Founded in 1995 by the team behind Logical Systems Inc., one of the first internet-based financial data providers, Barchart came into being as an online market data service delivering real-time and delayed futures and commodity data at a time when electronic trading in financial markets was rapidly expanding. The company evolved from a subscription-based chart service into a full-scale market data and financial technology platform, expanding from futures and commodities into equities, currencies, options, and cryptocurrencies, and growing its B2B solutions through widgets, APIs, and private-label data products for media outlets and institutional clients. Today, Barchart is led by CEO Mark Haraburda, who joined in 2007 and took the chief executive role in 2016, and COO Andrew Lowdon, who has been with the company since its founding in 1995, operating as a privately held company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Today, Barchart is mainly focused on real-time stock quotes, futures and commodity market data, options analysis, technical charting tools, ETF screeners, and agricultural commodity data from their headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. One interesting fact: Barchart's cmdty platform, which serves the agricultural commodity sector, has grown into a major data infrastructure provider for grain markets and farm management software companies, giving a financial data platform founded on stock charts an unexpectedly deep footprint in the farming and food supply chain industries that now rivals its core retail investing tools in commercial importance.