Maven7 (company)

Maven7

Type	Private
Founded	2009
Headquarters	Budapest, Hungary
No. of locations	Boston, Massachusetts
Area served	World
Founder(s)	Péter Ruppert András Vicsek Albert-László Barabási Tamás Vicsek Dániel Ábel Illés Farkas Péter Pollner Gergely Palla
Industry	Technology
Slogan(s)	Connecting knowledge
Website	maven7.com

Maven7 (aka Maven Seven Hálózatkutató Zrt. or Maven Seven Network Research Inc.) is a network analysis and data mining research and consultancy company. It utilizes business applications of the latest research of network science to transform large amounts of hard-to-interpret data into actionable business intelligence.

Products

By combining methodologies of disciplines such as physics, network science, data mining, mathematical programming, statistics, sociology, communication, psychology and economics, Maven7 currently provides deep analysis in three main fields: Organizational network analysis, social media analysis, and big data analysis.

OrgMapper

OrgMapper is a cloud-based automated system, an online organizational diagnostic tool that uses the methodologies of organizational network analysis (ONA) and sociometry to reveal hidden informal employee networks. Its methodology is based on quantitative data analysis. OrgMapper maps the human side of organizational processes, measures the actual workflow connections between employees, exposes patterns of behavior, and precisely reveals points for interventions to aid organizational development.
OrgMapper currently has five modules:

• ChangeMapper supports the acceleration of organizational change initiatives, such as mergers and acquisitions, system implementation, etc., by identifying key employees.
• TeamMapper supports the building of high-performing teams, by exposing the exact challenges of cohesion among team members.
• TalentMapper supports the identification and development of future leaders, most frequently used in succession planning programs.
• KnowledgeMapper supports the understanding of an organization's flow of knowledge, e.g. in EH&S or sales excellence programs.
• PerformanceMapper supports the aligning of corporate strategies with human delivery by x-raying aspects of the corporate culture related to actions and behaviors (e.g. throughout a process redesign initiative).

The very first version of OrgMapper was called FirmNet,^[1] a complex network analysis desktop application developed in 2010. The C-finder software,^[2] that can be used to identify the group-structures of a network, is also part of the Firmnet program package, and has also been developed by Maven7 co-founders. In Q2, 2013, an online SaaS version of FirmNet, called FirmNet Online (FNO), was introduced, and was rebranded to OrgMapper in February, 2014.^[3]

Diktio Labs

Diktio Labs is a suite of semi-automated network analysis tools that identify and analyze communities and influencers in the digital space (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google+, blogs, etc.). Its insights enable marketing professionals to know exactly who will prove receptive, influential and responsive to their messaging prior to a campaign launch. Diktio Labs works directly with end-user clients and also partners with marketing advisors and agencies.^[4]
Diktio Labs has three subproducts:

• Iris provides community and influencer mapping solutions.
• Metis provides political foresight and electorate forecasting.^[5]
• Panacea provides patient & key opinion leader mapping and community analysis for the pharmaceutical and medical industries.

Operation and History

Maven7 was founded in 2009 in Budapest, Hungary, where its headquarters are still located. The company has been operating as a VC-backed company since December, 2013, when it raised USD $740,000 in venture capital from Primus Capital.^[6][7][8][9] In January 2014, the company opened its first US office in Boston, Massachusetts.^[10]

Scientific background

Through its physicist and network scientist co-founders, Maven7 has close working relations with the prime academic think tanks of the discipline. The methodologies developed by and integrated into Maven7's analytics solutions are based on the works of Albert-László Barabási and Tamás Vicsek, along with the Vicsek-led biological physics research department of Hungarian Eötvös Loránd University.

Albert-László Barabási is a complex network scientist and a pioneer of real-world network theory. He is a distinguished professor at Central European University, Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research, and holds appointments in the departments of physics, computer science and biology, as well as in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and is a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Besides a number of widely-cited publications and books, he is the author of two bestsellers "Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do" (Dutton, 2010)^[11] and "Linked: The New Science of Networks" (Perseus, 2002),^[12] both available in multiple languages. His work led to the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, and he proposed the Barabási-Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the WWW or online communities. His work on complex networks has been widely featured in the media.^[13]

Tamás Vicsek is a professor of physics at the biological physics department of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), and a head of the Statistical and Biological Physics research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Over the past 25 years, he has been involved in computational and experimental research on fractals, pattern formation, the low-frequency collective motion in proteins and DNA, the collective motion of bacterial colonies, the flocking of birds,^[14] and the structure and evolution of complex networks.^[15] Applied to crowds, he co-authored papers on mapping group dynamics within social networks and spontaneous collective decisions, such as initiating a Mexican wave.^[16] He has published five books, over 225 articles,^[17] and has given lectures at 100+ international conferences. His results had been published several times by leading scientific journals, such as Nature. Most recently, as part of the COLLMOT Robotic Research Project, a five-year program on the complex structure and dynamics of collective motion he coordinates, his team of Hungarian researchers created self-organizing drones that flock like birds and follow rules of collective motion.^[18] Mr. Vicsek has received the Novobátzky Award, Leó Szilárd Professor Award and the Széchenyi Award. Honorary member of the American Physical Society.

Awards and Recognitions

• Selected to represent Hungary in the V4 Google Summit on Digital Economy in September 2014, along with other Hungarian startups Prezi, Gravity R&D, and Intellisense.^[19]
• Consortium member of the Seventh Framework Programme EU project, Optimizr.^[20]

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