Tadaweb announced it has secured $20 million to scale its Small Data Operating System for publicly available information (PAI) and open-source intelligence (OSINT). Arsenal Growth and Forgepoint Capital International led the investment, with participation from existing investor Wendel.
What Tadaweb does: The SaaS platform is used by defense, national security, public safety, cyber threat intelligence, and corporate security organizations across Europe and the U.S to boost the efficiency of analysts and investigators by reducing time to insight from days to minutes.
PAI And OSINT: PAI is information found in public sources, whether in print media, online platforms, social media, public records, websites, blogs, forums, imagery, and videos. And OSINT refers to the process of collecting, analysing, and disseminating publicly available data points to support decision-making. OSINT is estimated to account for between 80 and 90% of information-gathering activities carried out by law enforcement agencies and other government entities.
Being able to analyze PAI offers public and private sector organisations rapid access to accurate and actionable information in markets frequently disrupted by political turmoil and economic instability. However, information overload can overwhelm even the most well-resourced organisations, making it increasingly difficult for analysts and end-users to surface the most valuable insights and make critical decisions quickly.
Small Data approach: Small Data refers to the amount of information that a human can process, combining precision data points to get the correct answer and Tadaweb augments human analysts’ Small Data skills with an Operating System enhanced by AI that brings together a suite of products to integrate seamlessly with third-party web tools and APIs, ingesting data from PAI, commercially available information, and emerging sources.
Even though most solutions focus solely on automation and Big Data, Tadaweb flips the model, offering a solution that reduces investigation time from days to minutes. This problem is widely understood in the market, and thus Tadaweb is trusted and adopted by analysts of varying levels of expertise.
So Tadaweb users are better equipped to meet mission-critical priorities, from reducing fraud and identifying potential threats, to minimizing supply chain disruptions and mitigating financial losses. And the company’s customers include government agencies in defense, national security, and public safety across Europe and the US, as well as private sector cyber threat intelligence and corporate security organizations.
How the funding will be used: The funding will advance the company’s momentum, supporting product development and recruiting top talent as Tadaweb continues its worldwide expansion and goes to market across the public and private sectors.
New board members: Jason Rottenberg (General Partner at Arsenal Growth) and Damien Henault (Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital International) will join the Tadaweb board.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our mission is to make the world safer by empowering the human mind with the right information at the right time. Almost everyone is looking to AI for a solution. Our focus is on transparency, not delivering another black box. We embrace AI, while ensuring our solution keeps the human in control. True impact comes from putting humans in the centre. By augmenting analysts with our Small Data Operating System, we’re doing just that.”
Francois Gaspard, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Tadaweb
“Tadaweb has built a genuinely human-centric Operating System that is solely focused on making analysts dramatically more productive. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate its customers’ ability to harness the vast opportunities of OSINT, irrespective of their sector focus, with an ambitious team that is building an extraordinary company.”
Jason Rottenberg, co-founder and General Partner at Arsenal Growth
“Many players claim to help organisations with OSINT, but they offer a set of features, not a fully integrated end-to-end platform. Three things attracted us to Tadaweb and how its Operating System helps analysts be more productive: its Small Data approach combined with a unique low/no-code visual query engine, the way it prioritises the human analyst, not the data, and its hyper-focused management team committed to delivering value for its customers.”
Damien Henault, Managing Director at Forgepoint Capital International
