This is a personal reflection on The Data City’s journey, our recent milestones, and how our customer-focused approach has driven our success – and will continue to do so as we scale globally.
Since our founding in 2017, The Data City has achieved remarkable growth. But in February 2025, we hit three key milestones that mark our transition from a UK-based AI startup to a global scale-up:
- The Launch of V5: Our latest product release is a game-changer.
- Record Growth: Q1 2025 has been our best quarter yet – record sales, revenue, platform users, and team growth.
- Investment Partnership with Oxford Economics: A strategic move that opens global opportunities.
V5: The Data City Industry Engine
At The Data City, our mission is liberation:
– Liberation from outdated industrial classifications.
– Liberation from fragmented, poorly structured data.
– Liberation from backward-looking, limited reports.
We’ve built the infrastructure, AI-powered classification technology, and tools to help our customers understand the economy in real time. In short, we’re on a mission to #killallreports.
With V5, we’ve achieved this. It’s blazingly fast, beautifully designed, and delivers precise industrial classifications in milliseconds. Our Real-time Industry Classifications (RTICs) and Real-time SIC Codes (RSICs) – moving at the speed of the web – fix the failures of outdated SIC and NAICS codes. This means economic forecasts, analysis, and commentary can finally catch up with the modern economy.
Globally, confidence in official economic statistics is declining. Our high-quality data infrastructure addresses this problem head-on, and our partners and customers agree.
The most exciting feature of V5? It’s built to scale. Our data infrastructure, AI classification, and user interface are engineered to support global products, which will be in customers’ hands by the end of this year.
Interested in exploring V5? You can sign up to a free trial.
Growth: From the UK to the world
Q1 2025 wasn’t just a record-breaking quarter – it was a springboard for global expansion. Our investment partnership with Oxford Economics provides the capital and confidence to scale our platform worldwide.
This partnership unlocks three key opportunities:
North America joint venture: Leveraging Oxford Economics’ existing presence, we’re establishing a foothold in one of the world’s largest markets.
Integrated forecasting products: We’re working with Oxford Economics to integrate our data into their forecasting tools, creating even more value for customers.
Global platform development: Building on our UK success, we’re bringing our pioneering approach to major economies worldwide.
Why this matters
We are solving real problems for users and thinking big. We’re not just building a product -we’re creating the infrastructure to redefine how the world understands the economy.
This is just the beginning. With V5, global expansion, and a world-class team, we’re ready to take on the next chapter.
Thank you
None of this would have been possible without the incredible efforts of The Data City team, our board members (Alex, Tom, and Kelly), and our advisors. A special thanks to Adrian Cooper from Oxford Economics for helping us see the global opportunity, Greg Allsop from Venturian for supporting our early growth, and Jonathon Priestley and the 3Volution team for making the deal happen.
