TipRanks


TipRanks is a company that ranks financial analysts. It was founded in 2012. In late 2012 TipRanks launched a browser add-on that shows analyst information inside articles.
In 2013, won the Finovate awards twice. In 2014, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer invested in the company.
TipRanks operates a website offering paid and free subscriptions on information about financial analysts, bloggers and insider trading.

History

TipRanks was founded in June 2013 by Uri Gruenbaum and Gilad Gat. They teamed up with Roni Michaely, a finance professor at Cornell University. TipRanks was initially available only as a browser extension in a freemium model. In 2013 TipRanks won the Finovate spring contest and later that year it won the Finovate fall contest. TipRanks participated in 2013 in Microsoft's AppCampus program at Aalto University building a Windows Phone app.
In 2014 TipRanks launched a website offering rankings of analysts, bloggers and insiders. Later that year TipRanks CEO Uri Gruenbaum appeared with Spitzer on CNBC ranking the best and worst analysts of the year according to TipRanks.