We’re building the operating system for global potential.
Stride exists to empower ambitious growth. We build products that empower teams to navigate the complexities of expansion with precision, certainty, and speed.
Our Story
Stride was born from a hard truth we’ve witnessed repeatedly: businesses expect most growth to come from new market expansion; but most attempts fail as expensive distractions.
We saw brilliant sales & GTM teams struggle because their strategic foundations were flawed from day one. Relying on surface-level insight, they lacked market reality on segments, customers and opportunity needed to translate success in core market to the next one.
We built Stride to fix this, starting with the foundational layer of segmentation. By analyzing companies as living entities rather than database rows, we provide the ground truth required to move expansion from a costly gamble into a calculated science.
Our Mission
Empower every business to realize their full global potential.
Meet the Builders
The team obsessed with your data infrastructure.
James Cheseldine
CEO & Co-founder
A seasoned GTM and product leader, formerly VP Product Management at Trustpilot and with over eight years at Meta leading their Cross Border expansion products and GTM strategy
Angela Timofte
CTO & Co-founder
Engineering leader with a background in complex data pipelines. Previosly VP of Global Engineering and Applied AI at Trustpilot. Building the agentic architecture that makes Stride possible.
Not just data.
Strategy in code.
Global DNA
Most enrichment tools are US-centric. We are built for the complexity of EMEA, APAC, and LATAM from day one.
Agentic Logic
We do not just scrape; we reason. Our agents infer relationships and mapped entities that simple scraping misses.