Selerity, a provider of real-time event data solutions for the financial services industry, today announced that it successfully raised $3 million of equity financing to accelerate the development of Selerity Alerts, its new real-time intelligence platform. The Series B capital raise was oversubscribed by more than $1 million due to strong demand from investors, as well as the significant market opportunity that exists for real-time, user-driven intelligence for financial services professionals that Selerity offers.

The Selerity Alerts platform allows securities traders, analysts, portfolio managers and other professionals to receive breaking, real-time intelligence based on their specific investment thesis and interests. Selerity's platform uses sophisticated real-time search and classification technology to deliver intelligence related to breaking events that impact the financial markets. Using proprietary algorithms, the service sifts through hundreds of thousands of events per day at sub-second speeds from sources including social media, local media, regulatory agencies, and authoritative blogs. The events are then analyzed by Selerity's in-house event analysts, delivering only highly relevant information and analysis to clients. The Selerity Alerts product offering is currently in beta testing with a group of financial services firms.

As part of the capital raise, Emanuel Mond will be joining Selerity's board of directors. Mond is a seasoned financial information services executive, entrepreneur, and investor. Most recently, he served as the Chairman of Cadis, a global enterprise data management specialist. Prior to this, Mond has held various senior leadership and investor roles at multiple financial technology ventures including, Monis Software (acquired by SunGard), SunGard, and Whittaker Garnier (acquired by Insight).

"I'm excited to be joining Selerity at such an important point in the company's growth trajectory because I believe in Selerity's business proposition and the need for their product in the industry," Mond commented. "I look forward to working with the Selerity team and my fellow board members to expand the company's footprint in the fast-growing real-time intelligence market and to guide Selerity as it applies the additional capital to further develop its offerings."

Selerity is a real-time financial information and media company that focuses on capturing and delivering breaking events using innovative technology. Using proprietary real-time search and in-house capital market experts, Selerity monitors authoritative, primary sources for events that impact the financial markets such as corporate earnings, economic reports, energy statistics, and credit rating changes. Selerity's information products deliver clients both machine-readable event data and actionable news in real-time. Customers use Selerity's platform to make accelerated decisions by incorporating event data and news into their investment strategies. http://www.seleritycorp.com