Private equity deploys nearly half a trillion dollars every year to private markets. To help them source, evaluate and execute on their investments, PE professionals rely on a proverbial army of advisors to support their diligence activities. Junior is the first and last Copilot for the private M&A deal market.
Every year, vast numbers of talented students graduate bright-eyed and ready for a career in professional and financial services. Their ambitions and optimism as young professionals are too often dulled by hours of tedious work that, until today, has been part and parcel of the job.
Junior’s mission is to eliminate grunt work in the knowledge economy, and free investment professionals and their advisors to think more deeply about The Answer.**
We are building an AI-powered workflow automation platform enabled by ASR and LLM technology that straps rocket boosters on deal teams and their advisors. With Junior, our users (1) move significantly faster through investment research and (2) reach higher quality insights.
Junior is currently being used by several top 10 global PE and consulting firms, and 3 of the Big 4. We are in the top 10% for seed B2B SaaS growth and top 1% for traction, and are still just 2 people.
*Primary research is one of the most powerful tools investment teams have to build unique research data sets and identify key insights that don’t exist in the public domain.
Primary research is the highest alpha activity an investor conducts to assess an investment opportunity; however, it still involves a large amount of manual work. This includes scheduling experts, transcribing / cleaning / summarising interviews, extracting data points from those transcripts, and synthesizing recommendations across multiple dimensions. And then you have to get all of that onto a pretty slide.
Enter Junior - an AI-powered solution that automates whole swathes of this workstream. By converting audio data from calls into a rich knowledge base, Junior empowers deal teams to:
We are building at the cutting edge of generative technology, and have very ambitious plans for our roadmap and vision of what the company can become.
Feedback is a gift: we work very closely with our clients and aim to maintain strong relationships with everyone who uses Junior. They have helped shape the product and get us where we are. Feedback is the best tool for improving and growing, we take this very seriously.
Debate and commit: we met through high school debate a long time ago, and the spirit of dialecticism runs deep in our company. The best ideas are crystallised through debate — you must feel comfortable questioning us and each other and being questioned in order to arrive at a better answer. At the same time, we believe in collective responsibility and committing to a path forward as a team. Our goal is to move fast, thoughtfully.