Dataminr, which is one of the leading AI companies, announced the closing of a $100 million convertible financing from funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group.
Dataminr also announced in March 2025 $85 million in new funding from NightDragon and HSBC through a combination of convertible and credit.
Dataminr appointed Brian Gumbel as President and Chief Operating Officer in the past year to drive the company’s public and private sector sales, sales operations, customer success, marketing, and partnerships. And Gumbel joined from Armis, having held senior roles at Forescout Technologies, Tanium, McAfee, and Cisco. The company also brought in Matthew Harrell as Chief Partner Officer, responsible for scaling Dataminr’s partner ecosystem to meet the accelerating global demand for its products. Harrell joined from Cloudflare, where he led Global Channels and Alliances; he was previously Americas Channel leader at Google.
Dataminr’s latest round of funding comes on the heels of strong momentum for the company:
— Dataminr is approaching $200 million in ARR with strong growth across the enterprise, government, and defense markets.
— Dataminr’s customers now include two-thirds of the Fortune 50, half of the Fortune 100, over 100 U.S. Government Agencies, and 20+ International Governments.
— Last year, Dataminr launched ReGenAI, a breakthrough form of Gen AI that automatically regenerates live event briefs in real time as events unfold. And in April 2025, the company will launch Context Agents, an Agentic AI capability that dynamically adds real-time context around breaking events, risks, and threats. Upcoming Agentic AI releases also include client-tailored context that synthesizes client data into live event descriptions, and PreGenAI, Agentic AI and Gen AI-powered Predictive Intelligence that describes what might happen next as events unfold.
— The new comprehensive Dataminr Partner Network helps partners grow with Dataminr’s proven artificial intelligence platform that solves customers’ complex real-time challenges across a wide variety of sectors, industries, and verticals.
Dataminr’s real-time AI platform supercharges users’ ability to discover events, risks, and threats by using its unique Multi-Modal Fusion AI to synthesize images, video, sound and machine-generated sensor data, and text in 150 languages. And Dataminr performs trillions of daily computations across billions of daily multi-modal public data signals and millions of public data sources to deliver the fastest, most accurate and most comprehensive real-time information based on a user’s specified needs. And Dataminr’s AI platform is powered by over 50 proprietary LLMs and multi-modal foundation models, all trained on Dataminr’s 15+ year unique event and data archive.
What the funding will be used for: The funding will fuel growth of the company’s corporate enterprise business line, international expansion, and development of new applications across additional verticals.
KEY QUOTES:
“We are excited to welcome Fortress as a new investor, and excited by the experience the firm brings as a lifecycle investor. The era of Gen AI and Agentic AI holds immense new opportunities for Dataminr in turbocharging the application of real-time information capabilities we offer, especially for corporations and governments, and we look forward to using this capital and leveraging Fortress’s experience to accelerate our ability to sell across the Global 2000 and beyond.”
Ted Bailey, Founder and CEO of Dataminr
“Through this investment, we are excited to partner with Dataminr and support the company’s development of Agentic AI capabilities. Dataminr’s novel ReGenAI capability helps customers like enterprises and government organizations develop real-time intelligence from within public data and build mitigating strategies around it – and we believe every scale enterprise and government organization can derive tangible value from the company’s products. We look forward to working alongside NightDragon in offering our resources to Ted and his team as they seek to expand Dataminr’s many use cases and demonstrate the incredible value it can bring to businesses across the globe.”
Rishi Doshi, Managing Director at Fortress
“We believe Dataminr has significant growth potential as its products are increasingly table-stakes for organizations and other users who rely on accurate real-time information to swiftly respond to physical, digital and cyber threats and developments. As such, we believe this investment in Dataminr presents a compelling opportunity for Fortress.”
Eric Spector, Managing Director at Fortress
“Dataminr is leading the way on AI innovation and helping the world’s leading organizations and governments make smarter, more informed decisions in real-time. NightDragon is pleased to welcome Fortress as a new partner to help Dataminr further expand its enterprise sales and marketing capabilities, and reach more end users across the global economy.”
Dave DeWalt, Founder and CEO of NightDragon
