Synthetic Populations contains 16 companies across
2 categories.
Companies are turning real population data into models that make human behavior easier to understand and predict. The thesis is that the value is shifting from collecting data about people to building intelligence that can answer questions or simulate how populations may react.
Market & Consumer Intelligence
Companies that turn population data into models used to understand consumers and test commercial decisions. The thesis is that synthetic populations can make market research faster by letting teams query or simulate customer reactions before running real-world tests.
Hiasynth
Website: hiasynth.co
Hiasynth builds a queryable synthetic model of Europe’s population that helps companies analyze consumer markets with AI.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: Pre Seed.
Founded: 2025.
Country: Sweden.
Employees: 2-10.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because it turns population data into a model that can be queried to simulate consumer and market reactions before running real world research.
Funding rounds
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angel
announced 2026-09-02
; investors: Further Than Capital, Madelene Kornfehl, Per Björklund, Stefan Lindeberg, three additional angel investors
; source: Hiasynth press release
; https://hiasynth.co/press/angel-round
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Hiasynth appears to be a small Stockholm team led by Emma Agering. Public evidence points to a low headcount and does not show a broad recruiting push.
Source: Hiasynth LinkedIn company page.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiasynth
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Hiasynth provides a synthetic population model of Europe for AI market analysis. It is delivered as a remote MCP server and can be connected to common AI assistants.
Source: Hiasynth homepage.
https://hiasynth.co
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2026-09-02:
Undisclosed angel
(funding)
. Amount undisclosed. Investors: Further Than Capital, Madelene Kornfehl, Per Björklund, Stefan Lindeberg, three additional angel investors
Source: Hiasynth press release.
https://hiasynth.co/press/angel-round
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2026-09-01:
September launch announced
(gtm)
. Hiasynth said it would launch in September 2026 at Bits & Pretzels in Munich and make the product available through MCP.
Source: Hiasynth press release.
https://hiasynth.co/press/angel-round
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2026-09-01:
Pricing goes live
(gtm)
. Hiasynth published its subscription plans and credit based usage model.
Source: Pricing.
https://hiasynth.co/docs/pricing
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2026-09-01:
Humanity v2.1 released
(product)
. Hiasynth made Humanity v2.1 available as its first public customer release. The release notes say it is the version behind current Hiasynth queries.
Source: Humanity v2.1 release notes.
https://hiasynth.co/releases/2.1.1
Arima
Website: arimadata.com
Arima builds synthetic population and market intelligence tools that help marketers model audiences, test ideas, and optimize media decisions.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2019.
Country: Canada.
Employees: 11-50.
Landscape fit: It fits the category because it turns population and consumer data into synthetic audience models that teams can query to test commercial decisions before running real world research.
Funding rounds
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unknown
; investors: Graphite Ventures
; source: Graphite Ventures
; https://www.graphitevc.com/company/arima/
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Arima currently has a compact team and is hiring selectively at senior levels. LinkedIn lists the company in the 11-50 employee band.
Source: Arima newsroom.
https://arimadata.com/company/newsroom/arima-new-cro-tom-butler-747f8782f289
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Arima provides a synthetic population and market intelligence platform for marketers. The current suite includes Synthetic Society, Persona Insights, Cross Media Planner, InstaPoll, Location Intelligence, and Marketing Mix Modeling, with geographies spanning the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany.
Source: Arima homepage.
https://arimadata.com
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2026-09-16:
Arima expanded Synthetic Society coverage
(product)
. Arima said its Synthetic Society now also includes the U.K. and Germany, extending the platform beyond the U.S. and Canada.
Source: Arima newsroom.
https://www.arimadata.com/company/newsroom/coolest-vendor-innovations-in-synthetic-data-for-marketing-2854c5c05aa3
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2025-07-21:
Arima highlighted agency ROI gains
(gtm)
. A 20 person agency used Arima's Marketing Mix Modeling platform and Arima said it improved average client ROAS.
Source: Arima case study.
https://arimadata.com/company/cases/how-a-small-agency-boosted-roi-f0ddd52ba22d
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2025-02-25:
Arima hired a CRO
(hr)
. Arima named Tom Butler as chief revenue officer for its U.S. operations.
Source: Arima newsroom.
https://arimadata.com/company/newsroom/arima-new-cro-tom-butler-747f8782f289
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2025-02-18:
Coca Cola Canada Bottling used Synthetic Society
(gtm)
. Coca Cola Canada Bottling used Arima's Synthetic Society and mobility data to choose vending machine locations.
Source: Arima case study.
https://arimadata.com/company/cases/coca-cola-synthetic-society-026296397a86
Kansa.io
Website: kansa.io
Kansa.io builds a synthetic population model for Finland that simulates survey responses so teams can test consumer and policy questions before fieldwork.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Country: Finland.
Employees: 0-4.
Landscape fit: It fits because it turns population data into simulated human responses that help teams test commercial and research decisions before running real surveys.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Kansa.io appears to have a very small team with named people covering methodology and operations, product and sales, software engineering, and research and sales. Public records suggest a small operating base rather than a broad hiring organization.
Source: Contact.
https://www.kansa.io/contact
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Synthetic survey and population simulation tools for Finland. Kansa.io lets users generate survey responses from a Finnish synthetic population, segment results by demographics, and validate questionnaire design before fieldwork.
Source: kansa.io.
https://www.kansa.io
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2025-08-01:
Small employee base
(hr)
. Public business records indicate Kansa.io operates with a very small employee base.
Source: Achievely Oy company profile.
https://www.proff.fi/yrityksen/achievely-oy/helsinki/tietokoneohjelmistot-ja-ohjelmistokehitys/2784229-1I009O
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Validation study benchmarks synthetic survey accuracy
(milestone)
. Kansa published a validation study comparing its synthetic population with real-world survey benchmarks across 19 items. The company reports average agreement of 88.8%, with stronger performance on demographic and behavioral questions than on attitudinal ones.
Source: Kansa validation white paper.
https://www.kansa.io/whitepaper
FishDog
Website: fish.dog
FishDog builds calibrated synthetic populations that companies can question to test consumer reactions, product ideas, and market decisions before spending on real world research.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2025.
Country: Canada.
Employees: 2-10.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because it turns population data into a reusable model of consumers that teams can query to forecast reactions, screen concepts, and pressure test commercial choices.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. FishDog looks like a small founder led team with named founders and no clear public hiring signal. Public sources confirm a Toronto base and ongoing founder involvement, but they do not provide a reliable employee count.
Source: FishDog home page.
https://fish.dog
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. FishDog provides synthetic market research and audience simulation software built on calibrated synthetic populations. The product spans TestScreen for audience reaction testing, ThesisLab for expert style research and hedge fund workflows, and InnovationLab for concept, pricing, and message screening.
Source: FishDog home page.
https://fish.dog
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2026-08-01:
FishDog reports agent sourced inbound
(gtm)
. FishDog said many of its best demos came from LLM recommendations and that buyers could self provision access without human help.
Source: The Agent Native Go to Market Playbook.
https://fish.dog/news/the-agent-native-go-to-market-playbook
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2026-06-28:
FishDog adds emotional cadence screening
(product)
. FishDog said Screening Room can show how an audience feels moment by moment across a video.
Source: FishDog product releases.
https://fish.dog/product-releases
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2026-06-18:
Screening Room launched
(product)
. FishDog launched Screening Room for testing ads, content and films with synthetic audiences. The product returns structured audience feedback and lets users follow up directly with the simulated audience.
Source: FishDog product releases.
https://fish.dog/product-releases
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2026-05-23:
FishDog adds API and MCP access for Thesis Lab
(product)
. FishDog expanded Thesis Lab with REST API and MCP server access for thesis creation, expert recruitment, and channel checks.
Source: Thesis Lab API and MCP server.
https://fish.dog/product-releases/hedge-funds-can-now-create-theses-recruit-experts-and-run-channel-checks-via-api
HeraMetrics
Website: herametrics.com
HeraMetrics builds a continuously updated synthetic population platform that helps organizations simulate how consumers, citizens, and other groups will respond before they make decisions.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2021.
Country: Sri Lanka.
Employees: unknown.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because it turns human and survey data into models for testing consumer reactions and other commercial decisions before real world execution.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. HeraMetrics publicly shows a small leadership team and no clear public hiring signal. The company does not provide a reliable employee count in the supplied sources.
Source: HeraMetrics About.
https://www.herametrics.com/about
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. HeraMetrics offers a continuously recalibrated synthetic population platform built from real human data. Its Delphi Collective suite includes Delphi Signal, Delphi Civic, and Delphi Pulse.
Source: HeraMetrics official website.
https://herametrics.com/en
Aaru
Website: aaru.com
Aaru builds simulated populations that let teams test products, prices, messages, and strategy before making real world decisions.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: Series A.
Founded: 2024.
Country: United States.
Employees: 51-200.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because its core product models consumer and audience behavior with AI so customers can simulate reactions before running live market tests.
Funding rounds
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Series A
announced 2025-12-05
; investors: Redpoint Ventures
; source: TechCrunch
; https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-synthetic-research-startup-aaru-raised-a-series-a-at-a-1b-headline-valuation
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Strategic investment
announced 2025-03-04
; investors: Accenture Ventures
; source: Accenture newsroom
; https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/2025/accenture-invests-in-and-collaborates-with-ai-powered-agentic-prediction-engine-aaru
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Aaru is actively hiring across technical and commercial roles. LinkedIn currently lists the company in the 51-200 employee band, and the company has said it recently welcomed 25 new team members.
Source: Aaru LinkedIn company page.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aaru-ai
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Aaru provides a simulation platform that lets teams test products, prices, messages, and strategy before making real world decisions. Its system builds simulated populations of AI agents grounded in real demographic, behavioral, and outcomes data.
Source: Aaru - Behavior simulation at the scale of the real world..
https://aaru.com
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2026-09-01:
Commercial usage and deployments
(gtm)
. Aaru said it had hundreds of conversations and deployments with executives and investors globally.
Source: Sameer Munshi LinkedIn post.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sameermunshi_aaru-behavior-simulation-at-the-scale-of-activity-7492547263026655232-8r81
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2026-09-01:
Hiring cluster across product and commercial roles
(hr)
. Aaru had multiple active openings in infrastructure, research, product engineering, deployment, and alliances on its careers pages.
Source: Aaru careers pages.
https://aaru.com/careers/37355842-4a2f-4633-bbd8-1ebb7afc974c
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2026-09-01:
Leadership hire: VP of Revenue
(hr)
. Aaru said it brought on 25 new team members, including a new VP of Revenue, Tom Reeson Price.
Source: Aaru LinkedIn company page.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aaru-ai
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2026-07-17:
Aaru launches investor simulation tracker with Breakwater
(partnership)
. Aaru and Breakwater Capital Markets launched Conviction Advantage, a quarterly tracker using 40,000 simulated investors and 71 investor judgments to model public-market reactions.
Source: Aaru case study.
https://aaru.com/case-studies/breakwater-conviction-advantage
Simile
Website: simile.com
Simile builds AI driven simulations of human behavior so companies can test decisions on synthetic populations before acting in the real world.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: Series B.
Founded: 2025.
Country: United States.
Employees: 50+.
Landscape fit: It fits the Market and Consumer Intelligence landscape because it turns population data and behavioral research into synthetic models that help teams predict consumer responses and test commercial decisions before running live research.
Funding rounds
-
Series B
announced 2026-07-30
: 200000000 USD
; investors: Greenoaks, Index Ventures, Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory, CVS Health Ventures, Definition
; source: Announcing Simile’s Series B
; https://www.simile.com/blog/series-b
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Series A
announced 2026-02-12
: 100000000 USD
; investors: Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Hanabi Capital
; source: Fenwick represents Index Ventures in Simile’s $100M Series A financing
; https://www.fenwick.com/insights/experience/fenwick-represents-index-ventures-in-similes-100m-series-a-financing
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Simile appears to have a global team of 50+ employees and is hiring across research, engineering, design, and operations.
Source: Announcing Simile’s Series B.
https://www.simile.com/blog/series-b
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Simile is an AI simulation platform that helps enterprises model how customers, employees, or populations respond to change. It combines simulated agents, research workflows, and confidence scoring for decision testing.
Source: Simile home page.
https://www.simile.com
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2026-09-12:
Itaú deployment wins ESOMAR regional award
(gtm)
. Simile said Itaú used its behavioral simulation to cut a research cycle from five weeks to four business days. The work later won ESOMAR's 2026 Latin America Award for Excellence in AI and Automation in Market Research.
Source: Simile.
https://www.simile.com/blog/itau-at-esomar
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2026-08-25:
Simile adds confidence modeling
(product)
. Simile described a proprietary confidence model that estimates how accurate each simulation output is.
Source: Building confidence in Simile.
https://www.simile.com/blog/confidence
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2026-07-30:
Simile names enterprise customers
(gtm)
. Simile said leading companies including CVS Health, Wealthfront, Deloitte, and Gallup use its technology for product launches, customer experience, and market entry.
Source: Announcing Simile’s Series B.
https://www.simile.com/blog/series-b
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2026-07-30:
Simile reports revenue growth
(gtm)
. Simile said revenue grew fivefold since launch.
Source: Announcing Simile’s Series B.
https://www.simile.com/blog/series-b
Sapiaverse
Website: sapiaverse.com
Sapiaverse builds a population simulation engine that uses AI agents to model human behavior and test decisions before they are tried in the real world.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2026.
Country: unknown.
Employees: unknown.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because it turns population and behavior modeling into a tool for commercial and policy decisions, which is the core of human layer simulation for market and consumer intelligence. ([fize.app](https://www.fize.app/))
Funding rounds
-
unknown
; investors: EWOR, Sequoia Scout Fund, a16z Scout, FR8, NVIDIA, King's Trust
; source: Sapiaverse
; https://sapiaverse.com/
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Sapiaverse is showing active hiring for technical leadership and early AI engineering roles. Public evidence does not provide a reliable employee count.
Source: EWOR Signals July 2026.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ewor-signals-july-2026-ewor-w9bec
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Sapiaverse offers a population simulation engine for scenario testing and decision support. Its current public description says the system models human behavior with AI agents and is used to test interventions, pricing, launches, policies, and crisis responses.
Source: Sapiaverse – The Population Simulation Engine.
https://sapiaverse.com
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2026-07-01:
Hiring CTO and AI engineer
(hr)
. Sapiaverse was recruiting a CTO and a Founding AI Engineer in July 2026.
Source: EWOR Signals July 2026.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ewor-signals-july-2026-ewor-w9bec
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Early backing disclosed
(funding)
. By May 2026, Sapiaverse said it was backed by EWOR, Sequoia Scout Fund, a16z Scout, FR8, NVIDIA, King's Trust and several angels. The company does not publicly identify a round type, amount, or exact financing date.
Source: Sapiaverse.
https://sapiaverse.com/
Artificial Societies
Website: societies.ai
Artificial Societies builds software that simulates audiences and human societies so teams can test decisions before they make them.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: Seed.
Founded: 2024.
Country: United Kingdom.
Employees: 11-50.
Landscape fit: The company fits this category because it turns population and persona data into synthetic society models that help customers understand consumer reactions and test commercial decisions before real world research.
Funding rounds
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seed
announced 2025-08-27
: 5300000 USD
; investors: Kindred Capital VC, Point72 Ventures, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Ventures Together, Icehouse Ventures, Multimodal Ventures, Terrence Rohan, Carya Venture Partners, Transpose Platform, Taro Fukuyama
; source: Artificial Societies financing announcement
; https://www.linkedin.com/posts/artificial-societies_were-excited-to-share-thatartificial-societies-activity-7366420479571677185-s6xS
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Artificial Societies is a small London based team with founders plus a handful of research, design, and client facing specialists. The company is actively hiring for product, ML, forward deployed, and growth roles.
Source: Company page and team.
https://www.societies.ai/company
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Artificial Societies builds audience simulation software that models how high value audiences may respond before a team commits to a decision. The platform uses AI personas, social network structure, scenario testing, and evaluation methods to study customer, investor, citizen, and stakeholder reactions.
Source: Artificial Societies home page.
https://www.societies.ai
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2026-08-03:
Product engineer hiring opened
(hr)
. Artificial Societies posted a London opening for a Lead Product Engineer role focused on shipping client facing features end to end.
Source: Lead Product Engineer — Product Engineering Careers, London | Artificial Societies.
https://societies.ai/careers/lead-product-engineer
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2026-08-02:
ML engineer hiring opened
(hr)
. Artificial Societies posted a London opening for an ML Engineer focused on moving simulation research into production.
Source: ML Engineer — Machine Learning Careers in London, UK | Artificial Societies.
https://societies.ai/careers/ml-engineer
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2026-07-29:
Growth engineering hiring opened
(hr)
. Artificial Societies posted a London opening for a Growth Engineer focused on public demos and distribution.
Source: Growth Engineer — Public Demo Engineering Careers, London | Artificial Societies.
https://societies.ai/careers/growth-engineer
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2026-05-26:
Forward deployed hiring opened
(hr)
. Artificial Societies posted a London opening for a Forward Deployed Engineer to build simulated populations for client work.
Source: Forward Deployed Engineer — Engineering Careers in London | Artificial Societies.
https://societies.ai/careers/forward-deployed-engineer
Imagine All The People
Website: imagineallthepeople.io
Imagine All The People builds synthetic populations and synthetic societies that let companies and public bodies test decisions, messages, products, and policies before launch.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2025.
Country: France.
Employees: 2-10 employees.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because the product models human groups to simulate consumer and stakeholder reactions for market research and decision testing.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Small founder led team with a few named technical and scientific roles and no clear public sign of broad hiring.
Source: Official company page.
https://imagineallthepeople.io/en/company/team
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. B2B decision intelligence platform for building synthetic populations and synthetic societies, then running simulations, interviews, scenario comparisons, and explainable decision tests for enterprise and public sector use.
Source: Official website homepage.
https://imagineallthepeople.io
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2026-09-01:
Guided studies launch
(product)
. The company says September 2026 introduced guided studies, where the system starts from the problem and builds the study protocol.
Source: Official company page.
https://imagineallthepeople.io/en/company/our-story
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2026-07-01:
Simulation scale reaches 10 million individuals
(product)
. Imagine All The People says its platform reached the ability to simulate populations of up to 10 million individuals in July 2026.
Source: Imagine All The People company timeline.
https://imagineallthepeople.io/en/company/our-story
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2026-06-01:
Synthetic population method published on arXiv
(milestone)
. Imagine All The People published its MaxEnt work on synthetic population generation, reporting lower error on difficult multi-variable constraint benchmarks.
Source: Imagine All The People research blog.
https://imagineallthepeople.io/en/blog
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2026-06-01:
Explainable AI added
(product)
. Imagine All The People says it added explainable AI in June 2026 so simulation results can be traced and challenged rather than returned as opaque outputs.
Source: Imagine All The People company timeline.
https://imagineallthepeople.io/en/company/our-story
Simulacra Inc.
Website: simulacra.co.jp
Simulacra builds AI based digital twins of people and society so teams can simulate human decisions before acting.
Category: Market & Consumer Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2025.
Country: Japan.
Employees: small team.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because its products model consumer and social behavior to help users test reactions and decisions before running real world research or launch experiments.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Simulacra looks like a small research heavy team that is beginning to build commercial coverage. The strongest public HR signal is a business side first hire posting.
Source: Wantedly hiring post for business sales.
https://www.wantedly.com/projects/2551243
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Simulacra offers Interview AI for extracting thoughts and values, Consumer Digital Twin for interview and survey based consumer modeling, Economic Digital Twin for multi agent social simulation, Urban Digital Twin for pedestrian flow simulation, and EconSimulacra as an open source social economic simulation platform.
Source: プロダクト.
https://simulacra.co.jp/products
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2026-08-31:
Customer projects underway
(gtm)
. Simulacra said it is already running projects with large financial institutions and research companies and is turning those learnings into products.
Source: Wantedly hiring post for business sales.
https://www.wantedly.com/projects/2551243
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2026-04-01:
ACL paper accepted
(milestone)
. Simulacra announced that its grounded LLM agent paper on opinion dynamics was accepted to ACL 2026. This is a research milestone supporting the company's simulation approach rather than a product release.
Source: 自然言語処理分野のトップカンファレンス「ACL 2026」に論文が採択されました.
https://www.simulacra.co.jp/news/acl2026
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2026-04-01:
Open source platform released
(product)
. Simulacra released EconSimulacra as an open source social economic simulation platform under the MIT license.
Source: 社会経済シミュレーションプラットフォーム「EconSimulacra」をオープンソースで公開しました.
https://www.simulacra.co.jp/news/econsimulacra
Civic & Community Intelligence
Companies that model how communities and public institutions behave around a place or policy. The thesis is that better human context can improve decisions where local sentiment or public response materially affects the outcome.
Fraym
Website: fraym.io
Fraym provides geospatial population data and hyperlocal insights that help governments, nonprofits, and companies understand attitudes, behaviors, risk, and need at neighborhood level.
Category: Civic & Community Intelligence.
Funding stage: Series B.
Founded: 2015.
Country: United States.
Employees: 51-200.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because it models how communities behave around places and policies, using local population data to inform decisions on risk, messaging, public health, and service delivery.
Funding rounds
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unknown
announced 2024-10-01
: 5465159 USD
; source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form D
; https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691044/000169104424000001/xslFormDX08/primary_doc.xml
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grant
announced 2022-11-20
: 10530906 USD
; investors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
; source: Gates Foundation 990 PF disclosure
; https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/2024_gf_990pf_pd.pdf
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grant
announced 2022-10-19
: 1419678 USD
; investors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
; source: Gates Foundation 990 PF disclosure
; https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/2024_gf_990pf_pd.pdf
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Series B
announced 2021-06-07
: 7000000 USD
; investors: existing investors
; source: Fraym press release
; https://fraym.io/press-releases/building-a-foundational-map-of-humanity-using-machine-learning
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Fraym is an established small-to-mid sized team with focused hiring. LinkedIn lists the company in the 51-200 employee band and currently surfaces 53 employees.
Source: Fraym career page on ApplyToJob.
https://fraym.applytojob.com
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Fraym is a geospatial population data platform that produces hyperlocal, census like insights on people, attitudes, behaviors, risk, and need.
Source: Fraym homepage.
https://fraym.io
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2026-09-19:
Fraym joins Dcode Accelerate
(gtm)
. Fraym joined Dcode Accelerate to strengthen its access to the U.S. federal market.
Source: Fraym blog.
https://fraym.io/blog/fraym-joins-dcode
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2026-05-04:
AI Optimism Index introduced
(product)
. Fraym introduced an AI Optimism Index that tracks whether U.S. communities see AI as more beneficial or more risky, with coverage across all 3,144 counties using February 2026 attitude data.
Source: Fraym.
https://fraym.io/blog/the-64-billion-question/
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2026-03-31:
Fraym adds an information vulnerability index
(product)
. Fraym introduced an Information Vulnerability Index that maps U.S. communities’ vulnerability to false and misleading information down to the 1 km2 level.
Source: Fraym blog.
https://fraym.io/blog/mapping-americas-information-blind-spots
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2026-03-01:
Monthly flu-intent tracking reaches 84,000+ census tracts
(product)
. Fraym reported that its monthly flu-vaccination-intent tracking covered more than 84,000 U.S. census tracts, with the series running since September 2025.
Source: Fraym blog.
https://fraym.io/blog/we-mapped-flu-vaccine-intent-across-84000-u-s-communities-heres-what-stood-out
Hamlet
Website: myhamlet.com
Hamlet is an AI platform that turns local government meetings and public records into searchable insights for residents, developers, and civic teams.
Category: Civic & Community Intelligence.
Funding stage: Seed.
Founded: 2022.
Country: United States.
Employees: 2-10.
Landscape fit: It fits Civic & Community Intelligence because it helps people understand how cities and public institutions are behaving around local projects, policy, and community response.
Funding rounds
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seed
announced 2025-12-05
: 5000000 USD
; investors: Slow Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Kapor Capital, Animo Ventures, Home Technology Ventures, Storyhouse Ventures, Banana Capital
; source: Sunil Rajaraman newsletter
; https://siliconvalley.substack.com/p/trying-to-build-c-span-for-local
Company timeline
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2026-09-22:
Coverage reaches 6,900+ governing bodies
(milestone)
. Hamlet's current site reports coverage of more than 6,900 governing bodies and more than 96,000 meeting transcripts across all 50 states and DC, up materially from the 3,000+ governing bodies reported in February 2026.
Source: Hamlet.
https://www.myhamlet.com/
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Hamlet appears to have a very small team and no clear public hiring cluster. Public evidence points to a founder led company with limited headcount and occasional role specific recruiting.
Source: Hamlet | LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamlettech
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Hamlet provides searchable intelligence on U.S. local government meetings and public records for residents, developers, and civic teams. The current product surface includes transcript search, public record search, a government data API, coverage maps, regulatory indices, and editorial analysis through The District.
Source: Hamlet | Search Government Meeting Transcripts | Civic Intelligence Platform.
https://www.myhamlet.com
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2026-06-17:
The District publishes nationwide council-conflict analysis
(media)
. Hamlet's editorial publication The District analyzed 2026 meeting transcripts and identified 705 city and county councils across 48 states with episodes of open meeting conflict.
Source: The District.
https://district.myhamlet.com/articles/out-of-order
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2026-03-01:
The District publishes Austin city-meeting deep dive
(media)
. Hamlet's editorial publication The District analyzed 2,588 Austin public meetings and 47.5 million words of transcripts covering December 2020 through February 2026.
Source: The District.
https://district.myhamlet.com/articles/austin-boom
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2026-02-23:
Hamlet reports nationwide coverage of 3,000+ governing bodies
(product)
. In the Acres partnership announcement, Hamlet said its dataset had reached nationwide coverage of more than 3,000 city councils, planning commissions, and governing bodies, with nearly half a billion words of meeting transcripts processed.
Source: Acres / GlobeNewswire.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/02/23/3242587/0/en/acres-com-and-hamlet-partner-to-bring-local-government-sentiment-data-to-land-intelligence.html
Prevolt
Website: prevolt.ai
Prevolt is a community and political risk intelligence platform that helps energy, transmission, and data center developers assess local opposition and permitting risk before they commit capital.
Category: Civic & Community Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2023.
Country: United States.
Employees: 2 to 10 employees.
Landscape fit: It fits Civic & Community Intelligence because it models how local communities and public institutions are likely to respond to infrastructure projects, with a focus on permitting, local opposition, and social license.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. Prevolt appears to be a small New York based team with founder leadership and no clear public hiring surge.
Source: Prevolt company page on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/prevoltai
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. Prevolt provides community and political risk intelligence for infrastructure developers. It helps users screen local opposition, stakeholder dynamics, and permitting risk before site selection or capital commitment.
Source: Prevolt.
https://www.prevolt.ai
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2026-09-01:
Prevolt shows project usage
(gtm)
. Craig Sanders said developers used Prevolt to model community and political risk across about 11 GW of projects over the summer.
Source: Prevolt company page on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/prevoltai
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2026-08-18:
Prevolt in 3 audio briefing launched
(product)
. Prevolt launched Prevolt in 3, a three-minute private audio briefing that summarizes the most important community and political risks surfaced in a project screen.
Source: Craig Sanders.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craig-sanders-cfa_prevolt-in-3-activity-7495560853144920064-DF5J
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2026-02-19:
Prevolt launches publicly
(product)
. Founder Craig Sanders publicly introduced Prevolt as a community and political risk intelligence product for infrastructure developers.
Source: Craig Sanders launch post.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/craig-sanders-cfa_solar-storage-nuclear-activity-7430278567017472000-Vk04
CulturePulse
Website: culturepulse.ai
CulturePulse builds AI models and digital twins that simulate how audiences, communities, and institutions are likely to react to messages, media, and policy.
Category: Civic & Community Intelligence.
Funding stage: Seed.
Founded: 2021.
Country: Slovakia.
Employees: 11-50.
Landscape fit: It fits civic and community intelligence because it models human and institutional behavior around places, groups, and policies to help decision makers anticipate response before acting.
Funding rounds
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seed
announced 2026-06-30
: 2500000 EUR
; investors: Final Frontier, B Ventures Group, Rockaway Ventures, Simpact Ventures, Zero Gravity Capital
; source: Final Frontier
; https://finalfrontier.vc/newsroom/3062026
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seed
announced 2025-02-07
: 1500000 USD
; investors: B Ventures Group, Simpact Ventures, Rockaway Ventures
; source: Rockaway Capital
; https://www.rockawaycapital.com/en/news/rockaway-ventures-invests-in-culturepulse-driving-innovation-in-behavioral-analysis-and-security-risk-prediction-across-europe-and-beyond
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seed
announced 2023-04-20
: USD
; investors: Zero Gravity Capital
; source: Tech.eu
; https://tech.eu/2023/04/20/slovakian-social-media-analytics-start-up-culturepulse-ai-raises-just-shy-of-1-million-to-pivot-to-ai-saas-model/
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. CulturePulse is a small but established team with focused commercial hiring. LinkedIn lists the company in the 11-50 employee band.
Source: CulturePulse LinkedIn company profile.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/culturepulse-ai
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. CulturePulse provides ARES, an AI platform for global stability intelligence and behavioral prediction. The company’s own pages and product listings show tools for conflict and hybrid threat forecasting, digital twin simulation, policy and communication strategy testing, browser extension access, and API based analysis across many languages and psychological dimensions.
Source: CulturePulse: AI Insights Turning Data into Strategy.
https://www.culturepulse.ai
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2026-09-08:
Platform scale surpasses 200M personas and 2M simulations
(milestone)
. Defence Holdings said CulturePulse's technology had analysed more than 200 million personas and run more than two million simulations by the time it joined the Meridian cohort.
Source: Defence Holdings PLC.
https://www.investegate.co.uk/index.php/announcement/rns/defence-holdings-plc--alrt/announcement-of-inaugural-meridian-cohort/9760922
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2026-09-08:
Selected for Meridian defence accelerator
(milestone)
. Defence Holdings selected CulturePulse for the inaugural Meridian defence technology accelerator cohort focused on pathways to operational deployment and customer adoption.
Source: Defence Holdings PLC.
https://www.investegate.co.uk/index.php/announcement/rns/defence-holdings-plc--alrt/announcement-of-inaugural-meridian-cohort/9760922
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2026-06-30:
Final Frontier joins €2.5M seed round
(funding)
. Final Frontier announced that it joined CulturePulse's €2.5M seed round alongside B Ventures Group, Rockaway Ventures, Simpact Ventures, and Zero Gravity Capital.
Source: Final Frontier.
https://finalfrontier.vc/newsroom/3062026
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2026-06-17:
NATO DIANA Phase 1 completed at Eurosatory
(milestone)
. CulturePulse completed Phase 1 of NATO DIANA with a Demo Day pitch at Eurosatory in Paris after working through the accelerator in Estonia.
Source: CulturePulse.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/culturepulse-ai_natodiana-eurosatory-defenceinnovation-activity-7473006579898904578-K3vX
kaleidemoskop
Website: kaleidemoskop.de
kaleidemoskop builds software and consulting tools that simulate social and policy outcomes so governments, cities, and companies can test decisions before they act.
Category: Civic & Community Intelligence.
Funding stage: .
Founded: 2023.
Country: Germany.
Employees: 2-10 employees.
Landscape fit: It fits this category because the company models community behavior, citizen needs, and policy effects for cities, public institutions, and related stakeholders.
Company timeline
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2026-09-21:
HR snapshot
(hr)
. kaleidemoskop appears to operate with a very small team in Berlin and to hire selectively for technical roles tied to simulations and web development.
Source: Kontakt.
https://kaleidemoskop.de/kontakt
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2026-09-21:
Product snapshot
(product)
. kaleidemoskop offers software and consulting for decision support based on agent based simulations and a digital twin of society. It serves public sector users, municipalities, consulting buyers, smart city teams, and companies.
Source: kaleidemoskop home page.
https://kaleidemoskop.de
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2024-09-20:
Rostock digital-twin use case published
(gtm)
. kaleidemoskop published a project page describing its work on data-based personas and a digital twin of Rostock for municipal planning and citizen participation. The page was later updated on January 15, 2025.
Source: kaleidemoskop.
https://kaleidemoskop.de/digitaler-zwilling-von-rostock/
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2024-06-28:
Municipal demographic planning use case
(media)
. kaleidemoskop published an article on demographic change in municipalities and the planning pressures it creates for public services.
Source: Demografischer Wandel in Kommunen.
https://kaleidemoskop.de/demografischer-wandel-kommunen
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2024-06-17:
InnoTwin research collaboration announced
(milestone)
. DBU announced a BMBF-funded collaboration with kaleidemoskop to develop digital twins of society for evidence-based policy and business decisions.
Source: Digital Business University.
https://media.dbuas.de/v/dbu-forschung-projekt-innotwin-mit-prof-dr-martin-manhembue/
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2024-06-01:
Technical hiring posted
(hr)
. kaleidemoskop posted openings for a Python developer and a frontend developer focused on simulations and visualization.
Source: Karriere.
https://kaleidemoskop.de/karriere
