ERAD Group was founded in 2012 following a Department of Homeland Security award aimed at giving customs officials an easy way to investigate prepaid cards moving across the border. That original mission expanded into a broader cloud based platform now used by several hundred federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies across more than 40 states, letting officers read payment cards at the point of arrest, freeze or seize funds tied to criminal activity, and generate court ready documentation.

Alongside its payment card tools, ERAD Group offers a Lead Generation Service that uses geofencing and a Geo Device Locator to identify the coordinates and address where a specific mobile device has most often been seen during a search period, intended to help investigators locate persons of interest, witnesses, and suspects in cases like homicides, human trafficking, and narcotics investigations. The Terravue dataset ERAD lists on the BigGeo Marketplace, covering mobile advertising ID location observations, sits within that same location intelligence line of business.

Worth flagging directly: ERAD Group's core product is a law enforcement surveillance and device geolocation tool, not a typical commercial geospatial dataset provider, so it's a different kind of partner profile than most others on this list. Multiple outlets, including NPR, have reported civil liberties concerns about the underlying technology, particularly around warrantless device tracking. I kept the About factual rather than promotional given that context, but wanted to flag it explicitly rather than bury it.