Grasp

What Grasp does

Grasp is the world’s first generative AI platform for finance professionals. It builds domain-specific AI systems that automate company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consultants. The platform aims to increase productivity and quality in financial advisory and investing workflows by streamlining tasks such as target and buyer identification, company valuation, market research, and PowerPoint creation. Grasp's AI can scale its intelligence infinitely, covering over 500 million companies and providing exhaustive company lists.

Products

• Grasp AI AnalystA generative AI platform for finance professionals that automates company and market research, providing exhaustive company lists and detailed insights.

Key capabilities

• Domain-specific AI systems for finance
• Automated company and market research
• Generative AI platform
• Scalable intelligence
• Financials read directly from original registry filings with source citation
• Market-leading depth and accuracy for financial data
• Company evaluation in one view (business model, value chain position, customers, ownership, stakeholders, source-linked financials)
• Integration with Claude for AI workflows
• Agent collaboration with pin, remove, filter, sort functionalities
• Version history for changes and funnel view for list tracing
• Interactive ownership trees from ultimate parent to subsidiaries
• Shareholder data across multiple markets (Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Italy)
• Growth proxies using peer benchmarks and historical employee counts
• Covers 500 million companies
• Data from reported and non-reported sources
• Structures output in spreadsheets and PowerPoints

Use cases

• Automating company and market research
• Building exhaustive company lists
• Deploying human resources more efficiently
• Speeding up processes and handling more projects simultaneously
• Discovering, researching, and evaluating market opportunities
• Financial analysis from original registry filings
• Evaluating companies with comprehensive data points
• Building target and buyer lists
• Pulling company profiles
• Blending Grasp's data with proprietary data
• Tracing list generation methods
• Mapping out company ownership structures
• Estimating company growth when financials are not reported
• Automating manual research workflows
• Creating richer buyer and transaction lists
• Generating M&A target lists
• Automating market analysis and screening work
• PowerPoint generation for profiles and one-pagers
• Target and buyer identification
• Company valuation

AI approach

Grasp builds domain-specific AI systems to automate company and market research for finance professionals. Their AI Analyst platform uses generative AI to synthesize information from various sources like company websites, news, and filings, providing detailed company profiles, ownership maps, and growth proxies. It also integrates with other AI workflows like Claude.

Tech named: generative AI, AI agent

Industries served

• Financial Services
• Investment Banking
• Private Equity
• Management Consulting
• Mergers & Acquisitions

What it says sets it apart

• World's first generative AI platform for finance professionals
• Domain-specific AI systems
• Automates company and market research with high accuracy and depth
• Source-linked financials directly from original registry filings
• Comprehensive company evaluation in a single view (500+ data points)
• Integration with existing AI workflows (e.g., Claude)
• Interactive ownership mapping
• Growth proxies for companies without reported financials
• Significant productivity increase (2-5x)
• Exhaustive company lists and market landscape views
• Reduces time spent on manual research and slide production

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.