Helping You Decide Where To Invest In Africa and South Asia

Identifying new markets and determining where to invest resources is an expensive and high-risk undertaking. Whether you manage a business, an investment fund, a research lab or a development initiative, we can help you answer tough questions such as:

Where are the most attractive markets for expanding my business?

Founded by World Renowned Stanford Scientists

Backed by The Rockefeller Foundation, Airbus Ventures and Micron Technology
Member of the World Bank's Development Data Partnership

Pioneering artificial intelligence to expand your addressable market

Our models analyze terabytes of satellite imagery to track, analyze and forecast regions of growth, stagnation and vulnerability at a 2km x 2km resolution across emerging markets. Our technology:

Provides unparalleled insight into where organizations can grow most successfully

Informs where development capital can have the greatest socioeconomic impact

Village-level insight at continent scale

We generate novel in-house data on market conditions using advanced machine learning methods that have years of academic peer review and validation. Our data is best-in-class in four key respects:

Cross-border comparability

Any two locations on the continent are comparable to each other

Most up to date

We provide datasets as recent as 2020 and with 20 years of history

High resolution

Our data is available down to the village level at 2 km x 2 km across the entire continent

A complete picture

Examine any location through lenses of economic, agricultural and infrastructure conditions

Software That Helps You Make Decisions

We cut through the complexity of traditional geospatial analytics tools to get you to successful decisions about where to invest. No prior technical experience required. Our insights are accessible via Aperture™, our web-based platform, or via API to ensure seamless integration with your work.

Powered by Cutting Edge Research with Leading International Organizations

We partner with leading research, philanthropic and development organizations to pioneer new scientific methods that expand the frontiers of socioeconomic analysis in emerging markets.