Meltwater (company)

Meltwater
Formerly	Meltwater Group
Company type	Private company
Traded as	Oslo Stock Exchange: MWTR
Founded	2001 in Oslo, Norway
Founder	Jørn Lyseggen; Gard Haugen;
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jørn Lyseggen (Chairman); John Box (CEO);
Revenue	US$439 million (2023)
Number of employees	2,200 (2022)

Meltwater is an online media monitoring company. It is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (Oslo Børs) (ticker code: MWTR).^[2] The company was founded in Oslo, Norway, by Jørn Lyseggen,^[3] in 2001 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices across Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, Australia, and Africa. The company employs around 2,200 people and has approximately 27,000 clients internationally.^[1]^[4] In February 2023, Meltwater reported $439 million USD in revenue for the full 2022 fiscal year.^[5]

The Meltwater Foundation, the non-profit arm of the company, started Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana.^[6] MEST is a Pan-African training program, seed fund and incubator, founded by Jorn Lyseggen in 2008, to provide training, investment, and mentoring for aspiring technology entrepreneurs in Africa.^[7]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Meltwater Q4 2021 presentation" (PDF). Meltwater Group. 24 February 2022.
^ "NewsWeb". newsweb.oslobors.no. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
^ Ringheim, Gunnar (2010-11-29). "Odelsgutten ble imperiebygger". dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2022-06-15.
^ "Meltwater admitted to trading on Euronext Growth". Euronext. 2020-12-03.
^ "NewsWeb". newsweb.oslobors.no. Retrieved 2023-03-02.
^ Edenhall, Ylva (2011-02-18). "Hon utbildar it-företagare i Ghana". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
^ Bright, Jake (17 October 2015). "Ghana's MEST Incubator to Launch Pan-African VC Fund, Expand Training Programs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 1 January 2017

[ppt-1] "Meltwater Q4 2021 presentation" (PDF). Meltwater Group. 24 February 2022.

[2] "NewsWeb". newsweb.oslobors.no. Retrieved 2022-07-20.

[3] Ringheim, Gunnar (2010-11-29). "Odelsgutten ble imperiebygger". dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2022-06-15.

[euronext.com-4] "Meltwater admitted to trading on Euronext Growth". Euronext. 2020-12-03.

[5] "NewsWeb". newsweb.oslobors.no. Retrieved 2023-03-02.

[6] Edenhall, Ylva (2011-02-18). "Hon utbildar it-företagare i Ghana". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2022-06-15.

[7] Bright, Jake (17 October 2015). "Ghana's MEST Incubator to Launch Pan-African VC Fund, Expand Training Programs". TechCrunch. Retrieved 1 January 2017

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