The Financial Times Group has announced a strategic partnership with RavenPack, a leader in AI and big data analytics for financial services.
The partnership comprises three components: an investment in RavenPack by FT Ventures, an AI content licence framework with FT Professional, and access to selected FT Group products and services. The collaboration reflects a shared commitment to responsible AI grounded in editorial integrity, transparency and attribution.
The partnership establishes a responsible framework for the advancement of AI and journalism. Through an FT Professional content licence, RavenPack will integrate FT journalism into three of its core products - Analytics, Annotations and Bigdata.com, the latter will require clients to have a FT Professional licence. This will enable financial institutions to seamlessly combine the FT’s trusted reporting with RavenPack’s analytics products and AI agentic capabilities.
“Our partnership with RavenPack marks a major step forward in how the FT supports the evolving needs of the financial community,” said James Mann, Managing Director of FT Professional. “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.”
“RavenPack is an excellent addition to the FT Ventures portfolio,” said Alexandra Calinikos, Chief Investment Officer of FT Group. “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.”
“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,” said Armando Gonzalez, CEO of RavenPack. “This is the beginning of AI that doesn’t just read the news, it interprets the world.”
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About the FT Group
The FT Group, part of Nikkei Inc., includes the Financial Times and a number of other services that provide essential news and analysis for the global business community. 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. Recent FT Ventures investments include ElevenLabs, The Logic and Charter.
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.