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RavenPack, the leader in AI and big data analytics for financial services, has entered a strategic partnership with the Financial Times that includes an investment from FT Ventures and a comprehensive content licensing agreement, embedding FT's premium news feed and historical archive into RavenPack's platforms to power intelligent financial agents for institutional clients.
The collaboration fuses FT's authoritative coverage of global markets, macroeconomics, corporate strategy, regulation, ESG, and geopolitics with RavenPack's AI suite, transforming raw news into actionable intelligence. Clients can now build agents that not only process data but interpret evolving narratives to inform decisions.
James Mann, Managing Director of FT Professional:
"Our partnership with RavenPack marks a major step forward in how the FT supports the evolving needs of the financial community. This is also the FT's first distribution partnership purpose-built for the generative AI era, reflecting how professional readers increasingly rely on both human insight and machine-driven analysis."
Alexandra Calinikos, Chief Investment Officer of FT Group:
"RavenPack is an excellent addition to the FT Ventures portfolio. A key focus for us is to back teams who are building technologies that advance professional workflows and strengthen the value of FT journalism for professional users. The investment allows us to create opportunities for strategic collaboration across licensing, advertising and events - with real impact in the market."
Key features include deep intelligence with licensed GenAI access, advanced reasoning for pattern detection, narrative-driven analysis beyond numbers, and real-time integration into models and systems.
The partnership prioritizes ethical deployment, with all FT content licensed for compliant use. To launch, RavenPack released a manifesto on responsible intelligence in finance, emphasizing data-first principles for Bigdata.com—available at ravenpack.com/the-data-first-imperative.
Armando Gonzalez, CEO of RavenPack:
"With the FT's authoritative content now fueling our suite of intelligence products, we're accelerating the shift toward AI that mirrors how seasoned analysts think. This is the beginning of AI that doesn't just read the news, it interprets the world."
This alliance positions RavenPack's Bigdata.com as a cornerstone for AI-enhanced financial workflows, blending premium datasets with trusted journalism to drive smarter, faster decisions.
About RavenPack
RavenPack is the leading provider of insights for data-driven companies, trusted by the world's top hedge funds, banks, and asset managers. In 2024, it launched Bigdata.com, an agentic AI platform that unites premium, unique, and real-time financially relevant datasets with powerful search. Professionals can gain instant insights with ready-to-use AI agents or build their own to accelerate research, automate workflows, and enhance returns. Backed by more than two decades of RavenPack's AI expertise, Bigdata.com is redefining how financial professionals leverage AI to unlock smarter, faster decisions. RavenPack is backed by investors Bullhound Capital and Molten Ventures.
About the Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the world's leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of 1.5mn, while the wider FT Group has a global paying audience of 3mn across its portfolio of journalism, products and services.
About FT Ventures
FT Ventures is the corporate venture arm of the Financial Times Group. It invests in high growth, innovative companies operating in the global information industry. FT Ventures is an investor and strategic partner that enables founders to leverage FT's expertise and capabilities.
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