10Investing in Technology to Bring New Insights to Market Faster
S&P Global selected a number of innovative technology companies for investment, acquisition, and partnership to take advantage of emerging technologies and stay abreast of changes in our key markets. These activities reinforce the Company’s ongoing belief that artificial intelligence, big data, and automation are core capabilities required to succeed in information services for the capital and commodity markets.
S&P Global acquired Kensho in early 2018 after an initial stake in 2016. Kensho’s experience has enabled an enterprise-wide evolution that embeds new analytical capabilities in our products and improves user experiences through natural-language processing, visualization, and advanced search.
Embedding New Analytical Capabilities
Recent investments align the Company’s commitment to surface new, actionable insights quickly using leading-edge technology.
 | Machine-Learning TechnologyQuickly ingest and link alternative and unstructured data sets with traditional data |
 | Natural-Language Processing (NLP)Convert text to machine-readable format across thousands of documents. Leverage smart tagging to enhance a customer’s analysis with newly made digital connections |
 | Advanced Topic SearchImprove customers’ search results in S&P Global’s products to be more “Google-like” by using natural-language queries to surface data and pages of content |
Fintech: Making Investments Relevant to Our FutureS&P Global is investing in fintech venture capital funds to get exposure and access to emerging technologies, talent, and business models. |
| Green Visor Capital (San Francisco) |
| Arbor Ventures (Hong Kong and Tel Aviv) |
| The House Fund (Berkeley) |
| LingFeng Capital (China) |
| Middlegame Ventures (Luxembourg) |
Selected Investments and Collaborations
| BigOne Lab (Alternative Data) |
| Alternative data intelligence that enables investment and business decisions in China |
| FiscalNote (Natural-Language Processing) |
| Provides regulatory analysis and legislative tracking for state, federal, and international issues using natural-language processing |
| Measurabl (Commercial Real Estate ESG Data Management) |
| Connects the real estate industry from “meter to market” by making it efficient to collect and share ESG data |
| Q4 (Investor Relations) |
| A pure-play investor relations technology and services provider in North America |
| SCRIPTS Asia (Natural-Language Processing) |
| The leading provider of investor event coverage for Asia-Pacific markets |
| Ursa (Alternative Data) |
| Aggregates and analyzes satellite data to provide alternative sources of market intelligence |
| XCHG (Alternative Data and Distributed-Ledger Technology |
| Commodity-intelligence platform transforming energy-production information into DLT-powered format to track vital source data |
See page 69 for Acquisitions & Divestitures