Washington CEO Magazine Names Intelius One of the Top 150 Private Companies in the State

BELLEVUE, Wash., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelius, Inc., a leading information commerce company providing predictive intelligence, today announced Intelius ranked in Washington CEO magazine's May 2006 Private 150. Inclusion in this list is testament to Intelius' rapid growth and leadership in Washington state over the last three years.

Founded in 2003, Intelius has built a suite of products and services enabling customers to make informed and intelligent decisions about people, businesses and assets. These offerings include background checks and Intelius' IDWatch, an award-winning identity theft detection and prevention service. Intelius services have attracted nearly three million unique, paying users since inception. The company's customer base continues to grow, adding more than 200,000 new users month over month. Additionally, nearly 30 percent of Intelius' daily business comes from its satisfied returning customers.

Intelius is an undisputed market leader in the industry and has built a more than $40 million business delivering instant information to consumers and businesses online for intelligent decisions. Intelius ranks as one of Nielsen's top 100 commerce sites, with more than 30 million unique visitors per month.

"We founded Intelius with a goal to build an enterprise that provides services that are good for our customers, our community and our country while doing well for our employees and shareholders," said Naveen Jain, co-founder and CEO of Intelius. "We provide our users a wealth of critical information, enabling better decisions about protecting their loved ones, identity and assets. Inclusion in Washington CEO's Private 150 underscores that we are well on our way to achieving our goal through customer loyalty, rapid growth and leadership."

To access Intelius' products, visit http://www.intelius.com/. For more information about identity theft and Intelius' IDWatch, visit http://www.idprotect.com/.

About Intelius, Inc.

Intelius was founded by a group of visionaries from InfoSpace and Microsoft with the mission to provide instant, innovative and affordable research services and background information for personal safety. Intelius enables consumers to make informed choices about the people they associate with through background and criminal checks. Using Intelius, consumers have located long-lost relatives and friends and researched the background of childcare providers, healthcare workers and home contractors. Business users are able to verify employment, tenancy and credit records. Intelius is one of the top 100 commerce sites on the Internet. For more about Intelius products and services, visit http://www.intelius.com/.

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