DoLand is a Danish sustainable investment platform founded in 2017 to make sustainable investing more accessible to everyone. To support its growth ambitions, DoLand needed a more scalable investment operations platform capable of automating its end-to-end investment processes. Lacking the necessary resources and technical expertise, DoLand decided to partner with Visigon in order to transform its operations platform and IT infrastructure.
“Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to invest sustainably according to their individual values and financial circumstances. We built a great platform to achieve this, but we needed to invest in our back-end system so that we could increase efficiency and scale.”
— Jakob Lage Hansen, Founder & CEO, DoLand
DoLand collaborates with various partners to enable its investment platform, ranging from freelance designers and developers to large institutions like Saxo and SIX. A key part of the project was coordinating processes and financial infrastructure among DoLand’s other solution providers.
“We believe in tackling challenges by partnering with subject matter experts. Visigon’s project management skills and investment management expertise were ideal for this project and complemented our own ideas and ambitions.”
— Jakob Lage Hansen, Founder & CEO, DoLand
Over the course of six months, Visigon and DoLand worked collaboratively to build the new investment operations platform. Much of the project was completed with the two companies working remotely, following a thorough business analysis and project planning phase.
“The biggest challenge in transforming the operations platform was dealing with the high degree of complexity. At the beginning of the project, there were many unknowns, particularly regarding several large IT integrations.”
— Jakob Lage Hansen, Founder & CEO, DoLand
The operations platform was successfully delivered and now supports a fully automated end-to-end investment process, including client onboarding, advisory services, order execution and reporting. Modern APIs were implemented to connect DoLand’s customer front-end interface with its operations platform and third-party software vendors.
“Visigon’s extensive capital markets knowledge was invaluable for this project, especially regarding IT infrastructure, trading systems, and market standards. Combined with our own expertise in sustainable investing and customer experience, we formed a very successful partnership.
— Jakob Lage Hansen, Founder & CEO, DoLand
“Throughout this project, DoLand and Visigon adopted a truly agile approach. We started with a shared high-level overview of the workflows, then delivered functionality iteratively, increasing the level of detail with each release. As a Swesif member, Visigon was delighted to be able to support the development of DoLand’s valued sustainable investment platform.”
— Gustav Ekeblad, CTO, Visigon