founded 2008 area served worldwide website alpha sense.com alphasense is a privately held technology company headquartered in san francisco california . founded in 2008 with institutional and private venture funding . 2 the company is the creator of alphasense a specialized search engine for financial services professionals launched in january 2011 . contents 1 history 2 product 3 awards 4 references 5 external links history edit alphasense inc. was founded by jack kokko and raj neervannan in 2008 to apply advanced linguistic search technology to assist investment professionals to find information in company disclosures . in 2010 alphasense launched its search engine utilizing natural language processing to search through all major filings earnings calls conference transcripts and other related documents . in 2012 the search engine added company investor relations presentations for the russell 3000 constituents to their database of searchable content . in 2013 the firm announced an expansion of its global data set to include more than 20 000 companies across 60 countries . 3 4 in 2014 the company expanded their searchable data set to include research reports from top brokerages . in early 2016 the company announced that it had secured an additional 33 million in growth capital 5 6 and added dow jones newswire which includes barron s and the wall street journal to its searchable content sets . 7 in may the company further enhanced its searchable content set with the addition of real time news from the financial times . 8 product edit alphasense is a specialized web based financial search engine providing users with the ability to search navigate annotate and analyze corporate filings and other research documents for critical data points . the product uses a blend of proprietary linguistic search and natural language processing algorithms to index every word and passage of text in documents released by public companies worldwide . 9 10 11 12 13 awards edit inside market data awards 2016 best big data and technology provider 14 alphasense listed in the 2015 forbes fintech 50 the most innovative financial technology companies 15 alphasense ranked 1st in 2015 deloitte finland technology fast 50 16 buy side technology awards 2015 best buy side data analytics tool alphasense 17 alphasense ranked 104th fastest growing company in the inc 5000 18 red herring top 100 north america 2015 19 hfm us technology awards best mobile solution in 2015 20 and in 2016 21 best sell side analytics product 2014 22 23 references edit about . alphasense . alphasense inc. retrieved 14 june 2015 . company overview of alphasense inc. . businessweek.com . retrieved 10 september 2014 . alphasense expands financial search engine to include global data . hivefire.com . retrieved 10 september 2014 . alphasense expands monetary search motor to contain global data . doddfrankandconsumerprotectionact.com . retrieved 10 september 2014 . alphasense raises 33 million in first round funding for its financial search engine silicon valley business journal . silicon valley business journal . retrieved 29 march 2016 . alphasense search engine for financial professionals raises 33 million . forbes.com . retrieved 29 march 2016 . alphasense builds dow jones news into financial search engine . waterstechnology.com . retrieved 29 march 2016 . alphasense announces access to financial times content . alpha sense.com . retrieved 30 june 2016 . alphasense recognized as best sell side analytics product . onenewspage.us . retrieved 10 september 2014 . capital markets tech vendors 2.0 disrupting the status quo . aitegroup.com . retrieved 10 september 2014 . alphasense recognized as best sell side analytics product . digitaljournal.com . retrieved 10 september 2014 . alphasense taps trio of sales execs . waterstechnology.com . retrieved 11 september 2014 . alphasense s advanced linguistics search engine could buy back time for financial analysts to do more in depth research . semanticweb.com . retrieved 11 september 2014 . best big data analytics & technology provider alphasense . waterstechnology.com . retrieved 30 june 2016 . the fintech 50 the complete list . forbes . retrieved 29 march 2016 . technology fast 50 awards 2015 . inc.com . retrieved 30 november 2015 . buy side technology awards 2015 . inc.com . retrieved 30 november 2015 . 2015 inc. 5000 rank . inc.com . retrieved 30 november 2015 . red herring 2015 top 100 north america winners . redherring.com . retrieved 11 june 2015 . hfm us technology award winners 2015 . eiseverywhere.com . retrieved 11 june 2015 . hfm us technology awards 2016 . www.eiseverywhere.com . retrieved 29 march 2016 . alphasense wins best sell side analytics product 2014 . semanticweb.com . retrieved 11 september 2014 . sell side technology awards 2014 best sell side analytics product alphasense . waterstechnology.com . retrieved 11 september 2014 . external links edit official web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org 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