Dataminr, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies specialising in real-time information discovery, has announced a new $100m investment from Fortress Investment Group.
The latest funding was secured through a convertible financing arrangement, with the investment managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group. It follows previous backing from firms including NightDragon and HSBC.
Dataminr develops cutting-edge AI solutions that help corporations and governments detect risks, events and critical information from publicly available data. Its platform uses advanced multi-modal fusion AI to synthesise inputs from images, video, sound, sensor data, and text across 150 languages and more than one million public sources.
The company plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate innovation in Gen AI and Agentic AI technologies, expand its enterprise and government customer base worldwide, and fuel its international growth. The investment will also support new product development, including the upcoming launch of Context Agents and predictive intelligence tools.
These Context Agents will offer real-time context around breaking events, risks and threats. They will also include client-tailored context that synthesises client data into live event descriptions and predictive intelligence that can describe how events might unfold.
The funding news follows a period of strong momentum for Dataminr. The company is approaching $200m in annual recurring revenue, with a customer base including two-thirds of the Fortune 50, half of the Fortune 100, over 100 U.S. government agencies, and more than 20 international governments.
In 2024, it launched ReGenAI, a breakthrough form of Gen AI capable of regenerating live event briefs in real time, and it is set to introduce new Agentic AI capabilities in 2025.
Dataminr founder and CEO Ted Bailey said, “We are excited to welcome Fortress as a new investor, and excited by the experience the firm brings as a lifecycle investor. The era of Gen AI and Agentic AI holds immense new opportunities for Dataminr in turbocharging the application of real-time information capabilities we offer, especially for corporations and governments, and we look forward to using this capital and leveraging Fortress’s experience to accelerate our ability to sell across the Global 2000 and beyond.”
Fortress managing director Rishi Doshi said, “Through this investment, we are excited to partner with Dataminr and support the company’s development of Agentic AI capabilities. Dataminr’s novel ReGenAI capability helps customers like enterprises and government organizations develop real-time intelligence from within public data and build mitigating strategies around it – and we believe every scale enterprise and government organization can derive tangible value from the company’s products.
“We look forward to working alongside NightDragon in offering our resources to Ted and his team as they seek to expand Dataminr’s many use cases and demonstrate the incredible value it can bring to businesses across the globe.”
Fortress managing director Eric Spector added, “We believe Dataminr has significant growth potential as its products are increasingly table-stakes for organizations and other users who rely on accurate real-time information to swiftly respond to physical, digital and cyber threats and developments. As such, we believe this investment in Dataminr presents a compelling opportunity for Fortress.”
In March 2025, Dataminr announced it had secured $85m in additional funding from NightDragon and HSBC through a combination of convertible and credit financing.
Keep up with all the latest FinTech news here
Copyright © 2025 RegTech Analyst
Copyright © 2018 RegTech Analyst
