Open Measures Joins Everbridge

Open Measures is joining Everbridge, an industry-leading critical event management platform trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, to provide security, safety, and communication teams a more complete picture of the threats and narratives that matter to them most.

When Open Measures was founded in 2021, with grant funding from the Mozilla Foundation, Start.coop, and Google Jigsaw, our team came together to solve a problem: disinformation and other online harms tend to first take shape on the unmoderated internet – on Telegram channels, fringe forums, and alternative platforms – long before the mainstream notices. We built a solution to make that space visible, designed for the researchers, press desks, enterprises, and civil society organizations that hoped to hold the otherwise hidden actors there accountable.

With this acquisition, we will have even more resources to deliver on our mission. Here’s why:

Our reach and impact will expand exponentially. Everbridge works with organizations managing critical events at a scale we couldn't reach alone. Folding our social risk intelligence platform into that ecosystem means more organizations get earlier warnings about the narratives and coordinated activities that often precede real-world harm, which has always been important to us.

Our research – supporting journalists, academic researchers, and corporate teams alike – will continue without interruption. Over the years, Open Measures has been cited in NPR, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and our findings have aided the work of organizations like ProPublica, Bellingcat, and Bridging Divides Initiative as well as researchers at Oxford and NYU. To preserve the trust our researchers have built, and with Everbridge’s enthusiastic support, we’ll continue producing the same quality reporting and coverage we always have.

The entire team will remain the same. It was critical to us that our entire team – from research to engineering to operations, international contractors to executives – would be retained through acquisition. Every member of our team remains on board and energized to continue this work. 

Open Measures will still be Open Measures. We’ll continue our work developing cutting-edge software and pioneering research with the same branding and feel that the industry is used to. We’ll maintain our identity in all that we do (including our much-acclaimed merch – IYKYK). 

After many conversations with Everbridge, the deal we’ve arrived at is designed to ensure that our mission will outlive our acquisition. 

Before closing, we’d like to reflect on some of the work that we’ve been most proud of to date:

• Our research into 4chan's "Adult Requests" board – one of the internet's largest and fastest-growing venues for nonconsensual AI-generated explicit imagery – helped spark wider scrutiny and culminated in its coming offline. The board has stayed offline for months with no sign of returning.

• The New Arab partnered with Open Measures’ researchers and leveraged our platform to analyze roughly 4.4 million Telegram posts across 86 channels, uncovering how Israeli settler militias in the West Bank raised more than $3.75 million through nonprofits since October 2023. That reporting helped lead to the UK, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia sanctioning two of the named organizations in June 2026, and the investigation was later shortlisted for a 2025 Amnesty Media Award.

• Our 2026 AI Threat Landscape Report mapped how AI-enabled cybercrime moves across platforms, finding that 4chan serves as a discovery hub generating 300–350 related posts per day, while Discord hosts invite-only R&D servers, and Telegram increasingly functions as a commercialization layer for these tools.

• ProPublica and FRONTLINE's investigation into the neo-Nazi Terrorgram network relied on our platform to help identify the coordinated and dangerous online activity tied to the network. 

From our entire team: thank you to everyone who chose us to help with their hardest problems, believed in our platform, and trusted a small, worker-owned company to punch above its weight. As Open Measures enters this new chapter, with the same team and platform organizations have come to depend on, our work will continue.