Cortera, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton, Florida

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, is a provider of credit information on businesses and corporations. The company provides business information with a database containing a number of private and public U.S. companies, analytics about each of those companies, and workflow software. Typical users include business analysts, sales and marketing experts and credit & collections professionals who need to research their prospects, customers, and partners. Principal customers include transportation providers, manufacturers and wholesalers, telcos, banks, and other credit and financial institutions.

History

Cortera was originally founded in 1993 as SRR Solutions by Northeastern University professor, Venkat Srinivasan, to provide credit & collections software. Over the years, the company raised tens of millions in venture capital funding, dabbled with the creation of an online B2B debt exchange and changed its name to eCredit in 1998. In December 2006 the company was acquired by an investment group that ultimately included Fidelity Ventures

Fidelity Ventures

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, Battery Ventures

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, and CIBC. The company name was changed from eCredit to Cortera in early 2008.

Partners

The company primarily partners with other providers of business information

Business information

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 to include their information in its software. Partners include:

• Experian
  Experian
  Experian plc, formerly known as CCN Systems, is a global credit information group with operations in 36 countries. The company employs 15,500 people with corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and operational headquarters in Nottingham, England and Costa Mesa, California, US...
  
  
• Equifax
  Equifax
  Equifax Inc. is a consumer credit reporting agency in the United States, considered one of the three largest American credit agencies along with Experian and TransUnion. Founded in 1899, Equifax is the oldest of the three agencies and gathers and maintains information on over 400 million credit...
  
  
• Moodys KMV
• Reuters
  Reuters
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• Graydon
  Graydon
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• Australian Business Research
• Paynet