Dataminr announced the closing of a $100 million convertible financing from funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group.
Dataminr announced in March 2025 $85 million in new funding from NightDragon and HSBC through a combination of convertible and credit. In the past year, Dataminr named Brian Gumbel President and Chief Operating Officer to drive the company’s public and private sector sales, sales operations, customer success, marketing, and partnerships. Gumbel joined from Armis, having held senior roles at Forescout Technologies, Tanium, McAfee, and Cisco.
The company also appointed Matthew Harrell as Chief Partner Officer, responsible for growing and 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.
What the funding will be used for: The funding will be used to advance the growth of the company’s corporate enterprise business line, international expansion, and development of new applications across additional verticals. And the announcement marks another milestone in Dataminr’s journey, amid increasing demand from Governments and Corporations for real-time, actionable intelligence to best navigate the expanding physical, digital, and cyber threat landscape.
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“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
