[1][2] The company's clients include professionals operating in management & strategy consulting, investment management, private equity, corporate and professional services firms with interests in a range of markets including technology, industrials, consumer goods, telecommunications, utilities, financial services, healthcare, consumer services, basic materials, and oil and gas.

[3] AlphaSights is headquartered in London and has offices in New York,[4] Hamburg, Dubai, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo.

The company was founded in 2008 and incorporated in 2009 in London by Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath.

Cartellieri co-founded Ciao AG, a leading European price comparison website, backed by Munich-based venture capital investor Acton Capital Partners[6] and ultimately acquired by Microsoft.

[9] In April 2017, AlphaSights was named as one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive companies headquartered in Europe by the Financial Times.