Intelius Changes the Game the Right Way
Washington-based company Intelius progress is the result of reaching out to business owners and consumers who need to gather reliable and significant information in order to get to know better the people that they interact with on a daily basis.
Established in January 2003, Intelius is the brainchild of Indian entrepreneur Naveen Jain and a number of his previous InfoSpace associated. The group’s wide experience in the fields of engineering, security, and technology development supplements their purpose to immerse into the information commerce industry. Starting off without salaries, the executives are now well compensated and their employee number has expanded to more than 170 employees as compared to the 30 they had back when they were just starting out.
One proof of the company’s progress is the fact that it now powers several of the Internet’s more popular search sites. Another proof is that the number of the consumers using Intelius‘ search technology has increased. Most of these people use the company’s services to track down old friends.
Intelius also offers its services to business establishments. Both small and medium sized businesses are aiming to protect their assets by making sure that their human resource departments validate an applicant’s data through employment screenings. Nowadays, almost all companies run reference or background checks on their employees, whether they work on an hourly or part-time basis.
The company continues to improve its growth through its constant innovation of products and by constantly improving its current line-up of services and protection products. For the past five years, Intelius’ revenue grew by 1,566%. By the end of 2007, the company had revenue worth $88.53 million.
As part of its continuing commitment to their US consumers and in pursuit of their efforts of capturing the international markets, Intelius launched iSearch at the DEMO ‘08 conference for emerging technology. Through the innovative semantic technology, iSearch allows offline and online information to connect and come up with useful and comprehensive profiles that help facilitate better people searches. iSearch’s state-of-the-art technology emphasizes the popularity of mobile phones as compared to landline phones.


