Backed By Thinknum Alternative Data, Inc.
Alternative data platform for market trends and business intelligence.
Thinknum is a market intelligence platform that aggregates alternative data from online sources—including job postings, social media, product listings, and company websites—to deliver unique insights into market trends and business performance. It enables competitive benchmarking, trend detection, and investment research, and integrates with BI tools for advanced analytics.
Track hiring, product, and pricing trends
Competitive benchmarking
Alternative data for financial modeling
Company performance tracking
Integrate with BI tools
Custom analytics dashboards
Access to full platform (UI & API)
Job Listings dataset (daily updates)
Over 35 structured alternative datasets (Job Listings, LinkedIn Profile, Store Locations, Product Pricing, Social Media, Employee Sentiment, etc.)
Historical data coverage (up to 10+ years for some datasets)
User-friendly web-based UI for no-code querying, visualization, and analysis
Custom alerts for key metrics crossing critical thresholds
Pre-configured maps, charts, word clouds, and advanced visualizations
Real user experiences from across different platforms
The tools we use and the data we pull from Thinknum help inform our equity research analysis so we can make unique, differentiated insights. The platform has been an important resource for data analysis on vehicle inventories, pricing at retailers, job openings, and various user metrics, among many other items.
Bill Pecoriello
Recent
real-time, web-scraped data to supplement traditional financial models and generate market-beating alpha.
ntelligence on competitors' operational health and strategic moves (e.g., hiring, pricing changes).
or low-cost, ad-hoc data feeds.
heavily reliant on highly sensitive, non-public data (as their focus is on public web data).
Enables investors and corporate strategists to track real-time operational and strategic movements of over 500,000+ public and private companies globally using unique, forward-looking alternative data (like job listings, product pricing, and sentiment) that is typically unavailable from traditional financial sources.
Accuracy may vary with unverified web-scraped data sources The platform can have a learning curve unless users have a background in this type of data analysis Pricing is high-end and not publicly advertised