Nicholas Halstead

Datasift, Inc. provides information technology solutions and services. The firm offers Pylon for LinkedIn engagement insights, for face book topic data, Stream for social data and open data processing for twitter. It offers solutions for social app developers, agencies and marketers. The company was founded by Nick Halstead in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Empire Interactive Plc developed and published computer games software. It also published video games such as Starsky & Hutch, Bad Boys II, and Big Mutha Truckers. The company was founded by Ian Higgins and Simon Jeffrey in 1987 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Favorit is the first integrated solution to allow blogging experts and non-technical people unlimited access to the worldwide blogosphere. Over the last few years blogging has grown exponentially, with various estimates of over 75m blogs in existence today. But the problem lies with the tools that bloggers use. Most people will have used news readers like Google's. However, this is still quite a 'techie' product, as to subscribe to multiple blogs you need to understand how to add RSS stream feeds to the reader. But newsreaders still have a single major flaw, how do you read, comment and post to multiple blogs? This is the flaw that Favorit comprehensively eliminates. No longer do you need to be a 'techie' with multiple tabs open in a browser and understand RSS feeds. Favorit brings ease of use and simplicity to the whole blogging experience. In short you can read blogs, post comments, write blogs and re-publish content all from the same platform. Favorit also is hugely innovative in that it gives marketers great insight and knowledge about the blogs that are significant and the time spent reading them. By combining profile information, blog tags and attention data, a whole new approach to targeted marketing is made possible. Currently Favorit is in a private beta mode, only allowing a small but increasing number of users access to the blogging platform as they prove its software and hardware platform. So many people pre-registered to be part of this beta in 2007 that currently they are no longer looking for further users.

MediaSift Ltd. provides information technology solutions and services. It specializes in real-time data platform and tools for third-party developers and corporations, enabling companies to aggregate, filter, and extract insights from public social conversations on social networks and other sources. The company was founded by Nicholas John Halstead in 2007 and is headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom.

InfoSum Ltd. develops cloud computing software for data isolation. The firm offers federated architecture, insight engine, differential privacy, identity resolution, permissions control, and global schema platforms. Its solutions include audience insights, data onboarding, identity, unified customer view, data clean room, and second-party audiences. The company was founded by Nicholas John Halstead in 2015 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, the United Kingdom.