$150m for B2B Research Platform Atheneum

B2B research technology platform Atheneum has raised $150m in a round of funding, to be used for market expansion (including in the US), continued technology and product development, and recruitment.

Founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, Atheneum's founding management team, Mathias Wengeler, Ammad Ahmad and Marta Margolis, have since led global growth across eleven offices including London, Munich and Shanghai, with US headquarters in New York. The firm's knowledge-sharing insights platform provides access to around 680,000 industry experts, and the company also delivers qualitative (expert consultations and placements) and quantitative (surveys and data products) research solutions.

New funding has been led by Guidepost Growth Equity with participation from select Limited Partners, as well as existing investors, Crosslantic Capital Management, Michael Brehm, Vogel Communications Group, and Atheneum's founding management team. Wengeler comments: 'We are excited to have found the perfect partners for the next phase of growth and to further disrupt the fast growing, $22 billion data and intelligence market. Guidepost shares our vision to continue to build a fully digital cockpit for primary research, a one stop shop to gather raw data from surveys, virtual focus groups to in-depth interviews - all delivered by our evolving suite of products.'

Web site: www.atheneum.ai .