Diligent Corporation

Diligent Corporation develops governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software for boards of directors, executives and compliance teams. The company was founded in New York in 1994 by Brian Henry and Kiri Borg as Manhattan Creative Partners, which built secure websites for financial institutions, and later refocused on board collaboration software under the Diligent name. It is headquartered in New York City, with offices including London, Washington D.C., Galway, Munich, Budapest, Bangalore, Sydney and Vancouver.

Its flagship product, Diligent Boards, is a board portal for distributing and annotating board materials; the broader Diligent One platform spans risk management, audit, compliance, ESG reporting and entity management. The company reports more than one million users across over 23,000 organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 500 and 90% of the FTSE 100, and has been ranked a leader in GRC by analyst firms including Gartner, Forrester and IDC.

Diligent listed on the New Zealand Exchange in 2007 and was taken private in 2016 by Insight Venture Partners in a deal valuing the company at $624 million. Clearlake Capital invested in 2018 and Blackstone joined in 2020 at a valuation above $4 billion. Under CEO Brian Stafford, who joined in 2015, Diligent has acquired companies including Brainloop, BoardPad, Manzama, Steele, Galvanize and Accuvio. The company employs roughly 2,200 people and reported about $600 million in revenue for 2022.