WhalePath

https://whalepath.com

500startups // 500startups Batch 8 starting 2014-01-01

Key notes: Crowdsourced Market Intelligence Platform to Obtain Customized Market Research

Office address: 180 Sansome St, San Francisco, California, United States

Description: Whale Path is a Crowdsourced Market Intelligence Platform where over 13,000 analysts compete through research challenges to provide customers with proprietary and reliable market data & analysis to empower their business decisions. Customers request research by launching a Challenge and setting a reward price range for each data point as well as a maximum budget for the entire project. Multiple analysts then perform research and upload data points and analysis to the platform. Whale Path reviews all data points for accuracy and validity and removes duplicates. Customers receive multiple data point submissions and pay based on the accuracy and value each data point presents to them.

View details on Crunchbase:

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whale-path

$ 1,300,000 over 3 funding rounds.

Angellist Page:

https://angel.co/whale-path

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Funding Rounds

Date	Name	$ Invested	Crunchbase link
2014-01-01	None		Detailed data
2014-06-13	None	$ 200,000	Detailed data
2014-09-04	None	$ 1,100,000	Detailed data

Investors

Round Date	Round Name	Investor	Crunchbase Link