St.Gallen Endowment

What St.Gallen Endowment does

St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade (SGEPT) is a Swiss non-profit founded in 2020 and headquartered in St. Gallen, with a secondary office in Zurich. It is staffed by approximately 40 professionals drawn from 25 nationalities and is dedicated to monitoring state interventions in trade, digital, and industrial policy in order to support evidence-based policymaking in developing economies.

The Endowment operates a portfolio of open-access data products and programmes. Global Trade Alert is the foundational platform, tracking over 70,000 state interventions across 60+ countries since 2009. This was extended by the Digital Policy Alert, positioned as the world's first digital policy repository, and the New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO). Layered on top of these datasets is the CLaiRK AI suite, which provides natural-language query and chatbot interfaces to the underlying structured data. The C4TP (Competitiveness through Trade and Policy) programme extends the platform's reach into 30+ developing countries across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. All databases are freely accessible, and the products are cited by multilateral institutions including the IMF, World Bank, OECD, UN, and ECB, with 2,000+ media citations.

The business model is grant-funded: the Endowment discloses seed funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for the C4TP programme and operates as a charitable organization, with no commercial pricing tier or per-seat licensing for its data products. Distribution is reinforced through partnerships with the WTO, WEF, and a forthcoming collaboration with IMD business school. Because there is no revenue-side customer relationship, the Endowment's principal financial risk is grant concentration rather than commercial churn.

Name

St.Gallen Endowment

Legal name

St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade

Website

https://stgallen-endowment.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

St.Gallen Endowment is a Swiss non-profit operating Global Trade Alert, Digital Policy Alert, NIPO, and the CLaiRK AI suite to monitor state interventions in trade, digital, and industrial policy for governments and multilateral institutions, primarily in developing economies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trade and Digital Policy Intelligence

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929)

akta.pro primary industry

Economic Research, Statistics & Policy Advisory (BPADAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Alternative Data Providers (Web, Satellite, Geolocation, ESG Signals) (FSAFAIAH)

Keywords

• Trade policy analysis
• Digital policy tracking
• Policy data platforms
• Economic intelligence databases
• International trade monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Sankt Gallen

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Charitable Non-Profit Funding: The St.Gallen Endowment is a charitable tax-exempt non-profit organisation. Funding comes from donations and grants, including seed-funding from the Swiss government for the C4TP programme. Services are provided freely to developing countries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The St.Gallen Endowment operates a suite of free, publicly accessible databases and AI-powered tools that track and analyze global trade and digital policy developments. Its core offerings include Global Trade Alert (tracking 70,000+ state interventions across 60+ countries since 2009), Digital Policy Alert (the world's first digital policy repository), the CLaiRK AI suite for regulatory analysis, and the NIPO corporate subsidy observatory, supported by the C4TP capacity-building programme for developing countries.

Product overview

The St.Gallen Endowment operates a platform of complementary databases and AI-powered tools focused on tracking and analyzing global trade and digital policy developments. The core offerings include Global Trade Alert (a trade policy database covering 60+ countries since 2009), Digital Policy Alert (a repository of digital regulations including AI, data rules, and content moderation), and NIPO (New Industrial Policy Observatory tracking corporate subsidies). The C4TP programme provides economic dashboards and workshops for developing countries. CLaiRK is the AI suite that powers intelligent search, notifications, and text comparison across these policy databases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Global Trade Alert: A public inventory of trade and industrial policies launched in 2009. Free, independent record tracking official policy developments in 60+ countries covering trade in goods & services, FDI and labour. Database contains over 70,000 distinct state interventions.
• Digital Policy Alert
• Capacities for Trade Policies (C4TP)
• CLaiRK
• New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO)

Products and services

• Global Trade Alert (GTA) A free, independent public inventory of trade and industrial policies that tracks official policy developments in 60+ countries, covering trade in goods and services, FDI, and labour. The database contains over 70,000 distinct state interventions dating back to 2009. It serves governments, international organizations, and large corporations needing real-time trade policy intelligence.
• Digital Policy Alert (DPA) The world's first repository of digital policy developments and regulations. Free database covering policies related to artificial intelligence, data rules, content moderation, competition, taxation, and more. Serves policymakers, regulators, and businesses navigating the digital economy.
• CLaiRK A suite of AI-powered tools including a high-accuracy chatbot that answers questions about digital rules in any language, personalised notifications, and a chromatic highlighting tool for text comparison. Designed to help global stakeholders better understand rules affecting the digital economy.
• New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO) A repository of corporate subsidy awards granted by the world's top economies, helping governments and companies make decisions in the era of unilateral trade and investment policies. Tracks corporate subsidy programs to inform industrial policy decisions.
• Capacities for Trade Policies (C4TP) An economic dashboard and workshop programme seed-funded by the Swiss government (SECO) that helps developing country officials access information about global trade and digital policy dynamics. Enables evidence-based trade policy making and active participation in WTO negotiations; supports 30+ developing countries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Supporting 30+ developing countries in making their voices heard in WTO negotiations
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• World Economic ForumflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe organization participates in key events such as the World Economic Forum, underscoring commitment to leading the conversation on global economic challenges.
• World Trade OrganizationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWTO Public Forum participation and work supporting developing countries' participation in WTO negotiations. WTO Deputy Director-General acknowledged organization's important contribution through Global Trade Alert database.
• IMDminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFuture collaboration planned to foster dialogue around a new social contract to rejuvenate democratic capitalism, especially in Europe.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Chatham House: Royal Institute of International Affairs providing independent policy research and analysis on global issues. Comparable as a non-profit think tank that serves governments, international organizations, and enterprises with rigorous analysis on trade, geopolitics, and international affairs.
• Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE): A leading non-profit research institution focused on international economics and trade policy. Highly comparable as both organizations produce independent, data-rich analysis on global trade dynamics, protectionism, and industrial policy targeted at policymakers and the private sector.
• Brookings Institution: A major US-based non-profit public policy research organization. Comparable as a policy think tank providing independent, data-driven research to governments, NGOs, and businesses across international economic and regulatory topics.
• Bruegel: European think tank specializing in economics and policy research. Comparable as a non-profit delivering independent, data-backed analysis on trade, industrial policy, and digital regulation to European policymakers and institutions.
• RAND Corporation: Global non-profit research organization producing independent policy research and analysis. Comparable as a policy think tank that builds and maintains proprietary research assets used by governments and enterprises to inform decision-making.
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Non-profit international affairs research organization with global centers. Comparable as a policy think tank producing independent analysis on international economics, trade, and technology policy targeted at governments and global institutions.
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Bipartisan US policy research organization focused on international economics, trade, and technology policy. Comparable as a think tank delivering independent research and data products to government and corporate stakeholders.

Broad incumbents

• World Bank: International financial institution providing development data and policy research. Comparable as a producer of trade and economic policy analysis used by governments and the private sector; SGEPT is a data provider and partner in developing-country capacity building.
• OECD: Intergovernmental organization publishing authoritative economic and trade policy data and analysis. Both organizations produce trade and policy data cited by governments and central banks; OECD is a customer of SGEPT data, indicating overlapping mandates at different scopes.
• World Economic Forum (WEF): International organization for public-private cooperation. SGEPT is a strategic partner and event participant. Comparable as a convening body that produces policy intelligence and data products on global trade, digital economy, and industrial policy, though much broader in scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sgept_org
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/st-gallen-endowment

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

Investments

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