HighQ Solutions Ltd. is a privately owned

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(SaaS) company providing

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secure

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, team collaboration and social networking software. HighQ was founded in London in 2001 by university friends Ajay Patel and Veenay Shah.Fast Track 100: 2013 Tech Track Ones to Watch
, September 15, 2013 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).
July 20, 2012(Press Release) HighQ Extends Europe Operations, Opens New Office in Germany
June 24, 20142014 The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100
, September 8, 2014 It has customers in the

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and corporate sectors as well as government and

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. In January 2016, HighQ raised its first investment round of $50M from

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment management and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in more than 41 countries and more than 75,000 employees, the fir ...

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

and One Peak Partners, to expand into the US market.HighQ receives $50m in investment from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and One Peak
January 27, 2016HighQ eyes US market after raising first funding round
June 27, 2016

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

acquired HighQ in 2019.

Industry recognition

HighQ was awarded the "Legal Technology Company of the Year" award at the FT Intelligent Business Awards, 2019. HighQ was awarded the "Supplier of the Year" award at The British Legal Technology Awards, 2019. HighQ was included as "One to Watch" in the 2013

Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...

Tech Track 100 The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 is an annual league table published in association with The Sunday Times newspaper in the UK. It ranks Britain’s 100 private technology (TMT) companies with the fastest-growing sales over their last three years. ...

league table and was ranked 74th in the 2014 Tech Track 100 league table and ranked 32nd among UK's top 100 SMEs in the

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SME Export Track 100 2016.The Sunday Times SME Export Track 100 league table 2016
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EMEA 2011 and 2013Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011 list
November 25, 2011Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2013 list
November 29, 2013 and ranked in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 UK 2013.Deloitte Technology UK Fast 50 2013 list
November 13, 2013

Clients

HighQ's major clients include

Barclays Barclays () is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service company, Barclays Execution Services. Barclays traces ...

Linklaters Linklaters LLP is a multinational law firm, headquartered in London, England. Founded in 1838, it is a member of the "Magic Circle" of elite London-headquartered law firms. It currently employs over 5,000 lawyers across 31 offices in 21 count ...

Lex Mundi Lex Mundi is a professional services network. It is the oldest and largest law firm network. The network was established in 1989, incorporating in Delaware. The association was founded by Stephen McGarry of Minneapolis to help individuals and bu ...

Clifford Chance Clifford Chance LLP is an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and a member of the "Magic Circle", a group of London-based multinational law firms. It ranks as one of top ten largest law firms in the world measured bo ...

Osborne Clarke Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice headquartered in London, England with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, China, India via BTG Legal, Singapore, the United States and P ...

Clyde & Co Clyde & Co is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The firm is one of the top 10 largest law firms in the City of London and has the largest dispute resolution practice of any UK law firm. It employs 2,600 legal professiona ...

and

Allen & Overy Allen & Overy LLP (informally A&O) is an international law firm. The firm has 580 partners and over 5,600 people worldwide. In 2022 A&O reported an increase in revenue to GBP1.96 billion and is the second largest law firm headquartered in th ...

.(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, 2012Law Technology News: HighQ Unveils Tool to Automate Due Diligence
September 20, 2013 HighQ's clients include 21 of the top 25 UK law firms, including all of the UK

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law firms, and 80% of the top 100 UK law firms.

Products

HighQ offers file sharing,

extranet An extranet is a controlled private network that allows access to partners, vendors and suppliers or an authorized set of customers – normally to a subset of the information accessible from an organization's intranet. An extranet is similar to a ...

, collaboration,

project management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th ...

, virtual data room, enterprise social networking,

knowledge sharing Knowledge sharing is an activity through which knowledge (namely, information, skills, or expertise) is exchanged among people, friends, peers, families, communities (for example, Wikipedia), or within or between organizations. It bridges the ind ...

and publishing solutions.SCC G-Cloud Computing: HighQ Collaborate
, December 12, 2012 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. In summer 2013, HighQ released a new mobile version of CollaborateCMS Wire: HighQ Collaborate 3 Platform Now Provides Due Diligence Tools
September 25, 2013 which saw a redesign of its existing modules and added features including a responsive design, microblogging, private messaging, centralized notifications and enhanced people profiles.The Know List: HighQ Forum reveals ambitious product roadmap to facilitate better internal collaboration and legal project management
April 17, 2012 HighQ Publisher is a

digital marketing Digital marketing is the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online based digital technologies such as desktop computers, mobile phones and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. Its development duri ...

and publishing platform that supports various publishing formats and channels including publications, videos, events, micro-sites and email campaigns. 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.CMS Wire: HighQ Dataroom
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