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Dataminr funding, valuation and investors
Real-time AI event detection from public data for enterprises, newsrooms, and government.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Growth
$85M · March 2025
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$85M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · New York, New York
Investors in latest funding
Lead: NightDragon
Other: HSBC
Overview
Dataminr detects breaking events and emerging risks from public data using AI, selling to corporations, news organizations, and government customers for security and crisis response. The New York company announced $85M in convertible financing and credit on March 19, 2025, led by NightDragon and HSBC per TechCrunch — not a traditional priced equity round. Capital supports growth and international go-to-market expansion.
Why Dataminr is interesting
Late-stage NYC companies increasingly use structured financing vs. priced equity. Dataminr's $85M convertible+credit (Mar 2025) funds growth while preserving optionality — a pattern for mature analytics platforms.
Product & use cases
AI platform surfacing real-time alerts from public data streams for corporate security, news, and public-sector risk teams.
- Corporate security and crisis monitoring
- Newsroom breaking-event detection
- Government and public-sector risk intelligence
Key facts
- Mar 2025: $85M convertible financing + credit (TechCrunch)
- Lead participants: NightDragon, HSBC
- NYC-based real-time AI event detection
- Structured financing vs. classic priced equity round
Funding history (newest first)
Growth
2025-03 $85M- NightDragon (lead)
- HSBC (participant)
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/analytics-company-dataminr-secures-85m-to-fund-growth/
Competitive landscape
Edge: Scale and latency on public-data event detection with enterprise and gov customer base built over years.
Real-time OSINT is competitive with threat intel vendors and in-house SOC tooling. Dataminr's edge is alert quality and speed at scale; risk is platform dependency on public data access policies.
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Palantir adjacent
Gov/data analytics platform; different primary workflow.
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Recorded Future direct
Threat intelligence from open sources; overlapping security buyer.
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Twitter/X firehose vendors adjacent
Raw social data access; Dataminr adds AI alerting layer.
Notable stories
- March 2025 deal illustrates late-stage NYC companies using convertible+credit instruments.
- NightDragon and HSBC lead signals security-fintech crossover interest.
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