Supplier intelligence, strategic sourcing and risk data startup providers are launching offerings at a pace not seen before. To get a comprehensive look at these providers go to the ProcureTech category, in the Market Landscape Map section here. 

Amazon Business provides businesses access to Amazon's marketplace with exclusive/discounted pricing and purchasing systems integration. Business Prime allows spend data visualization compliance improvement and Guided Buying.

Founded in 2011, BitSight provides cybersecurity ratings and is a key player in a market that is quickly growing. BitSight Security Ratings are calculated on a scale of 250-900 with a higher rating indicating better security performance.

Bureau van Dijk (BvD) is known for its quality private international company information and detailed ownership data. BvD's Supplier Risk solution combines supplier data and BvD’s company data to provide a complete view of suppliers.

There are a number of excellent data partners in the Marketplace that provide intelligence offerings, such as: Amplifi PRO (The Smart Cube), BitSight, Beroe LiVE.Ai, Craft Supply Chain Intelligence, EcoVadis, and SecurityScorecard, to name a few.

Contify is a market and competitive intelligence platform used by businesses to collect, curate, and share intelligence on competitors, customers, and suppliers. Information, aggregated from 500,000+ sources, analyzes competitors and industries.

Craft provides deep, holistic supplier intelligence across all risk factors. Craft's platform enables professionals to discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers by tracking thousands of real-time signals across millions of companies globally. 

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CreditRiskMonitor offers commercial credit reports for companies worldwide. The proprietary Frisk Score (a stress index) combines information from a range of sources to predict the likelihood of financial instability and even bankruptcy. 

Dow Jones Risk and Compliance provides research tools and services for on-boarding, vetting, and mitigating third party risk such as bribery and corruption. Another offering, Factiva, is a global news database of nearly 33,000 premium sources.

D&B has historically been a main source that researchers look to for private company information. D&B Risk Analytics - Supplier Intelligence is a supplier risk insights and due diligence solution. See also ESG, Beneficial Ownership, and Diversity risk solutions.

Founded in 2007, EcoVadis operates a collaborative platform that provides Supplier Sustainability Ratings for global supply chains. The EcoVadis solution combines the ratings platform with a portfolio of scorecard and monitoring tools.

Exiger helps organizations manage risk and compliance in their third-parties, supply chains and customers through its software and tech-enabled solutions, including the areas of ESG, cyber, financial crime, third-party and supply chain management.

Forestreet's mission is to democratize market and innovation discovery. Its AI engineered platform helps companies map, categorize, analyze and deeply understand any market in a short period of time. 

GigaOm is a technology focused analyst firm and media company. It is a high quality, cost effective alternative to Gartner. Their radar reports provide detailed, comparative analysis that helps tech buyers choose the right solution. 

The Global Sustainable Enterprise System (GSES) addresses the issue of grappling with the large number of sustainability certifications. The platform uses the Global Sustainable Enterprise Standard as the universal language to measure sustainability. 

Govshop is an AI-enabled market intelligence platform and open market ecosystem specifically built for public sector buyers and emerging/diverse suppliers so they can discover each other and work together to deliver impact on critical public missions.

GovSpend provides intelligence on what federal, state, and local agencies are purchasing, who they are buying from, and the precise amounts they are paying. Meeting Intelligence provides public meeting transcripts and agenda and minutes documents.

Global Risk Management Solutions (GRMS) allows organizations to proactively monitor supplier risk by providing global enterprise wide risk assessments of suppliers, contractors, and service providers.

IntegrityNext provides companies with information on the sustainability and regulatory compliance of their supply chain (SC) using supplier self-assessments and social media monitoring. Monitors 100% of suppliers 24/7 using AI.

Founded in 2005 by Jennifer Bisceglie, Interos uses machine learning and natural language understanding to discover, extract, classify, score risks, and link relationships and events to individual suppliers, regardless of tier.

Kompass is an open access global B2B online directory with 34 million profiles worldwide. Kompass uses a unique classification system which is quite detailed to help you target specific companies/suppliers more easily. 

Nexis Diligence allows you to thoroughly investigate a current or potential supplier for any type of risk and/or financial health. Nexis Entity Insight (UK) leverages Lexis' wide range of news sources and market intelligence for risk monitoring.

With local business publications, you can find valuable information provided by business journalists who closely follow the local markets and companies. One of the premier publishers is American City Business Journals.

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Matchory (combines "to match" and factory) finds and analyzes more than 8 million suppliers worldwide using Big Data and AI. This startup was founded in 2019 and strives to leverage data to achieve the perfect match between buyers and suppliers. 

This free international supplier discovery service includes unique custom manufacturers in more than 100 disciplines, including assembly, CNC machining, die casting, forging, injection molding and fabrication, to name a few.

Normative's carbon accounting engine calculates the full carbon footprint of enterprises. The Carbon Network allows businesses to collaborate with suppliers to source data, uncover scope 3 emissions insights, and drive real carbon reductions.

Owlin is an AI platform for Third-Party Risk Management and Market Intelligence. They use the latest technologies in NLP and Machine Learning to monitor, analyze, and prioritize the vast amount of information that impacts a business or portfolio.

Prewave's platform utilizes  a vast array of data sources, including news, social media, and specialized databases, to provide real-time alerts on present and potential disruptions, including CSDDD, UFLPA compliance, natural disasters, social unrest, and more.

Here, you can find private company financials and revenues; mergers and acquisition deals; firm valuations; venture capital fundings; private equity deals; private and family ownership breakdowns; bankruptcies; restructurings; and competitors.

Procurated allows users to evaluate vendors based on peer reviews and ratings. It is free for government, education and non-profit users. It has been built by procurement professionals and there is search capability across 50+ categories.

RapidRatings’ quantitative Financial Health Ratings (FHR) offers financial health analysis for both national and international public and private companies and is unique in that it rates public and privately held companies globally on the same basis.

RepRisk provides ESG risk data for due diligence, research, and monitoring. The RepRisk ESG Risk Platform allows you to conduct in-depth risk research on companies, infrastructure projects, sectors, and countries and monitor ESG risks daily.

Resilinc enables supply chain visibility by creating supplier multi-tier intelligence and mapping it. The strength of this solution is that it visually maps the interrelationships between the multi-tiers in your supply chain and identifies potential choke/failure points. 

The Scoutbee Intelligence Platform uses graph technology and predictive and prescriptive analytics to enable supplier visibility for supplier discovery. Its AI-driven data foundation connects teams to any data point – internal, external, third-party, and more.

SecurityScorecard is a global leader in cybersecurity ratings provider. Organizations leverage their patented rating technology for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. 

Sedex (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange), a nonprofit membership-based organization, is a collaborative platform that shares supply chain data for analyzing ethical assessments, For buyers, a variety of reporting tools are available for tracking suppliers’ performance.

Sourcemap provides supply chain transparency and traceability, including end-to-end supply chain due diligence, customs compliance, environmental and social sustainability, business continuity, operations planning and more. 

Formerly riskmethods and part of Sphera Supply Chain Risk Management solution, Risk Radar monitors a company's supply network and reveals risk in real time with sub-tier visibility. Commodity Risk Tracker monitors critical commodities.

Supplier.io is a provider of supplier diversity solutions for the automotive, healthcare, insurance, retail, manufacturing, education, and banking industries. Supplier Explorer allows you to search, organize and track your diverse suppliers.

Supplyframe’s DSI Network provides manufacturers and users access to comprehensive and updated information on over 1 billion in-market part attributes, including real-time availability and lead-time data, along with 700,000 downloadable 2D/3D models.

Originally debuting as a supplier discovery provider, TealBook delivers a supplier data foundation that unifies and optimizes existing technology investments with robust, up-to-date supplier data. TealBook is a high growth startup with a strategic offering.

Thomasnet.com is a standard reference that has been a favorite of industrial buyers for years. The platform allows for supplier discovery and product sourcing, access to CAD models, diversity and quality designations, and industry news.

The Trust Your Supplier blockchain network is designed to improve all parts of the supplier life cycle information management process, starting with supplier discovery with quality integrated risk data from third-party partners.

Look at SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filings for current and historical company, and other filings, for publicly traded companies (e.g., 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks) through its EDGAR retrieval system.