Fast Facts about Intelius
Bellevue, Washington-based Intelius, Inc. is an information commerce firm that aims to empower individuals and businesses with critical information needed to make more intelligent decisions. It offers a suite of consumer-focused and business-focused intelligence services such as background checks, verification, identity protection, and people searches on the consumer side and employment screening for businesses. Despite being a relatively young firm, it has carved a name in information security for its track record in product excellence and innovation.
The company was established in 2003 by former InfoSpace founder Naveen Jain and five other colleagues. Intellius operates mainly from its two-story offices in the Greater Seattle area with an extension campus in Bothell, Washington. It has 194 employees that is managed by an executive team governed by a board under the chairmanship of Ret. Gen. William Owens.
The services of the infocommerce company are highly sought and its site Intelius.com frequented by more than 1 million people every day, making it one of the most trafficked pages on the Internet according to comScore/Media Metrix. From just 2.96 million customers in 2003, the firm now serves over 10 million unique customers.
The firm banks on its edge in delivering fast, accurate and reliable search results and investigation reports. Because of its powerful proprietary semantic technology, it can search through its enormous database and respond to queries in real-time, supplying investigation results in minutes. Intellius’ technology can process 3,000 queries per second. Since its inception, it has processed more than 16 million orders and delivered over 22 million individual products to individuals and businesses all across America. In 2008, 3.2 million investigation reports were delivered by the company with a perfect recorded uptime of 99.99%.
The firm is committed to fulfilling its social responsibility. Since 2003, Intelius has actively support more than 50 nonprofit organizations and charities to pursue causes in youth, education, basic needs, and family issues.
