PROVIDERS ADDED TO THE DATABASE
  • Data on e-commerce sales, shipping volume, and omni-channel strategy using web scraping and app usage: PipeCandy
  • Data on M&A rumors from web scraping, delivered in real-time and tagged with credibility scores: Rumor Hound
  • Data on 1.5mm job openings across 6k companies categorized by title and job type: Freestyle Media
  • Patent data with with products covering biological and chemical industries: PatSnap
See public database of 383 data providers.
UPDATES
  • Crux Informatics, a data infrastructure provider, closed $20mm Series B funding round. (Crux)
  • Ravenpack, a sentiment provider, launched Analytics Search, a tool for identifying key events and public companies associated with certain keywords. (Ravenpack)
NEW REQUESTS FOR DATA
  • Data mapping to SaaS companies: enterprise customers, user count, churn, contract value, engagement/usage, etc.
If you have this data or know who may, reply directly to this email.  See Requests for Data page to see all open requests or to make a new request.
EVENTS
OPENINGS
NEWS & INSIGHTS
  • 79% of investors say their company is already using alternative data, and 17% plan to start within next year, according to survey of 100 traders, PMs, and heads of trading across buy-side and sell-side. (Dataminr & WBR Insights)
  • Integrity Research suggests that recent Aite Group report on buy-side alternative data spend (estimated at $544mm in 2018) is likely underestimating spend growth and personnel costs. AlternativeData.org previously estimated 2018 spend at $656mm. (Integrity Research)
  • Tesla sentiment and sales appear uncorrelated, according to an article referencing credit card data provider Second Measure, resale data from CarGurus, search data from car-sharing app Turo, and sentiment data from YouGov. (recode)