Mosaic Research Management

The Mosaic Research expert network was founded in New York in 2010. Mosaic Research is focused on custom recruiting experts for buy-side clients, but also offers related services. The founder had previously been employed at a hedge fund and at Vista Research, an expert network founded in 2001 and later acquired by Guidepoint. Other firms rooted in Vista Research include Ridgetop Research and Primary Insight.

Mosaic today operates across three divisions:

• Mosaic Advisors - a recruiting platform connecting industry experts and executives directly with investment analysts and other researchers, largely through custom, project-specific searches.

• Mosaic Data Services - sourcing unique, proprietary datasets for investment firms, drawing on the same recruiting network.

• MosaicRM Software - an internal tool helping fund managers streamline and manage their own proprietary research capabilities.

Mosaic says a large majority of its recruited experts - over 80%, per the company - have never previously consulted for a hedge fund or expert network, positioning custom, fresh, per-project recruiting as its core differentiator from database-driven competitors.

In 2024, Mosaic was mentioned in a lawsuit between an activist hedge fund and a medtech company. They had done nothing wrong, but the hedge fund's usage of expert networks like Alphasights and Mosaic was published and discussed openly, including in a podcast with Inex One CEO Max Friberg.

Mosaic Stream and expert call transcripts

As of March 2021, Mosaic's Stream product contained around 3,000 transcripts of expert calls, adding almost 300 transcripts/month. In October 2021, Mosaic agreed to divest the business unit to Alphasense for a whopping $50 million - about 5 times the company's estimated annual turnover. That became the foundation for the Alphasense expert network business, later complemented with Tegus.

Mosaic Research and expert network aggregation

Mosaic Research was probably the first to market an Expert Management System, reminiscent of Inex One. However, they seem to have had similar challenges rolling it out as Coleman Research and proSapient, being both a vendor and a platform. The service reportedly wasn't widely used, but the service innovation might have led to the later development of Stream.

FAQ

What does Mosaic Research specialize in? Mosaic Research specializes in custom expert recruitment for buy-side institutional investors alongside proprietary data sourcing and internal research management software.

Is Mosaic Research available on Inex One? No - Mosaic Research is not a part of the Inex One marketplace.

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