• 1996

Company Description

Information and workflow solutions

Alacra organizes financial and legal information to aid financial professionals in conducting mandated regulatory searches. 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 more than 75 premium publishers 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.