Type Online media Founder Jeff Desjardins | Founded 2011 Headquarters Vancouver, Canada | |
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Visual Capitalist is a Canadian media and news firm, which creates and curates visual content focused on latest trends in business and investing. It claims to specialize in publishing news, research, and data using visual methods like infographics, data visualization, and charts.
Background
Visual Capitalist was founded in 2011 by Jeff Desjardins in Vancouver, Canada. It uses both data visualization and infographics to showcase original research for investors on commodities and equities.
Visual Capitalist has published articles on, among other topics: Tesla’s Gigafactory project to decrease production costs and double global lithium-ion battery production capacity, market activity and deficiencies of working capital for junior mining companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, Canada’s potential housing bubble, the history of Bitcoin, Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations in Canada, and precious metals such as gold.
Visual Capitalist’s work has been referred to in articles from Gizmodo, CNET, and The Vancouver Sun.