Meltwater, has been admitted to trading on Euronext Growth market. Jørn Lyseggen, founder and Executive Chairman of Meltwater started the company in shack number 15 on Tjuvholmen, Oslo in 2001. Today Meltwater’s algorithms analyse 500 million documents and perform more than 12 trillion searches every day. Meltwater claims 28,000 customers, globally and 50 offices around the world. Meltwater is licensed in UK and Australia, plus selected publisher agreements elsewhere, but none are reported with PDLN members.

Market capitalisation was EUR 1,193 million on the day of listing. According to Meltwater’s documents, the company generated e287million in revenue last financial year (FY19) from its global media monitoring services. It has been acquiring many other business for the past 5 years and the money raised will pay off debt as well as reward the founders.