Established in January 2003 and still growing, info-commerce firm Intelius has already served millions of Americans. The company basically provides information services about individuals. It has yet to perform intelligences about companies and corporations however, but at the rate its revenues are growing, Intellius may well be on track.

Intelius provides a wide array of information services. Foremost of these is Intelius’ background checks. These services scour for the most information as can be related with a name, and compile the data into a readable report for the company’s clients.

The service is vital to many of today’s industries — customers often include HR professionals who see background checks as efficient verification tools for job applications.

Intelius can also render criminal checks on any name, checking not only county records, but also those at state and federal levels. Intellius can even dispatch professional researchers to the country’s numerable courthouses and DOCs, in search of incriminating data.

At customers’ request, Intelius can conduct address searches of people, done by running their names through a 20-year address database. Other services offered by Intelius include reverse telephone lookups, reverse cell phone lookups, tenancy screenings, identity theft safeguards, and property reviews.

Naveen Jain, the renowned Indian businessman, founded the company. He is an ex-employee of The Microsoft Corporation, where he once held an executive position as MSN group manager. Information Week once dubbed him among the “6 People Who Will Change The Net,” in view of the then-unprecedented wireless Internet software being developed by his former company, InfoSpace.

Intelius is a tremendously acclaimed firm. Among other recognitions, it received the 2006 American Business Award for Best New Company. A year after, it was a 2007 American Business Award nominee for Most Innovative Company.