PE Tech Awards

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Canoe Intelligence

Canoe delivers purpose-built AI innovation to address the operational complexity of managing private equity portfolios at scale. Using proprietary AI models trained exclusively on private markets documentation, Canoe supports more than 18,000 LPs and over 44,000 funds. This deep domain expertise enables consistently high accuracy when processing unstructured documents such as capital calls, distribution notices, quarterly reports, financial statements, and LP communications. A central pillar of Canoe’s innovation strategy is Canoe Labs, a collaborative environment where private equity firms work directly with Canoe’s product and engineering teams to test new capabilities ahead of general release. By grounding development in real portfolios, regulatory requirements, and operational workflows, Canoe reduces implementation risk and accelerates adoption across finance, operations, and investor relations teams. Early capabilities include AI-driven multi-document summarisation and real- time foreign language translation, enabling firms to extract insights from large volumes of fund reporting and analyse global investments without manual intervention. All innovation is powered by Canoe AI, Canoe’s proprietary, in-house AI infrastructure trained solely on private markets data and governed within a secure environment. Continuous use across workflows drives ongoing improvement, delivering accuracy above 99%. Through initiatives such as Canoe Pro Tech, Canoe extends this innovation across the ecosystem, connecting systems, strengthening governance, and enabling more efficient private equity operations.
Canoe Intelligence (“Canoe”) delivers a purpose-built platform that supports limited partners (LPs) investing in private equity. LPs manage relationships with multiple GPs, each delivering documents across different portals, formats, and reporting standards. This creates fragmented, manual workflows that are difficult to scale and prone to error. Canoe addresses this complexity by standardising and automating how private equity data is collected, processed, and used. Canoe automates the full private equity data lifecycle. Documents are collected directly from GP and administrator portals, with data extracted, validated, normalised, and reconciled using Canoe AI before being delivered into downstream accounting, reporting, investor relations, and analytics systems. This enables LPs to monitor portfolios, track cashflows, and meet reporting requirements efficiently, with all data fully traceable to source documents for audit and governance purposes. At the core of the platform is Canoe AI, Canoe’s proprietary, in-house AI infrastructure trained exclusively on private markets documentation. By combining large language models, pattern-based learning, and automated validation, Canoe consistently delivers accuracy exceeding 99% at scale, outperforming generic AI approaches. Today, Canoe supports more than 500 clients globally, spanning wealth managers, institutional investors, and asset servicers, collectively representing over $11 trillion in AUM/AUA and more than 44,000 funds.

Response to the AMLA Public Consultation

Response to the European Commission Targeted Consultation on Private Equity Exits