AnthologyAI

AnthologyAI (officially Anthology Labs Inc., also known under the brand Caden) is a New‑York‑based startup founded in 2021 by John Roa and headquartered in SoHo, Manhattan, NYC.
It positions itself as a consumer-data company and “Personal AI Data” platform that ethically acquires real-time consumer data (over 100 million datapoints daily) directly from consenting users via its mobile app Caden, compensating them in exchange for anonymized behavioral data.

📊 Data & Platform

The collected data spans retail purchases, travel, ride-share usage, media consumption, streaming, personal finance transactions, geolocation (with points of interest), hotel stays, and airline travel across major US providers.
AnthologyAI’s AI models are trained on tens of billions of ethically sourced datapoints, emphasizing privacy-first, PII-free cohort-level insights, and predictive intelligence rather than generative chat models anthology.ai
They provide real-time analytics for enterprises, hedge funds, retail intelligence, marketing audiences, and economic forecasting—e.g., predicting inflation or customer churn, identifying trends, foot traffic estimates, and content popularity anthology.ai.

As of mid‑2025:
- Raised approximately $24.4M in venture capital by Series A lead by Nava Ventures in August 2023 Crunchbase.
- ~40–50 full-time employees, operating across several continents, with primary operations in NYC .
- Reported revenue of ~$3.8M annually as of June 2025, working across data-intelligence, analytics, adtech, financial services industries .
The company’s mission: “democratize access to the world’s most ethical & accurate consumer data set” by offering subscription/API-based access to their AI-powered datasets.