Quid Lands $37.5 Million Round Led by Lexis Nexis Parent

Quid Lands $37.5 Million Round Led by Lexis Nexis Parent

Data insights and visualization startup Quid has been putting AI and machine learning to work since it was founded in 2010. Today, the California-based company landed a generous amount of funding to continue that work.

The $37.5 million round was led by REV Ventures, the investment arm of Lexis Nexis, and bumps Quid’s total funding up to just over $108 million. Also participating in the round are Julian Roberson, Henry Kravis, Lixil Group, Artis Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. In addition to the investment, Quid also took out $8 million in debt; its valuation remains undisclosed.

Quid told Bloomberg that the fundraising process for this round began over a year and a half ago. The company’s founder, Bob Goodson, decided to keep the round open to other investors and ended up receiving buy-in from REV Ventures, among others, to buoy the round up to the current amount. In a discussion with Bloomberg, one of REV Ventures’ founding partners, Kevin Brown, commented on the problem Quid is working to solve. “There’s an explosion of unstructured data and no one knows how to handle it,” Brown said.

At FinovateSpring 2016, Quid won Best of Show honors for its demo of Opus, a product that enables users to upload their own data into Quid and receive an interactive, visual map to help interpret raw data from earnings reports, earnings call transcripts, customer feedback, or any other text-based dataset. The company also offers solutions for consulting, healthcare, and marketing sectors, that provide insights on competitive intelligence, brand perception, and market landscape. Among its clients are Cisco, IBM, KPMG, UBS, and Visa.

While powerful, Quid’s software isn’t cheap. The company, which brought in $28 million in sales over the past year, charges $25,000 per user per year. Among Quid’s accomplishments in the past year are assisting the Wall Street Journal in spoting fraudulent entries on FCC’s website during net neutrality debate and helping Walmart build the American Family Today report.

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Six Alums Earn a Spot on on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 List

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CNBC released its 2017 collection of 50 disruptive tech companies today. The fifth annual list names private companies “whose innovations are changing the world” and meet additional criteria according to CNBC’s methodology.

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Trulioo
Identity verification specialist for AML/ KYC compliance
Rank: 37
Launched: 2011
Funding: $23.3 million
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Global mass payout service platform
Rank: 40
Launched: 2005
Funding: $234 million
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A unique, online lending company that prides itself on social finance
Rank: 45
Launched: 2011
Funding: $1.9 billion
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Automated marketing messaging company
Rank: 48
Launched: 2012
Funding: $66 million
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Quid
Offers unstructured data analysis
Rank: 50
Launched: 2010
Funding: $56.2 million
Demoed Opus at FinovateSpring 2016

Quid Unveils New Data Visualization Solution, Opus

Quid Unveils New Data Visualization Solution, Opus

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San Francisco data-visualization specialist—a Finovate Best of Show winnerQuid has launched a new solution to help make big data a little easier to manage. Opus, introduced this week, enables anyone to turn text-based data into colorful visualizations that make it simpler to spot patterns and relationships among ideas, themes, and concepts.

With Opus, organizations can take a wide variety of unstructured data, from online forums and survey responses to corporate filings and call center transcripts, and turn it into what Quid calls “interactive visual maps.” These maps make patterns in data easier to discern, enabling deeper insights and faster decision-making. The technology, which leverages big data, natural language processing, and network science, is available for free for Quid customers.

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“Imagine seeing, at scale, everything your customers, prospects, competitors, and employees are talking about,” a video introduction to the technology intoned, before delving into a sample case study using Opus to analyze more than 300 reviews of a Nissan car dealership. In addition to spotting patterns in comments related to topics like “salespeople” or “cleanliness,” Opus uses a sentiment layer to reveal emotional attitudes expressed in the language of the reviews. All data uploaded to Opus for analysis is stored securely and is only available to the client. Quid will host a free webinar about using Opus on Tuesday, 13 December.

Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, Quid demonstrated Opus at FinovateSpring 2016, earning a Best of Show award. The company has raised $66 million in funding after a successfully completed, $39 million Series D round in the spring of 2015. This summer, Quid opened its first international office in London as part of the company’s effort to attract European clients and take advantage of the growing London fintech scene.

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Best of Show Winner Quid to Open London Office

Best of Show Winner Quid to Open London Office

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San Francisco-based, text-analytics innovator Quid is opening up its first international offices in London.

Quid CEO Neville Crawley said that London was a “perfect base” to better engage European clients such as Siemens, BCG, and the World Economic Forum. He added that the new location would also help his company “benefit from the ideas, energy and diversity of the London tech scene.” The new offices will be in Shoreditch in London’s East End.

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Pictured: Quid Principal Sarah Pilewski demonstrated Opus at FinovateSpring 2016 in San Jose.

Quid specializes in leveraging machine intelligence to read massive amounts of text and then turning that data into interactive visual maps. These maps enable users to better observe and understand patterns and relationships that may have been too difficult to recognize otherwise or too time-consuming and inefficient to try and spot using a manual process.

In her demonstration at FinovateSpring in May, Quid’s Sarah Pilewski called the technology a “platform for understanding complex questions” and used the example of a researcher analyzing the impact of Apple Pay in the retail market. While in the past, work like this would be characterized by what Pilewski called “a room of smart people and a white board” or, more recently, hours of pouring over Google search results. But Quid organizes information based on logical topics which can differentiate a column on the partnership between Apple and Ali Baba from an article on RiteAid’s adoption of ApplePay. This spring Quid previewed its Opus technology, which expands the ability of the platform to analyze and visualize unstructured data from a wide range of sources such as earnings reports, customer feedback, and other text datasets.

Founded in 2010, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Quid demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016, taking home Best of Show honors. The company was named to Fast Company’s 2016 Most Innovative Companies list in February, and has been profiled by the San Francisco Business Times and featured on CNBC. Quid counts Intel, Pfizer, and Walmart among its U.S. customers and has raised $66 million in funding.