What the Boston Globe calls Google meets Nostradamus, Recorded Future  is currently offering jobs strictly in the US and Sweden currently. A high proportion of the existing team holds PhDs and other advanced degrees (Right: How it works)

Team members have received the Fulbright scholarship, were awarded MIT's TR100 award, etc. The team has built multiple successful analytics businesses with aggregate annual revenues in the 100s of millions of dollars but no names, no faces, a very anonymous pack drill.

Recorded Future trawls the internet for raw data that it uses in an attempt to predict world events—understandably interesting stuff. Both Google and the CIA  are sufficiently interested to have invested $10m and have directors on the board. 

Pulling in data from Visible Technologies and over half a million websites, Twitter feeds, and blog posts, Recorded Future's "spatial and temporal analysis" engine search covers both the where and when of an event and claims to reduce newsworthy events like missile launches and terrorist attacks to factors that can be detected before the next occurrence.

Wired's Noah Shachtman points out that for the first time, Google and the CIA have a strong mutual interest in the same project, and are actively contributing advice and insight to Recorded Futures, a contribution the company's CEO says has been "very helpful."

Recorded Future’s founder, Swedish entrepreneur   Christopher Ahlberg, had an earlier hightech hit with interactive dashboards and the visual analysis of the firm Spotfire  and there’s claimed evidence that he’s helping to raise the reading age of machines in question.

But the one thing still missing, points out the pragmatic Financial Times, is a revenue stream to those collecting, checking and commenting upon the news…..