AltExchange with Kareem Hamady | E303

Jason talks to Kareem Hamady, Co-Founder and CEO of AltExchange. The company is a platform that helps advisors better manage all the complexity around the issuance, management, and stewardship of alternative investments in the marketplace. Kareem provides an overview of AltExchange, a company focused on aggregation and automation technology for alternative investments (alts). The company retrieves data from various platforms, including PDFs and spreadsheets, and uses machine reading technology to make sense of the data. Episode Highlights: 03:10: Kareem details the challenges in private capital markets, emphasizing the absence of standardized identifiers, varied reporting metrics, and the need to structure non-structured data. 05:37: Kareem explains AltExchange's involvement in the post-investment phase, focusing on tracking actions and workflows after the investment is made. The process includes receiving quarterly reports, annual tax documents, capital calls, and distributions. 09:25: Kareem describes the normalization process for line items on CAP account statements, making the comparison between different asset managers more straightforward. Despite being time-consuming, the goal is to simplify the understanding of performance. 13.38: Kareem discusses additional workflows, such as managing capital calls and distributions. The platform allows advisors to set calendar invites, providing clarity on the purpose and amount of wire transfers. This proactive approach reduces confusion for clients and advisors. 15.53: Kareem describes AltExchange's business intelligence quality checks (BI QC rules), which constantly run to ensure data consistency and accuracy within the system. The platform aims to maintain data integrity and prevent issues like unrealized value spikes. 20:28: Jason inquiries about AltExchange's future direction. Kareem discusses the potential for AI-driven summarization of asset manager quarterly updates, benchmarking, and exposure analysis. Key Points: Private capital markets pose challenges due to the lack of standardized identifiers and diverse reporting metrics, making it more complex than dealing with traditional assets like ETFs or mutual funds. AltExchange addresses challenges in the post-investment phase, helping advisors track actions and workflows after an investment is made. AltExchange facilitates various workflows, such as onboarding, distribution alerts, and managing capital calls and distributions, streamlining the advisor's role, and enhancing client communication. Tweetable Quotes: "AltExchange simplifies the complex world of alternative investments by aggregating and automating data from various platforms, using machine reading technology to make sense of the data." "Navigating private capital markets is challenging due to the lack of standardized identifiers and diverse reporting metrics.” "Exciting times in the fintech space! AltExchange leverages AI to drive innovation, from summarizing asset manager updates to benchmarking and exposure analysis. Solving complex problems with technology in its early stages." Resources Mentioned: Facebook – Jason Pereira's Facebook LinkedIn – Jason Pereira's LinkedIn Woodgate.com – Sponsor Podcast Editing