Intelius: Your High-Tech Personal Private Eye

As the task of digging up public information about people requires time, money, and a lot of perseverance, this task is often delegated to private investigators who can unearth information on your behalf and save you the trouble.

Intelius, a Bellevue, Washington-based information commerce company has found a way to integrate information with powerful technology and act as your personal online private eye.

Intelius specializes in providing predictive intelligence to individuals and businesses and empowering them to make intelligence decisions every day. The firm’s services include background checks, screening technology, verification, and people search services. In the personal sphere, Intelius‘ services have:

• helped parents review the background of nannies or child care handlers to ensure their children’s safety
• enabled single people to investigate potential dates in order to make informed decisions about their personal lives
• helped senior war veterans avail of discounted protection from identity crimes with an identity theft prevention product called IDWatch
• helped families and friends reconnect with the help of people search

In the business sphere, Intelius has made seamless employment screening technology possible for businesses of all sizes. Employers and lessors can now screen applicants with confidence and the firm’s highly configurable technology has made it easier for them to hire people according to the specific needs of their businesses.

Utilizing 20 billion records that are in its database, Intelius has enormous search capabilities that are unlike the conventional private eye. In addition, these records have been gathered from publicly-available online and offline databases, ensuring that the information the company uses and gives out is perfectly legal.

Intelius is an innovative company co-founded by former InfoSpace executive Naveen Jain in 2003. Starting out small six years ago, it has since grown into one of the “Rising Stars” of the industry according to Deloitte & Touche, claiming a unique customer base of 8 million people all over the country.