TipRanks

TipRanks is a company that ranks financial analysts.[1][2] It was founded in 2012. In late 2012 TipRanks launched a browser add-on[3] that shows analyst information inside articles.

In 2013, TipRanks won the Finovate awards twice.[4][5][6] In 2014, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer invested in the company.[7][8]

TipRanks operates a website offering paid and free subscriptions on information about financial analysts, bloggers and insider trading.[9]

History

TipRanks was founded in June 2013 by Uri Gruenbaum and Gilad Gat.[10] They teamed up with Roni Michaely, a finance professor at Cornell University.[11] TipRanks was initially available only as a browser extension[3] in a freemium model. In 2013 TipRanks won the Finovate spring contest and later that year it won the Finovate fall contest.[12] TipRanks participated in 2013 in Microsoft's AppCampus program at Aalto University[13] building a Windows Phone app.

In 2014 TipRanks launched a website[14] offering rankings of analysts, bloggers and insiders. Later that year TipRanks CEO Uri Gruenbaum appeared with Spitzer on CNBC ranking the best and worst analysts of the year according to TipRanks.[15]

References
  1. "Israel's TipRanks rates analysts' stock advice for investors". Reuters.
  2. https://www.cnbc.com/id/100627909
  3. Donna Fuscaldo. "Taking the Guess Work Out of Online Stock Surfing". Fox Business.
  4. "Finovate Fall 2013 Best of Show Winners". JPNicols.com.
  5. "Finovate: TipRanks Archives". finovate.com.
  6. "TipRanks Wins Best of Show Award at Finovate". businesswire.com. 20 May 2013.
  7. William L. Watts. "Eliot Spitzer backs analyst-ranking firm". MarketWatch.
  8. "Spitzer Returns, Taking Aim Again at Financial Analysts". nytimes.com.
  9. Mike Hogan (25 May 2013). "New Services for Stock-Market Recommendations; Earnings Estimates - Barron's". barrons.com.
  10. "About TipRanks". TipRanks :: Know who to trust.
  11. "Holding Analysts Accountable for Stock Recommendations". Johnson at Cornell.
  12. "Tel Aviv-based start-up TipRanks takes top prize at Finovate". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com.
  13. "TipRanks lets you track the record of analysts, launches exclusively for Windows Phone 8". 2013-10-28.
  14. "Spitzer Returns, Taking Aim Again at Financial Analysts". nytimes.com.
  15. "Find the best analysts on Wall Street".
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