PR: Bison partners with ICBI to transform PE events

by goksor

Boston, MA – September 10, 2013

Bison is announcing a first-of-a-kind partnership with ICBI, successful organizer of the SuperReturn series, the largest series of Private Equity and Venture Capital (“PE”) events in the world. Bison and ICBI will partner to bring valuable market intelligence to SuperReturn attendees, empowering them to make more informed decisions.

In a people business like PE, there is room for technology innovation. Industry data is everywhere and the Bison platform augments this data to actionable information. Since launching in beta in May, Bison has analyzed over 200,000 publications, generating content for 3,700 firm profiles and creating detailed benchmarks for over 500 firms. Investors can increasingly make data-driven decisions about the market landscape, manager traction, and firm diligence. Importantly, data also informs who investors meet.

“Imagine meeting a new manager at an event,” said Michel Nugent, CEO of Bison. “Within three clicks on Bison, you can quickly pull up data on the firm, its managers, portfolio, and performance benchmarks as well as representative limited partners, fundraising traction, and office locations. This is transformative for investors in PE and now a reality.”

“The Bison ICBI partnership is truly the start of something great”, Michael continued, noting that the first partner event will be SuperReturn Middle East, in Abu Dhabi, October 6-9, 2013. “We at Bison are honored to work with SuperReturn, a market leader in the event space, and are dedicated to providing the best experience to attendees at their conferences across the globe.”

The International Centre for Business Information (ICBI) is a division of Informa plc. Set up in 1993, ICBI produces large scale annual events on topics from investment management, PE, energy to alternative investments, infrastructure finance and risk management. ICBI runs conferences in Europe, Asia, Middle East, US, Latin America and Africa.

The SuperReturn series of events is the largest series of private equity events in the world, annually attracting 10,000 fund managers, LPs and industry experts to 11 events held across Europe, Asia, the U.S., Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Attendees benefit from unrivaled networking with hundreds of their peers and the opportunity to hear from thought-leaders and industry trendsetters from across the globe.

Founded in 2011, Bison delivers access to meaningful intelligence for the PE market. The Bison platform turns unstructured regulatory, news, and FOIA data into actionable information, empowering users to make more informed and efficient decisions. Thousands of investors have used Bison since it was launched in May of 2013.

For more information contact Michael Nugent, CEO of Bison (+1-617-752-1921 or mnugent@bison.co) or Kate Roberts, Portfolio Director of SuperReturn Global Events at ICBI (+44-20-7017-6839 or kroberts@icbi.co.uk).