Zintro, Inc

· Market Research

Zintro is an online platform and marketplace which enables companies to source and engage highly specialized experts (SMEs, industry participants, consultants, contractors and job candidates). Zintro’s 138,000+ experts span thousands of areas of expertise across industry sectors, geographies and job functions. Zintro, Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company founded by two-time entrepreneur Stuart Lewtan. Stuart conceived of Zintro while serving as an executive-in-residence at a prominent Boston VC/PE firm. At that time, he was using expensive expert networks to source thought leaders and consultants to help diligence potential investment opportunities. Stuart hypothesized: “if someone could bring technology to bear on this problem set, they could effectively democratize the market by bringing the cost down and serving a much larger universe of clients and experts.” Moreover, by using a matching algorithm rather than a human recruiter to connect clients and experts, the platform could uncover unique “alpha-generating” experts. Zintro also uses a large universe of industry experts and low-cost overseas resources to perform JIT recruiting for experts not already on the Zintro platform. This way, Zintro can meet almost any client’s needs. Many of Zintro’s clients also want the flexibility to engage experts for longer consulting projects and/or board-level or full-time positions. The Zintro platform is designed to serve these use cases (phone consults, projects, jobs) as a seamless continuum of “expertise products” that can be delivered by one expertise platform. Zintro’s 300+ clients include PE/VC firms, investment managers, family offices, management consultancies, market research firms, and companies ranging from startups to Global 1000 enterprises. Zintro’s primary competitors are traditional expert networks and Zintro’s selling proposition is “get the same or better experts and service levels as GLG or Alphasights or Guidepoint for 30 -75% lower cost”.