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Summary

B2B intent data from a publisher cooperative. Scores accounts against thousands of intent topics using anonymous content-consumption signals to surface in-market accounts.

Funding

$51.4M

Founded

2014

Team

160

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Critical Notes

- Foundational data layer resold inside ZoomInfo, 6sense, Demandbase - Account-level data only, no contact-level identity - High standalone cost ($25K-$100K+ annual contracts) - Requires mature GTM stack to act on signals - Slow turnaround on custom topic additions

Key Features

- Company Surge intent data - Identity resolution and enrichment - B2B digital audiences - Campaign measurement - Insights suite - Proprietary B2B Data Co-op - CRM and ad tech integrations

Details

Proprietary, closed-source B2B intent data provider. Sales-led enterprise motion only; no free trial or freemium, no public pricing, custom quotes with annual contracts of $25K to $100K+. Debt financing: $20M (2021), $30M refinancing (2024). Revenue est. ~$100M. Industry: marketing technology, B2B data, sales intelligence. Developer portal and basic API docs on GitHub, core data and Company Surge engine are commercial only. Data is account-level, not contact-level.

Signalscompared to Common Room

1st Party

  • CRM/MAP/CDP connectors (Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot); NetFactor-based Visitor Insights for website visitor identification
  • No product usage, chat/support, customer success, sales engagement, or paid ads ingestion; visitor resolution stops at account and persona

2nd Party

  • Proprietary B2B Data Co-op of thousands of publishers; consent-based content consumption, no bidstream
  • No open source, social, community, review, events, or commerce signals

3rd Party

  • Company Surge intent across 25,000+ topics; DSP/CDP activation (The Trade Desk, Adobe Real-Time CDP, SAP CDP); ABM platform integrations
  • Single-vendor intent only; no job changes, hiring trends, news, LinkedIn page listening, or triggerable technographics

Custom

  • CSV domain-list upload; REST APIs (Intent, Reference, Account List, Digital Audience); Webhooks API via partners
  • No Google Sheets or Zapier; domain lists only, no arbitrary contact/org attributes or events

1st Party: CRM/MAP/CDP integrations (Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot); NetFactor-based Visitor Insights identifies anonymous site traffic and combines it with external intent. 2nd Party: B2B Data Co-op of thousands of publishers with proprietary tag; consent-driven, privacy-first, no bidstream. 3rd Party: Company Surge scores millions of businesses across 25,000+ topics; activates via DSPs (The Trade Desk), CDPs (Adobe Real-Time CDP, SAP CDP), ABM platforms. Custom: CSV domain upload, REST APIs, partner webhooks for real-time alerts and CRM updates when scores exceed baseline.

Identitycompared to Common Room

Enrichment

  • Firmographics, technographics, behavioral attributes; B2B Personas (function, role, seniority, decision-maker); Company Surge scores appended
  • No names, emails, or phone numbers; no waterfall enrichment or contact directory

AI Powered

  • Work-from-home deep learning model; neural network event graphs; supervised/unsupervised ML and anomaly detection
  • AI limited to account inference and noise filtering; no person-level matching

Identity

  • 3B+ identifiers (cookies, MAIDs, IPs, HEMs); deterministic (corporate IP, 1P cookies, hashed emails, SSO) plus probabilistic; LiveRamp graph-of-graphs
  • No person-level resolution; no cross-source contact merging or job-change tracking

Identity: 3B+ identifiers (cookies, MAIDs, IPs, HEMs). Deterministic matching (corporate IP, 1P cookies, hashed business emails, SSO) plus probabilistic inference. LiveRamp graph-of-graphs for third-party cookie resolution. Enrichment: Visitor Insights adds domain, firmographics, technographics, behavioral attributes, and Company Surge scores. B2B Personas give function, role, seniority, decision-maker status. No names, emails, or phones. AI: Work-from-home deep learning model maps remote employees to parent company; neural networks build event graphs; ML and anomaly detection separate buying research from noise.

Automationcompared to Common Room

Combine

  • none
  • Single signal type, no signal combinations

Score

  • Account-level Company Surge score; baseline-relative; topic selection from taxonomy (13,000+ topics)
  • No contact scoring, custom fields, or 1st/2nd-party scoring

AI Message

  • none
  • No AI-generated messaging

AI Research

  • none
  • No AI account research or prompts

Workbench: none Workflow: none Alert: none Combine: none Score: Account-level Company Surge. AI/ML/NLP models set a historical consumption baseline per account and generate a surge score when topic research significantly exceeds it. Users choose from 13,000+ taxonomy topics. AI Message: none AI Research: none

Supportcompared to Common Room

Systems

  • Tiered packages; Premium Plus with Executive Sponsor, dedicated CSM, Implementation Manager; in-app ticketing; email support; gated SAML developer portal; hands-on onboarding
  • No self-service helpdesk or chatbot; best support gated behind Premium Plus

Content

  • Customer Resource Center; playbooks; integration guides; instructor-led training; API docs (Webhooks, Intent, Reference, Account List, Digital Audience); webinars, videos, podcast
  • Strategy-oriented content; limited product feature documentation

Community

  • Live peer roundtables; closed B2B Data Co-op publisher network
  • No public forums, template gallery, or user profiles

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Status: Partner

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