AI platform for real-time event detection across multimodal public data
Dataminr ingests and processes data from over one million public sources—text, image, video, audio, sensor signals—using a stack anchored on Kafka, PostgreSQL, and PyTorch to detect events, risks, and threats in real time. The company is actively scaling its multimodal and agentic AI capabilities while tackling known challenges around model performance, data volume spikes, and technical debt reduction. Sales hiring outpaces engineering, suggesting a go-to-market acceleration phase for existing product lines.
Notable leadership hires: Sales Development Director
Dataminr operates an AI-driven intelligence platform used by government, enterprise, and infrastructure organizations to monitor and respond to global events and threats. The product analyzes public data across 150+ languages and 220+ countries, powered by proprietary large-language models. The company employs over 500 people across ten global offices and maintains hiring activity in eight countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Australia, Romania, and France. Founded in 2009, it remains privately held and headquartered in New York.
Core: Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, AWS (SNS/SQS). Frontend: React, TypeScript, TanStack Query. Testing: Jest, Playwright, Cypress. Security/ops integrations: Splunk, QRadar, Cortex XSOAR, Swimlane.
Dataminr actively recruits in eight countries: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Australia, Romania, and France, reflecting its ten-office global footprint.
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