Weekly news - week of august 3, 2026. 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. 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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StructureFlow, a provider of Structural Intelligence technology, has appointed Neal Chatrath as president. Based in New York and reporting to founder and CEO Tim Follett, Chatrath will lead the company's global commercial function and revenue growth. Chatrath will focus on expanding StructureFlow's presence among private equity firms, hedge funds, investment banks, and dealmaking organisations. He will oversee commercial strategy, deepen client relationships, and build the company's go-to-market infrastructure. StructureFlow has established a foundation serving law firms internationally and is now accelerating its move into the alternatives market. The company provides technology for mapping and modelling complex structures, addressing challenges around transaction timelines and structural planning. Chatrath will also expand regional teams and increase awareness of Structural Intelligence as an enterprise software category.

Ulster University collaboration to help students navigate the rising complexity of legal practice. May 18, 2026 New initiative with StructureFlow will explore how visual modelling and AI-era legal skills can support the future of legal education, professional practice and responsible innovation. Ulster University has launched a new research and educational collaboration with StructureFlow, the platform for mapping, modelling and managing complex legal structures. Led through Ulster University's Centre for Legal Technology, the collaboration is focused on research, teaching and skills development rather than commercial sponsorship activity. The partnership will embed StructureFlow into teaching, research and applied legal innovation activity, helping students develop the practical technology proficiency and structural intelligence needed to navigate the rising complexity of practicing law. The research-led partnership forms part of Ulster University's wider drive to rethink legal education for the age of AI, ensuring students are prepared to enter the legal profession and help shape its future. AI-enabled legal technology platforms are already transforming how lawyers conduct research, review documents and generate legal analysis. However, as the scale and complexity of the legal, business and regulatory environment grows, students and practitioners also need new ways to organise, interpret and present that information in a form that can be trusted and acted upon. Through the collaboration, students will explore how visual modelling tools can support the interpretation and communication of complex legal, regulatory and organisational information. In practice, this means breaking down legislation, mapping legal relationships, presenting complex arguments and understanding how changes in one part of a structure affects the wider picture. Dr John McCord, Senior Lecturer and Research Lead for the Centre for Legal Technology, said: "StructureFlow gives students a powerful way to cut through complex and often fragmented information, analyse their legal arguments, and present them in a way that can be understood, challenged and verified. "That matters because law is built on trust, and trust depends on being able to provide clear advice, while showing how conclusions have been reached. This partnership will help our students build the practical proficiency and confidence they need for the future of legal work." Professor Liam Maguire, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at Ulster University, said: "Partnerships between higher education and industry are increasingly important in helping universities respond to the pace of technological change across professional sectors. By working collaboratively with innovative organisations, we can ensure our research, teaching and student experience remain closely connected to emerging challenges and opportunities. Initiatives such as this support the development of future talent while also helping drive responsible innovation across the wider legal and technology ecosystem." Through the partnership, the Centre for Legal Technology will explore how StructureFlow can support students across legal education, including advocacy, presentations, legal clinic work and industry-linked projects. The Centre also intends to evaluate how students use the platform, including its impact on efficiency, understanding, communication and the development of professional skills. Tim Follett, CEO and Founder of StructureFlow, said: "The Centre for Legal Technology at Ulster University is taking exactly the kind of forward-looking approach legal education needs. As legal, business and regulatory environments become more interconnected, the challenge for future lawyers is not simply more information, but compounding complexity: understanding how different obligations, structures, relationships and risks interact." He added: "AI platforms are becoming incredibly powerful, but their outputs still need to be interpreted, tested, structured and explained. StructureFlow helps students and practitioners move from information to understanding by making complex legal and structural relationships visible. We are excited to work with Ulster University to help prepare the next generation of lawyers for a profession where legal knowledge, technological fluency and visual reasoning will all be essential." The research-led approach is central to the Centre for Legal Technology's wider mission. The University aims to help create a new generation of savvy professionals who can act as ambassadors for responsible legal technology adoption inside law firms, in-house legal teams, public bodies and other organisations. Follow us. 245,896 Fans Like 161,258 Followers Follow 23,500 Followers Follow 165,743 Followers Follow Belfast guide to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, concerts, events, hotels, entertainment, special offers, news, gossip, travel, festivals and culture. https://lovebelfast.co.uk