Weekly news - week of july 20, 2025. This week sees agentic AI move beyond individual productivity and into firm-wide operations, with new digital coworkers and agent platforms supporting deal screening, portfolio intelligence and relationship management. Alongside this, fund data infrastructure runs through many launches and integrations, while a cluster of fundraises and fresh client wins signals steady commercial momentum. New & updated products. Intapp has made Celeste, its agentic AI coworker for private capital and professional firms, generally available. Celeste runs firm workflows including deal screening, conflicts clearance, business development and lateral hiring on each firm's own data, methods and compliance rules, with new MCP connectors to Moody's, FactSet, PitchBook and MSCI, and Hg and BakerHostetler among early adopters. Allvue Systems has launched Portfolio Intelligence and Deal Analytics on its OneVue platform, giving private credit GPs an AI-enabled portfolio workspace and benchmarks built from deal-level data, initially available to select credit GP clients. Navatar has launched a Claude-native deal engine for private equity and investment banking teams on Salesforce, combining Navatar CRM, Navatar AI, Salesforce Agentforce and Claude into a governed, AI-first operating model that reduces manual data entry and surfaces proactive signals across deals and relationships. Affinity has launched Affinity Ascend, an agent platform for deal teams with tools for meeting prep, automated CRM updates and warm-intro sourcing across the deal cycle. Standard Metrics has launched Portfolio Intelligence as a Service, helping GPs assess where portfolio companies are strong, where they are exposed, and how they compare to private market peers. Owlin has rebuilt its risk-intelligence platform from the ground up, giving risk teams a single view across their portfolio, developed directly from customer feedback. Quantios has launched a Timesheet Agent for trust and corporate services firms that captures billable time automatically as work happens, removing the need to reconstruct records from memory. Deal activity. Finster AI has raised a combined $15m Seed and Series A led by FinTech Collective and Peak XV, with Hoxton Ventures participating, to support U.S. expansion, London headquarters growth and data and technology partnerships. fundcraft has increased its Series A round to €11m following a new €6m investment led by 3VC and MiddleGame Ventures, supporting product development, European expansion and hiring after a 60% increase in funds managed since its first close. Moonfare has closed its Luxembourg-domiciled Co-Investment Fund II at $83m, above target, with the fund already around 30% invested alongside Hg, Vista and EQT. Finalis network member Argonite Partners has advised on the structured sale of PCRecruiter to Recur Software. Dasseti has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Nasdaq, bringing its due diligence and monitoring capabilities into the Nasdaq eVestment network. Partnerships & integrations. S&P Capital IQ S&P Global Market Intelligence has partnered with and taken a minority investment in Farsight to bring an AI-driven capability into Capital IQ Pro that generates client-ready materials such as pitch decks, CIMs and valuations using firm templates and prior work, to be offered as an add-on later this year. Hazeltree has completed its technical integration with TreasurySpring, letting clients access over 1,100 fixed-term funds across 11 currencies directly within their existing Hazeltree cash boards. New clients. FactSet has been adopted by Curi Holdings, which will use FactSet's Portfolio Analytics Suite, including Whole Portfolio Analytics, the FactSet Performance Solution and the Private Capital Data Aggregation Service, to modernise investment operations and enhance portfolio visibility and risk management. Chronograph has been selected by Los Angeles private equity firm Vance Street Capital, investing out of its $775m fourth fund, to automate data collection, valuations and reporting across its portfolio. SimCorp has been selected by European private debt manager Kartesia, which has moved to the Domos platform to replace disconnected systems and reduce manual work across a growing investor base. Office & personnel. Evalueserve has appointed Nitin Narkhede, who brings over 30 years of experience, as Chief Technology Officer to lead technology strategy and its domain-led AI platforms. Deal Engine has appointed Michael Santos, formerly global head of sales at Chronograph and previously at DealCloud, Intapp, iLEVEL and Investran, to its board. Vendor research & whitepapers. Allvue Systems reports in its 2026 Alternatives Compensation & Carry Survey, that 58% of alternative investment firms still administer carry in Excel, pointing to operational gaps as carry programmes grow more complex and transparency expectations rise. qashqade found in its 2026 Summer Survey that 87% of private markets professionals said no advantage from AI would justify the risk of an incorrect waterfall calculation. 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! 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fundcraft makes new appointments as it opens its first office in France. 29 January 2026 France fundcraft, a European digital-native fund operations platform, has appointed Christian Senitz as chief operating officer and has opened a Paris office, led by Thomas Ibanez, acting as country head, France. The firm says that these announcements mark a new phase in its execution and scaling strategy, as the company expands beyond its Luxembourg foundation. The firm's expansion aims at helping asset managers, platforms and distribution-led players operate these models with greater efficiency, transparency and control. Senitz joins fundcraft to lead group-wide operational execution and scalable growth, including the company's expansion beyond Luxembourg into additional European fund domiciles, with France as the first step. He brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience across finance and operations in high-growth technology and financial services companies, including Rocket Internet, where he focused on scaling international operations, building execution discipline and supporting rapid multi-market expansion. As the chief operating officer, Senitz will focus on industrialising fundcraft's operating platform, strengthening execution excellence at scale, and supporting further geographic expansion, ensuring growth is delivered with institutional rigour and consistency, the firm notes. Commenting on his appointment, Senitz says: "fundcraft has reached a stage where disciplined execution and scale matter as much as innovation. The opportunity now is to industrialise what we've built and extend it across Europe. I'm looking forward to helping scale this operating model beyond Luxembourg, starting with France." Additionally, the new country head Ibanez brings extensive experience in the French asset management and fund distribution ecosystem, spanning institutional and wholesale coverage as well as familiarity with regulatory environments, including previous experience at the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). The firm says he will lead local market development, hiring and partnerships, and will support fundcraft's long-term ambition to serve French-domiciled funds and France-linked distribution models, including private markets access strategies and European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF), evergreen structures. Commenting on his appointment, Ibanez notes: "France is a uniquely important market for private markets access in Europe, with distribution dynamics that demand operational scalability, strong governance and an investor-centric experience. "fundcraft is uniquely positioned to enable managers to operate complex structures and high-volume investor flows without relying on manual processes or fragmented tooling. "I'm proud to lead the expansion in France, subject to AMF authorisation for regulated activities, and to build a local team that can serve this market with the level of rigour it requires." fundcraft's activities in France are pending the approval of the AMF, for which an application has been filed to provide regulated AIFM related services in France under the relevant regulatory framework. Julien De Mayer, co-founder and CEO at fundcraft, adds: "Assetservicingtimes is seeing clear demand from French asset managers and distribution-led platforms for operating models that simply cannot be supported by legacy infrastructure. "The democratisation of private markets requires a product mindset and deep operational engineering, which fundcraft uniquely brings. "France is a strategic step in our broader European growth journey, following five years of building and industrialising digital fund operations in Luxembourg. I'm very pleased to welcome Christian and Thomas as we take this next phase of execution forward."