We are thrilled to announce that SESAMm was selected to demo at the exclusive Finovate Europe event on March 22nd – 23rd in London, UK. This comes on the heels of SESAMm receiving the 2022 HFM US Technology Award for “Best Use of Artificial Intelligence or Blockchain Technology.”

Finovate Europe invites a selection of European Fintech leaders to discuss and showcase the latest technology innovations and trends in the industry. CEO Sylvian Forté will demonstrate SESAMm’s latest innovation TextReveal® Streams, at the event, live on the main stage. Streams is a ready-to-use alternative dataset. It provides daily sentiment analysis and ESG data mapped to public and private firms leveraging SESAMm’s NLP (Natural Language Processing) powered engine to fuel investment strategies.

SESAMm owns a proprietary 13 years historical data lake containing over 17 billion articles publicly sourced from more than 4 million sources (blogs, forums, social networks, etc.). This represents 10 to 100 times more information than that of our competitors. SESAMm works with Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and other financial firms to help them generate alpha, gather exclusive insights, and tailor unique analytics.

Join us with over 1000 senior attendees, 50+ demoers including SESAMm and its CEO Sylvain Forté, and 70+ insightful speakers. In addition to demonstrating our latest innovation on stage, our team will also be available to perform 1:1 demos in the exhibit hall area. If you’re attending the event, stop by to say hi!!

Verify governance alignment and uncover early warning signs with AI-generated insights.

With rising regulatory expectations and increased scrutiny on corporate governance, investors need fast, reliable ways to assess governance risk. SESAMm’s Good Governance AI-generated report delivers a rapid, data-driven assessment of governance alignment and structural risk indicators. It helps professionals verify regulatory requirements and detect early warning signs before they escalate.

Accelerating Governance Risk Assessment

As scrutiny around corporate governance intensifies, particularly under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), investors are expected to demonstrate robust good governance checks. Traditional governance analysis often requires time-consuming reviews of disclosures, board composition, NGO reports, and news.

SESAMm’s Good Governance Report automates this process. Our technology analyzes millions of documents and news sources to surface governance-related risks across millions of public and private companies worldwide.

Each report is generated automatically in minutes and includes:

• A clear risk level
• A structured summary of findings
• Verifiable source references for transparency and audit readiness

This ensures governance assessments are fast, explainable, and defensible.

Strengthening Governance Checks at Every Stage

The Good Governance Report supports professionals across pre-investment, transaction, and ongoing monitoring workflows:

• Carry out SFDR governance checks: Accelerate mandatory good governance checks for Articles 8 and 9‍
• Early warning signals: Identify signs of board dysfunction, weak oversight, unethical practices, or financial mismanagement before they escalate.
• Accelerated due diligence: Provide a fast, structured view of risks, reducing manual screening time.
• Consistent, scalable assessments: Every company is evaluated using the same methodology, ensuring comparability across portfolios.

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A Growing Suite of AI Reports

These new Good Governance reports are the latest addition to SESAMm’s expanding portfolio of AI-generated reports. Other reports include ESG assessments, supply chain screening, secondaries screening, deal screening, and legal risk.

By combining AI-powered text analysis with structured risk categorization, SESAMm enables professionals to go from question to insight  - and from risk to response - faster than ever.

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Intro to SESAMm

Thank you very much, Greg. Thank you, everyone, for listening to this presentation. I’m Sylvain. I’m CEO and co-founder of SESAMm. SESAMm is an AI company. We extract billions of articles and messages from the web in order to identify critical insights related to financial institutions and corporates. We’re a team of close to a hundred people. And what we aim to show you today is our new product that helps financial institutions and corporates identify ESG controversies in the form of alerts on all of their investments, on all of their clients, and all of their suppliers.

So there are more than 23 million companies in the world right now. These companies are your investments, your suppliers, your clients, and no one is actually tracking them. Most of these companies are never tracked day to day. SESAMm’s solution aims at automatically identifying controversies on these companies and finding the critical information that you’re missing.

See a dashboard example

So let’s take a quick example first. Here we have dashboards where we analyze a company called Wirecard. Wirecard is a fintech company—German—that went bankrupt a few years ago due to a two billion fraud scandal. That company was heavily embedded into the financial sector, working with a lot of banks, a lot of corporates worldwide.

On our dashboards, we can immediately identify all of the key controversies and all of the key risks on the companies. And we have a score called a virality score that helps assess the severity of each ESG event so as to understand whether that company should be excluded from your list of suppliers, for example, or even discussed as a client.

SESAMm solution benefits

There are key benefits to providing this information and to the way that this product is brought to the market. First, SESAMm covers more companies than anyone else. We cover close to five million firms, whereas most ESG providers have coverage limited to 50,000 firms in total. In addition to that, we’re able to detect controversies in real time and generate daily alerts where normally a bank, for example, would have to go through that process manually and update it just a few times a year instead of receiving that live information.

In addition to that, as you can see on the demo here, we have information for more than 14 years of data. So anytime you onboard a new supplier, anytime you check for information—ESG information, on a new client, or on an investment—you’ll automatically be able to go back in history and understand whether that company was exposed to issues in the past.

Trusted by major financial institutions

SESAMm solutions are already adopted by major banks such as Raiffeisen or Nomura, for example, in this industry, major private equity firms such as Carlyle. And what’s interesting in this solution is that we’re seeing specific interests from commercial banks that are missing the solution in order to track ESG risk on their suppliers and their clients. And it makes sense. Most of these suppliers and clients are small firms, local firms that no one else is going to track. And AI is enabling us to automate the process of monitoring these firms and making sense of that data in real time.

SESAMm's solution in action

So now, let’s go to the second part of the demo. We want to take an actual life example. So let’s take a company like Twilio, for example. So you may know Twilio communications, API, messaging services, phone services, and the like. This company is a typical provider of banks or of financial institutions or any other corporates in the world.

So you see on the left, we immediately identify all of the information related to Twilio. And we can rank this based on negative sentiment so as to understand what are the key critical topics that I should care about and that I should evaluate before actually working with Twilio or in the context of already working with Twilio. We go through that process by handling more than 20 billion articles and messages from more than four million sources worldwide. So that’s an insanely large amount of information.

And on Twilio—say Twilio is one of your suppliers or one of your clients—we immediately identify a large controversy related to a data breach and cybersecurity issue, and we identified both in news but also in some of the specialized cybersecurity websites. In addition to that, we can go in even more granularity and look transparently at the content themselves, read the contents from the platform, and not just rely on a numeric rate saying that “Hey! This company is problematic.” We can actually read the underlying content and understand how the controversy emerged.

SESAMm solution benefits

So the key benefits and the real advantages of that solution is getting information immediately. You don’t have to wait for a due diligence for someone to check for someone to send a questionnaire to the company. You just type in the name, get the information in a few seconds wherever the company is, and however local that company is. It could be the most obscure company. And as you can see our system also covers many different languages, including Asian languages that are monitored automatically.

The second part is that we have access to millions of sources, including very industry-specific sources. I was mentioning cyberthreats. We also have access to NGO websites that identify these types of ESG issues in real time.

So this is really the information that is aimed at helping you monitor controversies and ESG events in just one place on any number of companies, public and private, whether they are your suppliers, your clients, or your investments. You can make sense of that data in real time using AI.

Presentation summary

I’ll finish this presentation a bit early, and we’ll actually bring the point to three calls to action. The first one is, first, please come to our booth. We’re actually on the left of the exhibit hall right when you come in. The second one is, please visit our website. It’s spelled SESAMm, sesamm.com, and you can get a free trial from the website. And finally, come talk to our amazing team with Dave and the rest of our team at our booth. And please ask us for a free POC—whether you’re a bank, an asset manager, or a fintech company—and help us help you track all of the ESG controversies on millions of companies.

Thank you very much.

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TextReveal’s web data analysis of over five million public and private companies is essential for keeping tabs on ESG investment risks. For example, ESG Alerts provides a better way to research and monitor your investment portfolio. To learn more about how you can analyze web data or to request a demo, reach out to one of our representatives.