73 Strings bulks up leadership to meet private markets AI demand

73 Strings, the AI-native valuation platform backed by Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, has announced a wave of senior hires that signals the maturation of AI-powered infrastructure for private markets. The New York-headquartered company has created a new president role, appointed a chief product officer and brought in engineering and agentic-AI leads across New York, London, Dubai and Seattle as demand from alternative asset managers accelerates.

The appointments arrive at a pointed moment for the private capital industry. As interest rates remain elevated and exit pipelines stay compressed, limited partners and regulators alike are demanding more rigorous, auditable net asset valuations (NAVs) from fund managers. AI platforms that can automate and govern that process are attracting both client spend and senior talent.

New faces at the top

Eamon O'Dwyer, who spent more than a decade at Barclays spanning digital strategy and partnerships before co-leading several fintech businesses through trade exits, joins as president. He will unify product, engineering, data and go-to-market functions from a London base. Matt Storey, co-founder and former chief product officer of RegTech platform SteelEye, takes the CPO seat and will oversee 73 Strings' generative AI strategy, translating model advances into auditable valuation workflows. Both appointments reflect a deliberate pivot from early-stage product build to enterprise-grade scale and governance.

Below the C-suite, the company has named an agentic AI engineering lead in New York and engineering directors across Dubai, Seattle and New York, adding depth in distributed systems, platform reliability and AI-embedded workflow automation.

"Private markets are entering a once-in-a-generation phase of growth, and every NAV and report now must be trusted, defensible and delivered at a pace the market has never demanded before," said Yann Magnan, CEO and co-founder of 73 Strings.

The convergence angle: governance meets generative AI

The hires sit within a broader structural shift that Disrupts readers in fund management, regulatory technology and enterprise AI will recognise. Generative AI is moving from pilot to production inside financial services, and the bottleneck is no longer compute or model capability but governance: who audits the output, who signs off the NAV, and what liability attaches to an AI-generated valuation when a regulator asks questions.

73 Strings' positioning as a "governed" platform, built on deterministic valuation workflows rather than probabilistic model outputs alone, puts it in direct competition with incumbents such as traditional valuation advisory firms and spreadsheet-heavy fund administrators. The company says its platform supports clients managing more than $20 trillion in assets across private equity, private credit, growth equity, venture capital and infrastructure. That figure is unverifiable from public sources, but the $55 million Series B it closed in February 2025, led by Goldman Sachs with participation from Blackstone Innovations Investments, Golub Capital and Hamilton Lane, confirms serious institutional endorsement.

The geographic footprint of the new hires is also notable. Engineering leadership is now distributed across Dubai, Seattle, New York and London, while the company already operates offices in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Singapore. That GCC and Asia-Pacific presence positions 73 Strings to capture sovereign wealth and family office mandates in markets where private markets allocations are growing fastest and local regulatory frameworks for AI-generated financial outputs are still being written, giving early movers a standard-setting advantage.

For cross-sector strategists, the pattern is familiar: a well-capitalised AI platform recruits operational depth at exactly the moment its market tips from early adopter to mainstream, then races to lock in governance standards before regulators do it for them. The next question is whether 73 Strings pursues further capital to fund that global expansion or opts for a path to profitability on the back of its current client base.