Weekly news - week of october 19, 2026. New & updated products. Altvia launches Investor Engagement Manager, an AI-native investor relations and fundraising solution that tracks changes across LP relationships and recommends next steps with source citations. Taghash launches Taghash Brain, an AI agent that lets fund teams query deals, portfolios and investor records and build live dashboards through conversation. Standard Metrics adds document search to its AI Analyst, pulling context from board decks, investor updates and financials with page-level citations. Vestberry launches customisable portfolio company dashboards, letting funds resize widgets or build their own. SUBSCRIBE launches a Transfers module that completes custom transfer forms from the Investor Passport and routes them for signature. Lighthouse launches Sequencer, which runs multi-step email and social outreach from inside the CRM and logs every reply and outcome on the record. DiligenceVault introduces DiligenceVault MCP, giving enterprise AI tools read-only access to relationships, DDQs and RFIs within existing permissions. Deal activity. LSEG to acquire Octus for $3.535 billion in cash, creating a leader across public and private credit solutions. Partnerships & integrations. Datasite partners with Hebbia so approved dealmakers can analyse live, permissioned data room content inside Hebbia with source citations. Allvue partners with Versana to bring agent loan data into Allvue Investment Accounting for CLO managers. Palico names DMX Partners a preferred legal partner for sellers on its LP secondaries platform. FactSet partners with Nasdaq Private Market to bring private company cap table data into FactSet Workstation. Canoe Intelligence partners with Landytech to deliver structured alternatives data into Sesame, Landytech's system of record for family offices. PitchBook makes its Data Premium Connector live in Harvey, giving legal teams financing history, terms and cap table details for precedent deals. Beauhurst launches an MCP connector for Claude, giving customers natural-language access to its company data. Harmonic joins Model ML's partnership network, giving Model ML users MCP access to search and enrich companies, people and investors. Treble Peak provides the infrastructure behind the LSEG Treble Peak Private Funds Platform, giving investors a smoother route into private markets. New clients. Chronograph selected by Agathos Management to power portfolio monitoring, including data collection, valuations and reporting. Capsa begins working with Touring Capital as the firm builds AI into its private capital workflows. Office & personnel. Ontra appoints Elsie Russell Brown as Chief Product Officer, based in its new New York office. Vendor research & whitepapers. Preqin reports mean headline buyout management fees fell for a fifth consecutive year to a record-low 1.65% for 2026-vintage funds, while direct lending fees reached a 10-year high of 1.50%. Awards. CAIS named Technology/Solutions Provider of the Year for Technology Integration at the 2026 Money Management Institute and Barron's Industry Awards. Canoe Intelligence wins Best Innovation in Alternative Investments and Private Markets at the 2026 Datos Insights Impact Awards for its Bloomberg PORT Enterprise integration. Did Holland Mountain Group forget something? Do you have vendor news to share? Holland Mountain Group want to know! Please reach out to Holland Mountain Group at [email protected] Thinking about your data and tech stack? Holland Mountain Group can help! Holland Mountain Group help LPs & GPs find the system, supplier or market data provider that is best-suited for their current and future needs. Get in touch with its team today. More PE stack news.

Repeat Entrepreneur Relief: our case ahead of the Autumn Budget. With the Autumn Budget approaching and Repeat Entrepreneur Relief making headlines in The Times, new research shows why backing founders to build again would pay for itself. WEBWIRE - Monday, October 19, 2026 In May, we set out why the UK needs Repeat Entrepreneur Relief. It is a targeted capital gains tax deferral for founders who reinvest their exit proceeds into British startups, scaleups and growth funds. Now the proposal is with the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Budget, and it is back in the news, with The Times covering the plan. Before submitting it, Founders Forum Group commissioned Beauhurst Insights to test whether the policy would work in practice. The research found that it would more than cover its own cost. Repeat Entrepreneur Relief: At A Glance * Only 1 in 8 UK founders who sell a company build another * Experienced founders' companies raise 61% more capital and are 25% larger by headcount * Around £22,500 cost per reinvesting founder vs. an estimated £740,000 in employment taxes per new business * Breaks even if it persuades fewer than 1 in 200 exited founders to reinvest The Founder Flywheel Is Stalling Around 800 UK founders sell their companies every year, and many of those deals put significant capital into the hands of British entrepreneurs. Yet very few of them reinvest that capital into the next generation. Only one in eight goes on to build again. As a result, around 10,200 UK founders have built and sold a company and not returned. Each of them has the networks and the hard-won experience of starting a business. That matters because repeat founders know how to raise investment, how to hire, and how to avoid the mistakes that cost first-time founders years. Companies started by experienced founders raise 61% more capital and are typically 25% larger by headcount than comparable firms in the same sector, region and founding year. Founders tell us the right incentive would change their decision. Through Founders Pulse, 72% of the founders we polled said Repeat Entrepreneur Relief would make them significantly more likely to build again. How Repeat Entrepreneur Relief Would Work Repeat Entrepreneur Relief (RER) would introduce a targeted Capital Gains Tax (CGT) deferral for founders who reinvest their exit proceeds into new UK-headquartered businesses or growth vehicles. The relief would be capped at £250,000 of reinvestment, in line with the SEIS lifetime funding cap, which makes it a practical tool for investment. The idea has been tested elsewhere. The US Qualified Small Business Stock scheme is widely credited with creating Silicon Valley's culture of reinvestment, and France offers a similar deferral for founders who reinvest their proceeds. A Policy That Pays for Itself This Budget comes at a time of tight fiscal constraints, so the research weighed the policy's cost against its returns. RER would cost the Treasury around £22,500 per reinvesting founder. Each new business it helps create would generate an estimated £740,000 in employment taxes over ten years, which is more than thirty times the cost of the relief. That figure doesn't count corporation tax, VAT, or the extra success a business can gain from having an experienced founder in charge. It also leaves out the wider economic return if money reinvested into growth funds or vehicles also qualified for RER. To break even, the relief would need to persuade fewer than one exited founder in 200 to reinvest who otherwise wouldn't have done so. If it raised the refounding rate from 12% to 20%, each year's exits could generate around £47m in employment taxes over ten years, against £3.6m in relief. Carolyn Dawson OBE, CEO of Founders Forum Group, said: "We know the founders who often build Britain's strongest companies are those who've done it before. Repeat Entrepreneur Relief helps them do it again, here. Keeping capital in the UK, supporting the next cohort of successful British businesses makes this one of the simplest decisions for the Treasury to make in this Budget." What Else Founders Need From This Budget Repeat Entrepreneur Relief is one of four policy asks in Founders Forum Group's Autumn Budget submission, sent to Government earlier this month. Each is designed to help British companies grow faster and stay in the UK as they scale. The other three are: * Expand the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme further so it reflects the size and ambitions of today's UK startups and scaleups, and helps them keep attracting top talent. * Introduce a Digital Adoption Tax Credit to recognise that the biggest cost of adopting digital tools and AI is often the technical staff needed to roll them out and make sure they deliver real productivity gains. * Create an "investor route" to the Global Talent Visa so successful investors who want to back UK scaleups or regulated growth funds can come to the UK, increasing the capital available to fast-growing businesses. The submission also carries a clear message from founders on CGT. Raising it in this Budget would discourage entrepreneurs from taking risks and push them out of the UK. Founders make a large net contribution in tax and jobs, so the UK benefits when they want to start, scale and keep their businesses here. A CGT rise would work against that. Britain already produces world-class founders. With the right incentives in this Budget, more of them will build their second, third and fourth companies here. Read Founders Forum Group's full Autumn Budget submission here. If you haven't already, join Founders Pulse and be part of the conversation. The more founders who contribute, the stronger our case will be. WebWireID363012 This news content was configured by WebWire editorial staff. Linking is permitted. Distribute your news. * Every day, hundreds of individuals and companies choose WebWire to distribute their news. * WebWire places your news within numerous highly trafficked news search engines generating leads and publicity. * Submit Your Release Now!