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3forge Secures Investment from Morgan Stanley

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3forge, a provider of high-performance code solutions for business-critical applications, has announced its first external funding since its founding in 2011, with an investment from Morgan Stanley.

The 3forge platform enables developers to build enterprise applications with a strong emphasis on real-time data integration, virtualisation, processing, and visualisation. Since 2014, its technology has been utilised by Tier-1 global banks, hedge funds, asset managers, exchanges, and sovereign wealth funds to support hundreds of client-driven, mission-critical business use cases.

Robert Cooke, Founder of 3forge, commented: “We are thrilled to close on an investment by Morgan Stanley, a longstanding partner who truly understands the value and performance of 3forge technology. This is an exciting milestone as we continually expand our capabilities to help enhance client workflows and productivity.”

The financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

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