Based in New York City, Dataminr is a real-time social media analytics company with a mission to extract value from social media for clients in the finance and government sectors. Currently servicing both buy-side and sell-side financial firms, as well as municipal and federal clients in the government sector, Dataminr has developed a broad suite of modular desktop and API products that transform social media streams into actionable signals.

Dataminr was founded in 2009 by former Yale University classmates Ted Bailey, Jeff Kinsey and Sam Hendel, combining their professional experience in social media analytics, big data innovation and finance. Today, Dataminr has a world-class technology team of data scientists, PhDs, and engineers with previous experience at large data companies including IBM, Acxiom, Bloomberg, Google, and Motorola. Our seasoned Business Development and Product teams bring years of experience from the finance and government sectors, and include professionals from Morgan Stanley, RBC, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Reuters and the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State.

Dataminr's strategic partnership with Twitter includes real-time access to the full Twitter Firehose of Public Tweets. Dataminr was recently selected as a Certified Product at the launch of Twitter's new Certified Products Program.