Foursquare
Foursquare operates a location intelligence platform supplying points-of-interest data, foot-traffic analytics, and developer APIs to marketers, analysts, and app builders.
Founded
2009Foursquare runs an independent geospatial intelligence platform built on more than 16 billion human-verified check-ins and over 120 million global points of interest. Its products span marketing measurement, audience targeting, proximity geofencing, developer Places and Movement SDKs, and a geospatial compute suite anchored by H3-indexed datasets, Spatial Workbench, Spatial Desktop, and Spatial Studio.
The company serves enterprise marketers, developers, data scientists, and integrated partners across more than 200 countries, with all top national advertisers reportedly using its technology. Foursquare has grown through acquisitions including Placed, Factual, Unfolded, and Superlocal, broadening its attribution, mapping, and spatial-analytics capabilities since pivoting from its consumer check-in app to a business-to-business location platform.
Foursquare - Products & Services
Foursquare Movement SDK is a mobile SDK for location tracking and visit attribution.
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Foursquare Places API is a developer API for searching and geotagging points of interest.
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Spatial H3 Hub delivers H3-indexed geospatial features for data-science workflows.
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Foursquare Places is a global points-of-interest dataset covering 100M+ venues across 200+ countries.
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Spatial Desktop is a native geospatial computing app running DuckDB locally.
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Spatial Studio is a cloud-based geospatial workspace for mapping and advanced analytics.
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Spatial Workbench is a cloud geospatial analytics platform built for BI teams.
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Foursquare Proximity creates custom geofences to deliver real-time, location-based advertising to nearby consumers.
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Foursquare Audience builds custom location-based audience segments from real-world visitation behavior for ad targeting.
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Foursquare Attribution measures ad-driven store visits and sales lift across digital, TV, social, and out-of-home channels.
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Foursquare - Quick Facts
Who are Foursquare's competitors?
Companies similar to Foursquare include SafeGraph, GeoTouch, IdealSpot and Spatial.
When was Foursquare founded?
Foursquare was founded in 2009.
Where is Foursquare's headquarters located?
Foursquare's headquarters is located in New York City, NY, US.
When was Foursquare's last funding round?
Foursquare's most recent funding round was for $150M (USD) in May 2019.
How much has Foursquare raised to-date?
As of May 31, 2019, Foursquare has raised a total of $390.4M (USD).
How many employees does Foursquare have?
Foursquare has 525 employees as of Jun 28, 2026.
Foursquare - Classification
- Ownership
- Technology
- Geographic Exposure
- Global
- Model
- Revenue
- Customer
- NAICS
- 513200Software Publishers
- 510000Information
- 513000Publishing Industries
- 513210Software Publishers
- SIC
- 7300Business Services
- 7370Computer Programming, Data Processing, And Other Computer Related
- 7372Prepackaged Software
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- NAICS
- 518000Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
- 518200Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
- 518210Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services