Quid Emerges From YouNoodle, Delves Into Data on Private Firms

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Quid Inc., a San Francisco startup spawned by the entrepreneur website YouNoodle Inc., aims to shed light on the insular world of technology innovators and investors while making money itself.

With financing from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Quid is taking data it has compiled on thousands of private companies -- and the venture capitalists behind them -- and selling it to clients, including Microsoft Corp. and the British government.