Leadspace is a

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(SaaS) Data Science Company that provides a B2B Customer Data Platform. The company's products unifies multiple data sources, 1st party and 3rd party sources from

social media Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the Content creation, creation, information exchange, sharing and news aggregator, aggregation of Content (media), content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongs ...

, contact databases and

customer relationship management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategic process that organizations use to manage, analyze, and improve their interactions with customers. By leveraging data-driven insights, CRM helps businesses optimize communication, enhance cus ...

systems and Marketing Automation platforms.

History

Leadspace was founded in 2007 (then named Data Essence) by Amnon Mishor and Yaron Karasik, former intelligence officers and experts in semantic analysis and

web mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and s ...

technologies. The company raised funding from

Battery Ventures Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm. Founded in 1983, the firm makes venture-capital and private-equity investments in markets across the globe from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Israel and Lond ...

Jerusalem Venture Partners Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) is an international Venture capital in Israel, venture capital firm founded in 1993. The fund specializes in investments in Startup company, startup companies, focusing on digital media, enterprise software, semic ...

, Arrowroot Capital and Vertex Venture Capital. Leadspace launched its first product, a sales prospecting application, in 2012. In March 2013, Leadspace added the capability of generating targeted lists based on match to an ideal buyer profile, and an online view of a company's ideal buyer profiles. The company became a

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ISV partner and a member in

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Launchpoint. In July 2015, Leadspace raised $18 million in funding led by Battery Ventures. In April 2018, Leadspace announced plans to merge with Radius Technologies. The merger dissolved in August 2018. In October 2020, JVD Partners sued Leadspace's CEO, Doug Bewsher, claiming he secretly tried to sell the company. The Plaintiffs alleged that Doug Bewsher presented his board with inflated figures for years, he forged data, and he spent money from company's coffers. The suit was subsequently dropped.

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