Advan Research
Foot traffic and spend data packaged for hedge fund workflows
Advan combines anonymized device location data with card spending records to estimate store visits, consumer spend and property-level activity. Unlike generalist geolocation vendors, it designs products and ticker mappings around discretionary and quantitative investors, and has expanded through acquisitions of SafeGraph Patterns and RetailStat assets.
GAII take
Buy-side-first orientation is the differentiator versus Placer.ai; test point-in-time history and ticker-mapping quality before relying on it for earnings calls.
Buy-side-first orientation is the differentiator versus Placer.ai; test point-in-time history and ticker-mapping quality before relying on it for earnings calls.
- Website
- advanresearch.com
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Founded
- 2015
- Company type
- Startup
- Status
- Active — Founded by Yiannis Tsiounis, who previously built fixed income data firm BQuotes, later acquired by Moody's. Grew by acquisition, buying SafeGraph's Patterns bu
- Buyer
- Hedge fundsAsset managers
- Asset class
- Public equitiesReal assets
- Workflow
- Research & diligenceIdea generation
- Ai capability
- Time-series ML
- Delivery
- API / data feedSaaS application
GAII ID GAII-T0007 · Updated 2026-10-22 · Compiled from public sources for educational and informational purposes. Not investment advice.