Digital Reasoning

Digital Reasoning
Founded 2000
Founder Tim Estes
Headquarters 701 Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Number of locations
 Washington, D.C., New York City, London
Website digitalreasoning.com

Digital Reasoning is an American company headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. It offers cognitive computing services to intelligence agencies and financial institutions in the United States.[1][2]

History

Digital Reasoning was founded in 2000 by Tim Estes, a Knoxville-born philosophy senior at the University of Virginia.[1][3] It is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, with offices in Washington, D.C., New York City and London.[1][4] As of August 2015, its Franklin headquarters had 100 employees, 30 of whom had top secret clearance.[3]

The firm presented its Synthesys software to the United States Army in 2002. They signed a contract with the National Ground Intelligence Center, a subsidiary of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, in 2004.[1] Synthesys was used to track enemies in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 onwards.[3] Six years later, in 2010, it received funding from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm of the Central Intelligence Agency.[1]

Since 2012, the firm has sold its Synthesys software to banks and hedge funds,[1] including UBS and Point72 Asset Management.[3] Financial institutions use Synthesys to scan internal e-mails within a given company in search of unfamiliar patterns between employees, in terms of word-specific content, frequency and interpersonal connections.[1] The aim is to predict fraud before it occurs.[1]

In 2014, the firm received US$750,000 from the Tennessee Angel Fund of TNInvestco,[5] a US$200,000 million fund from the State of Tennessee.[6] It also received US$24 million from Credit Suisse Asset Management's NEXT Investors as well as Goldman Sachs.[4] Other investors include the Partnership for New York City and the Nashville Capital Network.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dillow, Clay (August 14, 2014). "Nothing to hide, everything to fear". Fortune. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ Grimes, Seth (April 14, 2015). "Digital Reasoning Goes Cognitive: CEO Tim Estes on Text, Knowledge, and Technology". Huffington Post. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hope, Bradley (August 2, 2015). "Spy Software Gets a Second Life on Wall Street: A wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community is winning over the world of finance". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 McGee, Jamie (October 9, 2014). "Digital Reasoning gains $24M from Goldman, Credit Suisse". The Tennessean. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ McGee, Jamie (October 9, 2014). "When crisis strikes, Digital Reasoning takes action". The Tennessean. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ "TNInvestco". Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
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