Intelius, the Company, the Website, and the Man behind it

Built by Naveen Jain, Intelius is a multiple Stevie Award-nominee and a highly ranked website on comScore. It is also one of the biggest private firms in Washington, where it has been headquartered since 2003. Enjoying a million hits a day, Intelius is one of the hottest web properties around in information commerce.

To employers and parents, intelligence is something that is critical when faced with a flood of dubious applicants and neighbors. Hence, Intellius brokers personal information and identity theft prevention products to American companies and citizens. The information at hand is public, in that they are gathered from telephone directories, court houses, and public agencies from state to county levels.

Intellius has a search engine integrated with a 30-year address history, a vital component for tracking the homes of innumerable people in America. At the most basic, the company can run background checks of as many people as users wish to know.

Intelius succeeded InfoSpac among Naveen Jain’s entrepreneurial ventures. Except for its ties to Naveen Jain and the obvious technological denominator, InfoSpace was a far different company than the next; it was a publicly traded, multi-billion content provider with impressive stock performances on Wall Street.

Jain is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, India. He immigrated to the US in the 1980s, after which he landed work in Microsoft Corporation, specifically in its Windows NT and Windows 95 teams.

When one reaches a certain point in success though, one does not incessantly hurtle forward. One stops, and gives back. However, Naveen Jain and his company not only donate to charity; they have chosen to make a statement.

With 2008 contributions of $210,000, Intelius has become one of the most generous philanthropists among private firms around Puget Sound. It even necessitated a high-flying entry for the company in a similar list by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

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