/PRNewswire/ Dataminr, the leading real-time information discovery platform, today announced it is acquiring Krizo, an innovative real-time crisis response.
Dataminr is used by the Central Intelligence Agency, United States police departments, news agencies, private companies and government institutions. The tech company is a partner of Twitter, which provides it with unlimited access to the “firehose” a constant stream of all available data from a source in real time. This allowed Dataminr to scan every tweet.
Dataminr uses its platform to surveil Twitter for keywords and other indicators of supposedly high risk activities. It was used to try and disrupt last year’s Black Lives Matter in the US, by providing authorities with information from protesters’ social media.
The GIPA documents show that the university used Dataminr to monitor student and staff on Twitter and Facebook and create lists of those attending protests which were automatically sent as email alerts to the university’s administration officers.
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(Bloomberg) Dataminr, an artificial-intelligence platform that makes use of sources such as Twitter to send breaking news alerts, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of more than $3.6 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The New York-based company is poised to more than double its 2018 valuation of $1.6 billion in the new funding round, which is set to feature participation from some existing investors, the people said. Terms, including the size of the capital raise, haven’t been finalized and it’s possible they could change.A Dataminr spokeswoman declined to comment.The company, led by founder and Chief Executive Officer Ted Bailey, previously received backing from Morgan Stanley’s Tactical Value Fund, MSD Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., David Rubenstein’s Declaration Partners, Fidelity Investments, IVP, and Credit Suisse Group AG’s Next Investors, among others.In September, Dataminr named