PureSpectrum never needed to shout. It just kept shipping. Founded in 2015 in Westlake Village, CA, the company went after a problem the market research industry had learned to live with. Endless emails. Manual fielding. Bad data quietly poisoning good decisions. While others debated theory, PureSpectrum built the rails. Real infrastructure. The kind that scales globally, remembers everything, and does not blink at volume.
Michael McCrary had already seen the industry from every angle that matters. Greenfield Online. The Microsoft acquisition. Senior leadership at Cint and Lucid. 20+ years watching how sample really moves once the sales deck is gone. When the PureSpectrum marketplace launched in 2016, the mandate was simple. Turn 50 emails into an API call. Replace guesswork with automation. Replace trust with verification. The result is not hype. It is throughput.
Today the platform processes 1M+ survey sessions per day across 60+ countries, coordinating in real time with 40+ integrated panel suppliers. PureScore evaluates respondents at the human level, not the device level, blocking 10%+ of low quality traffic before it ever touches results. PureText validates open ends at scale. PurePrice brings pricing intelligence to a market that used to rely on instinct. This is not software that decorates research. It runs it.
That is why TA Associates stepped in. Announced Jan 7, 2026, this strategic partnership brings one of the most disciplined growth investors in tech into a business that already proved durability, profitability, and restraint. TA brings scale muscle and pattern recognition from 560+ platform investments. Michael McCrary and the leadership team keep control, remain meaningful shareholders, and keep operating. Founder-led. Operator-driven. No forced exits. No theater.
The bench is deep and sharp. David Butler driving client outcomes. Mark Menig pushing product and ML forward. Todd Myers keeping ops tight after decades at Nielsen, Kantar, and Harris Interactive. Jonathan A. Flatow shaping strategy. Connor Weiss managing capital. Elizabeth Bodie building talent density. Estephanie Fuess telling the story. Patrick Meenan of Arthur Ventures still in the room. Jason Mironov and Dylan Hallman leaning in from TA.
Market research is a $40B+ global industry moving fast toward automation, AI, and quality enforcement whether it is ready or not. PureSpectrum sits at the center of that shift, not as a trend follower but as infrastructure. Invisible when it works. Painfully obvious when it does not. This partnership is not about changing direction. It is about turning up the voltage and letting the system do exactly what it was built to do.
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