FinovateEurope 2023 / SESAMm
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: SESAMm enables companies to extract critical insights from the internet with AI. We provide ESG, sentiment, and thematic analytics by analyzing over 20 billion articles and messages using natural language processing. Our clients are major private equity firms, investment managers, and global corporations.
How they describe their product/innovation: Our product covers the increasing need for ESG alerting to monitor controversies, positive and negative impact, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility for public companies, but even more for private companies. Companies require coverage, granularity, and point-in-time data – a combination of complex factors not adequately addressed by most existing solutions.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Andrew Bernstein (Head of EMEA Sales), a.bernstein@sesamm.com
Press: Malik Senouci (Head of Marketing & Communications), m.senouci@sesamm.com
Website: sesamm.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/sesamm-sas
Twitter: @SESAMm_NLP
HQ: Metz, France
Founded: April 2014
Product Demoed: ESG Alerts & Monitoring
Metrics: Total investments: $18M, Annual Revenue: Around $10M+ for 2022, Customer Traction: More than 75+ customers, including global blue chip investment clients and corporate, and expanding rapidly. Number of employees: 100+
Presenter: Sylvain Forté, CEO
- Key Executives
Sylvain Forté (Co-Founder & CEO), Pierre Rinaldi (Co-Founder & COO), Florian Aubry (Co-Founder & CTO)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
Michael Chiappinelli (Managing Director), Jorge Alvarez (Chief Marketing Officer), Eric Sionnet (Chief Delivery Officer), Marie-Charlotte Deucher (Chief Financial Officer)
- Key Investors
The Carlyle Group, New Alpha Asset Management, Havenrock
- Key Partners
Bloomberg, Plug and Play, The Carlyle Group, IBM, Crunchbase, NEC Corporation, Eagle Alpha, The Investment Association
- Key Customers
We work with leading funds of companies, including but not limited to private equity firms, asset managers, hedge funds and corporations, including blue chips and Fortune 500 companies.
Some non-confidential clients of SESAMm include: The Carlyle Group, Tokio Marine, Kyobo AXA Investment Managers, Alpinvest, MUFG, Société Générale, Asset Management One, Euronext, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management, Oddo BHF, Unigestion, Raiffeisen Bank International, CIC Marchés, and Natixis.