SESAMm
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SESAMm is a French artificial-intelligence company that converts web documents into structured information about environmental, social, and governance controversies, reputation, customer and supplier risk, litigation, sanctions, and regulatory matters.[1] Its services are intended for financial institutions, insurers, corporations, and professional risk teams.[1]
The company was founded in 2014 and maintains offices in Metz, Paris, New York, London, Tunis, and Tokyo.[2] Datarade independently identifies SESAMm as a France-headquartered provider of stock-market, news, alternative, and web-scraping data.[3]
What It Does
SESAMm screens public and private companies against large collections of online material and converts relevant passages into source-linked risk indicators.[1] The service is designed to identify adverse media, ESG controversies, sanctions exposure, legal disputes, investigations, regulatory breaches, and risks involving suppliers or counterparties.[1]
The company emphasizes traceability to underlying documents and says human oversight is used at critical stages.[2] Source access is important because a generated flag is an analytical aid rather than a legal conclusion or verified account of misconduct. Users must assess the reliability, date, context, and possible duplication of the cited material.
Data And Methodology
SESAMm reports having analyzed more than 30 billion documents from over four million public and premium sources, covering more than five million companies and more than 100 languages.[1] These are company-reported cumulative and coverage figures. Datarade supports the general classification as news and web-scraping data but does not independently audit the totals.[3]
The platform applies artificial intelligence to unstructured web content and returns structured, source-backed insights and alerts.[1] Public pages reviewed here do not provide complete source inventories, language-specific accuracy, entity-resolution error rates, or a benchmark for false positive and false negative controversy classifications. Such information is material when comparing automated screening with human due diligence.
Products And Delivery
Current solution groups include ESG Risk, Supplier Risk, Reputational and KYC Risk, and AI Agents.[1] Related site sections describe legal risk and regulatory and compliance risk. AI Agents generate structured reports for ESG, know-your-customer, and supply-chain due-diligence workflows, while monitoring products are intended to surface changes after an initial assessment.[1]
SESAMm offers demonstrations rather than standardized public prices.[1] Datarade likewise reports that pricing is not published and directs buyers to the provider.[3] Public descriptions do not establish uniform delivery formats or service levels, so API availability, batch delivery, historical data, alert frequency, and permitted use need to be confirmed contractually.
Buyers And Use Cases
The company targets private-equity firms, asset managers, commercial banks, insurers, legal and compliance teams, and supply-chain functions.[1] Stated applications include pre-investment due diligence, portfolio monitoring, stewardship reporting, customer and counterparty screening, underwriting, claims decisions, litigation review, sanctions checks, and monitoring of global value chains.[1]
The official site publishes attributed statements from organizations including Allianz Commercial, Sayari, Carlyle, Sustainable Fitch, Swen Capital Partners, Raiffeisen Bank International, and EthiFinance.[1] Those statements describe integration into underwriting, due diligence, ESG scoring, and controversy-analysis processes. They document reported relationships but are not independent measurements of model accuracy or return on investment.
History And Funding
SESAMm says it was founded in 2014 by Sylvain Forté, Pierre Rinaldi, and Florian Aubry, who are currently identified as chief executive, chief operating, and chief technology officers.[2] Its chronology reports an initial €1 million raise in 2014, international expansion and a €2.6 million raise in 2017, and the launch of ESG products with offices in New York and Tunisia in 2019.[2]
The company reports opening a Tokyo office and raising a €7.5 million Series B1 led by Carlyle and other investors in 2021, launching real-time alerts in 2022, closing a €35 million funding round in 2023, and introducing AI-generated reports in 2025.[2] These dates and financing amounts come from SESAMm's own history page; Datarade's unclaimed profile does not corroborate the funding record.[3]