Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generate revenues of scale.  It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.

Kernel Capital

Corlytics

Corlytics is the world leader in regulatory risk intelligence. Positive regulatory outcomes are of enormous benefit to regulators, regulated firms and their clients. Corlytics uniquely analyses enforcement data and other important regulatory information. This helps all stakeholders achieve better regulatory planning and execution, by providing evidence-based intelligence. We do this by providing a unique multidisciplinary team of legal analysts, risk professionals and data scientists. Our intelligence is used by regulators, financial institutions and their advisors on a global basis. Working in partnership with regulators and eminent financial institutions globally. We will enable a more transparent and stable financial system through greater regulatory compliance. By delivering world-class regulatory risk data and analytics, we empower our partners to make transformational, informed, positive choices. Corlytics operates as a trusted strategic partner to banks and financial institutions globally. Set up in 2013, the Corlytics team has understood from the beginning that to restore trust and build transparency in global finance system, intelligence needs to be developed for multiple players. Data needs to be understood by different departments within financial houses. The lawyers in compliance and the mathematicians in risk. The market and the regulators need the same view.

Corlytics is a regulatory technology (RegTech) company that provides intelligent regulatory intelligence and policy compliance solutions for the financial services industry. Its platform manages the entire regulatory risk value chain, including regulatory monitoring, change management, policy management, and compliance attestation. Corlytics uses machine learning (ML) and AI to automate identifying, interpreting, and implementing regulatory changes. The company's offering combines data, software, and AI to deliver intelligent regulatory content to its clients.&nbsp;

Providing AI-driven market intelligence and workflow automation to give firms an edge

Capital Markets Tech

Corlytics expands reach with new Compliance Corylated platform

Corlytics is a regulatory technology (RegTech) company that provides intelligent regulatory intelligence and policy compliance solutions for the financial services industry. Its platform manages the entire regulatory risk value chain, including regulatory monitoring, change management, policy management, and compliance attestation. Corlytics uses machine learning (ML) and AI to automate identifying, interpreting, and implementing regulatory changes. The company's offering combines data, software, and AI to deliver intelligent regulatory content to its clients.&nbsp;In January 2023, Corlytics acquired ING's SparQ platform for EUR 5 million (USD 5.5 million), enabling end-to-end digitalization across the regulatory change lifecycle. In July 2023, the company acquired Clausematch, a provider of intelligent regulatory document and policy management solutions, to expand its offerings and create a "one-stop-shop" RegTech solution. In May 2024, Corlytics acquired a digital RegTech platform from Deloitte UK, further enhancing its capabilities and extending its reach in Europe and the US.&nbsp;In April 2024, the company was acquired by Verdane, a specialist growth investor.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsCorlytics serves a diverse clientele across the financial services industry, including 14 of the top 50 global banks, multinational insurers, re-insurers, payment providers, and investment managers (as of July 2023). Among its notable customers are ING, BNY Mellon, ScotiaBank, and SwissRe.

Finpilot is an AI-powered platform that helps financial analysts streamline their research and analysis workflows. The company's technology extracts knowledge from unstructured financial data sources including SEC documents, call transcripts, research reports, and private financial documents. The platform features a web-based AI chat tool that enables analysts to search and query information across multiple sources through a conversational interface. Unlike generic AI models, Finpilot provides source-linked answers with references to primary materials, allowing users to verify the accuracy of information whether in charts or text format. As of February 2024, the platform was available in public beta with plans for a self-serve business model for individual analysts and an enterprise version. The platform also includes task agents designed to automate complex workflows such as report generation, company comparisons, trend analysis, and extraction of segment data from charts and text. Finpilot was spun out of Euclidean Technologies, an investment firm focused on quantitative analysis.

Finpilot

Rogo offers GenAI solutions for financial institutions with tools specifically designed to meet the unique needs of global hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, and institutional investors. The company utilizes proprietary financial AI, combining large language models (LLMs) and expertise on financial services, which can adapt to understand the language and data specific to an organization. It can help teams with tasks like accelerating research, making data-driven decisions, and producing finance-related materials.The platform extracts data from internal sources like company presentations, memos, models, databases, data rooms, and meeting notes, combined with a library of 100+ million various external sources, including filings, investor calls, and transcripts of over 70,000 companies globally, along with real-time market data, news and media sources, web searches, and other third-party data.

Rogo

Portrait Analytics is a Boston-based startup developing a GenAI platform for investment research and thesis creation. Founded in 2022 by David Plon, a former principal analyst at Baupost Group, and Connell Gough, a full-stack developer, the company aims to revolutionize the way investment analysts conduct research and generate investment ideas. Portrait's platform leverages advanced AI models to accelerate the speed of research by answering complex questions and producing insights for users. The technology extracts and synthesizes key information from company filings, documents, and other sources to provide factual, auditable responses to user queries.The company's first product is a Q&amp;A-based application that incorporates GenAI search and summarization capabilities. It is designed to function as a "junior analyst," capable of performing tasks such as finding investment ideas, building financial models, and creating pitch decks. Portrait's platform includes an idea generation tool that helps analysts sift through thousands of companies to identify potential investment opportunities. It also provides comprehensive research summaries to quickly familiarize analysts with specific companies or sectors. As of July 2023, the platform was in private beta testing with select asset managers, with plans to expand access to more analysts in the coming months.

Portrait Analytics

Helix by HL is a generative AI assistant for private market investing, launched in June 2023 as a joint venture between TIFIN and Hamilton Lane. The platform leverages Hamilton Lane's proprietary database, which contains data on more than USD 16.7 trillion in private market commitments across 51 vintage years as of September 2023. The AI assistant simplifies alternative investing by providing data-centric information around private markets benchmarking, forecasting, and due diligence. The platform is specifically designed to help wealth advisors and private wealth professionals navigate the complexities of private market investments. Helix integrates with wealth platforms and digital marketplaces to enable advisors and investors seeking private market allocations. The technology combines TIFIN's AI expertise with Hamilton Lane's market analysis and research to educate private wealth investors and their intermediaries about asset classes and market trends.
Key customers and partnerships
The platform partners with wealth managers and private wealth professionals who allocate investments to private markets. FINTOP Capital partnered with Helix to help banks enhance their wealth management offerings by democratizing access to alternative assets.

Helix

Wokelo AI operates a secure GenAI platform geared toward accelerating business research. It provides customized, in-depth analyses for market intelligence and investment research, distinguishing itself through the creation of human-like syntheses at scale.The company's platform serves as a research assistant and co-authoring tool, capable of generating high-fidelity, factually bounded reports and presentations. It offers information on various business aspects, like mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, product strategy, and user reviews, among others​. It is also capable of generating various business documents, including sector briefings, company due diligence, financial analysis, earnings transcripts and annual reports analysis, investment memos, and market maps​.Wokelo AI utilizes a proprietary cognitive engine that curates a range of data, including analyst reports, internal data, podcasts, product reviews, call transcripts, articles, and news, along with 500+ pre-integrated datasets. It also utilized GPT models by OpenAI and open-source models like LLaMA as of November 2023.Key customers and partnershipsThe primary clientele of Wokelo comprises professionals from private equity firms, investment banks, corporate strategy departments, and venture capital firms. Some of its disclosed customers as of May 2024 included Guggenheim, Sage, Tata, Deloitte, Gratia, and Seven Seven Six.

Wokelo AI

Platforms that help financial market participants collect, manage, and use traditional and alternative data, derive market insights from news, and provide trade signals to make informed decisions.

Platforms that help institutions such as asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds to develop platforms to trade and operate brokerage services for various financial assets and instruments such as stocks, fixed income securities, derivatives, commodities, and foreign currencies.

Companies that use blockchain technology to share and synchronize data and improve efficiency across the trading workflow and post-trade actions such as clearing and settlement.

Platforms that help companies meet anti-money laundering requirements and provide identity verification tools such as KYC checks.

These platforms provide services such as risk detection, regulatory compliance, risk management, risk intelligence, collateral management, internal processes management, and strengthening of internal controls.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for capital markets

Uses AI/ML to process market data and information to derive valuable and timely insights

Uses blockchain to automate certain workflows between institutions and capital market participants

Uses GenAI to automate analysis, optimize portfolios, predict market trends, and enhance risk management

Corlytics

About EDGE

Contact Us

Resources

Area of Focus

Technology Research Made Effortless