Guidepoint
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2003CEO / Founder
Albert SebagEmployees
1001-5000Funding
BootstrappedProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.3/10Website
guidepoint.com/
Profile updated
About Guidepoint
Guidepoint is a global expert network firm founded in 2003 in New York by Albert Sebag. The company provides institutional investors, private equity firms, and corporate clients with access to a vetted network of more than 1.75 million subject-matter experts for research consultations, surveys, and custom advisory.
Guidepoint serves hedge funds, asset managers, and consulting firms with industry insights in areas including healthcare, technology, and energy. The firm competes with AlphaSights, GLG, and Third Bridge.
Guidepoint is privately-held. Albert Sebag founded and continues to lead the firm.
Specialties
Financials
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Competitive Landscape
Who Guidepoint competes with, and how they differ.
The largest expert network by revenue and headcount; competes directly with Guidepoint for institutional-investor and consulting-firm research budgets.
Premium expert-network rival focused heavily on private equity and investment clients, competing on speed and screening quality rather than network size.
Global expert network that also sells primary-research content products (forums, reports), overlapping with Guidepoint's Qsight data offerings.
Newer, faster-growing expert network built around compliance-first workflows, taking share from incumbents including Guidepoint in the mid-market.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Guidepoint's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Acquires Innosquared, a Düsseldorf-based European expert network
The deal expanded Guidepoint's EMEA network past 50,000 experts and gave it its first Germany-based research office.
prnewswire.com - Milestone
Rebrands from Guidepoint Global to Guidepoint
The company shortened its name and unveiled a new logo and website as part of a broader identity overhaul, then serving 200,000+ advisors across 177 countries.
logo-designer.co - Acquisition
Acquires Vista Research from Standard & Poor's
The deal, estimated at $10-15 million, combined the two firms' expert networks and propelled Guidepoint into the industry's number-two position by expert count.
integrity-research.com - Founded
Albert Sebag founds Guidepoint as Clinical Advisors
Sebag, a patent litigator turned entrepreneur, started the company matching cancer patients with clinical trials before it pivoted into a paid expert-network model for financial firms.
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