Lantern, the private markets data assurance platform, strengthens technical leadership as the platform enters its next phase of development.

Lantern has today appointed Jef Rice as Chief Technology Officer. Jef brings over 25 years of engineering leadership across private markets, technology, and high-growth technology companies, and joins with a track record of building data infrastructure at significant scale.

Most recently, CTO at Altvia, the private equity CRM platform, Jef joined as VP of Engineering before being promoted to CTO in October 2024. During his three years there, he led the transition to a data-centric architecture and launched an AI assistant for investor insights. Before Altvia, he spent five and a half years at ZipRecruiter, from early-stage growth through to IPO, building a data signal engine that tracked 50 million data points daily to power marketplace intelligence.

The appointment reflects Lantern’s growing ambitions. Jef will lead the data and engineering teams responsible for delivering on Lantern’s technical roadmap, as the platform deepens its coverage of the full GP-LP data flow.

    "Private markets have a data trust problem, not just a data access problem. I've seen this from the inside over years of building for LPs & GPs. What Lantern is doing, continuous validation across the full data stack, is the answer to a problem the market has been trying to solve with the wrong tools. I'm here to build the technical platform that makes that a reality at scale. 

    Jef Rice, Chief Technology Officer, Lantern

Lantern runs 2 million daily data tests to validate fund, portfolio, and investor data across every layer of the stack. As the platform’s scope continues to expand, Jef’s appointment gives Lantern the dedicated technical leadership to match.

    "Jef has done exactly the kind of work at Altvia that Lantern now needs at a platform level. He led a real transition, from a traditional SaaS product to a data-centric, AI-capable architecture, in a private markets environment. That experience is directly relevant to where Lantern is going." 

    Edward Moore, Founder and CEO, Lantern 

About Lantern

Lantern is the private markets data assurance platform. It aggregates, standardises, and continuously validates fund, portfolio, and investor data across the full GP-LP data flow, running 2 million daily data tests to ensure every data point is trusted, traceable, and LP-ready. Lantern works alongside existing infrastructure and does not replace TPAs or current systems. It is the trust and resolution layer that private markets have been missing.