Ontra, a specialist in contract automation and intelligence, has launched Ontra Synapse, an AI solution that automates the most critical legal workflows for private markets firms. 

Forge Global Holdings, a private securities marketplace, has expanded its private market data products and solutions offering for institutional asset managers, with the launch of the Forge Private Market Index, a benchmark for actively traded private companies.  The new index leverages Forge’s 13 years of private market trading data and experience to enable investors to better measure their investment returns and gain insights on late-stage, venture-backed companies.   The index includes US domiciled companies that have raised at least one round of primary funding and have higher relative secondary liquidity in the past 12 months, thereby reflecting the actively traded

The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has launched a new service for private companies, TISE Private Markets, which provides unlisted companies with access to an integrated set of tailored electronic trading, settlement and registry solutions. “We have conducted significant market research to develop this unique offering whichwe believe will be a particularly attractive alternative for privately owned SMEs considering means to improve the liquidity of their shares and also attract potential new investors,” said Cees Vermaas, CEO of TISE.   Private markets comprise investments in assets not traded on a public exchange or stock market. According to data from McKinsey, total

InvestX Markets, a private equity marketplace that empowers broker-dealers to invest in pre-IPO companies through single-issuer SPVs, multi-issuer funds and secondary market trading, has formed a new partnership with Caplight Technologies, to enhance data and improve price discovery through its trading platform, InvestX GEM.

Dasseti, a specialist in digital due diligence software, has launched Dasseti Engage for asset managers and private equity GPs, a new platform designed to help investor relations, RFP and client services teams to improve distribution and speed up responses to client and consultant requests.  Dasseti says the platform allows teams to provide clients with consistent fund and company data efficiently and securely. Dasseti Engage can work alongside existing RFP tools, CRMs and Question and Answer banks to extract, flex and publish data across all DDQs, client templates and helps with consultant databases updates.  The platform can also automate the response

IQ-EQ has established operations in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), giving the global investor services group its first physical presence in the Middle East. The new office, is located in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and means IQ-EQ nos has a presence in 25 jurisdictions worldwide.

Accelex, a SaaS platform specialising in alternative investment data acquisition, reporting and analytics, has launched an automated document acquisition solution for private market fund managers. Automated document acquisition provides a consolidated content feed to the Accelex data extraction platform using direct API connectivity to portals including SS&C Intralinks and FIS Digital Data Exchange, email attachment capturing and SFTP. Actionable accounting data and investment insights are now accessible within minutes of document availability from managers.  Accelex says the platform utilises artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to categorise, classify, and tag documents, enabling efficient document management. The document acquisition

Investment research company Third Bridge has launched Community a new product offering providing hedge find, private equity firms, credit investors, mutual funds, and strategy consultants access to transcribed interviews between investors and industry experts.