Intelligo

A background check before a decision

Intelligo was founded in 2014. Geektime credits the founding to Shlomo Mirvis and Dana Rakovski. The company operates in Israel and the United States and developed a platform for background checks and due diligence, which in 2021 was called Clarity. Its clients include investment firms, banks and organizations that want to check a person or a company before entering into a relationship. The check covers legal, financial, professional and media background. According to the company's website, a check can be ordered before a relationship begins, and new information can also be monitored later, once the business relationship already exists.

Collection, identity matching and cross-checking

In the Geektime article, Mirvis described a process that starts with entering a name. The system collects information, checks that it belongs to the person being searched for, and cross-checks findings from different sources. The identity matching stage is especially important with common names: a mention of a person with the same name is not necessarily information about the subject. According to the Carrick announcement, at the core of the system is an entity-matching mechanism and AI models built for specific sources. The findings include a reference to the source and the time of the check. The output is a report that brings together findings and risk flags for the client's decision.

Automation alongside an investigator's work

The company's website distinguishes between reports compiled mainly by the platform and Advantage reports, in which a human investigator goes deeper and connects the findings. The company describes AI as a means of filtering out false matches and selecting relevant information. The investigator adds a review of connections and context. Ongoing monitoring of the subject is offered alongside the report. So the description of the service includes human research too, not just an automated decision based on a name. The client receives material to review before an investment, a hire or a business relationship. According to the company, the models keep improving through feedback from the research and product teams. The information in the reports includes public sources as well as paid sources, depending on the scope of the check ordered.

An investor that was also a client

On 15 November 2021 Intelligo announced a $22 million growth investment from Felicitas Global Partners. According to the announcement, the investor had used the product and offered the investment on its own initiative. Cumulative funding reached $44 million, after a $15 million Series B in November 2020. The company described use of the platform by hundreds of investment firms. The current website features testimonials from people at Hamilton Lane and Techstars about using the reports. These are names and usage figures the company publishes, not an independent check of how complete each report is.

Carrick's majority investment

On 22 September 2025 Carrick Capital Partners announced a majority investment in Intelligo, together with a capital injection for product development and expansion. AB Private Credit Investors, which had also been a client, took part as an investor, and Trinity Capital was to provide a debt facility. The announcement describes majority control, not the purchase of all the shares. Carrick stresses the combination of data engines and human expertise. Intelligo continues to offer reports and monitoring under its own brand, and shows Carrick's investment on its company page. The amount of the majority investment is not given in the announcement, which lists Ed Montes as the company's CEO.