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Company Overview

FirstRain is a search and analytics application that combines deep information on companies, ecosystems and business topics with a proprietary tagging and filtering methodology. The application creates personalized research on relevant business content available from around the world, allowing business professionals to quickly and efficiently evaluate specific companies, sectors or topics. FirstRain's proprietary technology to search, tag and filter relevant information from over 30,000 authoritative sources constructs detailed ecosystems on over 15,000 public and private companies in the Americas, Europe and emerging markets.

How FirstRain Searches the Web

The web is the single largest database in history, holding a vast repository of rich information relevant to business. It is now the top destination for both consumers and professionals when researching a company or topic, searching both open sources and paid subscription sources. Given the infinite nature of the web, the challenge is efficiently identifying useful, relevant, high quality information.

FirstRain is the leader in the identification and faceted search of business, finance and economic content. FirstRain's proprietary algorithms identify and tag content from a vast range of web sources from around the world: mainstream business sources, local and world news, in-depth industry and subscription sources, blogs, company websites and governmental and regulatory agencies. This categorization process identifies and creates relationships between companies and among search topics. The search results have high impact because connections have been made between a company's business lines, suppliers, competitors, buyers in order to get an entire view of the company ecosystem. Additionally, by capturing these company relationships, FirstRain is able to provide a layer of qualitative analytics to visualize patterns and trends. Users interact with the search results through their medium of choice; interactive web search, email reports, data feeds, web services and widgets.

Why is FirstRain Different

FirstRain's search application is different in three fundamental ways:

1. Deeper information found through pre-design search topics and obscure sources
2. Search results presented in the context of the related ecosystem
3. Analytics

Each company can be viewed in the context of it's corporate relationships including competitors, suppliers and buyers, as well as related industry topics. Each industry can be viewed in the context of the leading companies and market topics impacting the industry. Each company and industry has associated analytics, for example about management or signals of new events that can be detected on the web. As a result FirstRain users can quickly and easily view targeted content that is the most relevant to and has the highest impact on their research.

Who is FirstRain

As the leader in search-driven research and analytics, FirstRain provides global firms with a competitive advantage, revealing information and trends from the web that they would not otherwise see. FirstRain changes the rules of research by applying state-of-the-art extraction and pattern detection technology to the web. It is a privately held company headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with additional offices in New York, NY and Gurgaon, India.