Smartkarma

Smartkarma Highlights

verified Proven · Profitable · Scaling
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Durable, Competitive Advantage

  • Only platform unifying real-time insight, alternative data, and on-demand analyst access across special-sits, index and ECM
  • Global blue-chip customer base of Tier-1 financial institutions, corporates and exchanges with US$14T+ in AUM
  • 10+ year insight archive serves as a proprietary data exhaust and grounding layer for AI-ready workflows
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Financial Inflection

  • Advance-payment model with 95%+ recurring revenue; shifting mix towards first-party data assets with 90%+ gross margin
  • Premium subscriptions scaling to 65% of mix. Proven land-and-expand: 113% net retention, with top-5 client revenue up 3× in the last 4 years
  • Material operating leverage driving 1H26A gross profit +85% YoY, EBITDA margin 2% → 21%
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Consolidation Thesis

  • Fragmented market ripe for a Buy & Build; global contracts allow for immediate cross-sell. APAC-leadership & asset-light
  • Identified pipeline of US$100M+ cumulative LTM ARR across target opportunities, plus a maiden acquisition of a commodities data platform
  • Demonstrable track record with 10.6× valuation growth across 6 consecutive, structured up-rounds
Key Products & Services
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Real-Time Insight

Differentiated verticals: Event-Driven, Index Rebalance, ECM & Forensic Accounting, streamed across 100% of GICS sectors.
100k+ Insights · 50k+ companies · 10+ yr archive
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Premium Alternative Data

Proprietary alternative datasets for systematic & quant desks across flow, credit, POS & commodities, sold per-pod (US$25–200k).
~30 proprietary datasets
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Analyst Access

Bespoke analyst desk access and expert engagement layered on the platform, sold per-pod for high-conviction workflows.
Analysts quoted 7×/day in financial press
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pvtIQ · Private Markets

New 2025
Independent research & data on Asia's private and pre-IPO markets, in collaboration with MAS and SGX.
US$74B SE-Asia tech invested since 2014
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αSK AI

New 2025
Always-on assistant with agentic workflows: company primers, meeting prep, Synthetic Expert Transcripts & more, on an ML-personalised, omni-channel platform.
Primers · meeting prep · synthetic transcripts
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Active Indices & Portfolios

New 2025
Research-native model portfolios, thematic baskets & ETF concepts that turn insight into investible infrastructure.
SG All-Cap Value-Up +169.8% (May'20–Sep'25)
At a Glance
Total Addressable Market
US$112B
by 2030
ACV Growth
+33%
year to Q2 2026
Blended Gross Margin
60%+
LT target
1H26A Gross Profit
+85%
YoY
EBITDA Margin
2% → 21%
2025 → 1H26A
M&A Pipeline
US$100M ARR
identified target pipeline
Team
25
headcount
Track Record
6/6 Up-Rounds
10.6× valuation growth
Smartkarma vs Alternatives
AI Tools
Trusted primary insight, not public AI outputs
ChatGPT · Perplexity · Hebbia
News & Data Terminals
Real-time insight & data, not after-market reports
Bloomberg · FactSet · AlphaSense
Expert Networks
Always-on access & data, not one-off, MNPI-risk calls
GLG · Tegus · Guidepoint
Specialist Data Firms
Multi-asset data plus context, not single-vertical silos
ReOrg · CFRA · CB Insights
Crowdsourced Research
Institutional-grade & compliant, not variable quality
Seeking Alpha · SumZero · StockTwits
60M+
Data points
256k+
Discussions
50k+
Companies covered
US$14T+
Client AUM
WINNER
★★★★★
MAS Enterprise Award
Shareholders
SGX Peak XV Jungle Ventures Wavemaker Partners Enterprise Singapore
smartkarma.com Investment Intelligence for the AI Era.
Real-Time Insight Alternative Data Analyst Access