Attensity (@Attensity), a leading provider of enterprise insight solutions based on proprietary data contextualization, today announced that it has successfully closed $90 million in equity financing.
Funding was provided by the International Private Equity Fund and the Financial Advisor Company. New secured capital will be used to accelerate product innovation; fuel market growth; and expand sales, marketing and engineering teams to meet the growing need for commitment and analytical applications using patented natural language processing (NLP) technology.
‘Attensity is already a well-established market leader in social media analytics used by global companies,’ said Howard Lau, CEO and CEO. ‘We are now extending that lead even further to brand reputation as well as early detection of trends, business opportunities and threats, thus enabling companies to remain ahead of the market and to build competitive advantages. ”
Also announced, Howard Lau, an experienced Silicon Valley enterprise software executive and former venture capitalist, is expanding his role as CEO. Its vision will drive technology expansion and focus on building teams and partnerships that will educate and support Attensity customers on the benefits of consumer insight solutions.
Over more than two decades of research and development, Attensity has pioneered natural language processing and sentiment analysis with the mission of empowering business corporations with timely and relevant insights to improve customer experience, manage brand equity, increase revenue, mitigate business risk, and inform business strategies. Its solutions help the diverse client base of Fortune 500 and 1000 companies across all business sectors to identify relevant and accurate information from social and non-social channels through the use of patented semantic technologies, analytics and context-based discovery.
Today, Attensity analyzes more than 150 million data sources and is one of the few companies that have full access to the Twitter firehose data stream. Its global customers (Ebay, Yahoo, Microsoft, Verizon and Whirlpool to name a few), use Attensity’s solutions to meet customer needs and protect their brand.
@Attensity, leader in #bigdata #contextualization, successfully closed $90 million in equity financing.
On Attensity
Attensity is a leading provider of enterprise insight solutions based on proprietary data contextualization for Fortune 1000 companies. As a pioneer in natural language processing and sentiment analysis, Attensity’s solutions identify relevant and accurate information from multi-channel data sources using highly sophisticated and patented semantic technologies, analytics and context-based discovery. Using Attensity’s integrated solutions, enterprise companies can interpret and ‘understand’ massive amounts of structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources, helping to improve customer experience, manage brand equity, increase revenue, mitigate business risk, and help inform business strategies. Visit Attensity: Com
