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Identifying investment opportunities more quickly using Coalesce.Info and IBM Watson offerings

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Predictive Quality Analytics Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Data Science Services Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Catalyst Investors, a private equity and venture capital firm, was challenged by the task of combing through multiple content sources to find investment opportunities. The firm differentiates itself by applying a rigorous, research-based approach to investing and by employing experienced technology analysts to proactively recognize important trends in its key sectors. However, keeping up with the constant news alerts and ever-changing information about its markets and target companies proved challenging. The amount of unstructured, digital content is growing exponentially each year, making it a painstaking process to sift through volumes of online content to find and evaluate potential business opportunities. Read More
About Customer	Catalyst Investors is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in New York, NY. The firm specializes in late venture, growth capital, acquisition, and other investments in emerging growth companies. Ranked among the top growth equity firms by GrowthCap LLC, Catalyst invests in rapidly growing technology-enabled businesses in the cloud computing, wireless infrastructure, and business and consumer services sectors, among others. The firm differentiates itself by applying a rigorous, research-based approach to investing and by employing experienced technology analysts to proactively recognize important trends in its key sectors. Read More
Solution	To address the challenge, Catalyst engaged IBM Business Partner Coalesce.Info to deploy an automated research tool powered by IBM Watson services. The solution, Coalesce technology, is a software as a service (SaaS) solution powered by IBM Watson Analytics technology. The offering uses the IBM Watson Discovery News service to systematically analyze more than 50,000 stories from daily news outlets. The software learns from researchers to generate a short-list of top opportunities based on their custom analysis process. The solution also enables Catalyst to ask specific questions about its prospects, such as, “Which companies have made acquisitions?” To understand the intent of those questions, the solution employs the IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier and the IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding services. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Quality Analytics

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Data Science Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Catalyst Investors, a private equity and venture capital firm, was challenged by the task of combing through multiple content sources to find investment opportunities. The firm differentiates itself by applying a rigorous, research-based approach to investing and by employing experienced technology analysts to proactively recognize important trends in its key sectors. However, keeping up with the constant news alerts and ever-changing information about its markets and target companies proved challenging. The amount of unstructured, digital content is growing exponentially each year, making it a painstaking process to sift through volumes of online content to find and evaluate potential business opportunities.

About Customer

Catalyst Investors is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in New York, NY. The firm specializes in late venture, growth capital, acquisition, and other investments in emerging growth companies. Ranked among the top growth equity firms by GrowthCap LLC, Catalyst invests in rapidly growing technology-enabled businesses in the cloud computing, wireless infrastructure, and business and consumer services sectors, among others. The firm differentiates itself by applying a rigorous, research-based approach to investing and by employing experienced technology analysts to proactively recognize important trends in its key sectors.

Solution

To address the challenge, Catalyst engaged IBM Business Partner Coalesce.Info to deploy an automated research tool powered by IBM Watson services. The solution, Coalesce technology, is a software as a service (SaaS) solution powered by IBM Watson Analytics technology. The offering uses the IBM Watson Discovery News service to systematically analyze more than 50,000 stories from daily news outlets. The software learns from researchers to generate a short-list of top opportunities based on their custom analysis process. The solution also enables Catalyst to ask specific questions about its prospects, such as, “Which companies have made acquisitions?” To understand the intent of those questions, the solution employs the IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier and the IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding services.

Impact #1	The solution highlights the 1% of content that is most relevant and valuable and filters out 99% of irrelevant content.
Impact #2	It delivers actionable intelligence on 20% of prospects in the pipeline.
Impact #3	The solution updates the prospect pipeline automatically by monitoring companies for early indicators of investment opportunities.

Impact #1

The solution highlights the 1% of content that is most relevant and valuable and filters out 99% of irrelevant content.

Impact #2

It delivers actionable intelligence on 20% of prospects in the pipeline.

Impact #3

The solution updates the prospect pipeline automatically by monitoring companies for early indicators of investment opportunities.

Benefit #1	The solution delivers actionable intelligence on 20% of prospects in the pipeline.
Benefit #2	The solution updates the prospect pipeline automatically by monitoring companies for early indicators of investment opportunities.

Benefit #1

The solution delivers actionable intelligence on 20% of prospects in the pipeline.

Benefit #2

The solution updates the prospect pipeline automatically by monitoring companies for early indicators of investment opportunities.

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Identifying investment opportunities more quickly using Coalesce.Info and IBM Watson offerings

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