About Us
Introduction
Private markets have become one of the most powerful engines of global growth. Yet the data that powers them remains slow, fragmented, and locked inside unstructured reports. Investors are asked to make decisions without visibility. Managers are asked to deliver transparency without the tools to provide it.
Zanran’s view
Zanran believes that private markets deserve the same clarity, speed, and analytical precision as public markets. We believe asset level intelligence should flow instantly — not after weeks of manual effort. We believe transparency is not a luxury, but a requirement for institutional decision making.
Outcome
We built Zanran’s asset-level intelligence layer for private markets – a platform that transforms unstructured GP reports into clean, standardized data in minutes. A foundation that empowers allocators, investment managers and service providers to operate with confidence. A system designed for scale, built for accuracy, and engineered for the complexity of real world reporting.
By transforming unstructured GP quarterly reports into structured, asset level datasets in minutes, Zanran eliminates the manual bottlenecks that have long constrained LPs and their service providers.Â
In more detail
The platform automatically extracts, maps, and normalizes operational metrics, valuation inputs, and static attributes across Private Equity and Private Credit portfolios—delivering clean, comparable, and analysis ready data at scale. This enables performance benchmarking, exposure and risk assessment, valuation oversight, due diligence, and portfolio monitoring with unprecedented speed and consistency.
Zanran’s technology is designed for the complexity of real world reporting: diverse formats, inconsistent disclosures, multi currency portfolios, and evolving GP templates. With an automated pipeline, Zanran ensures accuracy, auditability, and repeatability across every reporting cycle.
Overall
Zanran serves as the connective tissue between GP reporting and the analytical workflows that drive investment decisions. Our mission is simple: empower the private markets ecosystem with the clarity and data infrastructure it needs to operate with confidence, transparency, and scale.
An Expert Team
We are a team with an unfairly large number of PhDs between us. Our expertise is in building complex computer-vision software which unlocks data.
Zanran is a UK based technology company that develops state of the art, AI-powered document automation software. The company’s technology quickly and accurately identifies and extracts content from reports and documents.
You can contact us at helpdesk@zanran.com.
Jon Goldhill
Chief Executive Officer
Jon has a PhD in Chemistry as well as an MBA from London Business School. Jon has over 25 years of extensive experience in running and managing technology start-ups – which he thoroughly enjoys.
Prior to founding Zanran, Jon worked alongside co-founder, Yves Dassas in the fast-moving telecoms arena, where he and Yves built one profitable business after another.
Since then, Jon has both acted as a business angel, where he has invested in a handful of early stage tech firms, and started his own new technology ventures – with Zanran being the most recent.
Yves Dassas
Chief Technology Officer
Yves holds a PhD in Electrochemistry from Columbia University in New York, as well as a degree in Chemical Engineering from Brussels.
Yves met the other co-founder of Zanran when he moved from Belgium to the UK in 1994. Yves and Jon have built several successful businesses together.
Yves has developed a fascination with understanding computer-vision and machine learning and continues to study a number of emerging technologies and ideas: the mathematics of number theory and group theory, as well as the more practical advances in machine learning and image processing.
Pankaj Kumar
Chief Revenue Officer
Pankaj is a businessman through and through, and he joined Zanran to build sales and marketing. He is a self-starter and comfortable with everything from negotiating a deal to briefing a video production company.
Pankaj has spent most of his working life in commercial roles in the IT services industry, building business for several large multinational corporations.
He has lived, studied, and worked in India, the US, France, and now the UK. His university education was at the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS) in Pilani, then later at Baruch College, CUNY, New York, where he ranked 5th on the MBA course and graduated with Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He then topped it up with a year at Sorbonne, the University of Paris in France.