01 · Product name
Venntel
Commercial device-location data sold to government and defense teams.
Published by Venntel.
In short
Venntel sells location intelligence to government, defense, and selected private organizations. The data is commercially sourced device location, not a GPS feed Venntel collects from phones itself. Location Intelligence is the historical product. Location Stream is a low-latency feed delivered by API. Gravy Analytics, its parent, has merged with Unacast, and an FTC complaint describes Venntel sales to public-sector customers. There is no public search box and no public price.
Product pricing strategy
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Premium
Venntel is a premium product. Budget for a subscription or a quote. If the vendor does not publish a simple price, the number is sales-led. This listing does not invent one.
Utility and features
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Venntel is not a website where you type a name. It is a location-data business. The company site describes two products. Location Intelligence is historical mobility data for analysis over time, which Venntel says draws on commercially available location signals across a large number of countries. Location Stream is the low-latency feed for monitoring, delivered as an API, with a data-as-a-service option described as coming later. The site says customers can take a region rather than a global license, and that the stream is built to land in a dashboard or a geospatial system the customer already runs. It also says the data is merged from many suppliers rather than one.
- Location Intelligence. Historical mobility data for analysis. Venntel describes it as commercially sourced and refined, not as a feed the company collects from handsets itself.
- Location Stream. A low-latency API for operational monitoring. Coverage is sold by region. A bulk data delivery option has been described as later.
- Who can buy it. Government, defense, intelligence, allied governments, and some private security or infrastructure teams. Not a public account.
- What a signal is. A device observation tied to an advertising identifier and a time. The FTC record describes richer fields in what Venntel has sold. It is not a name.
The customers Venntel names are military, federal law enforcement, intelligence organizations, allied governments, and selected private teams working on national security or critical infrastructure. That is a contract, a security review, and a quote. Nothing on the public site is a self-serve OSINT login.
Where the data comes from is the part that puts Venntel in this category. Venntel’s parent, Gravy Analytics, is a location-data company that has merged with Unacast. In an FTC complaint against Gravy Analytics, the Commission describes Gravy transferring location data to its subsidiary Venntel, and Venntel selling that data to public-sector customers. The complaint says the data sold can include a mobile advertising identifier or other persistent identifier, a timestamp, an IP address, and the name of the app the signal came from. It also quotes Venntel marketing about pattern-of-life analysis on a device. Those are allegations in a public enforcement record, not a feature list to copy. They are why this directory describes Venntel as advertising-adjacent device data rather than as a map a person opted into for an investigation.
Venntel’s own pages say the data is commercially sourced, anonymized, and aggregated, and that the company aims at GDPR, CCPA, and FTC requirements. “Anonymized” in this market often means the record is keyed by an advertising ID instead of a legal name. A long trail of timestamps still describes a routine. A device is not a person until some other source says so, and even then the join can be wrong. This page does not explain how to query a person, a crowd, or a building. Access, if you have a lawful basis and a contract, is something Venntel’s staff scopes. If you do not, this is a product to know about, not a product to use.
Fog Reveal is the other listing in this category: another commercial device-location platform, with its own suppliers and its own portal. Neither one replaces a record, a witness, or a legal process. Maltego does not belong in the same sentence except as a reminder that a dot on a map still has to be drawn into a case by a person.
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Treat Venntel as a contracted dataset. There is no public query box on venntel.com to try.
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Read the FTC complaint against Gravy Analytics before you describe the product as anonymous. The complaint is public.
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If your organization is in the customer set, ask which product, which geography, and which fields the quote includes.
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Keep any device trail next to an independent source. Do not sign a person’s name to an advertising identifier by itself.
Caveats
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Venntel sells commercial location data to customers who can buy it, including government buyers. It is not a search engine you try from this directory, and it is not a procedure for following a person.
Historical mobility and a low-latency stream are different products. A dataset of advertising or device location is not a court record, it has coverage gaps, and it can attach to the wrong device. Legal authority is not supplied by the vendor’s login. This listing will not explain how to query a device’s movements.
Screenshots
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Potential use cases
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- A contract, a filing, or a news article says Venntel. Use this listing to see which company and which product family that name refers to, and to separate a historical mobility purchase from the low-latency stream the company describes. The output is a correct identification of the vendor, not a location. Pivot the actual question to a record, a witness, or the legal process your counsel already requires. This page does not describe a geofence or a pattern-of-life query.
- Someone treats Venntel and Fog Reveal as the same feed. Read both listings and the distinction this catalog already draws. The output is a procurement note: they are different products with different companies. Ask the vendor which dataset a proposal means. Do not brief them as interchangeable.
- The case still needs a phone number, a record, or a domain, and someone reached for location data because it was in a slide. Write down the selector you actually have and use the tool that matches it: a number’s numbering plan in PhoneInfoga, a breach row in a breach tool, a domain in Shodan or Amass. Venntel does not fill a missing selector.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The only fact in the file is a place and a time
Someone asks this page how to turn that into a device track. It does not. Identify whether a Venntel product is even the system your organization has a contract for, and then follow counsel and the contract. If you do not have that contract, you do not have the data. A public record, a witness, or a lawful process is the alternative. Fog Reveal is a different vendor. Do not mix the names in the report.
Questions
Can I search Venntel like a website?
No. Venntel sells data and an API to qualified organizations. The public site is a description and a sales contact, not a lookup.
Does Venntel collect GPS from phones?
Venntel says the data is commercially sourced. The FTC complaint describes location data that originated in the advertising ecosystem and was sold onward, often keyed by a mobile advertising ID.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
Venntel home
https://www.venntel.com/Product
Location Intelligence
https://www.venntel.com/products/location-intelligenceProduct
Location Stream
https://www.venntel.com/products/location-streamDocumentation
Intelligence solutions
https://www.venntel.com/solutions/intelligenceDocumentation
FTC complaint against Gravy Analytics, describing Venntel
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/212_3035_-_gravy_analytics_final_consent_package_without_signatures.pdf