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Inflection is a big-data technology company with products that allow users to search for and retrieve public documents and manage their online identity. Inflection is best known for providing individuals and organizations with tools for searching public records from a database of over 14 billion public records. Inflection has been featured in several media outlets, including MSNBC, TechCrunch, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.

The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with offices in Omaha, NE. Co-founder Matthew Monahan is Inflection’s CEO.

History
Brothers Matthew Monahan and Brian Monahan founded Inflection in 2006. Their idea for the company was to create a resource where users could seek information from public records through a centralized, searchable platform. The pair launched Inflection from a Harvard dorm room, and they bootstrapped the company’s finances for the first four years.

In 2010, Inflection raised $30 million in Series A venture financing, which included capital from Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. The company now operates three main websites, the people search engine PeopleSmart.com, the online identity management site Identity.com, and the pre-employment background screening site GoodHire.com. Inflection sold its genealogy site Archives.com to Ancestry.com in April 2012 for $100 million.

The founders chose the company’s name as a metaphor for the present state of the Internet and its impact on the world, which the founders believe is at a turning point comparable to the inflection point on the graph of a curve.

As of April 2013, Inflection employs approximately 150 people.

Products
The company’s flagship products, PeopleSmart.com, Identity.com, and GoodHire.com are powered by Inflection’s proprietary big-data platform STORM.

The platform allows users of Inflection’s products to search and retrieve over 14 billion records, including court records, contact information, and criminal records. The company emphasizes privacy, and users are able to opt out and remove their information from the websites. For example, the company does not provide individuals’ email addresses or cell phone numbers to its customers.