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Eric Guigné is the President and Founder of POLARYS, a Digital Services Company specialized in DATA working with more than 300 companies among which, the Investment Funds. Entrepreneur but also Business Angel, he answers our questions during the 5th edition of the START-UP GOLF CHALLENGE in Paris

1/ Data for Investment Funds, is it a topic? 

Indeed, the stake in private equity is to be able to recover a maximum of Data, and to analyze a maximum of information to make the best decisions.

The best investment decisions, the best sales decisions, the best decisions for managing the companies they buy, for merging them or making them grow

POLARYS’ business is to have consultants, experts on all these DATA issues.

Data recovery, data analysis in order to implement data architectures for business decision makers in the private equity business. There is a lot of information that the Funds have on their own performance.  But there is even more information that can be found outside. The open data to the paid data through Data Providers.

There is a gold mine and it is a very important issue to find the best opportunities for growth.

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2/ How POLARYS help Investment Funds

Polarys’ job is to provide consulting and integration services for data and decision making.

So consulting means analyzing our customers’ needs and recommending the best solutions, X, Y or Z, because there are many technological solutions on the market and it is difficult for our customers to see clearly.

POLARYS have experts who are able to do this independently. We are not a re-seller, we are not a player in a single technological solution. We assess all the possible solutions on the market for the mid-market, for very large international funds, for funds that do Mezzanine, for funds that do Fund of Funds or LBO.

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All of these are relatively different. The needs are different, the fundraising processes are different. The due diligence processes are different and therefore there are different tool needs.

So our first activity is what we call “Think”.  An upstream consulting to recommend the right architectures.

We provide support.  We don’t just say “you should do this” but we help concretely with commitments on results.

Setting up these information systems until they have platforms that allow them to better see their investors, their clients, their portfolio, the performance of their entire ecosystem and also to compare themselves and do benchmarking, which is also very important.

3/ Who are the clients of POLARYS

We are talking about thirty clients who are divided between small management companies that manage 2 or 3 funds.

Generally you need to have at least 2 or 3 funds for it to become a little complicated and for it to be necessary to set up an information system, but our smallest clients manage less than a billion. they manage a few funds of a few hundred million.

But our smallest clients manage, I think, less than a billion, manage a few funds at a few hundred million. Up to very large funds such as ARDIAN or ADIA in the Emirates. These large funds which are obviously record-breaking funds that we know are the largest in Europe or the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.

They have relatively different issues. It’s the same thing but it’s 10 times or 100 times much more.

The tools, methods and teams use different technologies. But we are fortunate to be able to serve this whole spectrum of clients. they sometimes only do fund of funds, sometimes only direct, sometimes Mezzanine, sometimes Real Estate, who do different asset classes.

4/ What do you think about MY PITCH IS GOOD ?

It’s a great platform that we are very happy to be associated with.

We like these meetings between project holders, inventors, start-ups and then obviously there is a need to finance them, and it’s really a great place to make them meet so bravo for this great initiative too.

POLARYS is a partner of the 5th edition of Paris of the  START-UP GOLF CHALLENGE at golf de l’isle Adam, the 17th September 2021.

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The 43rd edition of the Ryder Cup, will take place from September 24th to 26th 2021 at Whistling Straits Golf Course in Haven, Wisconsin. How the Captain of the European Team prepares his selection of players thanks to DATA

1/ Data, the crucial asset of the captain of the EU team for the Ryder Cup

For years, millions of data are recovered by the English company TwentyFirst group (TFG) in the field of Soccer but also of Golf. Indeed, the EUROPEAN TOUR asked the company to provide Captain Padraig Harrignton (EU) with a platform created especially for Thomas Bjørn. This platform is called “Captain”. 🙂

In 2018 the data was very helpful in the victory for the selection and choice of players for the teams during the 3 days of competition.

The intuitive UX (user experience), data science and engineering of this unique platform facilitated the strategic decision-making of Thomas Bjørn (previous Team EU captain)

The selection of players and teams was based on many criteria of players performance over time, but not only!

Of course, the decisions were made on the regulation rate of the players, the rate of successful putting (ball on the fairway zone), length of balls, but also on the typology of the course, the affinity of the players, the “feelings”, and the past collective performances.

This allowed Thomas Bjørn to better manage his selections of wild cards, pairs and order of play especially during the singles matches on Sunday.

Golf and Data Article – Start-up Golf Challenge

2/ Usefulness of the CAPTAIN Platform for the Captain of Team EUROPE

Strategy is an important part. We don’t choose the best 12 players only according to their individual performances. We choose especially those who have the best complementarities and the best affinities.

The subtlety is to know who can bring what to the team, who can play in Foresome, (Game of the Start-Up Golf Challenge) , who played well with such player in the past, and any other subtlety of appreciation that could be subject to any subjectivity. This is where the DATA helps to clarify.

Padraig Harrington said in an interview that in these moments of pressure, DATA is a reliable ally. This is done, for example, to confirm an emotional choice made by the captain.

TFG brings data that could not be identified without the capabilities of Datascience.

Thomas Bjørn acknowledged after Team EU’s victory in 2018 that Data analytics had an important part in the collective victory.

The growth of the players together. The bond of the collective or the strong team feeling are the ingredients of a chemistry.

This alchemy leads a Ryder Cup team to victory.

Open Championship, le tournoi qui réunit le plus de joueurs internationaux avec différentes compétences. (from Thought Leadership TFG article)

full article to read here .

3/ The winning combo Player – Course Design

Beyond the experience that each player may have in a competition such as the Ryder Cup, other analyses are important.

For example, the abilities of each player in the different game formulas.

The captain was reassured about the choice of Sergio Garcia. Indeed, as a wildcard, the performances and weak signals of the Spaniard, via the collected data, were better than his results taken independently of each other.

The selection of peers for the 4-ball and foursomes was defined by the format. Also the ability of each player in the past to over-perform in this game format.

In addition to this equation, the layout of the course was also considered. Based on these analyses, the recommendation to play Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood seemed obvious.

On the first morning, the Europeans were on the verge of being down 3-1. We were considering last minute changes for the afternoon foursomes.

Finally after reading the data, the captain and his vice-captains were reassured. We had to “stick to the plan”

4/ conclusion

Any data, even minor, is considered a diamond with great potential, once worked. Data is becoming more and more important for decision making in the sports business. This ranges from advertising, to player sentiment, to performance and underperformance.

Like Thomas Bjorn, Daryl Morey was the director of the Houston Rockets a long time ago. He had built statistical models to predict the performance of professional basketball players since 2007

Thanks to this he led the Rockets to the third best record of the 30 NBA teams during the decade.

Golf National – flags Ryder Cup 2018

At the START-UP GOLF CHALLENGE, we know pretty well Data and Sport, one of our previous winner, Cédric Mangaud has founded the Start-up PIQ.

PIQ allows the collection of data via sensors on players or players’ accessories (e.g. golf clubs)

We also have, in the START-UP GOLF CHALLENGE, the support of a data expert partner :  POLARYS.

POLARYS, data intelligence, supports numerous companies and investment funds in their data architecture. From Think to Build to Run, Polarys provides expertise.  From data architecture to data science, Polarys experts support their customers in their data challenges

An opportunity to meet our partner at the 5th edition of  START-UP GOLF CHALLENGE The 17th September at golf de l’isle Adam

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