Dataminr has announced the acquisition of WatchKeeper, a real-time data geovisualization platform for corporate enterprises. WatchKeeper’s platform will navigate through layers of internal company data and external contextual data in a single interface alongside Dataminr alerts.
Dataminr’s real-time alerts combined 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.
