Advan Research: Converts anonymised mobile location and card-transaction data into foot-traffic and real-estate analytics for hedge funds and CRE firms.
Affinity Solutions: Turns permissioned, bank-direct card transaction data from 150 million-plus cards into consumer purchase analytics.
AWS Data Exchange: AWS's data marketplace: customers subscribe to third-party datasets, delivered as files, Redshift shares, or APIs inside their AWS account.
BattleFin: Runs Ensemble, an alternative-data marketplace, and Discovery Day, curated 1:1 meeting events pairing data vendors with fund buyers.
BlackSky: Operates a small-satellite constellation and AI platform delivering near-real-time imagery to defense and intelligence customers.
Bloomberg Second Measure: Analyses billions of anonymised US card transactions to estimate company revenue and consumer spending inside the Bloomberg Terminal.
Bright Data: Operates a 400M+ IP residential proxy network and scraping APIs that supply structured web data to enterprises and AI labs.
Consumer Edge: Consumer transaction and receipt data covering 180 million accounts, sold as alternative-data feeds to investors, PE/VC firms and brands.
Descartes Labs: Runs EarthOne, a cloud platform that fuses satellite and other geospatial data with AI to forecast commodities and supply chains.
Eagle Alpha: Dublin founded marketplace connecting institutional investors with alternative data vendors, plus compliance tooling for vetting them.
Earnest Analytics: Turns US card transaction panels and de-identified healthcare claims into company-level revenue, market-share and pricing signals.
Facteus: Turns anonymised US card transaction data from 185 million-plus cards into daily spending datasets for investors, retailers and marketers.
Foursquare: Location-intelligence company selling global points-of-interest data, foot-traffic analytics and geospatial developer APIs.
HERE Technologies: Automotive-grade digital mapping, geocoding and traffic-data provider majority owned by BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Intel.
ICEYE: Operator of the world's largest SAR satellite constellation, selling imagery and building sovereign space systems for governments.
INRIX: Aggregates connected-vehicle and mobile location data into traffic, parking, safety and tickerised alt-data products for investors.
Kayrros: Geospatial AI firm turning satellite data into asset-level energy and environmental intelligence for traders, insurers and regulators.
Kpler: Tracks global commodity cargo flows and vessel movements in real time using AIS, satellite and customs data across 40+ commodities.
LSEG (Refinitiv): Supplies real-time and historical market data, Reuters news and analytics via the LSEG Workspace terminal, the successor to Refinitiv.
MarineTraffic: Real-time and historical AIS ship-tracking platform covering over 550,000 vessels via a network of 2,000+ receiving stations.
MarketPsych (LSEG): AI/NLP firm scoring sentiment on 100,000+ companies and assets from news and social media, distributed via LSEG's data platforms.
Maxar Technologies: Operates WorldView/GeoEye satellites, delivering sub-30cm Earth imagery and geospatial intelligence to government and commercial buyers.
Moody's: One of the 'Big Three' credit rating agencies; also sells economic data, risk models and GenAI tools via its Moody's Analytics arm.
M Science: Alternative-data research firm and Jefferies subsidiary providing analyst-curated KPI dashboards and data feeds to institutional investors.
MSCI ESG Research: MSCI's ESG unit rates companies AAA-CCC on material ESG risk and models climate metrics like Implied Temperature Rise.
Neudata: London-based data-scouting platform connecting institutional investors with alternative-data vendors via its Scout marketplace.
NielsenIQ: Measures retail point-of-sale and consumer-panel data in 90+ countries, formed by NielsenIQ's 2023 merger with GfK.
Orbital Insight: Uses satellite imagery and anonymised phone-location data to estimate oil storage, vehicle counts and supply-chain movement.
Oxylabs: Lithuanian web-data infrastructure provider selling proxies, scraper APIs and datasets that firms use to collect public web data at scale.
Panjiva (S&P Global): Indexes customs and bill-of-lading records into a searchable trade graph of importers, exporters and suppliers.
Placer.ai: Estimates foot traffic and visitation to physical locations across the US from an anonymised panel of tens of millions of mobile devices.
Planet Labs PBC: Operates hundreds of small satellites imaging Earth's entire landmass daily, sold as subscription imagery and analytics.
Precisely: US data integrity vendor combining address geocoding, a 180 million-plus place database and location analytics for enterprise data pipelines.
RepRisk: Zurich-based ESG data science firm that screens 100,000+ public sources daily to score companies and projects on business-conduct risk.
RS Metrics: Turns satellite and aerial imagery into asset level environmental, climate and physical risk metrics for corporates and investors.
SafeGraph: Sells monthly-refreshed point-of-interest and place-linked consumer spending data covering 80 million-plus locations worldwide.
Semrush: SEO and competitive-intelligence platform built on web-scraped search data; became an Adobe subsidiary in April 2026.
Sensor Tower: Estimates app downloads, revenue and ad spend from a proprietary consumer panel; absorbed rival data.ai (formerly App Annie) in 2024.
SESAMm: AI and NLP platform that mines 30bn+ web documents in 100+ languages to flag ESG, reputational and supply chain risk on 5m+ companies.
Snowflake Marketplace: Snowflake's built-in exchange for third-party datasets, native apps and AI products, accessed via zero-copy governed sharing, not APIs.
SpaceKnow: Turns optical and SAR satellite imagery into AI-derived economic indices, including the China Satellite Manufacturing Index, for investors.
Spire Global: Builds and flies its own CubeSat fleet, selling satellite weather, aviation-tracking and RF-geolocation data to governments and enterprises.
Thinknum: Scrapes public web data, hiring, pricing, store counts, into structured alternative datasets covering 500,000+ companies for investors.
UBS Evidence Lab: UBS Investment Bank's alternative-data unit, turning satellite, web-scraped and transaction data into evidence for equity research clients.
Unacast: Location intelligence and human mobility data from over a billion devices.
Ursa Space Systems: Fuses radar-satellite imagery with other geospatial data to track global oil storage and detect change for traders and governments.
Veraset: Sells raw, device-level GPS location data from mobile apps to hedge funds, retailers and researchers tracking foot traffic.
Vortexa: Real-time waterborne energy cargo tracking and freight market intelligence.
Windward: Fuses AIS vessel tracking, satellite imagery and AI to detect maritime risk, sanctions exposure and trade flow signals.
Yodlee (formerly Envestnet | Yodlee): Aggregates financial account data from 19,000+ sources for banks and fintechs, and licenses de-identified transaction data to hedge funds.
