Cataphora - About Cataphora

About Cataphora

Cataphora is the world's authority on the implications of personal and organizational behavior as evidenced by the use of electronic media. Over the years, we have developed sophisticated technologies for understanding patterns of behavior. During that time, we have repeatedly proved and improved these technologies in hundreds of deployments involving large, complex issues that we have helped resolve.

We are very proud of our invention and innovation, as evidenced by four US patents granted to date and several pending. And we are equally proud of our track record of bringing products and services based on our technology to resolve complex problems for our customers.

A technology company dedicated to customer needs

Cataphora's technical staff comprises experts in a variety of fields and methodologies, including software engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sociology, and information retrieval. We constantly strive to invent new technologies to help our customers, and to improve the technologies we already have.

Cataphora's founding technology was invented to address the real business problem of making sense of fast‑growing volumes of information that were communicated in ever shorter messages across an increasing variety of channels. We have continued to build on our initial ideas and extend them. For example, we have since invented and patented high-performance search technology that powers our own Cataphora Query Engine and we continually develop sophisticated analytics to provide our customers with ever better insights into their digital data.

Entrepreneurship and ownership

Cataphora was founded in 2002. The subsequent further rise of mobile devices and social media has made the issue of making sense of fragmentary and dispersed data even more real today than it was when we started to address it. We are perfectly positioned to apply our past years of experience in the years to come.

Since its inception, the company has been run entirely on revenues generated from customers. This has added significantly to the company's stability, including during the recent economic turbulence, when our experience of running an efficient, responsive and profitable business paid off at a time when many companies have been derailed.

Perhaps uniquely for a Silicon Valley high tech company of our size, we are employee-owned with no outside investors; every single employee has a personal stake in the business and is committed to its success. Without outside investors pressing for an immediate return on their investment, we take a long term view, and are pleased to be able to offer our customers the stability of a business partner that is here to stay.