Chicago Based Start-Up, Narrative Science, Named a 2011 Winner of Chicago Innovation Awards

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Nov 09, 2011, 11:00 ET

CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Narrative Science has been named one of the 2011 winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards. "To be named a winner of the 2011 Chicago Innovation Awards is a fantastic honor," commented Narrative Science CEO, Stuart Frankel. "There are so many companies exploring exciting things here in Chicago and we are so grateful to the awards committee for recognizing the truly innovative work that we are doing at Narrative Science. It speaks to their understanding of the groundbreaking business impact that our product is having in the marketplace. Our technology platform supports and enhances the understanding of large amounts of data through the creation of narrative content."

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The winners were announced at an event held at Chicago's Harris Theater on Tuesday, November 8, with more than 1,400 people attending. The Chicago Innovation Awards, celebrating its 10th year, is the Chicago region's foremost event that recognizes the most innovative new products or services brought to market or to public service each year. There were more than 400 nominees for the 2011 Chicago Innovation Awards, representing an increase of more than 60 percent over the past two years.

Frankel also thanked Narrative Science's customers for having the vision to be early adopters of the Company's technology. "Our customers are the true innovators and have worked with us to refine and improve our technology." Narrative Science can work with many different types of companies including media companies, data subscription services and companies that have proprietary data and a need to better understand and communicate insights from their data to their customers and employees. "We are here to help our customers tackle the challenges of large amounts of data by providing insights in an easy to read and easy to understand format." Narrative Science will join the other winners of this year's Chicago Innovation Awards in ringing the opening bell of the NASDAQ stock market in New York City on November 15.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Narrative Science, a Chicago-based technology company, turns data into stories and insights. Our proprietary artificial intelligence platform produces reports, articles, summaries and more that are automatically created from structured data sources. With amazing speed and quality, narratives are created in multiple formats, including long-form articles, headlines, Tweets and business reports. Narrative Science's technology solution helps customers save time and money by combating data overload, time constraints, cost restrictions and scale issues. Our products help customers discover the insight that is hidden in their data and allows for the creation of new content at a scale that is simply unreachable given human resources alone. Founded in late 2009, the company was initially conceived at Northwestern University's Schools of Engineering and Journalism and is now headquartered in downtown Chicago. Narrative Science is funded by Battery Ventures, SV Angel and Northwestern University's endowment fund. To learn more, go to www.narrativescience.com.

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