SafeGraph is a San Francisco-based company that creates technology which utilizes data to make predictions for businesses. The company uses truth sets for artificial intelligence.
Product
The company has created a POI database through onboarding data and analyzing business building footprints with satellite imagery. It obtains information related to customers via their mobile devices using 17 trillion location markers and various mobile applications that partner with SafeGraph. Using algorithms, the software categorizes the businesses in order to produce data. Businesses that are included in the POIs include restaurants, major retail chains, shopping malls, convenience stores, airports, and more. The software can produce insights such as store visitor analytics and demographics.
Funding
SafeGraph has had three rounds of funding and has raised more than $16 million. Its latest round of funding in 2017 was a Series A round. Investors include FJ Labs, Ridge Ventures, Corazon Capital, Naval Ravikant, and Pete Thiel.
Timeline
Esri, a location intelligence company, announced that SafeGraph will be offering its entire Places dataset, containing data on more than 5 million US commercial points of interest, as a free offering in Esri Marketplace.
Funding rounds
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Aaron Goebel
Employee
Adam Nash
Investor
Adam Zeplain
Investor
Adrian Aoun
Investor
Allen Nance
Investor
Are Traasdahl
Investor
Ari Jacoby
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Armaan Sarkar
Investor
Arup Banerjee
Investor
Auren Hoffman
Employee
Brent Perez
Founder
Brian O'Kelley
Investor
Bruce Falck
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Chris Farmer
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Dan Engel
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David Hunt/Hunt Technology Ventures, L.P.
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David Rodnitzky
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Drew Goldfarb
Employee
Eric Chernoff
Investor
Evangelos Simoudis
Investor
Itamar Novick
Investor
Jason Cook
Employee
Jason Richman
Employee
Joel Hornstein
Investor
Julia Popowitz
Investor
Further reading
Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving?
Adrianne Jeffries
Web
November 15, 2017
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
SafeGraph: Monitoring Big Data to Drive Machine Learning and AI
June 17, 2017
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