Paragon Intel

What Paragon Intel does

Paragon Intel operates ManagementTrack, a B2B SaaS platform that delivers predictive executive analytics to hedge funds and asset managers. The company quantifies career history, capital allocation, compensation, incentives, and insider transactions across 6,500+ public company executives, and produces the ManagementTrack Rating (MTR), a 0-10 predictive score for each executive that is backtested over 10 years and currently available for 2,000+ public companies. A second analytical layer—analyzes 30,000+ earnings call transcripts to flag management evasion, with company-stated Predictive Outlier Evasion flags achieving a 63% hit rate and 9% average alpha over the same backtest window.

The platform's distinctive layer is qualitative primary research: investigative journalists and former buy-side analysts conduct proprietary interviews with VP-level-and-above former colleagues of executives, generating 125+ reports per year that the company positions as not available through traditional expert networks. This hybrid quantitative-plus-qualitative stack is sold via enterprise subscription with quote-based pricing (no public disclosure), accessed through the ManagementTrack web application. The company states adoption by 14 of the top 20 hedge fund and asset managers, with named customers spanning a $2bn value fund, a $4bn activist fund, and a $16bn long/short fund. Geographic coverage is the US and Europe.

Paragon Intel was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. Disclosed funding totals approximately $4.2M across a 2017 seed round ($1.8M) and a 2019 round ($2.4M from Tribeca Early Stage Partners). The company is privately held, employs 11-50 people, and is led by CEO Ty Popplewell alongside co-founders Colby Howard (President) and Karim Mawji (Head of Research).

Name

Paragon Intel

Legal name

Paragon Intel

Website

https://paragonintel.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Paragon Intel operates ManagementTrack, a SaaS platform that provides hedge funds and asset managers with predictive executive analytics on 6,500+ public company executives, proprietary interviews with former colleagues, and earnings call evasion detection to inform investment decisions.

Ownership category

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Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Access to ManagementTrack Platform: B2B SaaS subscription model providing hedge funds and asset managers access to executive analytics, ratings, earnings call evasion detection, and proprietary interviews on the ManagementTrack platform.

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Core offering

Paragon Intel operates the ManagementTrack platform, a B2B SaaS subscription that delivers predictive executive analytics on 6,500+ public-company executives to hedge funds and asset managers. The offering combines quantitative executive data and ratings (including the ManagementTrack Rating on a 0–10 scale), Earnings Call Evasion detection across 30,000+ transcripts, predictive insider transaction flags, and proprietary interview-based reports on 125+ executives annually. Distribution is via a direct enterprise sales motion and a web application available to institutional investors in the US and Europe.

Product overview

Paragon Intel offers a unified SaaS platform called ManagementTrack (also referred to as MT) for hedge funds and asset managers. The platform consists of multiple integrated modules: MT Data provides executive analytics on 6,500+ executives with predictive ratings and insider transaction flags; MT Interviews & Reports delivers proprietary interviews with former colleagues of executives and analyst memos; Earnings Call Evasion analyzes 30,000+ earnings call transcripts to detect management evasiveness; and the Report Library provides access to reports on 125+ executives per year across technology, media, consumer, healthcare, and other sectors. The platform is available for US and Europe markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ManagementTrack: The company's primary platform for executive analytics and predictive management data, providing insights on CEOs and c-suite executives for hedge funds and asset managers.

Products and services

• ManagementTrack Data (MT Data) Comprehensive career-analysis dataset and analytics module for 6,500+ public-company executives, including relative performance against competitors, career capital allocation, compensation, incentives, and real-time flags of predictive outliers across insider transactions, earnings call evasion, and more. Sold as a B2B SaaS subscription to institutional investors via the ManagementTrack web application.
• ManagementTrack Interviews & Reports (MT Interviews & Reports) Proprietary transcripts of conversations with high-level former colleagues (VP-level or higher) of executives, plus memos mapping executive ability to current company situation. Produced by Paragon Intel's team of investigative journalists and buy-side analysts, with reports on 125+ executives per year, and delivered to hedge fund and asset manager subscribers of ManagementTrack.
• Earnings Call Evasion Analysis of 30,000+ earnings call transcripts detecting when management deflects, does not answer, or deceives analyst questions. Shows exact Q&A text, evasive rationale, and specific topics evaded, with Predictive Outlier Evasion flags (63% hit rate, 9% average alpha, backtested 10 years). Delivered as part of the ManagementTrack B2B SaaS subscription to institutional investors.
• Bespoke Executive Analysis Custom executive-analysis engagements where investors collaborate with Paragon Intel to scope key areas of focus on a specific executive or whole management team, or to diligence executive replacements for activist positions, purchased in addition to the standard ManagementTrack subscription.

Quantifiable outcome

• 63% hit rate with 9% average alpha for Predictive Outlier Evasion flags
• +3 more outcomes

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Technology focussed Yes

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Direct peers

• AlphaSense: Enterprise market intelligence and expert-call platform that overlaps directly with Paragon's research and executive-diligence use cases, particularly after acquiring Tegus and Sentieo, which brought expert transcripts and financial-document search in-house.
• Tegus: Expert-call platform offering transcripts of conversations with industry experts, the closest direct analog to Paragon's proprietary former-colleague interviews and a primary substitute for buy-side analysts conducting executive diligence.

Broad incumbents

• GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group): Long-established expert network serving institutional investors with paid consultations and surveys; competes with Paragon for the same diligence budget but offers broader topic coverage rather than management-focused analytics.
• Guidepoint: Global expert network providing on-demand consultations with former executives and industry specialists; comparable buyer base and use cases but a much broader, less management-specific offering than Paragon's ManagementTrack.
• AlphaSights: Expert-call intermediary connecting investors with former executives and industry specialists; overlaps with Paragon's interview product but lacks Paragon's quantitative ratings, evasion detection, and insider-transaction analytics.
• Bloomberg Terminal: Industry-standard financial data terminal with broad fundamental data, news, and analytics used by every institutional investor; a budget competitor for Paragon rather than a direct substitute, but capable of bundling executive-analytics features over time.
• FactSet: Portfolio analytics and financial-data platform serving asset managers and hedge funds with fundamentals, estimates, and workflow tools; competes for the same research-budget line items and could expand into management-quality analytics.
• S&P Capital IQ Pro: Comprehensive financial-data and research platform for institutional investors, including executive biographical data and key-developments feeds that partially overlap with Paragon's executive analytics.

Emerging players

• Sentieo: Financial-research search and document-analysis platform now part of AlphaSense, focused on earnings transcripts, broker research, and filings; competes for the same research-workflow dollars as Paragon's Earnings Call Evasion module.
• Longitude Research: Alternative-data and expert-transcript provider for institutional investors; comparable in targeting buy-side workflows and offering primary research content, though focused more on industry experts than on executive-specific predictive analytics.

Market position

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Customer concentration

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Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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