Over 95% of active institutional investors believe face-to-face meetings with companies are an important part of the investment process. These investors rely heavily on brokers to organise meetings with companies when they are in town. Companies plan their annual investor relations agenda around broker conferences and regional coverage.

This works well for blue chip companies and large investors who have relationships with multiple brokers. For everyone else, the amount of support available from brokers is getting smaller. Market regulations are now putting the model under even greater pressure, forcing companies and investors of all sizes to re-evaluate their approach and look for alternative solutions.

Companies want to meet investors but find they have no easy way of knowing who they should be targeting, and who may be interested in meeting them. Investors would like to be notified whenever company management has availability for a meeting, and to get a quick update directly from the company whenever a key event (such as change in management) takes place.

With this in mind we built Closir. Closir helps companies tap directly into the entire global investment community, targeting and identifying opportunities through a simple, intelligent technology platform. It helps investors to reach beyond their broker’s network to have the entire investible universe at their fingertips.