SESAMm, a leading provider of AI-powered ESG and reputational risk insights, is pleased to announce that Paine Schwartz Partners, the largest private equity firm dedicated to sustainable food chain investing, has selected SESAMm’s platform to enhance its ESG due diligence and portfolio monitoring processes.

Paine Schwartz Partners manages over $6 billion in assets and invests globally across the food and agribusiness value chain, pursuing predominantly buyout investments, with a smaller allocation to growth companies. With a strong, long-standing commitment to sustainable investing in the food chain, Paine Schwartz integrates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations at every stage of its investment process, from initial screening to active portfolio management.

As part of its investment process, Paine Schwartz Partners will leverage SESAMm’s platform to enhance its ESG risk screening, due diligence, and supplier and portfolio monitoring.

SESAMm’s platform provides real-time visibility into ESG and reputational risks across millions of public and private companies worldwide. The platform leverages multilingual large language models to analyze content from over 4 million sources in 100+ languages, enabling rapid first-gate screening, continuous monitoring of portfolio companies and their supply chains, and early detection of potential red flags, all while providing fully auditable data.

Among the platform’s capabilities, Paine Schwartz Partners will make use of SESAMm’s AI Reports, a suite of AI-generated reports covering ESG Assessment, Legal, and Governance Screening, available directly within the platform. These reports make it possible to rapidly screen companies for ESG and reputational risks even where direct access to company data is limited, for example, when evaluating whether to pursue a smaller or minority investment, or before launching a full due diligence process. The reports will also help the firm efficiently screen key suppliers across its portfolio, a particularly valuable capability given the firm’s focus on the food and agribusiness value chain.

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About Paine Schwartz Partners

Paine Schwartz Partners is the largest private equity firm dedicated to sustainable food chain investing, with ~$6.5 billion of AUM and over 20 years of experience. The firm invests across specific segments of the food and agribusiness value chain, with a focus on two core investment themes: productivity and sustainability and health and wellness. Through its proactive, thesis-driven approach, the firm targets value-added and differentiated companies and makes primarily control buyout investments, with a smaller allocation to growth companies. Learn more at www.paineschwartz.com.

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About SESAMm

SESAMm is a global leader in controversy data, leveraging advanced large language models and generative AI to uncover ESG, reputational, and supplier risks in seconds. Our AI-powered platform surfaces real-time insights, even in low-disclosure markets, on millions of companies and infrastructure projects, supporting more informed decisions, enhanced due diligence, and regulatory alignment at scale. We work with leading firms, including Carlyle, Warburg, Natixis, RBI, Sustainable Fitch, Oddo, and others. SESAMm has raised $50M from renowned investors and operates across four continents. Learn more at sesamm.com

SESAMm is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven Carroll to its Advisory Board. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, Steven has built a uniquely broad perspective on financial data, having operated at a senior level across every major corner of the industry, from quant analytics and content to AI-powered research tools and global data platforms.

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A Career at the Heart of Financial Data

Steven has seen financial data from every angle: quant analytics at StarMine, content and indices at Thomson Reuters, and AI-powered search at AlphaSense. At Refinitiv and then LSEG, he took on progressively broader remits, culminating in his role as Head of Customer Strategy and Execution, where he was responsible for go-to-market across Workspace, Data and Feeds, FTSE Russell, and Risk Intelligence and Analytics. Throughout, Steven's roles have sat at the intersection of product, marketing, and sales, spanning multiple geographies, including Australia, Singapore, the UK, and the United States.

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Deep Roots in the Institutions and Workflows SESAMm Serves

Steven is a subject-matter expert on the content sets and workflows that underpin institutional investment and risk management, including fundamental data, estimates, broker research, ESG, sentiment, and credit analytics. He has also worked closely with the firms that consume this data, from private equity and asset managers to commercial banks and insurers, giving him a first-hand understanding of how they evaluate, adopt, and integrate new data and analytics tools into their processes.

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Expanding SESAMm's Reach Across Global Financial Markets

Steven's appointment comes as SESAMm continues to expand its AI-powered risk intelligence platform and deepen its relationships with private equity firms, asset managers, commercial banks, insurers, and financial institutions globally. His perspective will provide valuable insight, bringing a practitioner's understanding of how financial data businesses grow and scale.

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Steven is also the founder of CCAS (Carroll Consulting and Advisory Services), a London-based advisory practice supporting startups and established vendors across the information services ecosystem. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the Institute of Consulting, a member of the Institute of Directors and the CFA Institute, and serves on the Board of Governors at Greenwich Waldorf School.

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We're thrilled to welcome Steven to SESAMm's Advisory Board and look forward to working together as we continue advancing AI-powered risk intelligence for investment firms and corporations worldwide.

SESAMm is pleased to announce the appointment of David Platt to its Advisory Board. David has spent his career at the intersection of M&A, corporate strategy, and risk intelligence - most recently as Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer at Moody’s Corporation, where he contributed to the diversification of one of the world's leading financial data companies.

During his twelve years at Moody’s, David helped architect the firm’s diversification into data, analytics, and technology-driven risk assessment. He oversaw more than 75 transactions valued at $9 billion, including landmark acquisitions in climate risk, cybersecurity, and private company data. Before Moody’s, he held senior M&A roles at Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse First Boston, advising on complex transactions and corporate strategy for global clients.

“Over the course of my career, I’ve focused on helping organizations scale by expanding into new markets, strengthening their strategic foundations, and building platforms that help institutions better measure, manage, and understand risk,” said David Platt. "SESAMm has built an impressive platform at the intersection of AI and risk intelligence, and I’m excited to support the team as they shape their strategy and scale the business globally.”

David’s appointment comes as SESAMm continues to scale its AI-powered risk intelligence platform and expand its global presence. His experience driving profitable and strategic growth initiatives and scaling data and analytics platforms will help guide the company’s strategic direction.

"David has sat on both sides of the table, as a buyer of data and analytics capabilities, and as a trusted advisor to some of the world's largest financial institutions," said Sylvain Forté, CEO and Co-Founder of SESAMm. "That perspective will be invaluable as we shape SESAMm’s strategic direction and execute our next phase of growth."

David is a CFA charterholder and has served on the boards of BitSight Technologies and ICRA, an Indian credit rating agency. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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.

Infrastructure is no longer a niche allocation. It sits at the center of energy transition strategies, industrial policy, and long-term portfolio construction. For investors, banks, and insurers, exposure to infrastructure projects also means exposure to complex, evolving ESG and reputational risks.

More than 250,000 infrastructure projects worldwide are monitored on the SESAMm platform. This coverage continues to expand, with new projects added regularly, including in response to client requests.

“Infrastructure projects generate vast amounts of fragmented information across local media, regulatory sources, and public reporting. Our goal is to transform that information into structured intelligence. With more than 250,000 projects covered globally, SESAMm provides investors and financial institutions with the visibility needed to monitor infrastructure risks at scale,” commented Sylvain Forté, CEO & Co-Founder, SESAMm. 

A Truly Global View of Infrastructure Risk

SESAMm analyzes sources in more than 100 languages and provides global visibility into infrastructure assets, including in emerging markets and jurisdictions with limited public disclosure. Through multilingual AI analysis, SESAMm monitors projects in their local information environments, detecting controversies, regulatory actions, environmental incidents, corruption cases, and governance failures as they emerge.

Whether a project is located in Europe, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, or Latin America, clients gain access to:

• Local-language media monitoring
• Structured ESG event detection
• Clear visibility into how events evolve over time
• Severity and exposure scoring

Infrastructure risk is rarely static. It evolves during permitting, construction, operation, and financing, and SESAMm’s monitoring reflects that reality.

Coverage Across Key Infrastructure Categories

SESAMm’s infrastructure coverage includes a wide range of asset types, such as:

• Solar Stations
• Airports
• Waste Management Facilities
• Wind Stations
• Dams
• Coal Mines
• Oil & Gas Plants
• Hydropower Stations
• Coal Power Stations
• Steel Plants
• Bioenergy Stations
• Nuclear Stations
• Coal Terminals
• Geothermal Stations

This breadth enables clients to assess risks across both legacy and transition-aligned infrastructure.

Why Infrastructure Monitoring Matters Now

Infrastructure projects concentrate risk. They involve long timelines, large capital commitments, public scrutiny, regulatory complexity, and significant community impact.

For investors and lenders, point-in-time due diligence is no longer sufficient. A project cleared at financial close can face protests, litigation, environmental incidents, corruption allegations, or regulatory breaches years later.

Continuous monitoring is becoming essential for:

• Pre-investment screening
• Ongoing portfolio oversight
• Secondaries transactions
• Infrastructure debt underwriting
• Insurance risk assessment
• Sustainability and SFDR reporting

Our expanded coverage supports these workflows with structured, real-time intelligence.

On-Demand Expansion: Coverage That Grows With You

Beyond the projects already included in the dataset, SESAMm adds new infrastructure assets upon client request. This allows coverage to align directly with a pipeline of acquisition targets, a lender’s financing book, an insurer’s underwriting portfolio, or a fund’s watchlist. Rather than forcing clients to adapt to a fixed database, SESAMm’s infrastructure coverage scales dynamically to meet their needs.

With more than 250,000 assets included, SESAMm delivers one of the most comprehensive and scalable datasets for infrastructure risk monitoring. Together, this expanded infrastructure dataset and SESAMm’s AI reporting capabilities provide financial institutions with a scalable way to identify and monitor risks across infrastructure portfolios worldwide.

Learn more about our AI reports here.

Paris, France – 24 février 2026 – SESAMm, leader mondial des données de controverses ESG et réputationnelles, annonce le renouvellement de son partenariat avec le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, initié en janvier 2023, pour le renforcement de l’évaluation et du suivi des risques ESG au sein de ses activités d’achats et d’investissement.

Depuis le début de cette collaboration, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa s’appuie sur la plateforme SESAMm pour analyser les risques environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance liés à ses fournisseurs, partenaires et participations. Grâce à des données de controverses ESG fondées sur l’intelligence artificielle, il est possible d’identifier notamment les manquements réglementaires, incidents environnementaux, risques sociaux, atteintes aux droits humains, cas de corruption et autres risques réputationnels.

Dans le cadre de ce partenariat renouvelé, SESAMm poursuit cet accompagnement, à la fois lors des appels d’offres et dans le suivi continu des tiers, ainsi que pour l’analyse des dossiers d’investissement et la surveillance quotidienne du portefeuille, complétées par des synthèses hebdomadaires des controverses ESG.

Ce renouvellement de confiance confirme la valeur ajoutée des analyses de SESAMm pour renforcer la cohérence, la réactivité et la robustesse des processus de due diligence et de gestion des risques ESG du Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.

Paris, France – 24 février 2026 – SESAMm, leader mondial des données de controverses ESG et réputationnelles, annonce le renouvellement de son partenariat avec le Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, initié en janvier 2023, pour le renforcement de l’évaluation et du suivi des risques ESG au sein de ses activités d’achats et d’investissement.

Depuis le début de cette collaboration, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa s’appuie sur la plateforme SESAMm pour analyser les risques environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance liés à ses fournisseurs, partenaires et participations. Grâce à des données de controverses ESG fondées sur l’intelligence artificielle, il est possible d’identifier notamment les manquements réglementaires, incidents environnementaux, risques sociaux, atteintes aux droits humains, cas de corruption et autres risques réputationnels.

Dans le cadre de ce partenariat renouvelé, SESAMm poursuit cet accompagnement, à la fois lors des appels d’offres et dans le suivi continu des tiers, ainsi que pour l’analyse des dossiers d’investissement et la surveillance quotidienne du portefeuille, complétées par des synthèses hebdomadaires des controverses ESG.

Ce renouvellement de confiance confirme la valeur ajoutée des analyses de SESAMm pour renforcer la cohérence, la réactivité et la robustesse des processus de due diligence et de gestion des risques ESG du Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.

Following the success of SESAMm’s AI-Powered Deal Screening Reports, we’re expanding our due diligence suite with a new addition: the AI-Powered Legal Risk Report. Built for private equity, M&A, and legal teams, it delivers a rapid, data-driven view of a company’s litigation, regulatory, reputational exposure and all public compliance documentation and disclosures, helping professionals identify red flags early and make faster, more informed decisions.

Accelerating Legal Due Diligence

In private equity transactions, time is limited but the stakes are high. Traditional legal research can take weeks of reviewing court filings, disclosures, and media coverage. SESAMm’s Legal Risk Report automates this process, scanning millions of documents to surface potential risks in less than an hour.

Each report is generated automatically in less than 15 minutes and backed by verifiable sources, giving legal and compliance teams the transparency they need to validate findings and support defensible due diligence.

The Legal Risk Report helps professionals accelerate and strengthen their assessments at every stage of a transaction:

• Reduce blind spots: Uncover litigation, compliance, or reputational issues that manual research might miss.
• Strengthen documentation: Support client memos and audit findings with verifiable, AI-extracted evidence.
• Reduce costs and time: Cut research hours while maintaining defensible, high-quality standards.

SESAMm’s technology is trusted by leading financial institutions to enhance their understanding of ESG, reputational, and regulatory risks. The new Legal Risk Report builds on this foundation, extending SESAMm’s AI capabilities to help law firms, compliance officers, and corporate legal teams uncover litigation and reputational exposures with speed and transparency.

A Growing Suite of AI Reports

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

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.

SESAMm is pleased to announce that Nathalie Wallace is joining our Advisory Board. Nathalie brings more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of investment management, sustainability strategy, and executive leadership. She has built a career helping global investment organizations integrate sustainability into investment decision-making and capital allocation.

Commenting on the appointment, Sylvain Forté, CEO of SESAMm, said, “Nathalie brings a rare combination of investment experience, strategic vision, and deep understanding of how sustainability considerations translate into real-world investment decisions. Her perspective will be invaluable as SESAMm continues to support financial institutions navigating increasingly complex risk and regulatory environments.”

She previously served as Chief Sustainability Officer at Edmond de Rothschild, where she contributed to the firm’s sustainability strategy across asset classes. Prior to that, Nathalie was Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Natixis Investment Managers, where she was a member of the executive, investment, and seed committees, chaired the CSR–Sustainable Investment committee, and served on the boards of Mirova and Ostrum Asset Management. Earlier in her career, she was Global Head of Strategy and Business Development at Mirova, supporting its growth and positioning as a leading sustainable investment platform.

As Senior Advisor to SESAMm, Nathalie will support the company’s strategic direction, bringing her perspective on sustainable finance, investor expectations, and the evolving role of data and AI in risk analysis and investment processes.

“SESAMm’s approach to risk and sustainability intelligence reflects how investment teams are evolving their processes,” said Nathalie Wallace. “I’m excited to contribute my perspective as the firm continues to support investors with timely, decision-relevant insights.”

We are delighted to welcome Nathalie to SESAMm and look forward to working together as we continue to support financial institutions with forward-looking risk and sustainability insights.

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