Intelius

About Intelius

Intelius, Inc. is a United States corporation with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington specializing in public records information and offering service to consumers and businesses which include background checks and identity theft protection. Founded in 2003 with origins in Microsoft and InfoSpace and employing a staff of 113, Intelius is ranked as one of the top 100 electronic commerce sites on the Internet. It had $88 million in revenue in 2007 and has been profitable since 2004. Revenue for Q1 of 2008 was approx 32 Million with EBITDA Profit of 11 Million as per Intelius's IPO filing with SEC

In March 1996, former Microsoft executive Naveen Jain founded InfoSpace, an early online search engine and directory. From 1996-2002, he served as CEO of InfoSpace. Jain co-founded Intelius with co-worker Kevin Marcus as well as John Arnold, Edward Petersen, Niraj Shah and Chandan Chauhan. Setting up shop in 3 stories of a building right across the street, Intelius began offering background checks with online access to court records, property holdings, address histories, and less reliably, "relatives and associates", for a charge of $50 to a credit card. InfoSpace sued both Jain and Marcus for violating the non-compete clauses in their contracts. Jain and Marcus prevailed in May of that year.

Intelius claims more than 4 million unique hits and also receives approximately one million hits daily. Overall it ranks as one of the top 100 Ecommerce sites on the internet. Intelius consistently ranks in the top ten B2B (business to business) advertisers.