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“Enterprise location intelligence”

Unacast is a premier provider of enterprise location intelligence, dedicated to transforming complex, real-world movement data into actionable business insights. By leveraging a sophisticated, patented data processing engine, the company bridges the gap between the physical and digital worlds, offering organizations a comprehensive view of human mobility. Unacast’s core mission is to empower decision-makers with high-fidelity, privacy-compliant data that reveals the nuances of consumer behavior, enabling businesses to navigate competitive landscapes with confidence and precision.

Following its strategic merger with Gravy Analytics, the company has solidified its position as a global leader in the location data sector, providing unparalleled visibility into the offline consumer journey. The company’s extensive product portfolio centers on high-quality visit data, global foot traffic analytics, and robust mobility datasets. Unacast offers both aggregated and unaggregated, device-level data, allowing clients to build custom foot traffic models or analyze global traffic trends over multi-year historical periods.

Beyond raw movement data, the company provides sophisticated audience intelligence, including hundreds of psychographic personas that enrich first-party data with deeper context regarding consumer preferences and habits. These datasets are designed to be flexible, supporting various delivery methods including direct API access and bulk data transfers to ensure seamless integration into existing enterprise workflows. Unacast serves a diverse range of industries, with a strong focus on finance, investment, commercial real estate, and retail strategy.

Financial analysts and investment firms utilize Unacast’s data to gauge the health of retail chains, predict quarterly performance, and identify emerging market trends before they are reflected in traditional reporting. Retailers and commercial real estate developers rely on these insights to optimize site selection, evaluate trade areas, and understand the competitive dynamics of specific geographic locations. Furthermore, the company’s data is instrumental for researchers and urban planners seeking to understand population movement and infrastructure utilization.

Technical excellence is at the heart of Unacast’s operations. The company processes billions of pseudonymous mobile location signals daily, employing rigorous verification processes to ensure data accuracy and reliability. A fundamental pillar of the company’s value proposition is its commitment to privacy; all data solutions are built with a privacy-first approach, ensuring that insights are derived from opt-in, compliant sources.

By providing granular data that is both scalable and ethically sourced, Unacast enables organizations to move beyond intuition, grounding their strategic initiatives in the objective reality of where people go and how they interact with the physical environment.

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Intelligence Score
51/100
Your Rating
Products

21

Type

data_provider

HQ

USA

Founded

2014

Employees

42

Platforms

3

Domain

unacast.com

Offering

Geospatial Intelligence

Cost Tier

$$$

Data Quality SignalsA

Freshness

Recently enriched

API Status

API Available

100Completeness

Compliance (vendor-reported)

SOC 2
ISO 27001
GDPR
CCPA

Quality Breakdown

Data Coverage
80
Documentation
100
Compliance
78
Pricing Clarity
39

Signal Analysis

Categories

Foot Traffic DataGeo LocationGeospatial DataProviders

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Delivery Methods

API

Geographic Coverage

Global with primary focus on North America

Procurement Intelligence

Primary OfferingGlobal mobile location and foot traffic data, including device-level signals and psychographic consumer personas for site selection and competitive intelligence.
Best ForRetail and real estate analysts performing site selection, catchment area analysis, and consumer behavior modeling.
Benefits
  • High-fidelity device-level mobility signals
  • Extensive psychographic consumer persona enrichment
  • Robust 3-year historical data availability
  • Flexible delivery options including API and bulk data access
  • Strong integration of Gravy Analytics assets for broader coverage
Disadvantages
  • Primary focus remains North America despite global claims
  • High entry price point compared to niche geospatial providers
  • Complexity in managing raw device-level data streams
Intelligence ScoresAll pillars scored
Market Presence
49
Trust & Compliance
71
Integration
60
Business Maturity
64
AI Readiness
38
Support & Ops
61
Product Quality
60
Extended Analytics
Price Compete
10
Price Clarity
39
Centrality
10
Causal Authority
36
Causal Depth
100

Deep Intelligence

Enriched98% coverage

Web Authority

Notable
40
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4 × 2 pts+8
Reddit
2 × 3 pts+6
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2 × 1 pts+2
Evidence5 sources
Reddit

Have you used Unacast? My team wants to figure out if it's ...

Have you used Unacast? My team wants to figure out if it's being applied to retail real estate strategy. Poll closed 4 votes. Yes. Not enough ...

Reddit

Looking for a good company for foot traffic data, that I can ...

I have done basic research of a couple companies such as Onspot data, Unacast, Mapzot, Alphamap, but I haven't reached out for my specific needs.

LinkedIn

Unacast Secures $28M from Vector Capital for Location ...

Unacast has secured $28M in new financing from Vector Capital Management — a major milestone that will help accelerate the next phase of our ...

Trust & Compliance
Trust Score
75/100

Based on vendor-reported attestations, not verified by Vedex. Breach history is not scored.

SOC 2
ISO 27001
GDPR
Encryption: AES-256 for data at rest and TLS 1.2+ fo…Pen Test: Annual third-party penetration testing

These are the vendor's own attestations as collected from public sources, not Vedex's. Verify directly with the vendor.

SOC 2 Type IIYes (current report available)
GDPRFully compliant (DPA available)
ISO 27001No
Risk ScoreB+
EncryptionAES-256 for data at rest and TLS 1.2+ for data in transit
Penetration TestingAnnual third-party penetration testing
Audit LoggingYes (on request)
Breach HistoryNo public incident found in our search (unverified)
Data Privacy OfficerYes (shared role)
Compliance OfficerYes (part-time)
Privacy LawsGDPR, CCPA/CPRA
Data ResidencyUS
Personal Data BasisLegitimate interest and contractual necessity
Sub-processor TransparencyAvailable on request

Products (21)

Unacast Foot Traffic Data | Trade Areas Data - Where Consumers Travel To and From
datarade5.0APISample

Essential for foot traffic data models. Submit geographic coordinates and time range to receive a list of anonymous device IDs observed at that location, along with mobility patterns for each device. …

on-demandAfghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania["S3 Bucket", "REST API"]
Value 65Coverage 50Trial 45
Pricing (estimated)
~$5,000/yr est.
Area Visitors | analyze global traffic trends via API or batch data delivery
datarade5.0APISample

Submit your own geographic coordinates and time range and receive the counts and mobile device IDs observed in that area during that time in return. Ready-made analytics available on demand, via API.…

on-demandAfghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania["S3 Bucket", "REST API"]
Value 93Coverage 50Trial 25
Pricing
~$1/yr est.
Unacast Global Foot Traffic Data | Unaggregated, Device-Level Data for Building Foot Traffic Models
datarade5.0APISample

Device-level location data to build foot traffic data models. Each device signal has built-in analytics to give data teams a more reliable data stream for modeling foot traffic metrics. The dataset is…

on-demandAfghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania["S3 Bucket", "REST API"]
Value 65Coverage 50Trial 25
Pricing
~$60,000/yr est.
Unacast Mobility Data | Global Mobile Location Data - 70B Daily Signals
datarade5.0APISample

Privacy-friendly mobility data for areas of interest globally. Available via API or bulk delivery with place category and associated brands included.

on-demandAfghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania["S3 Bucket", "REST API"]
Value 93Coverage 50Trial 25
Pricing
~$1/yr est.

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About Unacast

Unacast is a data provider vendor headquartered in USA, founded in 2014 with approximately 42 employees. Unacast specializes in foot traffic data, geo location, geospatial data, providers data. This vendor has a Vedex Intelligence Score of 51 out of 100, reflecting market presence, compliance posture, integration readiness, and business maturity.

Data Categories

Unacast operates in the following alternative data categories.

Foot Traffic DataGeo LocationGeospatial DataProviders

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