Filament AI

Filament AI is a software business that builds data-driven business applications, with a strong focus on private equity. Since 2016 it has built in-house data infrastructure for PE firms, and that work became its core product, Filament Syfter.

Services

• Filament Syfter: a platform that pulls together and curates market and private company data so private markets firms can run fund operations and manage knowledge.
• Custom software projects: product development for clients who need bespoke data applications.
• Data engineering: combining mixed and messy data sources into usable infrastructure.
• Natural language processing and machine learning: NLP and ML work drawn from years of research.
• Implementation: a set approach to rolling out Syfter, supported by implementation partners such as Filament Consulting.

Clients

Its main clients are private equity and wider private markets firms. It also partners with EBM, a former group business that supplies conversational AI to UK mid-market companies.

Key facts

• Founded: 2016
• Track record: over 200 client deliveries in its first six years
• Related firms: Filament Consulting, spun out in January 2023