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Foursquare - aVenture Company Research

Foursquare

Foursquare

Foursquare operates a location intelligence platform supplying points-of-interest data, foot-traffic analytics, and developer APIs to marketers, analysts, and app builders.

New York City, NY, US🇺🇸

Founded

Foursquare 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 - Similar Companies

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Foursquare - Quick Facts

Who are Foursquare's competitors?

Companies similar to Foursquare include HERE Technologies, Bluedot, Radar and Yelp.

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 disclosed funding has Foursquare raised?

As of May 31, 2019, Foursquare has disclosed funding of $390.4M (USD). Undisclosed round amounts are excluded.

Foursquare - Classification

Ownership: Subsidiary
Technology: AI
Geolocation
Location
Machine Learning

How many employees does Foursquare have?

Foursquare has 525 employees as of Jun 28, 2026.

Geographic Exposure

Global

Model: Platform
Revenue: Recurring
Transactional
Customer: Enterprise

Tags: Cloud
Data Information
SaaS

NAICS: 513200Software Publishers
510000Information
513000Publishing Industries
513210Software Publishers
SIC: 7300Business Services
7370Computer Programming, Data Processing, And Other Computer Related
7372Prepackaged Software

Show 3 more industry codes

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

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Foursquare - Products & Services

Movement SDK
Foursquare Movement SDK is a mobile SDK for location tracking and visit attribution.
Competing Products
Places API
Foursquare Places API is a developer API for searching and geotagging points of interest.
Competing Products
Spatial H3 Hub
Spatial H3 Hub delivers H3-indexed geospatial features for data-science workflows.
Competing Products
Places
Foursquare Places is a global points-of-interest dataset covering 100M+ venues across 200+ countries.
Competing Products
Spatial Desktop
Spatial Desktop is a native geospatial computing app running DuckDB locally.
Competing Products
Spatial Studio
Spatial Studio is a cloud-based geospatial workspace for mapping and advanced analytics.
Competing Products
Spatial Workbench
Spatial Workbench is a cloud geospatial analytics platform built for BI teams.
Competing Products
Proximity
Foursquare Proximity creates custom geofences to deliver real-time, location-based advertising to nearby consumers.
Competing Products
Audience
Foursquare Audience builds custom location-based audience segments from real-world visitation behavior for ad targeting.
Competing Products
Attribution
Foursquare Attribution measures ad-driven store visits and sales lift across digital, TV, social, and out-of-home channels.
Competing Products