Just hours before midnight on New Years Eve, Snapchat declared to the SEC a $485.6 million Series D round. Silent all 2014 about their funding activities, the disappearing photo and message app company also confirmed in the filing that it had raised investments from a total of 23 different investors.
Five years ago, three data-obsessed techies had enough. The market research industry was suffering from inefficiencies and subpar insights. In 2015, Armen Adjemian, Armen Petrosian and Drew Kutcharian thought there had to be a better way. They got to work building a solution: an insights data platform they named DISQO. The plan was to provide tools that would allow researchers to access audiences and data that would provide real information about products with more accuracy and ease than ever before.