An Overview of Naveen Jain’s Second Brainchild
Intelius transforms 20 billion public records into intelligence reports for millions of Americans. Selling these highly-lucrative products since 2003, Intelius has grown from an obscure startup to one of Washington’s most promising tech companies.
Acclaimed Best New Company by the American Business Awards, Intelius has grown by leaps and bunds since its founding. Now it is an Inc. 500 company, one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Deloitte & Touche even named it the 127th fastest-growing in North America, besting thousands of other companies.
Intelius taps the databases of public agencies, e.g. courthouses, telephone directories, and address registries, to make its intelligence reports. In any case, the intelligences contain only information that is legally accessible to the public. These intelligences can give out almost any American’s real name, age, birthday, current address, email, properties, marriages, professional licenses, offenses, misdemeanors, felonies, civil judgments, bankruptcies, liens, and other personal information. Consumers may buy the reports from Intelius.com.
Intelius’ great capacity for information-based services has prompted HRO Today, a leading human resources magazine, to name Intelius the second-best employment screening provider in the US.
Intelius is the successor of InfoSpace, a developer of web content for clients like Lycos, AOL, Disney, and MSN. The founder of both companies is Naveen Jain, an Indian-American businessman who managed The Microsoft Network before it came to be known as MSN. Naveen Jain is a finalist to the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year award by Ernst & Young.
Born in Uttar Pradesh, India, Jain studied in top Indian institutions before immigrating to New Jersey, USA. There, he landed work with The Burroughs Corporation and several other IT companies. In 1989, he found work with Microsoft Corporation as programmer of its world-renowned operating systems. He owns patent rights to Windows 95 and Windows NT.
