Origins
Oscar provides ground truth for the global internet. We map the complete physical and logical structure of internet infrastructure through comprehensive data collection across more than 130 countries. Our Mosaic replaces fragmented, contradictory data sources with a single unified view, allowing organizations to discover and understand any internet surface—their own infrastructure, supply chain dependencies, regulatory exposure, or potential threats.
We make sense of internet complexity so our customers can make better decisions.
History
Getting it right matters
Our name comes from the artist Oscar Reutersvärd, whose impossible figures showed that simple rules can produce forms that seem chaotic until their structure is revealed. The internet works the same way: not actually unknowable, but genuinely hard to model. We set out to make that structure visible.
We started with a problem a customer brought to us that the field had largely written off: a question about internet infrastructure that existing data couldn't reliably answer. We found that no single approach in the academic literature was sufficient, but combining them — and developing some methods of our own — made the problem solvable. That became a pattern. Each problem we solved opened up the next one, and the questions kept getting more interesting.
We've worked alongside customers from the beginning, building toward answers they actually needed rather than packaging what already existed. That's still how we work.
The Oscar team
We’re mostly engineers and data scientists. We care about accuracy because the problems are genuinely interesting and because our customers depend on us to get it right. We’d rather admit what we don’t know than claim false precision. Here are a few of the people you’ll work with.
Dave Allen
Co-Founder
Dave brings deep experience in building and operating internet infrastructure businesses at global scale. As Senior Vice President of Operations and General Counsel at Dyn, he helped guide the company through rapid growth and its acquisition by Oracle in 2016. At Oracle, he served as Vice President within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, leading the integration of Dyn's technology into the global cloud platform.
Earl Zmijewski
Co-Founder
Earl is a recognized expert in internet measurement and network science with more than two decades of experience in global infrastructure and security. He led Internet Data Services at Renesys, where he built the software and analytics systems that became foundational to modern internet intelligence. Earlier in his career, Earl pioneered large-scale network design and clustering technologies at Fluent Inc. and held academic positions at Cornell and the University of California. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Seth Brown
Product
Seth leads product strategy and development at Oscar, focused on how many different types of internet data come together into something customers can visualize and explore. Throughout his career, he has worked on complex systems: academic research in cancer biology, then cloud and infrastructure at Fastly, Oracle, and several early-stage technology companies. That same instinct — finding the structure inside complicated things — shapes both the platform and how it looks. He holds a PhD in Genetics and Biostatistics from Dartmouth.
Jacob Russell
Communications
Jacob leads communications at Oscar. A former Wall Street Journal reporter with a background in law, he has spent his career thinking about how complex ideas reach non-expert audiences — and what gets lost along the way.
Kelsey Woods
Education
Kelsey leads education at Oscar. She came to internet intelligence through biology, communication technology research, and years of teaching across very different contexts and audiences. Her job is to make sure analysts, wherever they're starting from, can get to useful answers.