ClearForest

Developer of text analytics and text mining software solutions.

Acquired by Thomson Reuters
Acquired Petah Tikva, Israel Founded 1998
Last updated 2026-07-26
Total raised
$10.0M
Last: Undisclosed Round 2004-04
Stage
Acquired
Founded
1998
Headcount
31
HQ
Petah Tikva, Israel
Sector

About

ClearForest, acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2007, has joined forces with other NLP experts at Thomson Reuters to form the Text Metadata Services (TMS) Group to address the full spectrum of Thomson Reuters metadata requirements. The company employs state-of-the-art NLP technologies to detect events in narrative text, extract entities, classify topics, and identify meaningful connections between entities. The TMS Group employs a combination of machine-learning and rule-based techniques. When manually labeled training data is available, supervised machine-learning techniques such as logistic regression or SVM are used. In other cases, unsupervised techniques are used, and in combination with an advanced rule-based extraction mechanism, semi-supervised techniques bootstrap from the rules and use the topology of the data to complete the NLP task. Some of the algorithms work at the document level while others extract information and allow question answering by looking at a large corpus of documents.

Funding history · 2 rounds · $10.0M total

2004-03
C Round Extension $2.5M
★ Greylock★ Pitango VC★ JPMorgan Chase★ Booz Allen Hamilton★ DB Capital Ventures★ HarbourVest Partners★ Walden Israel Venture Capital
2003-09
C Round $7.5M
★ Greylock★ Pitango VC★ DB Capital Ventures★ Booz Allen Hamilton★ HarbourVest Partners★ Walden Israel Venture Capital

Q&A

What is ClearForest's primary business?
ClearForest developed text analytics and text mining software solutions, utilizing state-of-the-art NLP technologies to detect events, extract entities, classify topics, and identify connections in narrative text.
When was ClearForest founded?
ClearForest was founded in January 1998.
What was the acquisition status of ClearForest?
ClearForest was acquired by Thomson Reuters in April 2007 for $25,000,000.
How much funding did ClearForest raise in total before its acquisition?
ClearForest raised a total of $33,000,000 across multiple funding rounds.
What is the employee count for ClearForest?
ClearForest had an employee count in the 11-50 range.
What technologies does ClearForest specialize in?
ClearForest specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Sectors & technology

Sub-sectors
Business SoftwareIT, R&D & Data SolutionsData Analysis & Decision SupportData Architecture
Technologies
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingMachine LearningDeep Learning
Target customers
Enterprise & Professional ServicesInformation & Document ManagementKnowledge ManagementITData Centers
Business model
B2B

Tags

text-analyticsdata-analyticsnatural-language-processingknowledge-technologydata-miningmachine-learning
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External links

Websitewww.clearforest.com
LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/17795
Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearForest
Wikidatawikidata.org/wiki/Q5130621

Identifiers & details

Legal nameClearForest Ltd.
Founded1998-1
Employees (exact)31
Status reasonAcquired (Inactive) by Thomson Reuters on Apr 2007 - closed due to acquisition
Wikidata QIDQ5130621

Acquisitions & public offerings

Acquired by Thomson Reuters 2007-04 $25.0M

Radar intelligence

Patents

EPO2

Publications (Crossref)

Works6

Web history (Wayback)

Domainclearforest.com

Wikidata

QIDQ5130621

Israeli Companies Registrar (רשם החברות / ICA)

Registrar # (ח.פ.)512503251
Statusמחוסלת עקב מיזוג — CLOSED
Corp typeישראלית חברה פרטית
Incorporated1997-07-03
Purposeלעסוק בסוגי עיסוק שפורטו בתקנון
Liabilityמוגבלת
In violation (unfiled)no
Last annual report2012
Active charges / liens0
Registry events0
Registered addressדרך אם המושבות 94 פתח תקווה