations, first responders, NGOs, and 
newsrooms. Recently valued at $4.1B, Dataminr is one of New York's top private 
technology companies, with 650 employees across seven global offices.

Since its founding in 2009, Dataminr has created the world's leading real-time 
information discovery platform which detects digital patterns of emerging 
events and critical information from public data signals. Today, Dataminr's 
leading AI Platform performs trillions of daily computations across billions of 
public data inputs from over 150,000 unique public data sources. The company 
has been recognized for its groundbreaking AI Platform and rapid revenue growth 
by Forbes AI 50 ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3219402-1&h=1891622641&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dataminr.com%2Fpress%2Fdataminr-ranked-number-5-on-the-forbes-ai-50-list%3FhsLang%3Den&a=Forbes+AI+50 
) and Deloitte Fast 500 ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3219402-1&h=3731700301&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dataminr.com%2Fpress%2Fdataminr-ranked-number-176-fastest-growing-company-in-north-america-on-deloittes-2020-technology-fast-500%3FhsLang%3Den&a=Deloitte+Fast+500 
). Alongside Dataminr's corporate product, Dataminr Pulse, the company provides 
public sector organizations with First Alert for first response, including the 
United Nations which relies on First Alert in over 100 countries. Dataminr for 
News is used by more than 650 newsrooms and by over 30,000 journalists 
world-wide.

SOURCE Dataminr

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