What Sentifi does

Sentifi Group AG, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, is a private SaaS provider of investment intelligence built on crowd-sourced alternative data. The company's AI engine ingests over 500 million tweets and 2 million news, forum, and blog articles daily to produce sentiment, attention, influencer, and event signals across more than 50,000 listed equities globally, with institutional fund-flow visibility into 100,000 funds worldwide. The proprietary models classify content into 45,000+ event types including M&A, lawsuits, product recalls, and macro events, and are used in-house and by third parties to backtest alpha-generating trading strategies that reportedly outperform major indices.

The platform is delivered as a self-serve web product to retail investors, portfolio managers, crypto traders, and quantitative asset managers under three subscription tiers: Basic at $12/month (10 stocks), Advanced at $49/month (50 stocks), and Premium at $150/month (500 stocks), with a separate Enterprise offering referenced on the company's site. Underlying infrastructure and data are anchored by partnerships with Twitter (core social feed), FactSet, Morningstar, LexisNexis, Google Cloud, and NinjaTrader. The company employs 51-100 people and received a single disclosed funding round from PostFinance in 2017; no recent capital raise, revenue figure, or headcount trajectory has been disclosed.

Monetization is entirely subscription-based with low ARPU and a product-led go-to-market motion. The primary strategic risks are over-reliance on Twitter as the social data feed and the absence of disclosed revenue, ARR, or churn metrics to validate the commercial scale of the platform.

Name

Sentifi

Legal name

Sentifi Group AG

Website

https://sentifi-html.pages.dev

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Sentifi is a Zürich-based SaaS platform that uses AI to mine 500M+ daily tweets and 2M+ news and blog articles into investment signals across 50,000+ stocks. It sells self-serve subscriptions to retail investors, portfolio managers, crypto traders, and quantitative asset managers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Investment Intelligence Software

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Brokerage & Self-Directed Investing Platforms (FSAGAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Portfolio Management Systems (PMS), Rebalancing & Analytics (Crypto) (FSADAHAE)

Keywords

• Investment intelligence
• Sentiment analytics
• Portfolio monitoring
• Alternative data
• Financial analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS: Three-tier subscription model with tiered pricing based on portfolio size limits. Basic tier at $12/month for up to 10 stocks, Advanced at $49/month for up to 50 stocks, and Premium at $150/month for up to 500 stocks. All tiers include core analytics features, with differentiation based on portfolio monitoring capacity.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Sentifi operates a SaaS investment intelligence platform that mines 500M+ tweets and 2M+ news, forum, and blog articles per day to generate sentiment, attention, and event-based signals across 50,000+ stocks. Its proprietary AI engine detects 45,000+ event types, tracks institutional fund flows from 100,000 funds, identifies stock and cryptocurrency outliers, and provides portfolio risk analytics. The platform is delivered via a self-serve website with monthly subscription tiers priced by portfolio size.

Product overview

Sentifi offers a unified investment intelligence platform combining social media, news, forum, and blog analytics. The core Portfolio Intelligence product aggregates data from 500M+ tweets and 2M+ articles daily to generate sentiment, attention, and event-based signals across 50,000+ stocks. The platform includes a dedicated Cryptocurrency Analytics module for detecting crypto market momentum changes. Three pricing tiers (Basic, Advanced, Premium) offer scaled access from 10 to 500 stocks with features including real-time sentiment monitoring, institutional fund flow tracking, event detection (45,000+ event types), and outlier identification. The platform also tracks holdings of 100,000+ funds worldwide to provide institutional allocation insights.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portfolio Intelligence Platform Sentifi's flagship SaaS platform that enables users to monitor portfolios of up to 500 stocks from a universe of 50,000+ listed companies worldwide. Combines sentiment, attention, event detection (45,000+ event types including M&A, lawsuits, product recalls, and macro events), institutional fund flow tracking across 100,000 funds, and stock outlier identification for buy/hold/sell decisions. Delivered as a self-serve web subscription for individual investors, portfolio managers, cryptocurrency traders, and quantitative asset managers.
• Enterprise Offering Enterprise-grade access to Sentifi's investment intelligence platform for institutional and business customers, accessible via a dedicated Enterprise page on the Sentifi website. Designed for organizations that require deployment beyond the self-serve retail subscription tiers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Alpha-driving trading strategies that outperform major indices

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TwittercoreTechnology or IntegrationTwitter is listed as a social media partner providing access to real-time social media content. Sentifi mines over 500M+ tweets daily as a core data source for sentiment analysis, making this a fundamental partnership for platform functionality.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• RavenPack: Enterprise alternative-data provider that applies NLP to news and social media to generate investment signals for asset managers. Closest direct competitor to Sentifi on the institutional side — same unstructured-data-to-alpha proposition, just selling upmarket.
• Stocktwits: Social-media-driven investment community and analytics platform for retail investors. Highly comparable to Sentifi because both mine social/microblog signals (Stocktwits = Twitter-native) to surface retail-trading sentiment and trending tickers.
• MarketPsych: Specializes in NLP-derived sentiment and theme data from news and social media for asset managers. Overlaps with Sentifi on event detection, sentiment analytics, and institutional flow/macro-event tracking.
• Social Market Analytics (SMA): Provides real-time social-media-based sentiment indicators (S-Score, S-Stream, S-Factor) for equities and other assets. Directly comparable to Sentifi's sentiment/attention monitoring product.
• TipRanks: Aggregates and scores analyst, insider, hedge-fund, and social-media sentiment for retail investors. Highly comparable PLG retail-investor analytics proposition to Sentifi's tiered subscription model.

Emerging players

• AlphaSense: AI-powered market intelligence and enterprise search platform for research analysts. Comparable NLP-on-unstructured-content approach to Sentifi but skews to broker research, transcripts, and internal documents rather than social/news.
• Dataminr: Real-time event and risk detection from social, news, and other public data streams. Comparable real-time event-detection capability to Sentifi's 45,000-event AI engine, though Dataminr is broader and more enterprise-focused.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg Terminal: Dominant institutional financial-data and analytics platform. Overlaps with Sentifi on news/social sentiment, analytics, and institutional-grade research; competes for the same quant asset-manager wallet but with vastly broader scope and pricing power.
• FactSet: Enterprise financial data and analytics platform. Both a Sentifi partner and an incumbent competitor in the institutional analytics space where Sentifi aspires to sell upmarket.
• LSEG (Refinitiv): Global financial-markets data infrastructure and analytics provider (formerly Refinitiv). Competes broadly with Sentifi across news analytics, sentiment, and institutional data products.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sentifi
• Facebookfacebook.com/sentifi
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sentifi

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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