We're honored to share that Auquan has been named the winner of Technology Innovation of the Year: ESG & Impact Investing at the Private Equity Wire European Awards 2026. The awards recognize excellence among private equity fund managers and service providers across Europe, and we're proud to be among this year's winners.

This recognition reflects the work our team has done to fundamentally rethink how sustainability analysis gets done in institutional finance, and the results our customers are seeing because of it.

Sustainability analysis has become a bottleneck

Sustainability work in private markets has become, well, unsustainable.

ESG screening, portfolio monitoring, impact measurement, regulatory compliance. These are critical responsibilities. But the manual effort required to actually do them well has grown far beyond what most teams can keep up with. More deals, tighter deadlines, expanding portfolios, evolving regulations, increasingly complex LP priorities. The demands keep compounding while the resources don't.

The result is that skilled sustainability professionals spend most of their time buried in data collection and report production rather than the strategic analysis and judgment calls they were hired to make. That's not just inefficient. It's a bottleneck that slows deal flow and limits how many opportunities a firm can pursue.

What our Sustainability Agent does differently

Auquan's Sustainability Agent is built to eliminate that bottleneck, not just reduce it.

It autonomously screens companies, monitors portfolios, and generates complete, audit-ready reports. Not summaries. Not drafts that need another three hours of editing. Finished work, formatted for immediate IC or compliance review, with full source citations and audit trails.

The agent draws from over 6 million data points daily across 78+ languages and 100+ countries, covering global news, corporate filings, lawsuits, regulatory sources, and sanctions data. It maps findings against your firm's specific investment standards, investor priorities, and the regulatory frameworks that matter to your business, whether that's SFDR, SASB, SDGs, GRI, or others.

Here's what that looks like in practice. ESG screening and assessment goes from 2 days to about 1 hour. Monthly portfolio monitoring drops from 2 days to 1 hour. Impact measurement and reporting that used to take 3 days now takes 1 hour. Regulatory compliance evidence that consumed 4 days is done in 2 hours.

These are real numbers from real customers.

What this means for our customers?

This award is ultimately a reflection of the outcomes our customers are achieving.

Across all of our products, Auquan customers have collectively reclaimed more than 100,000 hours of manual work. That's time they've reinvested in closing better deals faster, catching risks earlier, and building stronger LP relationships.

As one customer put it: "Auquan allows us to do the work of judgment and analysis rather than data collection. It bridges the access gap as well as the speed gap."

That's what we're building toward. Not AI that makes analysts faster at the same manual tasks, but AI that eliminates the manual work entirely so professionals can focus on the high-impact strategic work that actually drives returns.

Building momentum

This recognition from Private Equity Wire adds to a growing body of industry validation for Auquan's approach. We've been named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI for Banking and Investment Services, recognized by CB Insights in the AI 100, and selected by A-Team Group as the Most Innovative ESG Regulatory Reporting Solution.

More recently, we announced a partnership with ERM, the world's largest specialist sustainability consultancy, to bring agentic AI to their institutional finance engagements. The combination of ERM's deep sustainability expertise with Auquan's autonomous AI agents is enabling firms to meet their sustainability commitments at the speed the market now demands.

We're also proud to count leading global institutions including MetLife, T. Rowe Price, and Kohlberg & Company among our customers, alongside 40% of the top 50 global firms.

Looking ahead

Sustainability in private markets isn't getting simpler. Regulatory requirements are expanding. LP expectations are rising. The volume of data that needs to be analyzed for every investment decision is growing. Firms that can't keep pace will face real competitive consequences.

We believe the future belongs to firms where AI handles the heavy lifting of data collection, analysis, and report production, and people focus on the judgment, relationships, and strategic decisions that no technology can replace. That's the future we're building, and this award from Private Equity Wire is a meaningful milestone on that journey.

Congratulations to all the fund managers and service providers recognized at this year's European Awards. The continued push for excellence across the industry raises the bar for everyone, and we're proud to be part of it.

To learn more about Auquan's Sustainability Agent, visit auquan.com or request a demo.