Inferess Builds A 'Global Economic Map' Using Big Data—And Sells It To Funds

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For this installment, we spoke with Inferess CEO Vishal Puri. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Inferess

1. What does your company do? What unique problem does it solve?

Inferess reveals hidden links between companies around the world and tracks events that quickly ripple across the global economic network.
Our offerings provide unprecedented visibility into global economic map allowing investors, bankers, companies, regulators and governments to more accurately model investment strategies, corporate supply chain events, M&A opportunities, systemic risks and antitrust concerns.

2. Who are your customers?

Investment management firms.

3. How long have you been in business?

4 years.

4. Where are you located?

San Francisco.

5. Who is your company's leadership? What kind of experience do they have?
Co-Founder & CEO: Vishal Puri
- 17 years experience in engineering, pre-sales, and managing teams
- Extensive experience in data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics across financial markets and search engines
- Developed market surveillance systems, search engines, at UBS Group AG (USA) UBS, Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA, GBST Holdings Limited GBT, and StudyLink.

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering: Janek Bogucki
- 22 years in engineering and management of teams with 15+ engineers
- Developed machine learning, information retrieval, recommendation and financial systems at StudyLink and Monitise
- Author, Professional Scala book
- Extensive experience with NLP and text analysis

6. Anything else Benzinga should know about your company?

Inferess’ initial news analysis product has been licensed by large quantitative investment managers with assets managed to range from $5 to $30 billion.

Inferess’ proven language processing algorithms, combined with its new patented technology, provides a foundation to build a superior version of company intelligence product offering lower error rate, more current data and better backtest capability. Inferess’ automation of the processing of large volumes of text from extensive sources enables the product to cover all listed securities.

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