HighQ

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HighQ Solutions
Type Private
Industry Collaboration platform
Founded2001
Headquarters Toronto, Canada
Key people
Co-founder and CEO: Ajay Patel
CFO: Amit Patel
CSO: Stuart Barr [1]
CTO: Saviz Izadpanah
ProductsHighQ Collaborate
HighQ Publisher
HighQ Dataroom
Parent Thomson Reuters
Website highq.com

HighQ Solutions Ltd. is a privately owned software as a service (SaaS) company providing cloud-based secure file sharing, team collaboration and social networking software. HighQ was founded in London in 2001 by university friends Ajay Patel and Veenay Shah. [2] The company has offices in the UK (London), Australia (Sydney), the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), USA (New York) and an R&D operation in India (Ahmedabad). [3] [4] [5] It has customers in the legal, banking and corporate sectors as well as government and life sciences. [2]

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In January 2016, HighQ raised its first investment round of $50M from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and One Peak Partners, to expand into the US market. [6] [7]

Thomson Reuters acquired HighQ in 2019. [8]

Industry recognition

HighQ was awarded the "Legal Technology Company of the Year" award at the FT Intelligent Business Awards, 2019. [9]

HighQ was awarded the "Supplier of the Year" award at The British Legal Technology Awards, 2019. [10]

HighQ was included as "One to Watch" in the 2013 Sunday Times Tech Track 100 league table and was ranked 74th in the 2014 Tech Track 100 league table [2] [5] and ranked 32nd among UK's top 100 SMEs in the Sunday Times Heathrow SME Export Track 100 2016. [11]

HighQ was ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011 and 2013 [12] [13] and ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 UK 2013. [14]

Clients

HighQ's major clients include Barclays, Linklaters, Lex Mundi, Clifford Chance, Osborne Clarke, Clyde & Co and Allen & Overy. [5] [15] [16] [17] [18] HighQ's clients include 21 of the top 25 UK law firms, including all of the UK Magic Circle law firms, and 80% of the top 100 UK law firms. [3] [5]

Products

HighQ offers file sharing, extranet, collaboration, project management, virtual data room, enterprise social networking, knowledge sharing and publishing solutions. [19] It has three products which each cover different aspects of these use cases: HighQ Collaborate, HighQ Publisher and HighQ Dataroom.

The primary product, HighQ Collaborate, provides secure document exchange, enterprise social collaboration, client extranets and knowledge portals for organizations. [3] In summer 2013, HighQ released a new mobile version of Collaborate [20] which saw a redesign of its existing modules and added features including a responsive design, microblogging, private messaging, centralized notifications and enhanced people profiles. [21]

HighQ Publisher is a digital marketing and publishing platform that supports various publishing formats and channels including publications, videos, events, micro-sites and email campaigns. [21]

HighQ Dataroom is a virtual data room product aimed primarily at law firms, banks and corporations to help users exchange transactional information with clients and partners outside of their company. [22]

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References

  1. ↑ (Press Release) HighQ Focuses on Evolving Technology Needs of Legal Industry, Speaks at ILTA August 18, 2014
  2. 1 2 3 Fast Track 100: 2013 Tech Track Ones to Watch Archived 2013-11-09 at the Wayback Machine , September 15, 2013
  3. 1 2 3 Telegraph Business Club: HighQ Leading Provider of cloud-based enterprise software, July 20, 2012
  4. ↑ (Press Release) HighQ Extends Europe Operations, Opens New Office in Germany, June 24, 2014
  5. 1 2 3 4 2014 The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 Archived 2015-05-07 at the Wayback Machine , September 8, 2014
  6. ↑ HighQ eyes US market after raising first funding round, June 27, 2016
  7. ↑ "Thomson Reuters Acquires HighQ". www.thomsonreuters.com. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  8. ↑ "Financial Times Honours HighQ, Thomson Reuters As Industry Leaders - Legal IT Professionals | Everything legal technology". www.legalitprofessionals.com. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  9. ↑ "2019 Winners". British Legal Technology Award. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  10. ↑ The Sunday Times SME Export Track 100 league table 2016
  11. ↑ Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011 list, November 25, 2011
  12. ↑ Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2013 list, November 29, 2013
  13. ↑ Deloitte Technology UK Fast 50 2013 list, November 13, 2013
  14. ↑ (Press Release) The Know List: HighQ Forum 23 April, April 30, 2013
  15. ↑ (Press Release) Legal IT Insider: How Allen & Overy use HighQ for their extranet solutions, August 28, 2012
  16. ↑ Law Technology News: HighQ Unveils Tool to Automate Due Diligence, September 20, 2013
  17. ↑ SCC G-Cloud Computing: HighQ Collaborate Archived 2013-11-09 at archive.today , December 12, 2012
  18. ↑ CMS Wire: HighQ Collaborate 3 Platform Now Provides Due Diligence Tools, September 25, 2013
  19. 1 2 The Know List: HighQ Forum reveals ambitious product roadmap to facilitate better internal collaboration and legal project management, April 17, 2012
  20. ↑ CMS Wire: HighQ Dataroom
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