Team Fun Facts
100: Which Rising Star plays three instruments?
Pavel
100: What is the name of the AlphaSense feature that uses AI to extract key metrics and run GenSearch prompts across a select group of documents?
GenGrid
100: AlphaSense is the only platform with aftermarket access to this bank's research, providing unique access to this brokers' reports without the need for entitlements or direct relationships.
Goldman Sachs
100: What 2 FS personas are focused on public equity investments?
Asset managers / Hedge funds
100: What city hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Tokyo
200: Which Rising Star started their own landscaping business?
Aydan
200: This Excel-integrated AI tool acquired by AlphaSense addresses quantitative analysis gaps in financial modeling, enabling FS clients to process natural language queries against financial data while maintaining regulatory compliance workflows.
Carousel
200: Offering investors access to more than 210,000 proprietary call transcripts while charging only the expert’s hourly rate (≈ $400)—far below the ~$1,000 industry norm—this research solution is now outpacing GLG and Third Bridge in scale and value
Expert Call Services / Expert Transcript Library
200: What FS persona is AlphaSense's only sell-side persona?
(Bonus Points: what does "sell-side" mean compared to "buy-side"?)
Investment Bankers
200: Which U.S. state has the most coastline?
Alaska
300: Which Rising Star is a big fan of the Grateful Dead?
Jordan
300: If I wanted to access dynamic financial models and peer sets created by our Canalyst Equity Research in Vancouver, in which AlphaSense tab could I find this in the platform?
(Bonus Points for Pitch)
Industry Comps - allows users to quickly benchmark metrics like revenue growth, margins, or headcount trends across a peer group of companies, without manually pulling data from filings
300: Public-company investors rely heavily on which two core SEC reports to understand a company’s performance, risks, and outlook.
10Ks / 10Qs
300: Approximately what percentage of AlphaSense's revenue is generated from the FS side of the business?
~67%
300: Who won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Actor?
Cillian Murphy
400: Which 5 Rising Stars are not from the quad-state area (NY, PA, NJ, CT)
Jules, Ellie, Quinlan, Pavel, Jordan
400: Defined by AlphaSense as AI that orchestrates an entire research process—from the initial document search to generating a deep research report with a single click—this feature gives users the power of 100,000 analysts at their fingertips
Workflow Agents
400: This AlphaSense offering combines real-time and embargoed broker research while giving entitlement-free users aftermarket access to reports from roughly 2,000+ global publishers.
Wall Street Insights (WSI)
400: This PE-focused title includes capital providers such as institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, pension funds, and family offices. They supply funding but do not take day-to-day operating roles.
Limited Partners (LPs)
400: In the 2024 NFL regular season, which team scored the most total points, achieved the best point differential, went undefeated on the road?
Detroit Lions
500: 400: Which 4 Rising Stars played a varsity sport in college?
Quinlan, Luke, Aydan, Isabella
500: This specialized research methodology in AlphaSense allows analysts gather insights from distributors, customers, and competitors within a company's distribution channel to validate business performance and market conditions. This technique involves repeatedly interviewing the same sources to track how perspectives evolve over time, providing crucial trend analysis for investment decisions.
Channel Checks
500: What are the 4 main categories of the Company Docs content set?
Event transcripts, major filings, presentations, press releases
500: The PE-focused professional investment managers who raise funds, source deals, conduct due diligence, and actively oversee portfolio companies
General Partners (GPs)
500: Which artist headlined the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show this February in New Orleans, and which three surprise guests joined the performance?
Kendrick Lamar; SZA, Samuel L Jackson, Serena Williams