About us

Why we're here

We believe that accelerating the impact economy will power new economic growth and help solve the world’s most important social and environmental challenges.

In 2018, we looked across the global impact landscape and saw the world’s most important social and environmental systems, such as education, healthcare, energy and environmental sustainability, being forced to make critical decisions and complex trade-offs without sufficiently dedicated, trusted or global market intelligence.

The stakes have never been higher, nor the opportunity greater. Governments, academia, firms and investors around the world need relevant, trusted and globally connected data and insights to inform decisions and actions that will shape the future of humanity. We saw a need for a different kind of technology to power decisions that matter, and we knew it would take a different kind of company to build it.

That’s why we founded HolonIQ.

In October 2024, HolonIQ was acquired by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global leader in education analytics, insights, and services. HolonIQ's operations, offices, and teams are now fully integrated into QS’s global structure.

Holon (philosophy). ὅλον. An evolving and self organizing system. Where each part is simultaneously whole and part of something bigger.

Our Values

We first wrote these four values when we started HolonIQ. Not for marketing purposes, but to describe how we aspired every day to operate and to list the behaviors we thought it would take to build the world’s smartest source of global impact intelligence.

Curious

Interested in everything around us and how to make it better.

Collaborative

We work together always.

Enthusiastic

We approach even hard situations with a smile.

Explorers

Constantly pushing the boundaries of what has been done before.

Our Team

Weare now proudly part of QS, a global organisation with offices across fivec ontinents. HolonIQ's international team is based in New York, with offices inLondon and Sydney, and includes members from around the world—ranging fromColombia to Sri Lanka and beyond. Over 50% of our team are women, and more than half come from non-white backgrounds. Together, we speak (and cook) Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Sinhalese, Spanish, and Tamil.

Join HolonIQ

With Hubs in New York, Sydney and Colombo and team members and partners across every continent, HolonIQ focuses on leveraging our analytics capabilities to generate insights and solve complex strategic problems for impact leaders around the world. From Analysts, Engineers and hard core Data Science folks, to the Customer Success, Insights, Marketing and Events teams, HolonIQ is focused on building a supportive, adaptive, creative and high performing culture, laser-focused on our mission to be the smartest source of market intelligence on the global impact economy.

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Our Customers

We are proud to power forward-thinking governments, institutions, technology companies, global firms and investors with the data, insights, ideas and connections to shape the global impact economy.