Alacra provides innovative information solutions to more than 400 global financial institutions, corporations, and professional services firms. Alacra's workflow tools aggregate, filter, and custom package mission-critical business information from 200 premium databases and a hand-curated universe of 3,000+ web-based sources, delivering user-ready results. Bespoke applications keep Alacra's clients up-to-date on their customers, prospects, investments, competition, partners and suppliers, driving business development and streamlining operations.

Founded as Data Downlink Corporation in 1996 by Steven Goldstein and Michael Angle, former executives of Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division, the privately-held company was renamed Alacra, Inc. in June 2001. Headquartered
in New York, with an office in London, Alacra, Inc.
employs more than 60 content, technology,
sales and marketing professionals.

Major milestones include:

• 1996: Initial product offering, .xls, is the first web-based premium business information service
• 2001: Launch of Alacra Book, now the industry standard for the creation of Public Information Books (PIBs) for financial institutions and professional service firms
• 2005: Release of Alacra Concordance, an entity identifier mapping service that enables organizations to more effectively manage their customer, prospect and counterparty information
• 2006: Release of Alacra Compliance, which streamlines workflow for credit investigations and enhanced due diligence
• 2009: Development and soft release of Alacra Pulse
• 2010: Launch of Alacra PulsePro

Alacra's premium content partners include ThomsonReuters, FactSet, Dow Jones, Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Fitch, LexisNexis, D&B and dozens of additional publishers.