NR2 Search

March 23, 2020

DarkCyber noted that NR2 made a public version of its innovation search engine available. This information and investment startup was founded about a year ago. NR2 won the K Startup Grand Challenge in 2019, beating 176 other startups from 95 countries.

The company says:

Powered by big data and artificial intelligence, we deliver insights that predict trends in innovation before they sweep the globe. We sit at the heart of China and Europe’s innovation hubs, enabling us to seamlessly link global investment to local innovation, accelerating growth and returns for both.

The company’s headquarters are in Paris. The founders are Maxim Parr, a graduate of HEC Paris (a business school with an eight percent acceptance rate),and Jordan Monnet, a PhD who is proficient in Mandarin.

The founders told the HEC publication:

We can learn so much about how innovation thrives by understanding data on start-ups. Our algorithms have found many characteristics present in disruptive companies and we use them to help our users identify the next generation of revolutionary companies. We started with Chinese start ups, but we are building out our search engine to capture innovation everywhere.

A query for analytics returned a list of companies shown below:

The companies listed were Chinese.

Clicking on the company Hesaitech returned a useful summary of the firm:

The icon allows the user to copy the link to the NR2.io entry.

Observations:

Extremely useful resource in its present form. DarkCyber anticipates enhancements
There are a number of monetization options available to this company
Content valuable to investment firms and organizations looking for companies to explore deals or partnerships
Data appear to be of high value because obtaining current information about venture funded firms in China and elsewhere can be time consuming.

We ran our standard queries for surveillance technology, facial recognition, and investigative software and did not immediately locate useful information. We think that this is a result of the search terms we tested.

DarkCyber will add this resource to our list of useful resources. Worth a look.

Stephen E Arnold, March 23, 2020

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Financial, Innovation, Investment, News

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