Acquisitions in data and valuations lead this week, with a steady growth of AI-led product launches and partnerships behind them. Alongside a set of senior appointments and office moves across the vendor landscape.
NEW & UPDATED PRODUCTS
Allvue Systems has launched GP Accounting, integrating FirmView with Fund Accounting so that GP entity economics, carried interest, partner capital and incentive compensation sit in a single two-way workflow. It targets the spreadsheet-based processes still common in GP-level reporting. ↗
Gain.pro has made its full private company universe searchable directly from Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools, allowing deal teams to run exit-prediction, live-deal and sector screens from a single prompt. ↗
AlphaSense has unveiled native PowerPoint and Excel capabilities, moving research output straight into client-ready deliverables. The firm reports that 40% of professionals now spend more than half their project hours building deliverables rather than analysing them. ↗
Capsa AI has released its July 2026 product update, introducing Capsa 1.5 with improved reasoning, global search across all past work, and interactive dashboards for data exploration. ↗
DEAL ACTIVITY
Altus Group has acquired Valos (U.K.) Limited, an AI-native platform connecting valuers and lenders across the property valuation workflow. Valos is already used by more than 20% of UK valuers. ↗
MSCI has completed its acquisition of First Street, a provider of physics-based climate risk data covering every property globally. The transaction was first announced on 24 June 2026. ↗
PARTNERSHIPS & INTEGRATIONS
Deal Engine has partnered with Fintent to bring predictive seller intent signals, built on founder and banker behavioural data, into its intelligence warehouse. Clients gain earlier visibility on which targets are preparing to sell, raise or engage. ↗
Novata has partnered with EcoVadis to embed verified supplier carbon data into its sustainability platform, moving Scope 3 calculations away from industry averages and towards primary data. ↗
Canoe Intelligence now connects directly with Schwab Advisor Center, so 1099s, consolidated statements and account summaries land in Canoe daily. More than 65 firms are already using the connection. ↗
FactSet has integrated Quant Insight’s Macro Factor Equity Risk Model into its Portfolio Analytics platform, bringing daily macro risk measurement across more than 16,000 instruments into research, attribution and holdings workflows. ↗
AngelList has made USVC available to more than 15 million SoFi members from a $500 minimum, extending venture exposure into standard brokerage accounts. ↗
NEW CLIENTS
Ontra has been adopted by Blackstone’s growth equity team for NDA processing, replacing a workflow that moved across multiple departments and consumed weeks of team bandwidth. ↗
Harmonic has been selected by Draper Associates, which has built internal tools including Draper Brain and Deal Engine on Harmonic’s data and API, using live company profiling to scale sourcing and diligence. ↗
OFFICE & PERSONNEL
Hazeltree has named founder Remy Trafelet Chairman, President and Chief Executive, succeeding Lokesh Seth. Trafelet founded the firm in 2011 and returned as Executive Chairman in late 2024 to lead its renewed focus on treasury and data. ↗
StructureFlow has appointed Neal Chatrath as President, based in New York and reporting to founder and CEO Tim Follett. Chatrath will lead global commercial strategy and revenue growth, with a focus on expanding the firm’s direct presence among private equity firms, hedge funds and investment banks. He joins from Concertiv, where he was Chief Revenue Officer, with earlier roles at Xceptor and FIS. ↗
Finster AI has moved its UK headquarters into a larger office in London’s King’s Cross, following the $15m Seed and Series A round raised in part to support London headquarters growth. ↗
VENDOR RESEARCH & WHITEPAPERS
Cambridge Associates reports that private equity and venture capital performance diverged meaningfully in 2025, with venture posting its strongest year since 2021 and younger vintages driving outcomes. ↗
Dealroom finds that 2026 is already the largest year on record by value for exits of venture-backed startups, and is tracking strongly by number of exits as well. ↗
Standard Metrics benchmarks Rule of 40 performance across more than a thousand aggregated and anonymised private companies in its latest report, with analysis sliced by revenue scale and growth cohort. ↗
Moody’s Analytics examines private credit exposure to the AI infrastructure build-out in new research, cautioning that a completed data centre is not automatically a cash-flow asset, with hyperscaler capital spending projected to approach $785bn in 2026. ↗
AWARDS
Crunchbase was named Predictive Intelligence Solution of the Year at the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards, an inaugural category recognising private company predictions that surface ahead of public news. ↗
Clearwater Analytics was named to CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies list for a second consecutive year, selected from more than 3,500 firms analysed by CNBC and Statista. ↗
