Zanran
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Zanran provides an AI-based platform for automatic data extraction and validation, with clients in Alternative Investment, Financial Services, and Audit and Accounting.
Zanran focuses on automating data extraction at scale, speed and accuracy especially for the financial sector.
For example, Zanran has developed software for investors in private assets to automatically:
- identify Schedule of Investments (SOI) tables in Private Equity (PE) and Private Credit Reports, and extract data-points from these tables
- Identify sections for each portfolio company in a PE report
- Extract key operational metrics for each portfolio company
History
[edit]Zanran was co-founded by Dr. Yves Dassas and Dr Jon Goldhill in 2006. After selling their telecoms company, the founders initially started Zanran as a search engine for data and statistics on the internet.
Zanran was praised by its 50,000 subscribers at that time for its innovative approach to data search. It was featured in various tech publications and continued to serve as a valuable tool for data-driven research for more than a decade after its launch.
Zanran subsequently commercialised its expertise to searching and extracting data – especially numerical data - from documents and reports in PDF format.
Founders
[edit]Zanran was conceived by Dr Yves Dassas and Dr Jon Goldhill. Dr. Dassas, with a background in physics and computer science, brought his expertise in data analysis and pattern recognition to the project. Dr Goldhill, an LBS MBA and experienced entrepreneur, provided the business acumen necessary to bring Zanran to market.