BoardEx

Name

BoardEx

Website

https://corp.boardex.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

BoardEx is a London-based enterprise people intelligence platform that maps relationships across 1.7 million executives and 2.2 million organizations, helping sales, business development, and customer success teams identify warm introduction paths and target prospects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Intelligence & Relationship Mapping Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

B2B SaaS & Enterprise Personalization (CRM, Sales, Support) (HDAAAGAJ)

Keywords

• Executive relationship mapping
• People intelligence platform
• Relationship capital management
• Executive network analytics
• Board intelligence software

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription Platform: BoardEx generates revenue through annual software subscriptions to its people intelligence platform, providing access to the web platform, executive profiles, relationship mapping, and analytics tools. Multiple product tiers are offered including the core Web Platform, Salesforce App integration, Developer API, Data Feeds, and Private Equity Network, all delivered as subscription-based services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

BoardEx operates a people intelligence platform that maps executive relationships across 1.7 million executives and 2.2 million organizations, enabling sales, marketing, and customer success teams to identify trusted referral paths and warm introduction opportunities. The platform combines a core Web Platform with a Salesforce App integration, a PE-focused Private Equity Network, a Developer API, bulk Data Feeds, and the BoardEx Discovery data visualization layer, all sold as annual software subscriptions to enterprise and mid-market organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BoardEx Discovery: Data visualization platform that empowers teams to create higher impact through people intelligence analytics.
• BoardEx Web Platform
• BoardEx Salesforce App
• BoardEx Private Equity Network
• BoardEx Developer API
• BoardEx Data Feeds

Products and services

• Web Platform Flagship web-based platform providing proprietary relationship mapping across 1.7 million executive profiles and billions of connections, enabling sales, business development, and recruiting teams to identify trusted referral paths and executive intelligence.
• Salesforce App Native Salesforce CRM integration app (available on Salesforce AppExchange) that embeds BoardEx executive intelligence directly into the Salesforce environment, allowing sales and business development teams to access relationship data within their existing CRM workflow.
• Private Equity Network Specialized vertical product for private equity firms providing access to networks of PE firms and their portfolio company leadership teams, tailored for PE deal sourcing, portfolio management, and investor relations.
• BoardEx Developer API Programmatic API enabling developers to integrate BoardEx people intelligence and relationship data into internal workflows, custom enterprise applications, and developer-built systems.
• Data Feeds Bulk data integration feeds that deliver BoardEx executive and relationship data directly into customer enterprise systems, optimizing data-driven processes for marketing, sales, and business development teams at scale.
• BoardEx Discovery Data visualization platform that empowers teams to make higher-impact business decisions by visualizing people intelligence and organizational relationship networks.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SalesforcecoreTechnology or IntegrationBoardEx offers a native Salesforce App available through Salesforce AppExchange, enabling seamless integration of executive intelligence data into the Salesforce CRM environment. This integration allows sales and business development teams to access relationship mapping, executive profiles, and network intelligence directly within their existing sales workflows.

Scale indicators4 records

Regional players

• PitchBook: PitchBook is the dominant private market intelligence platform used by PE, VC, and corporate development teams. It competes with BoardEx's Private Equity Network module on deal sourcing, portfolio intelligence, and PE relationship visibility, with deeper financial data and weaker relationship-mapping depth.

Emerging players

• Apollo.io: Apollo.io is a sales intelligence and engagement platform combining a large B2B contact database with outreach automation. It overlaps with BoardEx on prospect identification and CRM data enrichment for sales teams, while extending into multichannel sequencing.
• Demandbase: Demandbase is an ABM and B2B advertising platform built on company and contact intelligence. It overlaps with BoardEx on executive targeting for marketing and sales, with stronger ad-tech and intent capabilities and shallower relationship-graph depth.
• 6sense: 6sense is a B2B account intelligence and ABM platform that combines intent data with company and contact insights. It overlaps with BoardEx's account-based marketing use cases for marketing teams, with broader intent-data capabilities and narrower relationship-mapping depth.
• Lusha: Lusha provides B2B contact and company data for sales prospecting, with browser-extension and API delivery. It competes with BoardEx on executive contact intelligence, particularly at the SMB and mid-market, though it lacks BoardEx's depth in relationship mapping.
• Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides company, funding, and executive intelligence primarily for business development, sales, and investment prospecting. It overlaps with BoardEx on company-level data and executive coverage, with stronger funding-event data and weaker relationship-graph depth.
• Adapt.io: Adapt.io provides B2B contact and company data, including direct-dial phone numbers and emails, with CRM integrations. It competes with BoardEx on contact-level intelligence and sales prospecting workflows, primarily serving sales and marketing teams in the mid-market.

Broad incumbents

• ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo is the leading B2B sales intelligence platform, providing company and contact data used by sales, marketing, and recruiting teams. While broader in scope than BoardEx, it overlaps directly in providing executive and company intelligence for enterprise go-to-market teams.
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator: LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a relationship-mapping and lead-generation tool embedded in the world's largest professional network. It competes with BoardEx on referral path identification, executive targeting, and CRM-integrated sales workflows, but with a much broader social-graph foundation.

Direct peers

• RelSci (Relationship Science): RelSci was the closest direct competitor to BoardEx in executive relationship mapping, and is now part of Dow Jones's professional information services. It mapped influential people and their organizational connections for sales, fundraising, and business development use cases—directly overlapping with BoardEx's relationship-intelligence value proposition.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/boardex
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/boardex

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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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