Recently, according to foreign media reports, Gimfold (Jim Fowler) is the founder of the company, he has the public purse and business data field inkling, previously in the start-up company Jigsaw, Jigsaw is a business information and data platform, Allows users to data information for business contacts based on a pay or barter exchange. The successful jigsaw was salesforce.com at a price of 175 million dollars in 2010. The start-up company's slogan is: It would have to deal with two days of corporate data, but now only to move fingers two minutes to complete.
Unlike the jigsaw direction based on Business contact data, Infoarmy provides a range of enterprise market environmental data analysis, including products, structures, profitability, competitors, etc. The analysis report will also provide real-time enterprise data information based on the company's profit model, market environment changes and new product series releases.
Infoarmy, a company that provides similar services, is not the first, d&b, Capital IQ and Crunchbase are similar services, but the quality is not high. Compared with this, infoarmy is characterized by more attention to real-time, practicality, comprehensiveness and intelligence.
Gimfold Jim Fowler said, "The value of this service is not the data provided, but the ability to provide changing, constantly updated real-time data."
Infoarmy A group of two researchers to produce data reports for each enterprise client, most of whom are from a global level with advanced degrees. However, this is not a volunteer, but a reward-driven model.
Gimfold Jim Fowler said, "We are divided into 55 of these data researchers, although not guaranteed to be profitable, but the amount of revenue is very transparent." ”
Infoarmy has signed more than 100 researchers, including MBA students, business analysts, professors and management consultants. Currently, a total of hundreds of business reports have been generated. Gimfold Jim Fowler said the company would make a profit when the number of business statements exceeded 100,000.
The business statement will enable the annual subscription payment mode with an annual cost of USD 99, and users can enjoy quarterly updates. However, Infoarmy also offers a number of fee schemes at different prices, including unlimited subscriptions and enterprise licenses that support multiple users.
All data and reports are made and designed on a tablet computer, especially the ipad.
Infoarmy is located in San Mateo, California, and currently employs 24 employees. Now the company has completed seed-round funding of 2 million of dollars, including company CEO Gimfold Jim Fowler, angel investor John Peterson (John Peterson). The company plans to seek a bigger round of financing in 2012.