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Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data. Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets, research criminal investigation subjects, and more. Founded in 2006, we have grown to a remote-first company of nearly 200 dedicated employees with an average tenure of 4.5 years. Find out why we were named a “Best Company” for by Comparably for Women, Compensation, Happiest Employees, Company Perks & Benefits, and Work-Life Balance, as well as “Best CEO” for co-founder Harrison Tang.

Founded in 1997, Whitepages® is an industry leader in people search, reverse phone lookup, address verification, contact data enrichment, and identity verification. Whitepages aggregates and connects data from public and legal records alongside other authoritative data sources to deliver accurate, up-to-date identity and contact information. The platform covers more than 250 million people across all 50 states. As the modern evolution of the U.S. phone book, Whitepages links phone, email, address, and property signals to help consumers and businesses verify identities, assess fraud risk, and keep contact records accurate. Every day, Whitepages answers more than 2 million searches for people, phone numbers, addresses, and property. Products include Whitepages, Property Intel, 411, PeopleSearch, and Switchboard. Our services are available on the web, in our mobile apps for Android and iOS (Apple), and through our Whitepages Pro API for businesses and developers. Innovation and invention is in our DNA and past Whitepages® successes are illustrated by the 2016 spinoff of Hiya, Inc., an industry leading spam call blocking mobile app, and more recently in 2019 the spin off of Ekata, Inc., (formerly Whitepages Pro) a global leader in identity verification (acquired by MasterCard in 2021 for $850M).

BeenVerified's mission is to make public records easy, affordable, and accessible to everyone. Since 2007, millions of people have used BeenVerified's website and applications to access public data. In 2013, we were named the fastest growing company in New York City and 26th in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine. We're an expanding team dedicated to building world class products via data and design!