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Top Competitor Analysis Tools | September 13 - September 20, 2024

Trigify released their Social Signals feature and a Slack integration on September 19...

Using RivalSense, we have discovered last week's most important developments and news on companies like AlphaSense, Klue, Crayon, Kompyte, Newslever, Owler, Competitors App, Visualping, Contify, SpyFu, Feedly, and other competitor monitoring tools. 

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🚀 New Product Offerings

  • Trigify released their Social Signals feature and a Slack integration on September 19.
  • Feedly introduced a new feature called 'Top Stories' to monitor high-impact stories on topics of interest.
  • Competitors App now includes comprehensive SEO analysis, social media tracking, ad campaign monitoring, reviews and reputation tracking, email campaign tracking, and social listening and PR monitoring in their competitive analysis tools.
  • Feedly introduced a new Top Stories Tab that reduces up to 87% of irrelevant articles.
  • Trigify.io has launched a new Social Listening feature that tracks LinkedIn profile engagement and integrates with email campaign tools like Instantly.ai and Smartlead.
  • Messari reports that Core platform's DeFi total value locked (TVL) grew 1032% year-over-year to $76.4 million by Q2 2024, driven by its non-custodial Bitcoin staking product launched in April.
  • 6sense has integrated its AI-driven Conversational Email with HubSpot CRM to create hyper-personalized email campaigns using advanced intent signals.
  • Brand24 introduced AI-powered analytics, real-time alerts, and an AI assistant to enhance their monitoring tool.
  • Messari developed multiple Substreams and Substreams-powered subgraphs for the Solana network.
  • Messari developed multiple Substreams and Substreams-supported subgraphs for Solana, enhancing data access for developers.
  • Kristians Lancmanis from Adsmom announced they are working on white labeling services for agencies.

🤝🏻 New Partnerships and Vendors

  • Feedly now covers 35 articles per week and has reported new contracts including SAIC's $229M NITES contract and BlackSky's Space Domain Awareness contract.
  • Crayon reports a 255% growth in battlecard usage after Dropbox integrated Crayon into their Slack channels.
  • Feedly's customer support tickets were significantly reduced after Sopra Steria automated threat intelligence with Feedly AI.
  • Vertiv's Project Opera, using 6sense for a new account-based marketing strategy, achieved a $1M pipeline in 4 weeks and an 80% increase in marketing-found pipeline.

🎟️ Event Participation

  • Klue's Compete Week 2024 will feature Kelly Lewis from Highspot and Dave Osborne from Pitchbook as hosts for the sponsor panel.
  • Messari will host Mainnet 2024 in NYC on September 30, featuring panels on crypto investment, infrastructure, DApps, and Messari Protocol Services.
  • 6sense will host a workout session with Sloane Staffing at the Breakthrough conference on October 8.
  • Brent Gerundo, Chief Operating Officer at Messari, will speak at Messari Mainnet 2024 in NYC from Sept 30 to Oct 2 about integrating digital assets onto balance sheets.
  • 6sense will feature Amy Purdy as a keynote speaker at their Breakthrough event on October 7-10 in Las Vegas.
  • 6sense will host the 6Sense Breakthrough event focusing on AI-driven B2B marketing and sales strategies in Las Vegas from October 7-17, 2025.
  • 6sense is teaming up with Goldcast and the AI Marketing Alliance for an AI and law workshop on October 1.
  • 6sense is hosting the Breakthrough 2024 event from October 7-10 at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
  • Samira Golsefid, VP of Data Science at 6sense, participated in the 'Women in Data & AI Leadership' panel at the CDO & AI Summit on September 19.
  • Jason Smith, CEO at Klue, will be in London on October 1 to share insights on competitive enablement.
  • 6sense announced sales-focused breakout sessions for Breakthrough 2024, happening October 7-10 in Las Vegas.
  • Messari is co-organizing the R3al World conference with IoTeX at Token 2049 in Singapore from September 16 to September 17.
  • 6sense will join the Bullseye Bash after INBOUND2024 in Boston on September 19.
  • Brand24 will be a media patron for the I ♥️ marketing & technology conference in Warsaw, October 22-24.
  • Razvan Girmacea, a jury member for the EU Phase 1 and 2 financing mechanism, will attend the Web Summit in November with the upgraded version of Competitors App.
  • Klue's Compete Week in Vancouver has already sold 50% of its 100 seats for the in-person event.
  • Premal Shah, Co-Founder and SVP of Engineering and Infrastructure at 6sense, will speak at SingleStoreNow2024 on October 3.

💡 Other Notable News

  • Owler has updated the President of SimpleSolve from Zhaohui Tang to Antony Xavier.
  • Owler updated the CEO of KEMET from Toby Velazquez to William M. Lowe.
  • Owler now lists 188 companies in the Fashion, Apparel & Accessories sector with revenue in the $1.0-5.0B range.
  • Emma Brown, ACA, MBA has left her position as Group Chief Financial Officer at Marlin Equity Partners in the United Kingdom to join CUBE as Group Chief Financial Officer.
  • Ryan Selkis stepped down as CEO of Messari in July, citing that his politics and rhetoric endangered the team.
  • Brand24 has increased its pricing to $119 a month while offering less functionality, according to Steve Worswick, Kuki's Developer.
  • Klue acquired DoubleCheck Research to combine competitive, market, and buyer insights into a complete story for go-to-market strategy.
  • SoftwareOne is exploring a potential merger with Crayon and discussing taking both companies private with Apax Partners.
  • SpyFu's traffic decreased by 14% in August 2024 compared to July 2024.
  • Owler now lists 134,292 IT Services companies, up from 134,285.
  • Owler's followers increased from 5,198 to 5,212.
  • Hanan Veksler has left Talkwalker as Vice President, Professional Services - EMEA in Germany to join Genesys as Senior Director, Professional Services.
  • 6sense is on the Inc. 5000 list for the fourth consecutive year with a 505% revenue growth over the past three years.
  • Aditya Chandra is the new VP of Platform Engineering at 6sense.
  • Messari reported that data demand for The Graph Network surged 84% from Q1 to Q2, reaching 2.9 billion successful queries.
  • 6sense emerged as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ report for B2B Revenue Marketing Platforms, Q3 2024, scoring 4.2 out of 5 with perfect scores in fit modeling, audience segmentation, journey orchestration, and engagement channels.
  • 6sense has been listed among the 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology.
  • Kyle Hollingsworth has started as VP, Enterprise & Strategic Sales at 6sense.
  • Kel xyz, former Messari Research, invested in CUDIS.
  • Michael Roberts, Founder and CEO at SpyFu, shared his experience using Google's new AI tool NotebookLM to enhance content creation for RivalFlow.
  • Messari co-founder Ryan Selkis challenged Mark Cuban's political stance on X.
  • Mike Sadowski, Founder & CEO of Brand24, emphasizes that sluggish body language can significantly undermine a sales rep's credibility with buyers.
  • Ryan Sorley, VP Win-loss and Cofounder at Klue, shared his journey of building a $10 million research consultancy that was eventually acquired by Klue.
  • 6sense named Simpro Software a finalist for the 2024 Breakthrough Awards in the One Revenue Team category.
  • Campana's UMO subsea cable will connect to a new 1,300km cable from Bangladesh to Singapore, scheduled to go into service in Q1 2026.

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