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Alternative Data: Tech Trend & Beyond

Financial, technology, business activity, and person data fully connected, integrated and updated in real-time


Problem to Address: We bring non-traditional alpha-generating data to investors seeking unique, predictive insights. 

Data: Our raw data is extracted from company filings, financial statements, earning calls, recent acquisition transactions, recent funding rounds, and newly published research papers , patents, grants, trademarks, and many other different places. We also own one of the largest science & technology knowledge bases in the world, covering more than 250 research areas from the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, EE and System Science, Finance, Health Science, Math, Physics, and Statistics. All data is organized in a knowledge graph and updated in real-time.

Techniques: Our system has integrated state of the art information retrieval, information extraction, semantic matching, reasoning, ranking,  machine translation techniques to support the services.

Ease of Use: Our services support API access. Online reports are automatically updated on a daily basis.

Several Use Cases:

Automatically Retrieve an Organization's Technology Portfolio & Latest R&D Focus
  • Data:
    • All 14M patents issued and published by US Patent and Trademark office.
    • >3M grants US government issued.
  • Problem to Address:
    • automatically create an organization’s technology portfolio and present what the organization is actively working on (latest R&D focus).
    • automatically compare different companies within a Sector/Industry to see who is falling behind and who is focusing on what.
  • How to Use:
    • Type in a company’s name, the system will list the company’s most recent research areas and inventions;
      • See examples: Huawei, Ericsson.
      • Note: We have ~400K profiles like these and they are updated in real-time.
    • In R&D analysis page, select Dow Jones, NASDAQ or S&P, click on any Sector/Subsector name to compare all companies under that sector/subsector in terms of how their R&D work goes.
Analyze an Organization's Next Product
  • Data:
    • All 12M trademarks issued and published by US Patent and Trademark office.
  • Problem to Address:
    • automatically identify an organization’s next product. Here is an example: In response to the challenges from vegetarian meat producer Beyond Meat, traditional meat processor Tyson Foods is working on their own plant-based meat product. By tracking Tyson Foods‘s trademark applications, we can see that Tyson Foods applied their very first vegetarian meat trademark-“RAISED & ROOTED” in July 2018 and had not unveiled the product under the same name until a year later. Our trademark tracking service tracks all new trademarks on a daily basis and can capture such signal one year earlier than other people.
  • How to Use:
    • Type in a company’s name, the system will list the company’s most recent trademarks
      • See examples: Tyson Foods, Apple.
      • Note: We track trademarks from all companies.
      • Users can also signup weekly update service with an interested company list to receive weekly updates.
Technology Landscape Analysis
  • Data:
    • Data used for this application includes all filings filed to US Securities and Exchange Commission, all patents and trademarks issued and published by USPTO, more than 100M research papers, millions of business activities, millions of grants, etc.
  • Problem to Address:
    • automatically generate a list of major organizations for a particular type of business or technology.
  • How to Use:
    • Type in name of a technology, the system will list major players in that technology area
Technology Tracking
  • Data:
    • Data used for this application includes all patents issued by US government, more than 100M research papers, millions of grants funded by US government, etc.
  • Problem to Address:
    • automatically identify the patent categories related to any user-input technology, list the most recent patents under them and leaders in each category.
    • automatically track what research works are most influential in academia and industry over the years.
    • automatically track where government research funding goes for each interested area.
  • How to Use: