Acuris

Name: Acuris
Brand: Acuris

Activistmonitor provides access to the tools and information needed to anticipate the next move and generate business ideas

Est 2000|Valuation $1.7B|Raised $49.5M

LinkedIn 370|Website|FTEs 1,300|HQ London, England, GB

MarketsInvestment Research & Market Intelligence Platforms Proxy Services & Shareholder Engagement

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

- Activistmonitor is positioned as a specialized intelligence service that emphasizes editorial reporting and historical context for activist campaigns. It appears to be offered as a focused product within Acuris’s broader information services. - Diligent’s market offering emphasizes integrated governance, voting, and benchmarking capabilities that appeal to governance teams seeking board-centred workflows. - FactSet is a broad market-data and analytics platform that can support activism tracking as part of a larger data and modeling environment; it tends to be used where buyers require dataset unification and analytics across asset classes. - DEF 14 (a niche platform) has a different value proposition centered on transparent pricing and self-serve onboarding for activism analytics; such platforms may appeal to smaller specialist teams or teams preferring public pricing and a self-serve model.

Market share and adoption trends

Authoritative market-share data for Activistmonitor was not located in the sources reviewed. Adoption patterns can vary by buyer type (advisory firms, hedge funds, corporate governance teams) and are typically inferred through vendor disclosures, partner citations, and procurement references.

	Activistmonitor (Acuris)	Diligent Market Intelligence (DMI)	FactSet (incl. activism-related datasets/workflows)
Starting Price	Not publicly listed; free trial offered	Pricing typically provided via demos and sales	Quote-based; pricing modular depending on modules purchased
Best For	Advisory and investment teams seeking editorial reporting, historical campaign context, and alerts	Teams requiring integrated governance modules (proxy voting, benchmarking, board workflows)	Organizations needing broad market data, modeling, and integration across datasets
Key Strength	Editorial reporting and campaign history framing; integrated delivery through parent-company applications	Breadth of governance-related datasets and benchmarking; governance workflow integration	Broad financial dataset ecosystem, APIs, and Excel integration
Key Weakness	Limited public documentation on security, methodology, and pricing; limited public user reviews	Cost and contractual complexity for some buyers; platform breadth may exceed needs for users seeking only activism news	Cost and complexity; integration and user experience can be polarizing depending on the client’s needs

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Activistmonitor is positioned as a specialized intelligence service that emphasizes editorial reporting and historical context for activist campaigns. It appears to be offered as a focused product within Acuris’s broader information services.
Diligent’s market offering emphasizes integrated governance, voting, and benchmarking capabilities that appeal to governance teams seeking board-centred workflows.
FactSet is a broad market-data and analytics platform that can support activism tracking as part of a larger data and modeling environment; it tends to be used where buyers require dataset unification and analytics across asset classes.
DEF 14 (a niche platform) has a different value proposition centered on transparent pricing and self-serve onboarding for activism analytics; such platforms may appeal to smaller specialist teams or teams preferring public pricing and a self-serve model.

Market share and adoption trends

	Activistmonitor (Acuris)	Diligent Market Intelligence (DMI)	FactSet (incl. activism-related datasets/workflows)
Starting Price	Not publicly listed; free trial offered	Pricing typically provided via demos and sales	Quote-based; pricing modular depending on modules purchased
Best For	Advisory and investment teams seeking editorial reporting, historical campaign context, and alerts	Teams requiring integrated governance modules (proxy voting, benchmarking, board workflows)	Organizations needing broad market data, modeling, and integration across datasets
Key Strength	Editorial reporting and campaign history framing; integrated delivery through parent-company applications	Breadth of governance-related datasets and benchmarking; governance workflow integration	Broad financial dataset ecosystem, APIs, and Excel integration
Key Weakness	Limited public documentation on security, methodology, and pricing; limited public user reviews	Cost and contractual complexity for some buyers; platform breadth may exceed needs for users seeking only activism news	Cost and complexity; integration and user experience can be polarizing depending on the client’s needs