The risk game has no patience for blind spots. Everyone loves the upside of a deal, no one wants to discover the skeletons rattling after the ink dries. Intelligo just closed a majority investment from Carrick Capital Partners, and that move isn’t about pain metrics. It’s about hardwiring risk intelligence into the financial system. When the people writing checks also start checking their own exposure, you know the industry has turned a corner.
Founded in 2014 by Shlomo Mirvis, Dana Rakovsky, and Nadav Ellinson, Intelligo was built on a single premise: trust isn’t given, it’s verified. Their Clarity platform runs pre-investment and pre-engagement background checks, executive due diligence, and nonstop monitoring, all powered by a blend of human research and over 100 proprietary AI models. The tech chews through millions of records across news, social media, and criminal databases, spitting out real-time alerts with confidence scores. Add AML and KYC compliance, provenance-linked transparency, and audit readiness, and what you’ve got is the risk world’s version of X-ray vision.
The growth numbers back it up. Between 2018 and 2021, Intelligo clocked 200 percent annual revenue growth, projected 300 percent for 2021, and today serves 400 clients spanning private equity, hedge funds, investment banks, and institutional investors. Estimated annual revenue sits around $38 million, with a team of 126 split between New York and Israel. That’s not hype, that’s execution in a market where regulations tighten by the month and deal flow never sleeps.
The cap table on this deal matters. Carrick Capital Partners leads, joined by AB Private Credit Investors, the middle market platform of AllianceBernstein and already a client, and Trinity Capital, stepping in with a debt facility while also being a client. That dual role of investor and customer is the cleanest validation in the game. If your backers are also buying, you’re not selling a vision, you’re solving a problem.
Leadership is evolving with purpose. After nine years, co-founder Shlomo Mirvis handed the reins to interim CEO Mike Trapanese in early 2023, before veteran operator Ed Montes took over in May. Montes brings the prosecutorial sharpness and tech leadership he honed at Dataxu, Digilant, and GPS Trackit. With co-founders Dana Rakovsky and Nadav Ellinson still steering research and operations, and CTO Meir Vaikselbom driving product, the DNA stays intact while the horsepower scales.
Carrick’s Marc McMorris called Intelligo’s user experience for monitoring “bar none.” Director Ivan Whittey said the company makes you think, “this is the future.” Both right. Risk intelligence has always been a cost of doing business. Intelligo is turning it into an advantage.
