Cesar Estrada, Head of Private Markets – Arcesium (EP.76)

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Cesar Estrada discusses Arcesium's role in private markets and the impact of AI on investment operations.

Cesar Estrada is the Head of Private Markets at Arcesium, the data and operations platform built to help private market firms scale their reporting, analytics, and oversight at an enterprise level.In today’s conversation, Cesar walks us through Arcesium’s role in private markets from its beginnings as a company spun out of DE Shaw. We discuss why “unifying the data” is front and center today and how Arcesium helps its clients with reconciliation to centralizing NAV oversight across internal teams and fund admins.From there, we turn to all things AI — how Arcesium launched a Copilot feature, what it means to move from natural language queries toward full agents, and who Cesar thinks wins and loses as AI reshapes investment operations software.For anyone building or running operations at a private markets firm, this is a sharp conversation on where the data problem really lives — and what solving it actually looks like in practice.Learn More Follow Capital Allocators at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tseides⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mailing…

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Host: Ted Seides

Guest: Cesar Estrada

Topics covered

• private markets
• data unification
• investment operations
• AI in finance
• NAV oversight

Keywords

• private markets
• data reconciliation
• AI
• investment operations
• NAV oversight

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Arcesium, DE Shaw

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