Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Alternative data providers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 228 alternative data providers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 4,274 professional contacts across them, including 1,856 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers alternative data providers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for alternative data providers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest alternative data providers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 795 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and most recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “bluCognition enhances clients’ data and analytics capabilities by leveraging advanced AI and machine learning to transform and analyze alternative data sources - combining…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CB Insights is the leader in predictive intelligence on private companies-turning exclusive data on millions of firms into early, trusted signals on future performance and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RavenPack is the leading provider of insights and technology for data-driven companies, trusted by the world’s top hedge funds, banks, and asset managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M Science is a data-driven research and analytics firm, uncovering new insights for leading financial institutions and corporations since 2016.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parameta Solutions provides independent over-the-counter market data sourced exclusively from the world’s largest inter-dealer broker, TP ICAP, and other leading liquidity venues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company HQ'ed in Bangalore, India, and offices in Philadelphia, U.S, and Liverpool, U.K.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The authoritative source for global data intelligence Neudata provides actionable, unbiased market intelligence to buyers and sellers of market and alternative data.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “QuantCube Technology leverages artificial intelligence and big data analytics to deliver global macroeconomic nowcasting insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GLOBAL A.I.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Superior data for decision-making.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our mission is “Alternative Data for Actionable Insights”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oxford Data Plan delivers institutional-grade alternative data and daily KPI estimates for 250+ global equities, enabling hedge funds and asset managers to identify inflections…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Invergence Analytics is a subsidiary of Convergence Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a fintech company with our top mission to provide high-quality multi-dimensional data services for our clients to make optimized investment decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SYSTEM2 helps investors and operators integrate data science into their approach through sourcing, engineering, and analysis of big data as a service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2016, BigOne Lab is a leading alternative data company in China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Golden Hills Capital India Private Limited is a leading provider for data analytics and research providing a comprehensive suite of solutions ranging from consulting services to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Deliver data-driven investment decisions, faster, with greater transparency and at scale with our next-generation machine-learning technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FMP (Financial Modeling Prep) leverages proprietary technology to provide a suite of financial market datasets at a fraction of traditional costs, while maintaining high standards…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Earnest Analytics’ AI-powered Dash platform surfaces real-time earnings predictions, sales growth, customer retention, market share, and macroeconomic insights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 2012, Eagle Alpha is the pioneer connecting the universe of alternative data.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specter delivers real-time data and insights on private companies, enabling investors to make informed, confident decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a leading provider of independent research derived from the analysis of satellite, aerial and drone imagery and the integration of this intelligence with a range of other…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based in Shanghai and the US, Pacific Epoch was founded in 2006 to meet demand for quality, objective alternative data in Asia Pacific.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: alternative data providers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names alternative data providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of alternative data providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name alternative data providers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Alternative data providers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among alternative data providers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for alternative data providers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “alternative data providers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names alternative data providers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among alternative data providers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,856 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Alternative data providers by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Alternative data providers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names alternative data providers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many alternative data providers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 228 alternative data providers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Yipitdata, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most alternative data providers?
The United States leads with 79 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (28). Every alternative data providers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most alternative data providers?
New York leads with 25 headquartered companies, followed by London (22) and Los Angeles (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,856 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 228 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.