What makes SESAMm different from other ESG risk data?

SESAMm’s AI monitors 4M+ sources in 100+ languages every day, so controversies are detected as they emerge rather than weeks later. Coverage adapts to your portfolio, including private and small-cap names, and you get full access to the source behind every signal. Many clients use SESAMm alongside their existing ESG data.

Can you cover small caps, emerging markets and private issuers?

Yes. Coverage is flexible: any public or private company can be monitored, including bond issuers with no listed equity.

How is the data delivered?

Through the dashboard, daily email alerts, AI Agents that produce reports, and API or flat-file delivery into your own systems.

Can we try it before we commit?

Yes. We run trials for asset managers so your team can test the platform on the universes most relevant to your funds.

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Q: Does SESAMm support SFDR?

SESAMm supports good governance assessments for Article 8 and 9 funds and screening against the UN Global Compact, all backed by traceable sources.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Hear how investment, compliance, and risk professionals turn data into actionable intelligence with SESAMm.

Expanding our partnership with SESAMm builds on Carlyle’s continued leadership in leveraging big data, data science, advanced analytics, and machine learning to further differentiate our investment platform. We look forward to continuing to work with SESAMm to provide additive insights for our deal sourcing, diligence, and to help guide our portfolio companies in value creation.

Matt Anderson

Chief Digital Officer and Managing Director,
The Carlyle Group

As a firm with deep sustainability commitments across our portfolio, maintaining consistent ESG oversight at every stage of the investment process is a priority for us. What SESAMm brings is the ability to extend that rigor further and faster, across a broader set of companies and data sources.

Rachel Hurley

Head of Sustainability,
Paine Schwartz Partners

The combination of scale, speed, and local context that SESAMm provides has added depth to our ESG oversight. It’s helped us bring forward timely insights in our conversations with GPs.

Renaud Serre-Lapergue

Sustainable Finance Strategy Director,
SWEN Capital Partners

Since we started working with SESAMm a few years ago, we've been impressed by their broad coverage in private and public companies in our core markets in CEE. Our partnership has been a great success. Thanks to SESAMm, we can now answer business-relevant questions within days, including those related to the critical topic of ESG.

David Eschwé

Head of Group Advanced Analytics,
Raiffeisen Bank International

SESAMm’s solution helps us to provide opinions on controversies affecting the companies we follow positively and negatively. Previously, it was only possible through human intervention, which meant a much more limited capacity and much higher cost than AI-powered tools, making it very difficult for our clients to access this information.

Xavier Leroy

Member of the executive committee, Head of advisory services,
EthiFinance

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.

Gianluca Spinetti

Global Head of ESG Analytics,
Sustainable Fitch

Why SESAMm

Risk Data Built for Private Markets

Private Companies, Covered

Most private companies publish no ESG data and aren’t rated. SESAMm monitors any company in your universe using what’s written about it, not what it discloses.

Early Warnings from Local Markets

An issue at a mid-sized company in Poland or Brazil rarely reaches international news. SESAMm scans 4M+ local, trade and NGO sources in 100+ languages every day.

Evidence You Can Take to IC

A score with no source won’t hold up with an investment committee or an LP. Every SESAMm alert links to the original article.

Exclusions You Can Prove

Sector codes don’t show what a company actually does. SESAMm screens every name against your exclusion policy and backs each flag with a justification and sources.

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One View of Risk Across the Fund

Built for the teams that research, own and report on your investments.

ESG & Sustainability

Monitor controversies across every portfolio company, track impact and SDG signals, and show LPs a systematic process with a full audit trail.

Deal Teams

Screen hundreds of targets a year, rule out problem names early, and raise sourced risks with management and at IC before you sign.

Secondaries & Co-investments

Batch-screen the underlying companies in a secondary portfolio against your exclusion list in minutes, monitor positions in funds you don’t control, and check co-investments within the GP’s timeline.

From Deal Screening to Exit

SESAMm supports your team before you commit capital, while you own, and when you report and exit.

Before You Commit

Screen and Diligence

Check any target for controversies, or screen a full secondary portfolio against your exclusion list in minutes, with sourced findings for IC.

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While You Own

Monitor and Engage

Daily alerts on every portfolio company show what changed, where and why, so you can raise it with management early.

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When You Report

Report and Exit

Show LPs a systematic monitoring record, support SFDR reporting, and document the risk history ahead of exit.

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What Changes With SESAMm

Without SESAMm

Risks surface when management or the press raises them

Manual research or consultants to assess new names

Risks in non-English media go unseen

LP questions answered with ad hoc, hard-to-source evidence

Secondaries screening takes weeks of manual checks on hundreds of companies

With SESAMm

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Daily alerts surface controversies as they emerge

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A risk profile on any target in minutes

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4M+ sources in 100+ languages, including local, trade and NGO media

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Every signal linked to its original source

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Every underlying company screened against your exclusion policy in minutes, then monitored daily

Resources for Private Markets Teams

Case study

How Acentra Health Screens M&A Targets

AI deal screening reports that surface risks, competitors and market context early.

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Brief

The Secondaries Screening Brief

How to screen a secondaries portfolio within tight deal timelines.

Download the full brief →

Webinar

Webinar: Inside Secondaries Investing

Ares Management’s ESG lead and SESAMm’s CEO on scaling screening and monitoring with AI.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can SESAMm cover private companies that don't publish ESG data?

Yes. SESAMm doesn’t rely on company disclosures. It analyzes what’s written about a company across 4M+ sources, so private companies can be monitored even with no ESG reporting.

What if one of our portfolio companies isn't covered yet?

We add it. Coverage follows your portfolio, not a fixed list.

Does it work with our portfolio monitoring and CRM platforms?

Yes. Our data can be delivered by API or flat file into your portfolio monitoring platform, CRM, or data warehouse.

Does SESAMm support SFDR?

SESAMm supports good governance assessments for SFDR Article 8 and 9 funds and UN Global Compact screening, with traceable sources you can share with LPs.

Can we test it on our own portfolio?

Yes. Send us 10 to 20 portfolio companies or targets and we’ll show you the historical alerts on each. Trials are also available.

Can we screen a secondary portfolio against our exclusion list?

Yes. Using our AI reports, you simply provide a list of companies and receive an Excel report with a flag, a justification and cited sources for each restricted-activity category.

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