Valona Named as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms! 🏆

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What is Valona?

Market intelligence for the world’s most complex industries

Valona is the competitive and market intelligence platform that helps global manufacturers turn continuous, validated intelligence into the decisions that keep them moving ahead of their markets.

Valona roughly translates to “as light” in Finnish. Make of that what you will.

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Our story

Valona Intelligence is a premier market and competitive intelligence solution provider. Valona blends generative AI with expert analysis to deliver crucial, relevant insights for large enterprises and manufacturers.

Delivering hyper-relevant, real-time global insights, Valona empowers business leaders to understand their market environment, risks, and opportunities, equipping them with foresight and a global outlook. Supported by an industry-expert analytical team, the Valona AI-powered platform helps businesses meet growth targets, venture into new markets, enhance product development, anticipate supply chain disruptions, manage market threats, and outpace competition.

Valona maintains a proprietary database of over 200,000 unique, industry-specific global business data sources. The information is harvested to generate valuable insights for over 350,000 daily users, translating data from over 115 languages into English.

Formerly known as M-Brain, we became Valona in 2023. Since 1999, Valona has served Fortune 500 companies including Goodyear, HSBC, Bosch, Philips, and Cintas, monitoring the global business environment 24/7 to provide strategic foresight that helps shape their future.

Valona was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q4 2024, and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms.

Why leading companies choose Valona Intelligence

Good competitive and market intelligence starts with finding the right information and understanding what it means. Valona helps companies do both, at the scale and speed global businesses need.

  • Enterprise-level strategic foresight

    Turn market intelligence into a shared view of what’s changing and what could come next. Valona helps teams across the organization anticipate change, align around what matters, and make better-informed decisions.

  • Always-on market intelligence

    Keep track of the markets, competitors, and topics that matter without starting every analysis from scratch. Valona’s recurring AI analysis helps teams follow developments, spot changes, and understand how they evolve over time.

  • Industry-specific competitive intelligence

    Access relevant intelligence from premium databases, specialized publications, and hard-to-find industry sources. Combined with deep industry expertise, Valona helps you track competitors, regulatory changes, market opportunities, and the developments that matter to your business.

  • Intelligence-grade AI

    Go beyond generic AI with technology built for competitive and market intelligence. Valona combines AI with trusted business sources and decades of human intelligence expertise to deliver relevant, well-grounded answers.

A global leader in providing trusted market and competitive intelligence

Our vision is to make every business decision insights-driven. We empower organizations to navigate the complexities of the market landscape with confidence and clarity.

“By developing our proprietary generative AI capabilities and global sources, named as the world’s best by Forrester Wave, our vision is crystal clear: To equip our customers with unmatched global insights that redefine the way businesses operate, not just now but also well into the future.”

Stuart Reynish Chief Product Officer Valona Intelligence

Meet the Valona management team

  • Kimmo Havu

    Kimmo Havu

    Chief Executive Officer
  • Jani Wahlroos

    Chief Financial Officer
  • Stuart Reynish

    Chief Product Officer
  • Niklas_Carling_CRO_Valona_Intelligence

    Niklas Carling

    Chief Revenue Officer
  • Kati Tammisto

    Chief Marketing Officer
  • Eric Lau

    Chief Customer Officer
  • Eetu Laaksonen

    Chief Technology Officer

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