Exclusive: AlphaSense names new CFO as revenue tops $500 million

Good morning. For several years, Samantha Greenberg used AlphaSense to analyze companies. Now she’s the platform’s CFO.

AlphaSense is a specialized AI-powered search engine for companies, investors, and analysts. Instead of the open web, the platform indexes a library of about 500 million documents, including premium business content such as SEC filings, earnings transcripts, and expert research.

Greenberg became chief financial officer on Monday, succeeding Joe Hill. She has used the product for more than seven years as an investor — a relationship she said shaped how she thinks about finance teams operating in a data-heavy, AI-enabled environment — and more recently as a corporate user in CFO roles.

“It’s a product I love,” she told me on her first day at the company.

Greenberg’s appointment comes as AlphaSense, a New York-based private company, reports more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue and over 7,000 customers, including 70% of the S&P 500 and 90% of the S&P 100, she said. Reports in March said  the company is seeking hundreds of millions in new funding at a valuation above its prior $4 billion mark from a 2024 Series F. Greenberg declined to comment on fundraising but called it “really exciting to see institutional investor validation of the momentum and value and impact that our AI platform is delivering in the marketplace.”

Earlier in her career, she spent nearly........

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