HighQ
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Collaboration platform |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Canada |
Key people | Co-founder and CEO: Ajay Patel CFO: Amit Patel CSO: Stuart Barr[1] CTO: Saviz Izadpanah |
| Products | HighQ 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]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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]
See also[edit]
- Collaboration platform
- Collaboration software
- List of collaborative software
- Cloud collaboration
- Document collaboration
References[edit]
- ^ (Press Release) HighQ Focuses on Evolving Technology Needs of Legal Industry, Speaks at ILTA August 18, 2014
- ^ a b c Fast Track 100: 2013 Tech Track Ones to Watch Archived 2013-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, September 15, 2013
- ^ a b c Telegraph Business Club: HighQ Leading Provider of cloud-based enterprise software, July 20, 2012
- ^ (Press Release) HighQ Extends Europe Operations, Opens New Office in Germany, June 24, 2014
- ^ a b c d 2014 The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 Archived 2015-05-07 at the Wayback Machine, September 8, 2014
- ^ HighQ receives $50m in investment from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and One Peak, January 27, 2016
- ^ HighQ eyes US market after raising first funding round, June 27, 2016
- ^ "Thomson Reuters Acquires HighQ". www.thomsonreuters.com. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ "Financial Times Honours HighQ, Thomson Reuters As Industry Leaders - Legal IT Professionals | Everything legal technology". www.legalitprofessionals.com. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ "2019 Winners". British Legal Technology Award. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
- ^ The Sunday Times SME Export Track 100 league table 2016
- ^ Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011 list, November 25, 2011
- ^ Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2013 list, November 29, 2013
- ^ Deloitte Technology UK Fast 50 2013 list, November 13, 2013
- ^ (Press Release) The Know List: HighQ Forum 23 April, April 30, 2013
- ^ (Press Release) Clyde & Co chooses HighQ Publisher for key client account management and business development, April 4, 2016
- ^ (Press Release) Legal IT Insider: How Allen & Overy use HighQ for their extranet solutions, August 28, 2012
- ^ Law Technology News: HighQ Unveils Tool to Automate Due Diligence, September 20, 2013
- ^ SCC G-Cloud Computing: HighQ Collaborate Archived 2013-11-09 at archive.today, December 12, 2012
- ^ CMS Wire: HighQ Collaborate 3 Platform Now Provides Due Diligence Tools, September 25, 2013
- ^ a b The Know List: HighQ Forum reveals ambitious product roadmap to facilitate better internal collaboration and legal project management, April 17, 2012
- ^ CMS Wire: HighQ Dataroom