This Week’s Vendor News
DEAL ACTIVITY
Diligent has acquired Insightia, a SaaS Providers for critical insights and analytics.
From www.activistinsight.com: “Bringing together Diligent’s leading governance, analytics and ESG solutions with Insightia’s vital intelligence across a variety of public company data will provide clients with even more meaningful insights to power their board and organizations’ governance practices. Clients will have access to a rich ecosystem of organizational risk assessments and data tools in areas spanning board composition, executive compensation, supply chain due diligence, and ESG standards and frameworks. Diligent will also pursue a range of potential solution integrations with Insightia, including adding activist investor alerts within its Boards application, enabling clients to better monitor susceptibility to activism.”
Learn more here.
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CAIS has announced $225M in new funding, giving the company a valuation that exceeds $1 billion.
Learn more here.
PARTNERSHIPS & INTEGRATIONS
Accelex and SimCorp have partnered in order to automate alternative investment data workflows.
From www.hedgeweek.com: “The partnership – with joint clients already in North America and Europe – is a response to the increasing demand for greater transparency into investment performance.
Complex PDF documents, carrying fund and underlying asset data, typically require resource-intensive, manual processing before entry into SimCorp. Accelex’s solution leverages data science to automate the extraction of critical financial information from these alternative investment documents and will seamlessly deliver performance and accounting data into SimCorp offering deeper investment insights.”
Learn more here.
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LemonEdge has been selected by Kensington Capital Partners Limited as a front-to-back office accounting solution.
Kensington Capital Partners is an investment firm with offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. As of December 2021, Kensington has assets under management of $2.3 billion, managed across several funds.
Learn more here.
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Dealcloud is selected by IQ-EQ for CRM capabilities.
From www.finance.yahoo.com: “‘DealCloud will serve as the technology layer underpinning IQ-EQ’s high level of client service while supporting firm growth,” said Ben Harrison, President of Financial Services at Intapp. “‘We’re excited to play a major role in IQ-EQ’s ongoing technology journey with modern solutions designed to enhance the firm’s operating capability in the complex and highly regulated financial services industry.’”
Learn more here.
HIRING & PERSONNEL
SS&C is currently hiring for the position of Technology Operations Specialist III, a remote position based in Kansas City, MO, an Account Executive in the United States, and an Account Executive, Inside Sales in NY, NY.
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Colmore (a Preqin Company of technology-driven private markets investor services business focused on the LP and Allocator market) is hiring for 40+ positions globally.
Learn more here.
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Cadence Translate welcomes 3 new hires across 2 offices- Zi Hao Loo and Victoria Lee have joined as Associates in Singapore, and Manuel A. E. as an Associate Intern in Los Angeles.
Find Positions like these in Los Angeles, Beijing, and Singapore here.
VENDOR WHITEPAPERS
eFront has released an infographic on the Benefits of International Diversification.
Download the infographic here.
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Mercatuses’ Tom Vogt, Global Head of Customer Success has released an article together with State Street’s Jennifer Tribush, Global Head of Alternatives Product related to rising to the data challenge in private markets.
Read it here.
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Preqin has released its 2022 Global Alternatives Reports which includes analysis, prediction, and more across 7 asset classes available with Preqin Insights+
Preview key stats from each report here.
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Alkymi has released a piece on a roadmap for changing AI into action rather than a banking catchphrase.
Learn more here.
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Canoe has released their 2021 Year-End Recap.
From CEO Jason Eiswerth: “The results experienced in 2021 were driven by support from our clients, investors and partners; rigor in our product development process and significant evolution of our technology; and our collective determination to redefine alternatives data management for the investment industry.'"
Learn more here.
AWARDS
Accelex has been shortlisted at the Private Equity Wire European Awards 2022 as a leading provider in the Most Innovative Technology category.
Learn more here.
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LemonEdge has been shortlisted in the European Private Equity Wire Awards for the Most Innovative Technology category.
Learn more here.
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Holland Mountain has been shortlisted in the 2022 Private Equity Wire European Awards in the Best Technology Advisory category.
Learn more here.
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