Samantha Monk

  • Samantha Monk is Meltwater veteran who is currently overseeing the company's Fairhair.ai business line in EMEA. As such she is responsible for finding new ways to monetise Meltwater's data: the largest corpus of news articles and social media posts in the world, enriched with NLP to detect sentiment in 16 different languages, and structured around entities. She is currently working closely with Meltwater's engineering and product teams to explore the application for this unique dataset in finance: for short term trading, for private equity due diligence and ongoing investment monitoring, for credit reporting and for identifying risk and high-growth opportunities around small private companies. Before her current role, Samantha led Meltwater sales and client success teams in Boston, Buenos Aires, Edinburgh and London. In her free time, she maintains a Twitter account (@samantha.monk) focused on providing up to date news around artificial intelligence and machine learning.

 



2 Stories by Samantha Monk

Peloton IPO: Some factors investors should consider

In late August, connected bike and treadmill company Peloton – described as the “Netflix of exercise” – filed paperwork to go public. Their business...
September 11, 2019 3 min read 302

WeWork: A Pre-IPO Alternative Data Analysis

Most investors will have heard that co-working company WeWork plans to go public this fall. Its tequila-swigging, surfer dude CEO Adam Neumann makes renting...
September 2, 2019 2 min read 579