What Kcore Analytics does

Kcore Analytics is a New York-based AI company founded in 2016 that uses proprietary algorithms combining statistical physics of complex networks, natural language processing, and machine learning to predict election outcomes and identify influencers from real-time social media data. Its core technology stack comprises a Nature-published Collective Influence Algorithm for isolating high-impact network nodes, Graph Neural Networks that fuse multi-source signals (polls, social posts, search trends, demographics), LSTM-based opinion classifiers, and reinforcement learning for adaptive weighting. The system has been validated across election cycles in the United States (2016, 2020), Argentina (2019), Mexico (2021), Brazil (2022), Cyprus (2023), and India (2024), reporting an r=0.9 correlation with New York Times aggregated polls and an 89.5% LSTM classification accuracy on the US 2020 test set.

The commercial offering centers on an AI Polling Product for political campaigns, augmented by an Influencer Intelligence module for marketing and trend forecasting and a Marketing Campaign Optimization service developed in partnership with Grandata. The business operates as a B2B enterprise with quote-based custom pricing; revenue streams combine project-based AI polling services, recurring influencer intelligence subscriptions, and personalized premium data analytics. The company is privately held by its founders, with no disclosed institutional venture funding; the sole disclosed external capital is a $275,000 NSF SBIR Phase I grant awarded in 2024. Operations remain small (1–10 employees) under CEO Hernan Makse, with the leadership team anchored by CUNY academic researchers.

Name

Kcore Analytics

Legal name

Kcore Analytics LLC

Website

https://kcore-analytics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kcore Analytics is a New York-based AI company that uses social network analysis and proprietary machine learning to predict election outcomes and identify influencers in real time, serving political campaigns, marketing teams, and enterprise clients across six countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Predictive Analytics Software

NAICS

Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Analytics Integration & Insight Platforms (Research Ops, Dashboards, Insight Repositories) (MPAAALAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Social, Community & Creator Platform Feeds (HDAAAGAD), Dashboarding & KPI/Performance Management (HDAEAMAF)

Keywords

• AI election polling
• Social network analytics
• Influencer intelligence
• Opinion trend forecasting
• Predictive analytics software

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI Polling Services: The company provides AI polling strategy services to political campaigns, utilizing their ensemble of machine learning algorithms. Services include real-time opinion tracking, influencer identification, and election prediction. The meta-learning approach allows rapid adaptation to new environments.
2. Premium Data Analytics: Personalized premium data analytics services for companies interested in customized solutions. The company mentions offering 'cutting-edge' analytics for businesses seeking to understand trends and influencers.
3. Influencer Intelligence Platform: End-to-end framework for finding influencers in social networks like Twitter. This tool-based offering allows clients to identify key influencers for marketing campaigns and trend forecasting.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Kcore Analytics builds AI-driven software that combines statistical physics of complex networks, natural language processing, and machine learning to infer opinions, track trends, and identify influencers from real-time online social data. Its flagship offering is an AI polling platform that predicts election outcomes and voter behavior, supported by an influencer intelligence module for marketing campaign targeting and a premium data analytics service for customized enterprise solutions.

Product overview

Kcore Analytics offers a unified AI-driven political polling platform centered on its AI Polling Product for Political Elections, which leverages social media data and machine learning to predict election outcomes. The platform integrates three core components: Data Gathering (collecting from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit with future integrations to Instagram, TikTok, Quora), Data Transformation (NLP, computer vision, network theory), and Machine Learning Algorithms (sentiment analysis with LLM, GNN, reinforcement learning). Supporting modules include Influencer Intelligence for identifying key social network nodes, and Marketing Campaign Optimization leveraging influencer targeting for commercial applications. The system has been validated across multiple election cycles (US 2016-2024, Argentina 2019, Brazil 2022, Cyprus 2023, India 2024) demonstrating cross-market applicability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Polling Product (Political Election) AI-driven polling system that combines social media data with Graph Neural Networks, LSTM, and reinforcement learning to predict election outcomes and voter behavior in real time. Uses a meta-learning (few-shot learning) approach to rapidly adapt to new polling environments and is targeted at political campaigns, parties, and government organizations.
• Influencer Intelligence End-to-end framework that identifies and targets influencers in social networks such as Twitter using a proprietary Collective Influence Algorithm and optimization theory. Used by marketing teams and agencies to find high-influence users for campaign targeting and trend forecasting.
• Marketing Campaign Optimization Influencer-based marketing campaign targeting service that identifies high-collective-influence users whose network position predicts economic status and consumer behavior. Built on the Collective Influence Algorithm and validated with Grandata on 110 million Mexican telecom and financial records.

Quantifiable outcome

• Twitter opinion trend forecasts national polls with r = 0.9 correlation
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability12 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• GrandatacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Grandata, an Argentinian corporation integrating financial and telecommunication data at country level, to perform marketing campaigns targeting influencers identified by Kcore algorithms. The collaboration involved combined analysis of 110 million people in Mexico using telecommunication and financial data to validate the relationship between social network influence and economic status.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Talkwalker: AI-powered social listening and analytics platform with influencer identification and consumer insight capabilities; directly comparable to Kcore on social-data-driven trend and influencer detection.
• Predata: Predictive intelligence platform that quantifies political and geopolitical risk from online social data; one of the closest direct analogues to Kcore's election-prediction workflow and target buyers.
• Brandwatch (Cision): Enterprise social-listening and consumer-insights platform that ingests large volumes of social data to surface trends and influencers; directly overlaps with Kcore's Influencer Intelligence and market-trend-forecasting products.
• Morning Consult: AI-driven opinion and brand-tracking firm delivering daily polling and consumer intelligence; directly comparable to Kcore in selling predictive opinion analytics to enterprises, campaigns, and media buyers, but at vastly larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• YouGov: Large-scale public-opinion and consumer-research polling firm; competes for the same campaign and brand-insight budgets as Kcore, but with panel-based rather than social-graph methodology.
• Sprinklr: Enterprise social-media management and analytics suite with sentiment, listening, and influencer modules; overlaps with Kcore's broader influencer and consumer-insight offerings as part of a wider product portfolio.
• Palantir Technologies: Data-analytics incumbent with AI-driven decision platforms sold into government and large enterprises; a broader incumbent that touches adjacent territory (network analytics, public-affairs data fusion) and represents the ceiling for institutional buyers Kcore might target.

Emerging players

• NetBase Quid: AI consumer and market-intelligence platform that analyzes social and news data to surface trends and brand insights; an emerging AI-first peer with comparable use cases for influencer and trend analytics.
• PeakMetrics: AI-driven media-monitoring and narrative-intelligence platform for public affairs and brand teams; closely comparable to Kcore's political social-analytics positioning but with a PR-fluent GTM.
• Pulsar (audience insights): Audience-intelligence platform combining social listening, network analysis, and trend detection; mirrors Kcore's social-graph-to-insight pipeline at a slightly more mature stage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kcore_analytics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

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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