# Automated Insights: Information Technology & Services, Durham, United States

> Automated Insights: Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation platform.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/automated-insights (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Automated Insights

Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation platform.

Listed

Information Technology & Services Durham, United States

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2007 19 years old
- **Team:** - not reported
- **Funding reported:** - none reported
- **Last round:** - date not reported

How sure we are

- 1 **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Automated Insights has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About Automated Insights

Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation platform.

Wordsmith allows users to generate human-sounding narratives from data, making it easy to produce millions of personalized reports, articles and narratives in the time it takes to write just one. The Wordsmith platform helps companies in data-driven industries, including financial services, e-commerce, real estate, business intelligence, media and many others, achieve content scale, efficiency and personalization. More than 200 customers, including Allstate, Associated Press, Edmunds.com, the Orlando Magic and Yahoo! use Wordsmith to generate more than 1.5 billion pieces of content per year.

## Founders and team

From the SEC filings it signed: 3 on the team.

- **Adam M. Smith** Executive Officer i
- **Robert Allen** Executive Officer, Director i
- **Scott M. Frederick** Executive Officer, Director i

On the board, as filed i *David M. Drahms* *Jim M. Dugan* *Randy M. Castleman* *Scot M. Wingo*

## On a portfolio page

Investors who name them

- [BoxGroup](https://millionrounds.com/fund/boxgroup)

Each firm lists Automated Insights on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## How it ended, so far

Exit

Exit Buyer Price When

Acquired [Vista Equity Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/vista-equity-partners) $80M Feb 2015

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