What Hypermind does

Hypermind (legally Hypermind SAS, headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) operates a collection of collective-intelligence platforms built on prediction-market mechanics and aggregated expert forecasts. Founded in 2000 as NewsFutures, the company was rebranded to Lumenogic in 2010 and consolidated under the Hypermind brand in 2018. Its product suite includes Prescience, a white-label crowd-forecasting platform with customizable question types and patented drip-reward incentive scoring; Storm, a crowd-storming platform that evaluates and prioritizes ideas via prediction-based rather than preference-based ranking; Crowd, which provides enterprise access to a vetted international panel of hundreds of champion forecasters delivering real-time predictions on geopolitical, electoral, economic, and scientific questions; the Forecasting Machine (launched in 2025 via the TFM Ventures Ltd spin-out), an AI-augmented SaaS offering that combines real-time global news scraping with an ensemble of leading AI models; and a free public prediction market at predict.hypermind.com that uses cash rewards to cultivate forecaster talent. The company serves a B2B and B2G client base of companies, governments, think tanks, and media, with named engagements spanning the OECD Strategic Foresight Unit (2024), EDF's 'Parlons Énergies' unit (50+ projects since 2021), Sweden's Glimt platform for Ukraine (20,000+ European participants in 2025), and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (since 2019).

Hypermind monetizes through multi-year subscription licensing of Prescience, Storm, and the Forecasting Machine delivered via cloud or on-premise installation with SSO, hosting, technical support, and training; subscription access to the champion forecaster panel; and ancillary professional services covering forecast-question design, contest construction, and content administration. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Distribution is overwhelmingly direct enterprise sales, complemented by a community-led open prediction market and thought-leadership content (academic publications and a Master Class educational video series) as top-of-funnel demand generation. The company is founder-controlled under CEO & Chief Scientist Emile Servan-Schreiber and President & CTO Maurice Balick, operates without external venture or private-equity backing, and reports share capital of €676,000.

Name

Hypermind

Legal name

Hypermind SAS

Website

https://hypermind.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hypermind builds collective-intelligence and prediction-market platforms (Prescience, Storm, Crowd, Forecasting Machine) that aggregate vetted forecasters and AI ensembles into probabilistic forecasts for companies, governments, think tanks, and media.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Predictive Analytics & Collective Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement (BPAEAAAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

MLOps/LLMOps & Model Lifecycle Management Services (BPAEAHAH)

Keywords

• Prediction market platform
• Crowd forecasting software
• Collective intelligence tools
• AI forecasting SaaS
• Crowd storming platform

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Prescience Platform Licensing: License and deploy full-featured crowd-forecasting platform under customer's own brand. Cloud delivery or local installation with SSO integration. Hosting, technical support, and training included.
2. Storm Platform Licensing: License and deploy full-featured crowd-storming platform for ideation and prioritization challenges. Cloud delivery or on-premise installation with hosting and technical support.
3. Forecasting Machine SaaS: Online SaaS platform combining real-time global news scraping with AI model ensemble intelligence. Delivers fast, affordable trending forecasts with intuitive dashboards.
4. Champion Forecaster Access: Access to daily feed of predictions from hundreds of vetted champion forecasters. Submit custom forecasting questions and receive real-time collective predictions.
5. Professional Services: Consulting services including help formulating proper forecasting questions and designing forecasting contests that optimize elicitation and incentives. Training in content administration and reporting.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hypermind provides collective intelligence platforms (Crowd, Prescience, Storm, and Forecasting Machine) that aggregate probabilistic predictions from vetted champion forecasters and AI models for enterprise, government, and research clients. The company licenses these platforms on subscription and offers professional consulting services for forecasting question design and contest administration.

Product overview

Hypermind offers a suite of collective intelligence tools for decision makers, consisting of four core products: (1) Crowd provides access to hundreds of vetted champion forecasters delivering real-time collective predictions on global risks; (2) Prescience is a white-label crowd-forecasting platform enabling organizations to build their own forecasting capabilities; (3) Storm is a crowd-storming platform for ideation and prioritization using prediction-based evaluation; and (4) Forecasting Machine is an AI-powered SaaS tool combining news scraping with ensemble AI models. These products are complemented by a free Prediction Market (predict.hypermind.com) where champion forecasters compete for cash rewards, and a Master Class educational program. The company, founded in 2000 as NewsFutures, rebranded under Hypermind in 2018, serving companies, governments, think tanks, and media worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Crowd: Champion Forecasting Panel - Access to a panel of hundreds of vetted champion forecasters for quantifying and monitoring risks and opportunities.
• Prescience
• Storm
• Forecasting Machine

Products and services

• Crowd Subscription access to an international panel of hundreds of vetted champion forecasters delivering real-time collective predictions on electoral, geopolitical, economic, and scientific questions. Designed for organizations needing to quantify and monitor risks and opportunities without building their own forecasting infrastructure.
• Prescience Full-featured white-label crowd-forecasting platform that aggregates the informed guesswork of a community into reasoned probabilities and explanations, with customizable question types (Binary, Discrete Winner-Take-All, Ordered Winner-Take-All, Graded, Continuous) and AI-powered curation of rationales. Licensed to enterprises and governments for cloud or on-premise deployment under their own brand.
• Storm Crowd-storming platform designed to elicit, prioritize, and evaluate the highest-potential ideas of a community using prediction-based evaluation rather than votes or likes. Features gamified challenges, token-based prioritization, and Bayesian measures of consensus and controversy for strategic ideation.
• Forecasting Machine AI-powered online SaaS forecasting platform combining real-time global news scraping with the supercollective intelligence of an ensemble of leading AI models. Delivers fast, affordable, and well-reasoned trending probability forecasts on any topic, with intuitive dashboards and automatic updates.
• Prediction Market Free public prediction market where champion forecasters make probabilistic predictions on geopolitics, elections, the economy, climate, and other topics, with cash rewards for accurate forecasts. Open to individual forecasters globally.
• Professional Services (Consulting)

Quantifiable outcome

• Crowd forecasts outperform the best individual forecasters in the crowd
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 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

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and strategic.

• Johns Hopkins Center for Health SecuritycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Partnership started in 2019 to crowd-forecast infectious disease outbreaks using Prescience platform aggregating forecasts from public health professionals and champion forecasters. During COVID-19, professor Tara Kirk Sell testified at US Capitol about the project.
• UM6P School of Collective IntelligencestrategicStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Hypermind helped found the world's first multidisciplinary graduate program (Masters & PhD) in collective intelligence at University Mohammed VI Polytechnic in Rabat, Morocco. Emile Servan-Schreiber teaches crowd forecasting classes.
• Raytheon BBNcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Team with Raytheon BBN and others in 2017 to compete in IARPA research program investigating hybrid machine-crowd forecasting. Led to development of Prescience crowd-forecasting platform.
• IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) / Good Judgment ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Joined IARPA-funded Good Judgment Project in 2012 led by University of Pennsylvania's Philip Tetlock. Multi-year research investigating geopolitical forecasting ability and optimal aggregation methods. Led to development of prediction polls and identification of Superforecasters.
• UC BerkeleycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration with UC Berkeley on forecasting algorithms and aggregation methods, part of work with IARPA and US intelligence agencies.
• MITcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMIT collaboration on Bayesian Truth Serum and Surprisingly Popular algorithms used in Prescience's Bayesian Inferential Truth scoring mode for forecasting.
• Stanford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in 2004 landmark experimental study with leading researchers from Stanford and Yahoo! concluding play-money prediction markets can be as accurate as real-money markets.
• Yahoo! Research LabscoreTechnology or IntegrationCollaborative research with Yahoo! Research labs on prediction market accuracy, resulting in 2004 study published in Electronic Markets.
• HEC ParisstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic research collaboration with HEC business school in France.
• Sciences PostrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic research collaboration with Sciences Po in France.
• Institut Jean NicodstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerR&D collaboration with researchers from Institut Jean Nicod on collective intelligence and forecasting methodologies.
• TFM Ventures LtdstrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn 2025, Hypermind spun out TFM ventures Ltd to launch The Forecasting Machine AI-powered SaaS platform.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Metaculus: Public prediction platform aggregating forecasts from a community of calibrated predictors on geopolitics, economics, science and technology. Closely parallels Hypermind's public prediction market (predict.hypermind.com) and champion forecaster community positioning.
• PredictIt: Academic-affiliated prediction market platform focused primarily on U.S. political and policy forecasting. Shares the prediction-market category and use cases with Hypermind's public market, but oriented to consumer politics rather than B2B/government.
• Brightidea: Innovation management software combining idea crowdsourcing, evaluation workflows, and predictive prioritization for enterprises. Closely aligned with Hypermind Storm in product/category and in serving large organizational customers.
• IdeaScale: Crowdsourced innovation platform used by agencies and enterprises to collect, evaluate, and implement ideas from large communities. Direct comparable for Hypermind's Storm product line in the public-sector and enterprise innovation market.
• Good Judgment Inc: Spun out of the same IARPA-funded Good Judgment Project that Hypermind joined in 2012; provides commercial geopolitical and forecasting services to governments and enterprises. Operates in the same collective-intelligence forecasting category with overlapping methods (superforecaster panels).
• Polymarket: Crypto-based prediction market for news, politics, and current events with concentrated liquidity on headline questions. Comparable as an event-forecasting platform serving media and information markets, though with very different distribution and funding model.
• Spigit: Enterprise innovation-management SaaS that crowdsources and prioritizes ideas across large workforces. Closely comparable to Hypermind Storm, both targeting Fortune 500 idea generation and prioritization use cases.
• Kalshi: CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange in the U.S. that lets users trade event contracts on economics, elections, and policy outcomes. Operates in the same prediction-market category as Hypermind, though retail-trading oriented versus Hypermind's B2B/government orientation.
• ForecastEx: CFTC-regulated designated contract market for event contracts. Operates in the institutional prediction-market segment overlapping with Hypermind's enterprise and government offerings.
• Q Markets: Enterprise innovation management platform combining crowdsourcing, prediction markets, and idea evaluation — directly comparable to Hypermind's Storm product for ideation and prioritization within large organizations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hypermind_com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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