foredata

Name

foredata

Legal name

Foredata Oy

Website

https://foredata.fi

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sastamala

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. ForeAmmatti SaaS Subscription: SaaS subscription service for employment and career guidance. Customers include coaching companies, municipalities, and state employment promotion organizations.
2. Labor Market Analysis and Consulting: Custom analyses, forecasts, and consulting services for employment areas on data utilization, working with ministries and regional development bodies.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Foredata operates the ForeAmmatti.fi SaaS platform, providing tools and information for employment and career planning with data on over 400 professions, 2000+ qualifications, open job positions from TE-services, and professional competition analysis. The company also delivers P17 and P54 data-package-based labor market analyses, forecasting, and skills analyses, supported by consulting services for ministries, municipalities, and regional development bodies.

Product overview

Foredata is a Finnish labor market technology company founded in 2007 with approximately 10 employees. The core product is the ForeAmmatti SaaS platform, which provides employment and career planning tools for job seekers and employment service organizations. Supporting services include P17/P54 labor market analyses and forecasts, skills analyses, and consulting projects. The company serves municipalities, employment services, educational institutions, and coaching companies across Finland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ForeAmmatti: SaaS employment and career planning platform providing tools and information for job seekers and employment service providers. Offers analysis of over 400 professions, 2000+ qualifications, and labor market competition data.

Products and services

• ForeAmmatti SaaS Platform Cloud-based SaaS platform providing employment and career planning tools and information for job seekers and employment service organizations. Includes data on over 400 professions, 2000+ qualifications, open TE-service job positions, and labor market competition analysis. Used by municipalities, TE-offices, ELY-centers, coaching companies, and educational institutions.
• Labor Market Analyses and Forecasts (P17 and P54)

Quantifiable outcome

• Helps tens of thousands of people annually with employment-related decisions

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tampereen yliopisto (Tampere University)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Collaboration on Horizon 2020 research project EduMAP (Adult Education as a Means to Active Participatory Citizenship), developing and researching intelligent decision support systems for adult education and prevention of social exclusion. Foredata contributed expertise in employment and career guidance.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Lightcast: Lightcast (formerly Emsi/Burning Glass) provides labor-market analytics, skills intelligence, and workforce data products to employers, educators, and government. It is the most direct global comparable to Foredata's P17/P54 analyses and skills analytics.
• Symplicity: Symplicity offers career-services and employability platforms to universities and student populations. It overlaps with Foredata's career-guidance SaaS serving Finnish educational institutions and employment services.
• 12twenty: 12twenty provides career-services management software to universities and employers. It is comparable to ForeAmmatti's career-planning and labor-market-information features targeted at educational and employment-service organizations.
• Jobcase: Jobcase is a career-resources and job-seeker community platform with workforce-data products. It is comparable to ForeAmmatti's combination of consumer-facing career tools with labor-market data and analytics.

Regional players

• Jobylon: Jobylon is a Nordic recruitment and ATS platform with strong presence in Finland and Sweden. It overlaps with Foredata's employment-services SaaS in the Nordic market, though Jobylon focuses on hiring workflows rather than labor-market analytics.
• Duunitori: Duunitori is one of Finland's leading job boards and career-content platforms. It is comparable to ForeAmmatti's consumer-facing career-information and job-listing features for Finnish job seekers.
• Barona: Barona is a major Finnish staffing and employment-services company. Its coaching and employment-promotion activities overlap with Foredata's customer base of Finnish coaching companies and employment-promotion bodies.
• SkillsFuture Singapore: SkillsFuture Singapore operates a national skills-analytics and career-guidance platform for citizens. It is conceptually analogous to Foredata's ForeAmmatti at a national-scale, public-sector level, providing a benchmark for what scaled adoption could look like.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn (Talent Insights): LinkedIn Talent Insights offers global labor-market analytics and skills data at scale. As a broad incumbent with overlapping career-information and skills-analytics functionality, it represents the kind of well-funded competitor Foredata must differentiate against.
• Workday: Workday provides enterprise HCM, workforce planning, and skills-cloud functionality. It overlaps with Foredata's employment and workforce-information positioning but at vastly greater scale and with broader HR-suite capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foredata

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

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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