The investor intelligence platform built for international capital markets.

Your Shareholders. Identified, Decoded, Activated.

ECI is a joint venture of Embera Partners and Captrace — combining Embera’s shareholder intelligence, capital markets advisory and IR-expertise with Captrace’s technology and software infrastructure.

What we do

From ownership data to actionable intelligence.

Companies increasingly need to understand not only who owns their shares, but why investors behave the way they do, how ownership structures evolve over time, where strategic risks arise and how shareholder engagement can actively contribute to long-term value creation. Activating any shareholder group, from retail investors, to active and passive investors as well as hedge funds, to ensure corresponding support for the different capital markets use cases will be key for corporates, irrespective of their size and industry.

Listed companies across Europe use ECI to identify their beneficial owners at fund level, understand how their investors behave and take the right action supporting their strategic cap-table development, before an AGM, leading up to an M&A transaction, or preparing for a shareholder activist campaign.

Combining state of the art technology with advanced shareholder intelligence, governance insight and regulatory expertise, ECI transforms ownership data into actionable intelligence that supports better capital markets decisions.

Built on state of the art technology, using direct SWIFT, custodian and investor access, ECI’s SRD II-native infrastructure and AI-powered analytics layer turns raw ownership data into intelligence your IR team, board and advisors can act on: for strategic cap-table development, before an AGM, leading up to an M&A transaction, or preparing for a shareholder activist campaign.

Trusted by more than 100 clients
Carl Zeiss Meditec · INDUS Holding · SAF-Holland · Van Lanschot Kempen · Palfinger · Semperit · Cembra Bank · Lenzing AG · MLP SE · SIXT SE · Tecan Group · SES SA · Redcare Pharmacy · Aroundtown SA · and 100+ further issuers across DACH and Europe
Our commitment

We believe forensic ownership intelligence creates strategic advantage.

By combining regulatory-grade ownership data, proprietary analytics and deep capital markets expertise, ECI helps organisations move beyond identification towards a genuine understanding of ownership dynamics and investor behaviour. As data becomes commoditised, the competitive advantage lies in intelligence, in context, interpretation and the ability to act.
Precision

Institutional-grade data

Institutional-grade ownership intelligence built on rigorous data collection, validation and analysis.

Beneficial ownership identified at fund level through the full global custody chain. Client-specific bottom-up analysis, that drives outcome and is actionable. Up to 99.95% capital coverage. Validated against >3M+ investor records, allowing to identify behavioural patterns.

Insight

Enriched at holder level

Actionable intelligence that supports investor relations, governance and stakeholder engagement based on bottom-up ultimate beneficial owner analysis.

Each identified holder enriched with modular intelligence, incl. investment style, turnover, orientation, index and peer benchmarks, ESG sensitivity, portfolio fit, proxy advisor dependency and governance risk, and decision-maker contacts — so IR-teams can build their cap-table strategically and every meeting, vote and transaction is informed for management and board.

Impact

Measurable outcomes

Supporting better decisions, stronger shareholder engagement and long-term value creation that is also measurable.

Every ECI engagement includes a defined baseline and outcome metric based on the different use-cases the data is applied to: ownership level, risk-projection, conversion rate, vote outcome vs. model. Measurable, reportable, auditable

Independence & Governance
ECI operates as an independent investor intelligence platform. Our data and analytics are available directly to listed issuers, IR consultancies, law firms, investment banks and advisory firms without restriction. Where clients engage Embera Partners for strategic advisory work — across M&A, governance or shareholder activism — ECI intelligence may inform that advisory under clearly separated engagement structures and explicit client instruction. ECI never allows advisory relationships to influence the integrity of its intelligence outputs.
By the numbers

A track record measured in outcomes.

1000+
Identification mandates since 2020
> 99%
average capital coverage
3M+
Verified investor records
~10 days
Average turnaround
100+
International clients
30+
Regulated & unregulated markets
How we create value

Our methodology moves in three stages.

01 —

Identify

Beneficial owners mapped at fund level through the full custody chain, in SRD II and non-SRD II markets. Direct SWIFT and custodian access to every intermediary from global CSDs to local sub-custodians. Retail and non-financial owners included by design. Unrivalled direct network to institutional investors and capital markets ecosystem
02 —

Enrich

Each identified holder enriched with modular intelligence, incl. investment style, turnover, orientation, index and peer benchmarks, ESG sensitivity, portfolio fit, proxy advisor dependency and governance risk, and decision-maker contacts. AI-powered pattern recognition flags drift, rotation and risk signals.
03 —

Activate

Intelligence delivered as a bespoke, use-case-specific output: a forensic ownership assessment in context with pers and industry, a governance risk-model prior to AGM, a retail activation demographic report analysing all private households, projections for upcoming proxy or tender campaigns, or an activism and engagement risk indicator.
The strategic advantage comes from knowing how to engage the right investors — before an AGM, before a transaction closes, before an activist or short-seller builds a position.
Let's talk

Request a complimentary ECI Intelligence Briefing.

A no-obligation review of your current beneficial ownership structure, key risk signals and one prioritised use-case recommendation — prepared by our team.

Embera Partners and Captrace launch

ECI Intelligence

Embera Partners and Captrace announce the launch of ECI Intelligence. ECI combines proprietary technology, ownership intelligence and strategic capital markets expertise to help companies make better capital markets decisions and maximise long-term shareholder value.