About AlphaSights
AlphaSights is a knowledge-on-demand company that connects investors and business leaders with expert insights. Founded in 2008, it says its purpose is to help clients unlock a knowledge advantage by providing access to relevant perspectives across companies, sectors, geographies and topics. The company reports more than 2,000 professionals working across nine global cities and more than three million client-expert interactions delivered.
Its service brings clients seeking specialized knowledge together with industry professionals who can share relevant experience. AlphaSights serves leading investment funds, consultancies and businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. Its staff work with clients to identify the expertise needed and arrange access to it, with the company describing premium client service and round-the-clock global coverage as central to its offering.
Technology supports this service through the AlphaSights client platform, which enables clients to schedule calls, launch surveys, message experts and browse research on demand. The company also describes AlphaGraph as a proprietary knowledge graph that applies machine learning to a curated collection of more than 25 million expert-to-company relationships to surface potentially relevant experts.
AlphaSights says compliance is an essential part of its operating model. Its public description cites a legal framework and policies, a global team and proprietary risk-management technology as measures intended to protect confidentiality and safety in client-expert interactions. The company presents these safeguards as supporting both clients and experts.
The company was founded by Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath, who continue to lead it as co-CEOs. AlphaSights identifies its mission as equipping global investors and business leaders with knowledge for better decisions, while helping its people develop skills for successful careers. It also frames knowledge as a contributor to progress, prosperity and a better future.
AlphaSights describes its people as central to the service it provides and says it hires, rewards and promotes in line with five company values. Its careers materials emphasize developing talent, including early-career and campus recruiting. The firm also operates Knowledge for Good, through which it connects nonprofit organizations, social enterprises and impact investors with expert knowledge; the company says it donated $1.1 million in services to Knowledge for Good clients in 2025.
