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Incumbent vs Challenger: PDF vs Digitization
PDF documents are a leading, secure means of sharing information. To many, the necessity of PDF files as a tool for disseminating information seems undisputed. But...
Those SaaSsy Fintech Acronyms
Software as a Service (SaaS) is both a revenue model as well as a computing model. Also known as cloud computing, this method of delivering an...
Making of the Entrepreneurial You
DiligenceVault turned five years old this year! It all started with the vision of creating a digitized, quasi-automated and two-sided platform for the investment management industry...
India as An Investment Destination
India remains an attractive investment destination for the right reasons: its growing share of global GDP; the significant amount of investment necessary to support such growth;...
DV Looks at ESG
As (one of) the millennial(s) on the team, it is only natural I write an article on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). Also from the...
Delivering on the Promise of AI
The broad promise of AI is that it will allow humans to make exponentially faster decisions and invoke deeper analytics. Let’s explore what the future...
Rethinking Investor Relations Tech
Firms should apply the “zoom out/zoom in” approach to technology investments. The “zoom out” perspective looks at a time horizon of 10 or more years...
And The Next InvestTech Unicorn Is…
Unicorns are mythical beasts. In the VC world, they are high growth startups that achieve $1bn+ in valuation. In the investing world, a unicorn is an...
Attitudes & Latitudes: Notes from the Tech Side of Investment Management
The investment management industry is known, from the outside, for many things. In a few words: high stakes and important work, high-performing individuals, and long but...
Data Disintermediation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving!
The investment management industry runs on data. Organizations build their businesses around carefully constructed, disciplined processes of collecting and analyzing information that are designed to give...
When Diligence Goes Digital
Defining the Digital Diligence Moment: When the investment management industry no longer depends on emails, multiple Word documents, and PDFs to exchange diligence information, and instead...
Delivering in the Experience Economy
Future economic growth lies in the value of experiences and transformations--good and services are no longer enough. Joseph Pine of Columbia and James Gilmore of UVA...