What Neudata does

Neudata is a London-headquartered data intelligence SaaS company founded in 2016 by Rado Lipuš, operating from offices in London, New York, and Shanghai with a team of 90+ staff. The company runs a dual-platform technology stack: Neudata Scout, which catalogs 8,600+ alternative datasets across 4,200+ providers with 10,400+ neutral analyst-written dataset reports and real-time vendor risk alerts; and Neudata Ranger, launched or significantly enhanced in 2025, which extends the platform into traditional market data with pricing intelligence on 2,000+ products. Neudata Sentry provides compliance and DDQ monitoring across the data buying process. The company explicitly positions itself as buyer-side independent research — it does not take commission on dataset sales — and uses 20+ in-house data scouts to produce its research.

Neudata's business model combines subscription access to Scout and Ranger, professional services for data monetization consulting, event sponsorship and ticketing through a global summit circuit (London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong), and the AltDating one-to-one matchmaking program that generates 3,000+ buyer-seller meetings per year. Primary customers are institutional investors — 16 of the world's top 20 discretionary hedge funds and 8 of the top 10 quantitative funds use Neudata, and the company's clients account for an estimated 60-70% of global alternative data spending. Additional segments include private equity and venture capital firms, professional services (notably PwC, which uses Neudata for data scouting in deals analytics), data providers, and increasingly AI companies seeking proprietary training data.

The company is founder-led, bootstrapped, and has raised only $1.6M in disclosed external capital across two early rounds. Distribution advantages are concentrated in the highest-value hedge fund and quant buyer cohorts, and the company has begun formal institutional partnerships — most notably with State Street in March 2026 — to deepen its reach. Revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Name

Neudata

Legal name

Neudata

Website

https://neudata.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Neudata is a London-based SaaS platform providing independent data intelligence, vendor research, and compliance monitoring to institutional investors, hedge funds, and data providers across alternative and traditional data markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Alternative Data Intelligence

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Distribution, Connectivity & Market Data Platforms (Entitlements, Normalization, APIs) (FSAFAIAJ)

Keywords

• Alternative data intelligence
• Data scouting services
• Market data platform
• Vendor compliance monitoring
• Data brokerage consultancy

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Neudata Scout / Ranger Subscription: Neudata operates subscription-based access to its data intelligence platforms (Scout for alternative data, Ranger for market data), providing research reports, vendor intelligence, compliance monitoring, and data scouting services to institutional buyers.
2. Data Monetization Consulting: Consulting services for businesses looking to monetize their internal data assets, including data assessment, compliance review, market-fit analysis, and go-to-market strategy development.
3. Event Sponsorships & Tickets: Revenue from data/service provider event tickets (e.g., £3,500 per ticket for London TMDS 2026) and sponsorship packages at Neudata's global summits.
4. Lead Generation Services (AltDating): AltDating one-to-one networking program connecting data vendors with qualified buyers, providing warm sales leads and brand positioning opportunities. Neudata does not take commission on sales made through its platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Neudata operates a SaaS data intelligence platform (Neudata Scout for alternative data and Neudata Ranger for market/traditional data) with a catalogue of 10,400+ neutral dataset reports covering 8,600+ datasets across 4,000+ providers. The company also provides the Neudata Sentry compliance monitoring system, the AltDating one-to-one matchmaking networking program, and data monetization consulting services to help institutional buyers discover, evaluate, and source data while helping providers reach qualified buyers.

Product overview

Neudata is a data intelligence provider offering a platform-plus-services model that connects data buyers and sellers in the alternative and traditional data markets. The core products include Neudata Scout (alternative data research platform) and Neudata Ranger (traditional market data platform), complemented by the Neudata Sentry compliance module, AltDating one-to-one networking program, and Neudata Events summits. Additional services include data monetization consulting and lead generation. The company provides independent research and expert consultancy without acting as a broker, serving institutional investors, hedge funds, private equity, AI companies, and data providers worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Neudata Scout: Platform for alternative data scouting, providing research reports, use cases, and real-time updates on data vendors
• Neudata Ranger
• AltDating
• Neudata Sentry

Products and services

• Neudata Scout SaaS data scouting platform that provides thousands of research reports, use cases and real-time updates, allowing data buyers to easily search and compare thousands of data products, read objective reports by data analysts, and monitor risk and compliance events across alternative data vendors.
• Neudata Ranger SaaS platform for buyers of traditional (market) data that simplifies sourcing and selling with expert intelligence, addressing pricing opacity, outdated vendor information and discovery challenges across market data products.
• Neudata Sentry Compliance monitoring system that screens vendors for risks throughout the entire data buying process, providing up-to-date risk and compliance information, a DDQ catalogue, real-time litigation and regulation updates, and automated red flag identification for dataset onboarding and renewal decisions.
• AltDating One-to-one matchmaking program that connects data buyers and sellers through highly targeted networking meetings, facilitating introductions between vendors and qualified buyers; generates 3,000+ meetings per year with 200+ vendor participants.
• Data Monetization Consulting Expert consulting services guiding businesses through the data monetization journey including data audit, risk assessment, market-fit analysis and go-to-market strategy development.
• Lead Generation Services Services helping data vendors fill their sales pipeline and position their brand in front of key industry players through event sponsorship, exhibiting, speaking and bespoke event design.
• AI Companies Data Solution Specialized data intelligence service helping AI companies source proprietary training data and domain-specific datasets, leveraging Neudata's team of 20+ data scouts mapping 8,600+ datasets across 4,000+ providers.

Quantifiable outcome

• $493,400 net return on a Neudata subscription per year — reported by a pod within a $78bn US-based hedge fund
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered minor, core and flagship.

• MoonFox Data (Aurora Mobile)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 27 April 2026MoonFox Data, a sub-brand of Aurora Mobile (NASDAQ: JG), showcased its alternative data capabilities at the Neudata Hong Kong Summit, presenting its four-dimensional data matrix covering online, offline, transactional, and social metrics to help institutional investors predict earnings outcomes. MoonFox Data provides deep coverage for over 600 pivotal listed companies across HKEX, NYSE/NASDAQ, and A-share markets.
• NubilaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Nubila announced a strategic partnership with Neudata to introduce Nubila's environmental and weather data collected from its Marco devices to the global alternative data market. Nubila's data is positioned for applications across finance, AI, agriculture, insurance, and supply chain sectors as part of Nubila's goal to build the world's largest decentralized environmental data network. The partnership grants Nubila visibility into global institutional data demand through Neudata's platform.
• State StreetcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 March 2026Neudata partnered with State Street Corporation to advance institutional use of alternative data in finance and economics. State Street leverages this collaboration to scale its Data Intelligence unit, which provides macro and market indicators including inflation, sentiment, private capital, and multi-asset measures. As part of the partnership, State Street hosts a dedicated track at Neudata's 2026 global summits in London, New York, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, beginning with the London Data Summit on March 26. The collaboration supports State Street's strategy to build an institutional-grade data intelligence business.
• Morgan StanleyflagshipGTM or Marketing PartnerMorgan Stanley serves as a Global Partner at Neudata's Traditional and Market Data Summit events, providing brand visibility and executive engagement at Neudata's flagship conferences in London, New York, and other locations.
• PwCcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPwC's UK Deals Analytics team uses Neudata for independent research on thousands of global data sources, enabling quick identification of the best data sources for PE, hedge fund, and corporate client projects. Neudata was selected as PwC's alternative data partner to provide data scouting services for client diligence processes.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Eagle Alpha: Eagle Alpha is a research and data platform specializing in alternative data intelligence for institutional investors. It is the closest direct peer to Neudata Scout, providing dataset discovery, vendor due diligence, and analyst research to hedge funds and asset managers.
• M Science: M Science is an alternative data provider offering proprietary datasets and analytics to institutional investors. While more data-producer-heavy than Neudata, it competes for the same hedge-fund and asset-manager wallet around alt-data sourcing and evaluation.
• YipitData: YipitData provides alternative data and research on consumer and internet companies for institutional investors. It competes with Neudata in alt-data research for hedge funds and overlaps in web-based data intelligence for financial buyers.
• ExtractAlpha: ExtractAlpha is an alternative data and analytics provider serving institutional investors with proprietary datasets and signals. It overlaps Neudata's buyer-side intelligence use case and competes for similar data-scout and research budgets.
• Preqin: Preqin provides data, research, and intelligence on the alternative assets market (PE, VC, hedge funds, private credit). It overlaps with Neudata's PE/VC buyer solutions and the deal-lifecycle data-scouting use case that PwC's Deals Analytics team has publicly cited.

Broad incumbents

• Quandl (Nasdaq): Quandl, now part of Nasdaq, is a financial and alternative data marketplace with broad distribution across institutional investors. It competes with Neudata Ranger on traditional/market data discovery and with Neudata Scout on alt-data access, but inside a much larger enterprise data platform.
• Bloomberg: Bloomberg's Data License, Data License Plus, and alt-data initiatives provide market and alternative data distribution alongside its terminal. Bloomberg is a broad incumbent overlapping Neudata Ranger's market-data intelligence and increasingly Neudata Scout's alt-data research.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global Market Intelligence offers datasets, analytics, and research platforms to institutional investors. It competes broadly with Neudata on market data discovery and evaluation, with much wider coverage and bundled distribution into large enterprise contracts.

Others

• Snowflake: Snowflake is a data cloud and marketplace platform that enables data sharing and monetization through its Marketplace. While not a direct competitor to Neudata's research and matchmaking layer, it is an enabling infrastructure where data buyers and sellers transact, adjacent to Neudata's marketplace model.
• Databricks: Databricks provides a unified data and AI platform with a marketplace and governance features for enterprises managing third-party data. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive, but increasingly relevant as enterprises centralize data procurement in lakehouse platforms.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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