Atheneum secured $150 million led by Guidepost Growth Equity.

Atheneum, a Berlin, Germany-based provider of research-as-a-service platform, announced closing a $150 million capital funding round.

The money was raised from investors led by Guidepost Growth Equity with participation from existing investors, Crosslantic Capital Management, Michael Brehm, Vogel Communications Group, and the Founding Management team of Atheneum.

Roshen Menon and Chris Cavanagh, general partners of Guidepost, will join the company’s board.

The new growth capital will fuel the company’s rapid market expansion including in the U.S., continued technology and product development, and hiring initiatives.

Atheneum, founded in 2010 by Ammad Ahmad, Marta Margolis and CEO Mathias Wengeler, provides a platform for companies to conduct and analyze research sourced through virtual interviews and surveys with stakeholders. The company says it handles business for 500 large enterprises — with customers spanning verticals like life sciences, strategic consulting firms, investment services, and telecoms, media and tech firms — covering a network of some 680,000 experts and so-called opinion leaders and hundreds of thousands of surveys and interviews.