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Introducing: SESAMm MCP Server

July 28, 2026
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We are excited to announce the SESAMm MCP Server, a new integration that brings SESAMm's ESG controversy data directly into your preferred AI assistant. You can now get answers on a company's ESG risk without leaving the AI assistant: no switching platforms, no extra logins, just one workflow.

The MCP server is built on the Model Context Protocol, an open standard originally developed by Anthropic and now supported by all major AI assistants. Setup takes less than five minutes.

Ask Your Portfolio Anything

The SESAMm MCP Server gives your AI assistant direct access to SESAMm data. From there, the AI can retrieve the right information and synthesize it into a clear, contextualized answer, not just hand back raw data. Ask about a company's top controversies over the last 12 months, compare CES scores across a shortlist, or run a UNGC screen on a portfolio: the assistant handles everything and returns a contextualized, source-linked answer in seconds. Every result traces back to the underlying SESAMm cases and documents, so you can verify the output.

Standardized  Reports Made Easy

Once you have a workflow that delivers the output you need, you can save it as a Skill, whether that's a standardized ESG summary, a deal-ready risk table, or a customized controversy brief. It's a fast, easy way to customize reports and standardize workflows across your team.

For example, if your Sustainability team builds a customized ESG report, they can save it as a Skill and share it internally with the rest of their organization. From there, every colleague on your organization's SESAMm MCP, whether they sit in Sustainability, Credit, or Deal teams, runs the exact same report, in the exact same format.

Key Benefits of the SESAMm MCP Server

  • Standardized, shareable reports and processes: Save any query as a Skill and share it with the team. Everyone runs the same trusted process, in the same format, every time.
  • Portfolio screening at conversational speed: Rank an entire portfolio by peak CES, flag UNGC violations, and surface high-risk names, all from one query and with no manual aggregation.
  • ESG answers without leaving your workflow: Query any company's controversies, CES score, or UNGC status directly from your AI assistant and get a clear, contextualized answer in seconds, with no platform login required.
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Paris, France – November 21, 2024 – SESAMm, a leading artificial intelligence company, has been prominently featured in the latest edition of Datos Insights' Capital Markets Fintech Spotlight for Q3. This recognition underscores SESAMm's pivotal role in transforming the landscape of ESG and sentiment analysis through innovative AI technologies.

SESAMm's technological prowess allows clients to conduct in-depth due diligence and risk assessments, monitor investments, and make informed decisions. The platform’s strength lies in its ability to detect ESG controversies and identify positive impact events related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The report by Datos Insights highlights the challenges investment firms face regarding timely and transparent ESG risk information, particularly with small to mid-sized companies and in diverse geographic locations. SESAMm addresses these issues by providing a robust alternative to more traditional, often costlier, solutions. Its capacity to offer detailed ESG monitoring and analysis positions SESAMm as a valuable asset to its clients, which include some of Europe's largest financial institutions and notable names like Carlyle and Raiffeisen Bank International.

The Capital Markets Fintech Spotlight is a quarterly report that evaluates innovative companies shaping the future of finance through technology. Featuring SESAMm in this report highlights its impact on integrating ESG considerations into the investment process globally. This recognition is a testament to SESAMm’s commitment to excellence and innovation in the rapidly evolving fintech landscape.

Access the full report here: Capital Markets Fintech Spotlight: Q3 2024

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.

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SESAMm Wins Real Deals ESG Tech Award

November 10, 2024
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We have exciting news to share! Real Deals has recognized SESAMm for Best ESG Tech for TextReveal® ESG Alerts at the Real Deals ESG Awards 2022! These awards focus on: 1. a mixture of demonstrable customer and revenue growth; 2. detailed overviews of how new initiatives, products, or services have aided the business and helped their clients

ESG monitoring is becoming increasingly critical as legislation and stakeholders focus on sustainability, positive impact initiatives, and CSR. Early detection of controversies and positive impact events for private and public companies is possible through natural language processing (NLP)-powered technologies. SESAMm's ESG and SDG Alerts use AI to give firms the ability to monitor millions of public and private companies worldwide, providing more objective indicators.

A big thanks to SESAMm's investors, partners, and clients

We thank our clients, investors, and partners for your support and patronage. Thank you for being such a big part of SESAMm; you're why we do what we do, and many of you have been involved since day one. And your generous and encouraging attitude has helped get us here today.

Of course, we're honored to earn the ESG Tech award at Real Deals ESG Awards 2022. We're also excited for our clients and partners. And while we have more work to do and clients to serve, we think the future looks bright for us, our partners, and our clients.

About SESAMm and TextReveal

SESAMm is a leading NLP technology company serving global investment firms, corporations, and investors, such as private equity firms, hedge funds, and other asset management firms. Through TextReveal, we give you NLP capabilities to generate your own alternative data for use cases, such as ESG and SDG, sentiment, private equity due diligence, corporation studies, and more. And with access to SESAMm’s massive data lake, made up of 20 billion articles and messages and growing, you can make better investment decisions.

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Paris, France – November 12, 2025 – SESAMm, a leader in AI-powered text analysis for financial services, proudly announces its inclusion in the ESGFinTech100 list by FinTech Global for the third consecutive year. This recognition highlights SESAMm's commitment to sustainability and ESG through the application of advanced AI technologies.

FinTech Global's annual ESGFinTech100 list, now in its fourth year, showcases the top 100 ESG companies that are revolutionizing the financial services industry. The list is carefully curated by a panel of industry experts who evaluate over 500 ESG tech companies worldwide. This year’s criteria focused on innovative technology solutions addressing a significant industry challenge, as well as their contributions to ESG imperatives and sustainability improvements for clients.

"We’re proud to be recognized again among the ESGFinTech100, alongside innovators redefining the role of technology in sustainable finance. At SESAMm, we believe the future of ESG lies in intelligence that’s both real-time and actionable. Our mission is to make external data speak — transforming how investors, corporations, and financial institutions understand risk and opportunity.” Said Sylvain Forté, SESAMm’s CEO. “Looking ahead, we’re building on this foundation with SESAMm’s own AI-powered agents, automating entire workflows from risk detection to report generation. These systems make ESG intelligence seamless, embedded, and action-ready."

The inclusion of SESAMm in this year's ESGFinTech100 underscores the rising significance of ESG factors in the financial sector. As institutions increasingly focus on sustainability, SESAMm leverages AI to enhance operational efficiencies while supporting ESG initiatives.

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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 www.sesamm.com

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.

Paris, October 16 — SESAMm, an innovative leader in AI-powered information processing and analysis, is expanding its services with ODDO BHF Asset Management initiated in 2021. The solutions provided will focus on leveraging SESAMm’s cutting-edge technology to enhance decision-making in various aspects of its investment processes, specifically thematic strategies, facilitating a deeper understanding and more robust analysis of market opportunities through detailed market insights derived from SESAMm’s data feeds and analytical dashboards.

Innovative Solutions for Complex Markets

SESAMm’s proprietary platform, TextReveal®, offers a suite of solutions that enhance investment decisions. These solutions include detailed market sentiment analysis and comprehensive thematic research tools. SESAMm’s ability to process and analyze vast amounts of data allows its clients to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.
“The solution chosen by ODDO BHF Asset Management reflects the trust and efficiency we have cultivated over the past years,” stated Sylvain Forté, CEO and co-founder at SESAMm. “Our continued collaboration is set to unlock new potentials and further innovate the way financial markets operate.”

About SESAMm

SESAMm is a global leader in AI-powered text analytics, specializing in providing insights on ESG controversies and positive-impact events. With its cutting-edge technology, SESAMm helps private equity firms, asset managers, and other financial institutions, as well as ESG consulting firms and rating agencies, monitor and analyze vast amounts of textual data to identify potential risks and opportunities in their investments.
For more information, visit SESAMm.
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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. To learn more about how you can analyze web data or to request a demo, reach out to one of our representatives.

We are excited to announce the launch of SESAMm’s proprietary Controversy Exposure Score (CES), a new score designed to transform how ESG and finance professionals assess risks. The CES offers a dynamic, real-time view of a company's exposure to ESG controversies, enabling fast, informed decision-making.

What is the Controversy Exposure Score (CES)?

The CES is a continuously updated score ranging from 1 to 100, reflecting a company or project's evolving exposure to ESG controversies. Leveraging SESAMm’s proprietary Intensity and Volume Scores, the CES captures both the severity and frequency of ESG incidents, allowing stakeholders to monitor and understand risks as they develop.
Below, we’ve put together an example demonstrating how the CES for Renault compares to Stellantis based on their respective ESG controversies. As we see in the chart below, Renault has had fewer high–intensity events, which results in a lower, more stable CES compared to Stellantis.

Renault CES

Stellantis CES

How Does It Work?

The CES is powered by state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) that filter and analyze content from our data lake containing over 25 billion articles.
Two main components impact the score’s value:

  • Intensity Score: Measures the severity of each ESG incident, considering its impact on a company’s reputational, stakeholder, financial, and legal standing. This score is derived from a Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuned by SESAMm’s experts and trained on thousands of humanly annotated events.
  • Volume Score: Assesses the number of articles associated with an event, calculated using a short-term rolling window. To ensure accuracy, the Volume Score is normalized against the average article volume concerning the company and relevant ESG topics over the past year, reducing potential bias.

Key Benefits of the Controversy Exposure Score

  • Conduct initial risk assessments: Instantly evaluate a company’s risk exposure, enabling quick decision-making.
  • Track ESG controversy trends: Evaluate how a company’s risk exposure has evolved. The CES is updated daily, ensuring that users have the most current data at their fingertips.
  • Benchmark companies against their peers: Compare a company’s risk exposure to its peers, providing a comprehensive view of its relative risk.

Ready to Transform Your ESG Analysis?

For more information on how the Controversy Exposure Score can help you make smarter, data-driven decisions and to see it in action, request a demo.

Reach out to SESAMm

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

SESAMm has been prominently featured in the Datos Insights Commercial Banking & Payments Fintech Spotlight Report for Q2 of 2024. This recognition highlights SESAMm’s innovative capabilities and its significant impact on the financial industry, particularly within private equity and asset management.

SESAMm's Capabilities and Impact

SESAMm's AI-driven platform excels in processing vast amounts of data, offering deep insights, and enhancing decision-making for financial institutions and corporations. With a proprietary data lake comprising over 25 billion articles in more than 100 languages, SESAMm provides comprehensive ESG data that supports detailed risk assessments, controversy monitoring, and positive impact identification. This extensive database is continuously updated, adding approximately 10 million new articles daily, ensuring users have access to the most current information.

Our services are available as a SaaS or API plug-in, allowing banks and other financial institutions to leverage hyper-local data. This feature enables clients to understand the nuances of ESG criteria impacts, both positive and negative, on public and private companies. The platform’s customizable filters and alert systems, based on 90 ESG risk categories and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), offer an unparalleled level of detail and usability.

SESAMm’s primary clientele includes private equity firms, asset managers, corporates, and financial institutions, including some of the largest European banks. By partnering with these entities, SESAMm helps expedite due diligence processes, investment monitoring, and ESG risk assessments, addressing a critical need for timely and accurate data in these sectors.

About the Datos Insights Fintech Spotlight

The Datos Insights Fintech Spotlight is a quarterly report that highlights leading fintech companies making significant changes in the industry. The report focuses on innovations and solutions that address current market challenges, providing financial institutions with valuable insights into emerging technologies and best practices.

Why SESAMm Stood Out

SESAMm’s selection for this spotlight recognizes our robust data processing capabilities, comprehensive ESG insights, and tangible value to its clients. Our ability to streamline complex research processes, support thorough due diligence, and offer real-time monitoring makes it a valuable tool for financial professionals. SESAMm continues to lead the way in leveraging AI to navigate the evolving landscape of ESG and sustainability, solidifying its position as a key player in the fintech space.

Access the report here.

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.

Paris, France and London, UK – July 11, 2024 – SESAMm, a leader in AI-powered text analysis for ESG insights, is pleased to announce that Sustainable Fitch, a leading provider of ESG data, analysis, and research for the sustainability and fixed-income market, will be integrating SESAMm’s data into its ESG Scores and Ratings.

Sustainable Fitch provides ESG data and analytics to both the public and private markets, including asset owners and asset managers. Sustainable Fitch will use SESAMm analytics to monitor companies and industries at a granular level, allowing them to provide further insights to clients to aid their investment and due diligence decision-making.

Sylvain Forté, CEO of SESAMm, commented, “We are excited that a recognized leader in ESG analysis is using our insights for their ESG analysis. Our AI-powered text analysis will provide deeper insights and broader coverage, helping Sustainable Fitch to deliver high-quality ESG data and ratings.”

Gianluca Spinetti, Global Head of ESG Analytics at Sustainable Fitch, added, “Working with SESAMm technology allows us to leverage their advanced solutions to enhance our ESG Scores and Ratings offering. By integrating SESAMm’s extensive data coverage, we can offer our clients more comprehensive ESG insights.”

About SESAMm

SESAMm is a global leader in AI-powered text analytics, specializing in providing insights on ESG controversies and positive-impact events. With its cutting-edge technology, SESAMm helps private equity firms, asset managers, and other financial institutions, as well as ESG consulting firms and rating agencies, monitor and analyze vast amounts of textual data to identify potential risks and opportunities in their investments.
For more information, visit SESAMm.

About Sustainable Fitch

Sustainable Fitch provides rigorous, human-powered sustainability research, analysis, and data for the fixed-income market, including ESG Ratings, Second Party Opinions, thought leadership, and more, with a focus on ESG impact. Our objective and substantive suite of products provides transparency, consistency, and granularity that enables confidence in decision-making. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions using the best ESG information available.

For more information, visit Sustainable Fitch.

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.

SESAMm has been spotlighted in Elaia's 2023 Sustainability Report as a key innovator driving positive change through AI technologies. This inclusion underscores SESAMm's role in advancing ESG principles within its operations and the financial industry.

Elaia, a prominent venture capital firm, has recognized SESAMm for its advanced AI-driven solutions which significantly enhance ESG data analysis, providing useful insights that empower investors to make more informed, responsible decisions. The report highlights how SESAMm’s cutting-edge technologies help firms navigate the complex landscape of ESG investing, turning over 25 billion articles and social forums in more than 100 languages into actionable intelligence using AI.

SESAMm's commitment goes beyond mere compliance; it is about leadership and responsibility in shaping the future of sustainable investing. By leveraging natural language processing and machine learning, SESAMm enables its clients to swiftly identify and act on ESG risks and opportunities, thereby contributing to more sustainable global markets.

This accolade from Elaia celebrates SESAMm’s achievements and sets a benchmark for sustainability in tech. It encourages continuous innovation and ethical practices that lead to a better, more sustainable future.

To learn more about SESAMm’s role in advancing sustainable finance, we invite you to download the full report.

Reach out to SESAMm

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

Paris, France – June 25, 2024 – SESAMm, a leader in AI-powered text analysis for financial services, proudly announces its inclusion in the AIFinTech100 list by FinTech Global for the second consecutive year. This recognition highlights SESAMm's commitment to sustainability and ESG through the application of advanced AI technologies.

FinTech Global's annual AIFinTech100 list, now in its fourth year, showcases the top 100 AI companies that are revolutionizing the financial services industry. The list is carefully curated by a panel of industry experts who evaluate over 2,000 fintech companies worldwide. This year’s criteria focused on the transformative impact and the innovative use of generative AI in financial services, from banking and insurance to investment and customer experience.

"We are honored to be listed again on the AIFinTech100. This recognition highlights our leadership in employing AI to detect ESG controversies, helping our clients proactively manage risks and uphold sustainability commitments,” said Sylvain Forté, SESAMm’s CEO. “At SESAMm, we aim to transform financial analysis by ensuring it is as responsible as innovative."

FinTech Global director Richard Sachar said "SESAMm has been selected for the AIFinTech100 list due to their exceptional capabilities in ESG controversy detection using AI. Their technology plays a pivotal role in enabling the financial industry to address and navigate ESG risks effectively, marking a significant advancement in sustainable finance."

The inclusion of SESAMm in this year's AIFinTech100 comes at a time when the financial sector is increasingly relying on AI to enhance operational efficiencies and customer interactions. With AI investments in FinTech expected to reach $44.08 billion by 2024, SESAMm continues to lead the charge by providing cutting-edge solutions that address the complex needs of today’s financial institutions.

About SESAMm

SESAMm is an innovative fintech firm specializing in AI-powered text analysis for asset managers, private equity firms, and financial institutions. Its flagship product, TextReveal, offers actionable insights into ESG risks and investment opportunities, cementing SESAMm’s role as a leading provider of financial intelligence and predictive analytics.

For more information about SESAMm and its innovative solutions, please visit www.sesamm.com.

SESAMm’s AI Technology Reveals ESG Insights

Discover unparalleled insights into ESG controversies, risks, and opportunities across industries. Learn more about how SESAMm can help you analyze millions of private and public companies using AI-powered text analysis tools.

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