December 1, 2025 — Leads & Copy — RavenPack, a leader in AI and big data analytics for financial services, has partnered with the Financial Times (FT), securing a strategic investment from FT Ventures and a content licensing agreement. The partnership integrates the FT’s premium news feed and archive into RavenPack’s analytical products, including Bigdata.com, allowing institutional clients to build intelligent financial agents using trusted business journalism.
James Mann, Managing Director of FT Professional, stated that the partnership signifies a major step in how the FT supports the financial community’s evolving needs and is their first distribution partnership built for the generative AI era.
Alexandra Calinikos, Chief Investment Officer of FT Group, noted RavenPack’s addition to the FT Ventures portfolio and the focus on backing teams advancing professional workflows and strengthening the value of FT journalism. The investment aims to create strategic collaboration opportunities across licensing, advertising, and events.
Armando Gonzalez, CEO of RavenPack, said the integration of FT’s content into their intelligence products accelerates the move toward AI that mirrors seasoned analysts’ thinking, interpreting the world rather than just reading the news.
The Financial Times brings 135 years of authoritative coverage across global markets, macroeconomics, corporate strategy, regulation, ESG, and geopolitical affairs. This partnership enhances RavenPack’s AI and agent-development solutions, including the Bigdata.com research platform and analytics datasets for quantitative and systematic strategies.
Key benefits of the partnership include:
- Real-time access to FT news and a historical archive dating back to 2012, licensed for GenAI reasoning and deployment.
- AI-powered tools to extract structured insights, uncover patterns across coverage, and run context-rich backtests.
- Narrative-driven analysis enabling agents to understand sentiment, context, and the stories influencing financial decisions.
- Seamless integration of FT content into research pipelines, models, and trading systems for automated intelligence.
RavenPack has published a manifesto on responsible intelligence in finance, outlining the ethical framework guiding Bigdata.com, available at ravenpack.com/the-data-first-imperative.
RavenPack launched Bigdata.com in 2024, an AI platform that combines premium, unique, and real-time financially relevant datasets with search capabilities.
FT Ventures is the corporate venture arm of the Financial Times Group, investing in companies operating in the global information industry. Recent investments include ElevenLabs, The Logic, and Charter.
Contact: Alexandra Calinikos, Chief Investment Officer of FT Group.
Source: RavenPack
Source: RavenPack
