Datenna is a data intelligence platform company offering information services for investment screening, innovation intelligence and export control on

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. Datenna is located in

Eindhoven Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...

History

Jaap van Etten worked as a diplomatic attaché for the Dutch embassy before launching Datenna. In 2020, Datenna research showed that the "Chinese government has a stake in 53% of Swiss companies acquired by Chinese firms since 2010." The Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) in the Swiss acquisitions "is either part of the Chinese government, or the Chinese government has a substantial stake in the acquiring company but not a controlling one." Datenna received ''proof of concept'' funding (soft loan) from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, part of the Dutch government, in 2017. In 2025,

MI6 The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...

Alex Younger Sir Alexander William Younger (born 4 July 1963) is a British intelligence officer who served as the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), from 2014 to 2020. In April 2019, the government extended Younger's contract to maintain stabil ...

joined the company's advisory board.

Description

Datenna is a data intelligence platform company offering information services for investment screening, innovation intelligence and export control on China. It also conducts research on European acquisitions by Chinese investors. Datenna tracks 45 million corporate entities and research institutes in China (2024).

References

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