RavenPack Secures Strategic Investment from Financial Times and Brings FT Content to Bigdata.com
LONDON and NEW YORK - December 1, 2025 - RavenPack announced a strategic partnership with the Financial Times that includes an investment from FT Ventures and a landmark content licensing agreement. The FT's premium news feed and archive are now integrated into RavenPack's analytical products, including Bigdata.com. Hedge funds, banks, and asset managers can build intelligent financial agents trained on trusted FT journalism.
"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."
Why this matters for finance teams
The FT brings 135 years of reporting across global markets, macro, corporate strategy, regulation, ESG, and geopolitics. Combining that editorial rigor with RavenPack's AI and datasets gives institutional desks a faster way to research, backtest, and deploy narrative-aware strategies.
- Deep Intelligence: Real-time FT news with a licensed historical archive back to 2012 for GenAI reasoning and deployment.
- Advanced Reasoning: Extract entities, sentiment, and themes; quantify narrative shifts; and run context-rich backtests to see how coverage influenced returns and risk.
- Narrative-Driven Analysis: Build agents that connect stories to signals - understanding sentiment, context, and catalysts alongside the data.
- Real-Time Programmatic Access: Feed FT content into research pipelines, models, and trading systems for automated, always-on intelligence.
How to put it to work now
- PMs and analysts: Track narrative momentum around positions, earnings cycles, regulatory events, and cross-asset linkages.
- Quants: Integrate structured signals from FT coverage into factor models; stress-test narrative regimes against performance and drawdowns.
- Macro and strategy: Map policy and geopolitical narratives to rates, FX, and commodities; monitor inflection points in real time.
- Risk and compliance: Use licensed, attributable content with clear usage rights across models and downstream applications.
Access and integration
The FT feed and archive are available through RavenPack's products, including the Bigdata.com research platform. Teams can query, score, and deploy agents that read and interpret news at scale, or plug programmatic access directly into existing data stacks.
Responsible use and IP
All FT content is provided under licensing agreements that ensure copyright compliance and respect for intellectual property. RavenPack has published its manifesto on responsible intelligence in finance, detailing the data-first framework behind Bigdata.com: ravenpack.com/the-data-first-imperative.
About RavenPack
RavenPack provides AI-driven insights for data-centric institutions and is trusted by leading hedge funds, banks, and asset managers. In 2024, the company launched Bigdata.com, an agentic AI platform combining premium, unique, and real-time financially relevant datasets with powerful search. Professionals can use ready-to-go AI agents or build their own to speed research, automate workflows, and improve decision quality. RavenPack is backed by Bullhound Capital and Molten Ventures.
About the Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the world's leading news organizations, recognized for authority, integrity, and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of 1.5 million, while the wider FT Group reaches a paying audience of 3 million across its portfolio.
About FT Ventures
FT Ventures is the corporate venture arm of the Financial Times Group, investing in high-growth, innovative companies in the global information industry. It serves as both investor and strategic partner, enabling founders to leverage FT expertise and capabilities across licensing, advertising, and events.
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