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Leadspace is a software as a service (SaaS) lead generation company. The company's products finds leads in social media, contact databases and customer relationship management systems by comparing people's online presence to a vendor's unique ideal buyer profiles.[1] Leadspace is used by inside sales teams for finding new prospects, and by marketing teams for creating targeted lists and for ranking and enriching leads gathered through marketing programs.[2] Leadspace is also an example of aB B2 company

History[edit]
Leadspace was founded in 2007 (by the name of Data Essence) by Amnon Mishor and Yaron Karasik, former intelligence officers and experts in semantic analysis and web mining technologies. The company raised funding from Battery Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital.

Leadspace launched its first product, a sales prospecting application, in 2012. In March 2013 Leadspace added the capability of generating targeted lists based on match to an ideal buyer profile, and an online view of a company's ideal buyer profiles.

The company became a Salesforce.com ISV partner and a member in Marketo Launchpoint.[3] In July 2015, Leadspace raised $18 million in funding led by Battery Ventures.[4]            In May of 2018 Leadspace and a company called Radius Technologies[5] began a merge[6], the merger would have been beneficial for both sides. Later on the merger dissolved in August of 2018, it was not loudly discussed. The merge never went through due to neither side being able to work everything out.

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 * 1) think about adding business to business module type of company
 * 2) look at adding recognitions
 * 3) more information on who started the company
 * 4) more information of the people in charge