Pennant
Pennant is a New York-based AI-native corporate governance platform founded in 2026 for institutional investors, public companies and their advisors, modernizing proxy voting long dominated by ISS and Glass Lewis.
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Snapshot 2026-10-21- Startup SignalsRankedof 2,286new
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Pennant is a New York-based AI-native corporate governance platform founded in 2026 for institutional investors, public companies and their advisors, modernizing proxy voting long dominated by ISS and Glass Lewis. It unifies meetings, filings, proposals, vote results and engagement records, using AI to flag governance risks and generate policy-based voting recommendations with human review and audit trails.
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Funding history
- 2026-10-20Seed$5M
Investors · Urban Innovation Fund, Y CombinatorSource · getpennant.ai ↗
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