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AlphaSense Appoints Heather Zynczak as Chief Marketing Officer, Doubles Revenue in Less Than Two Years

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

NEW YORK, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the appointment of Heather Zynczak as Chief Marketing Officer, along with the surpassing of $200M+ in ARR. With over 25 years of experience leading marketing at high-growth and pre-IPO technology and SaaS firms, including prior IPO experience, Zynczak is ideally suited to helm AlphaSense's marketing efforts at the company's rapid growth trajectory, and brings unique expertise to the existing executive leadership team.

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  • NEW YORK, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense , the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the appointment of Heather Zynczak as Chief Marketing Officer, along with the surpassing of $200M+ in ARR.
  • "Heather's incredible track record in supporting rapid revenue growth at IPO-scale companies will be invaluable to AlphaSense as we expand our marketing programs to meet the global demand for AI-driven market intelligence," said Jack Kokko, CEO and Founder at AlphaSense.
  • Leveraging her broad experience, Zynczak will lead AlphaSense's global marketing initiatives, with an emphasis on customer engagement, brand awareness, and revenue growth driven by close alignment with the revenue organization.
  • "AlphaSense is a powerful platform that I wish I had access to in my past roles in product strategy and consulting.

AlphaSense Announces AlphaSense Assistant, New GenAI-Powered Chat Experience

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced two major upcoming platform updates, including the launch of AlphaSense Assistant, a generative AI chat experience that transforms how users can intuitively extract insights from millions of business and financial documents. Second, as generative AI continues to transform workplaces, AlphaSense is launching Enterprise Intelligence, a first-of-its-kind offering that delivers AlphaSense's AI-powered search, summarization, and chat capabilities securely atop customers' proprietary organizational knowledge and AlphaSense's extensive content universe.

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  • Second, as generative AI continues to transform workplaces, AlphaSense is launching Enterprise Intelligence, a first-of-its-kind offering that delivers AlphaSense's AI-powered search, summarization, and chat capabilities securely atop customers' proprietary organizational knowledge and AlphaSense's extensive content universe.
  • AlphaSense Assistant represents the next phase of AI in market intelligence.
  • Powered by AlphaSense's own purpose-built Large Language Model (ASLLM), Assistant is a conversational chat interface on top of AlphaSense's industry-leading content library, dramatically speeding up the research process for business and financial professionals.
  • Enterprise Intelligence, layers AlphaSense's market-leading AI capabilities – including AlphaSense Assistant and Smart Summaries – seamlessly onto both the firm's own proprietary content and an extensive universe of public and private content.

AlphaSense Grows to $2.5 Billion Valuation, Securing $150 Million in Series E Funding Led by BOND

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced its $150 million Series E financing round, led by BOND, and joined by existing investors including Alphabet's CapitalG, Viking Global Investors, and Goldman Sachs. The financing brings AlphaSense's valuation to $2.5 billion.

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  • "At BOND, we look for iconic technology companies that are shaping the future," said Jay Simons, General Partner at BOND.
  • The $150 million raise comes just months after a $100 million Series D investment led by Alphabet's CapitalG .
  • We wholeheartedly believe in AlphaSense's growth and distinctive position in the industry and want to be an even greater part of its journey."
  • We are building the future of market intelligence, and we are proud to continue revolutionizing search for enterprise customers."

AlphaSense Grows to $2.5 Billion Valuation, Securing $150 Million in Series E Funding Led by BOND

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Thursday, September 28, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced its $150 million Series E financing round, led by BOND, and joined by existing investors including Alphabet's CapitalG, Viking Global Investors, and Goldman Sachs. The financing brings AlphaSense's valuation to $2.5 billion.

Key Points: 
  • "At BOND, we look for iconic technology companies that are shaping the future," said Jay Simons, General Partner at BOND.
  • The $150 million raise comes just months after a $100 million Series D investment led by Alphabet's CapitalG .
  • We wholeheartedly believe in AlphaSense's growth and distinctive position in the industry and want to be an even greater part of its journey."
  • We are building the future of market intelligence, and we are proud to continue revolutionizing search for enterprise customers."

AlphaSense Continues Global Expansion in Asia Pacific with New Regional Hub in Singapore

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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced its continued expansion in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with a new regional hub in Singapore. The expansion, in response to strong customer demand in the region, will support AlphaSense's growing global footprint, enabling the company to better serve its existing APAC client base while bolstering its capacity to scale customer growth.

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  • AlphaSense today announced its continued expansion in the Asia-Pacific region with a new regional hub in Singapore.
  • Customers in the region include Chugai Pharmaceutical, Samsung, Petronas, HSBC, Hong Kong's Sylebra Capital, Singapore's YH2 Capital Management, and many more.
  • Currently, users can search in the AlphaSense platform across non-English content in eight different languages, including Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.
  • The expansion into APAC is the most recent example of AlphaSense's expanding global footprint—in September 2022, AlphaSense opened an office in Germany, adding to its existing footprint in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and India.

AlphaSense Receives 14th US Patent for its Innovative Market Intelligence Platform

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

NEW YORK, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the grant of its 14th US Patent, which protects its innovative approach to enable leading corporations and financial institutions to uncover valuable insights and make smarter decisions with confidence and speed. The latest patent, US 11,704,006 is granted for a market intelligence and search platform that uses an innovative approach to alert users on relevant new search results, delivering important insights or data points as soon as they are published. Users can now be the first to know on actionable new market intelligence, enabling timelier and more informed business decisions.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense , the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the grant of its 14th US Patent, which protects its innovative approach to enable leading corporations and financial institutions to uncover valuable insights and make smarter decisions with confidence and speed.
  • The latest patent, US 11,704,006 is granted for a market intelligence and search platform that uses an innovative approach to alert users on relevant new search results, delivering important insights or data points as soon as they are published.
  • Users can now be the first to know on actionable new market intelligence, enabling timelier and more informed business decisions.
  • The '006 patent adds to AlphaSense's growing portfolio of foundational patents that protect the company's innovative market intelligence platform.

AlphaSense Named a Leader in Market & Competitive Intelligence by Top Analyst Firm

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

NEW YORK, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Market And Competitive Intelligence, Q2 2023 report. AlphaSense received the maximum scores possible across 13 criteria, including AI Capabilities, Search and Filter, Taxonomy set up and change, Tagging, Proprietary, Paywalled Sources, Internal Sources, Vision, Innovation, Roadmap, Partner Ecosystem, Revenue, and Customer Support and Services.

Key Points: 
  • AlphaSense is recognized as the largest player in market and competitive intelligence and receives the highest possible scores across 13 criteria, including AI and search capabilities, vision, innovation, and coverage across proprietary, paywalled, and internal sources.
  • NEW YORK, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Market And Competitive Intelligence, Q2 2023 report.
  • According to the report, the AlphaSense platform "...has been adopted by a majority of the S&P 100 and beyond, making it by far the largest player in this market."
  • "We are proud to be recognized by Forrester as a leader among the pack of market and competitive intelligence solutions, and with the broadest market footprint," said Jack Kokko, AlphaSense CEO and Founder.

AlphaSense Raises $100M Led By Alphabet's CapitalG to Fuel Innovation in AI and Market Intelligence

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

NEW YORK, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced a $100 million addition to its $225 million Series D financing round at a $1.8 billion valuation through new investments by CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, and existing investors, including the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) and Viking Global Investors.

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  • The company's subscriber base has more than doubled in the past year, reflecting the business and financial world's heightened need for market intelligence to navigate through the current economic environment.
  • This investment will fuel continued deployment of AlphaSense's advanced AI capabilities, including generative AI that dramatically speeds up the research process for business and financial professionals.
  • "We are proud to support AlphaSense as it powers market intelligence and research for the business world," said James Luo, Partner at CapitalG.
  • Recent examples include AlphaSense's 2021 acquisition of Stream , the world's broadest library of expert interview transcripts, and a 2022 acquisition of Sentieo , a financial intelligence platform.

AlphaSense Accelerates Global Growth Strategy with New Office in Frankfurt

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the opening of its first office in Germany. The expansion will support AlphaSense's growing footprint in Western Europe in response to strong customer demand from the region. The new office space, located in Frankfurt's Innenstadt—one of Europe's leading commercial, cultural, and business centers and just steps from Goetheplatz—doubles AlphaSense's physical footprint in Europe and will bolster the company's focus on growing and supporting its customer base locally.

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  • FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense , the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the opening of its first office in Germany.
  • While the search for a permanent country manager is underway, the office will be managed in the meantime by Peter Kovacs, Senior Vice President within AlphaSense's Global Sales team.
  • "With our longstanding presence in London and Helsinki, expanding to Frankfurt as a core economic hub on the continent is the natural next step in our European growth strategy."
  • Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, Germany, and India.

AlphaSense Accelerates Global Growth Strategy with New Office in Frankfurt

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense, the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the opening of its first office in Germany. The expansion will support AlphaSense's growing footprint in Western Europe in response to strong customer demand from the region. The new office space, located in Frankfurt's Innenstadt—one of Europe's leading commercial, cultural, and business centers and just steps from Goetheplatz—doubles AlphaSense's physical footprint in Europe and will bolster the company's focus on growing and supporting its customer base locally.

Key Points: 
  • FRANKFURT, Germany, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AlphaSense , the leading market intelligence and search platform, today announced the opening of its first office in Germany.
  • While the search for a permanent country manager is underway, the office will be managed in the meantime by Peter Kovacs, Senior Vice President within AlphaSense's Global Sales team.
  • "With our longstanding presence in London and Helsinki, expanding to Frankfurt as a core economic hub on the continent is the natural next step in our European growth strategy."
  • Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, Germany, and India.