Mar 28, 2025

Dataminr, which is one of the world’s leading AI companies, announced it has secured $85 million in new funding from NightDragon and HSBC through a combination of convertible financing and credit. This new capital will enable Dataminr to accelerate its growth trajectory and continue to pioneer trailblazing Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities that shape the future of real-time information. Dataminr will also use this new funding to expand its international go-to-market in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as to power additional products in new verticals with its Platform API. Geopolitical tensions, economic instability, cybersecurity threats, and technological disruptions are creating challenges for businesses and governments worldwide. As these risks converge, they pose potentially catastrophic consequences for corporations and governments that are unprepared. And without accurate and real-time information, informed decision-making becomes increasingly difficult, leaving organizations vulnerable to missteps, miscalculations, and even disaster. Dataminr has created a transformative real-time AI platform for discovering events, risks, and threats. Using its unique multi-modal Fusion AI—which synthesizes images, video, sound, machine-generated sensor data, and text in 150 languages—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. Last year, Dataminr launched ReGenAI, a 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, a novel Agentic AI capability that dynamically adds real-time context around breaking events, risks, and threats. Dataminr’s AI platform is powered by more than 50 proprietary LLMs and multi-modal foundation models, all trained on Dataminr’s 12+ year unique event and data archive. KEY QUOTES: “As global risks become increasingly complex, unpredictable, and catastrophic, the demand for real-time, AI-driven intelligence has never been more urgent. When seconds matter and truth is obscure, Dataminr is helping the world’s leading organizations and governments make smarter, more informed decisions in real-time by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. NightDragon is honored to lead this latest investment in Dataminr, as we work together to build the future of reimagined real-time decision support and become the system of record for a growing number of verticals and industries.” – Dave DeWalt, Founder and CEO, NightDragon; DeWalt will additionally join the Dataminr Board of Directors as Vice Chairman “With this latest financing, HSBC is proud to support Dataminr in their growth as they expand internationally and develop new applications across additional verticals. Dataminr stands out in the current AI landscape through its unique ability to process billions of data signals in real-time, delivering organizations the critical intelligence needed to preempt emerging threats. Their innovative approach to multi-modal AI and real-time decision support enables industry-leading response-times.” – Prasant Chunduru, HSBC Head of Technology Credit Solutions “We are excited to welcome esteemed investors NightDragon and HSBC, and thrilled to have security industry luminary Dave DeWalt join the Dataminr board as Vice Chairman as we seek to turbocharge our go-to-market efforts and meet growing global demand for our products. The era of Gen AI and Agentic AI holds immense new opportunities for Dataminr. We look forward to using this capital to continue pioneering trailblazing AI capabilities that solve tangible real-world problems for our customers.” – Ted Bailey, Founder and CEO, Dataminr Pulse 2.0 focuses on business news, profiles, and deal flow coverage.