Startup Intelligence is a business intelligence platform giving investors and corporations a comprehensive, real-time global view of emerging technology businesses.
In a world where growth companies re-shape markets in a matter of months rather than years, traditional bottom-up business intelligence is too slow to give companies the edge they need to compete.
Our mission is to present the landscape of technology innovation in an accessible, dynamic way. This allows our clients to identify perfect investments, position a product in a rapidly-growing value chain or track market evolution, all in real-time. See our homepage or product pricing for more details. To request a free report or free one-month access to our dashboard contact us here. We’ll get right back to you.
Senior team members:
CEO – Thomas Gatten
Thomas received the top first in his year at Oxford studying Human Sciences. This unique blend science and arts informs Startup Intelligence’s scientific and qualitative approach to business analysis. Thomas led a team of broadcast journalists at the BBC World Service, devised and put together two hour radio programmes for 192 million people. Thomas learnt Hindi and Urdu as a features editor for the Times of India in Mumbai, the largest English language publication in the world. He wrote front-page articles and took exclusive front-page photographs.
Thomas worked as an analyst for Screen Digest from 2009-2011. Screen Digest is an industry-leading media business intelligence company now part of IHS.
Head of development – James Thankly
James graduated with a first class degree in Computer Science from Sussex University specialising in advanced artificial intelligence and distributed systems. He was a senior developer at IBM, rated amongst the top 5% of employees at his level for four consecutive years.
He has senior developer and systems architect levels of proficiency using Python, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS J2ME, J2EE (EJBs, Servlets and JSP), J2SE, J2SE (JNI), MatLab, XML, XHTML, MYSQL, CORBA, SOAP, Javascript, ANT, C, Objective C, C++. T-Mobile G1 (Android), Sony PSP, iPhone, C++ with SDL, OpenGL and Devkit Pro (Nintendo DS).
James is also an experienced designer and entrepreneur. He founded Assentec Global (assentec.com) to develop Recipe Shopper (recipeshopperapp.com) and Get Me Home, the first application using TFL data on android.
James has been published eight times in technical journals and holds three US and European patents.
Head of Analysis – Sofia Cerqueira
Sofia is a financial journalist with experience at major news outlets in Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. Sofia’s work in Brazil focused on analysing trends in entrepreneurship in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This gave her a great understanding of the raw principles of business. Sofia graduated with an MA (hons) from City University’s school of Financial Journalism.
Mike Brown, Founder, Partner of AOL Ventures called Sofia’s startup profiles “The most detailed and accurate data out there on European start-ups”.