On August 2, 2022, Seerist, Inc. launched as the world's leading solution provider of augmented analytics for security and threat intelligence professionals. The new company merges Control Risks' CORE online platform with the machine learning backbone from U.S.-based Geospark Analytics' Hyperion platform. Seerist provides the only augment analytics solution that integrates continuous-learning with expert, in-location human analysis with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms specifically designed to deliver early, actionable, and strategic insight for corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and government organizations. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented Control Risks in the transaction.

Seerist brings together Geospark Analytics’ software developers, engineers, and data scientists with Control Risks’ online intelligence and content experts, and client support, sales, and product management teams from both firms. The combined global organization empowers the Seerist solution to automate the collection of millions of datasets from across the globe to assess activity anomalies, stability shifts, volatility swings, variations in political and popular sentiment, and much more. Its algorithms eliminate the noise before seasoned, in-location analysts verify the activity. The intuitive Seerist dashboard delivers industry-leading, real-time insights with enhanced accuracy and relevance allowing security and operational users to make rapid and reliable decisions, as well as strategic analysis of trends over longer time horizons.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Control Risks in the transaction includes:

Mark Bass
Kimberley Biagioli
Adam Bloom
Liam Boylan
Deirdre Carroll
Seth Cowell
Jonathan Davey
Daniel Glazer
Matthew Gorman
Joshua Gruenspecht
Neil Gulyako
Gregory Hughes
Keith Klovers
Michael Labriola
Esther Lukman
Scott McKinney
Betty Rosenbaum
Allegra Sachs
Rosalind Schonwald
Anne Seymour
Elisa Sielski
Derek Wallace

For more information, please see the press release.