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Crestbridge secures Luxembourg depositary licence

The licence will add to the firm’s Luxembourg fund administration licence

GoldenSource launches investment book of record

The additional functionality was created in partnership with MAIA Technology

The real retail deal?

We speak to Michel Degosciu, managing director and co-founder of LPX AG, to understand the index he has created, which enables everyday individuals to invest in private markets

Onwards and upwards

We spoke to John Stake, managing director at Hamilton Lane, to discuss the latest findings and predictions in the firm’s 2023 Market Overview

Eurazeo partners with Moonfare

Eurazeo aims to use Moonfare’s digital platform to expand fund distribution to wealth managers across Europe

Golding hires COO

Firm expands senior management team to include Dorothea Sztopko in new COO role

Bulk of UHNW investors unfamiliar with digital platforms

According to a new survey, few UHNWIs are using digital platforms to access PE

GoldenSource appoints head of product

Swati Tyagi joins from financial intelligence platform Sentieo

5 minutes with… Steven Petersen, co-founder of Stavtar Solutions

The Drawdown gets to grips with the ‘universe of software solutions’ Stavtar offers to complex businesses

Rise of the robot lawyer

Robin AI secures $10.5m and partners with Anthropic to develop legal chatbot capabilities

VC cap table complexity

For late-stage venture investors, creating and maintaining cap tables to ascertain a true understanding of what the fund ownership is, is a major challenge

Key ESG partners with EDCI

Software provider launches API integration with benchmark initiative

Juniper Square secures $133m

Partnership services provider aims to build upon its investor portal

Canoe sets sail with $25m investment

Fintech aims to further European expansion

Hamilton Lane tokenises another fund

The firm has partnered once again with Securitize to offer another tokenised fund

Citco partners with Fenergo

Citco to integrate Fenergo’s client lifecycle management platform

Valutico closes first financing round

The valuations platform has secured investment from outside investors, including PUSH Ventures, aws Gründerfonds and Erste Group

Venn enhances portfolio analytics platform

The platform’s interpolation functionality uses a public market proxy to deliver an approximated daily return stream for the private market

Talos partners with Formidium

The partnership combines fund administration services with digital asset trading strategies

In conversation: Stake house

Highlights from a recent roundtable discussing the evolution of GP stake sales and what value they can bring to private equity firms

Go with the flow

Key takeaways from The Drawdown's most recent breakfast briefing event, which discussed the complexities and challenges of information flows from portfolio companies through to investors

Ontra acquires Captain

Acquisition will see Ontra build on its digital fund lifecycle management solution

Chronograph secures series X funding

New funding round for private markets technology company led by Summit Partners

Singulier launches Holis

New data analytics platform to support decision making and portfolio management

Hamilton Lane to offer tokenization

Partnership with Securitize will digitally expand investor access to its funds via new tokenized feeder funds

Beyond data

Data has been on private equity's mind for a few years now; is it starting to yield the results it promised?

Aztec launches streamlined onboarding solution

Aztec Verify automates the due diligence process while ensuring regulatory compliance

Broadridge’s PE platform open for US funds

Private Market Hub is powered by distributed ledger technology

Profile: Kenta Shima, J-STAR

The head of operations & IR discusses the Japanese private equity market, challenges within his role, J-STAR’s tech stack and setting up the firm’s latest fund

TDA 2022 Legal: Fund Formation winner: Travers Smith

Sam Kay, funds partner at Travers Smith describes what's enabled the firm to have such a deep understanding of the market

TDA 2022 Technology: Investor Relations winner: PEARonline

The team describe their strong foundation with GPs and LPs, which has enabled them to work on a new version of the platform as well as expands its sales and marketing resources

Data analytics should be top priority for service providers

EY believes off the shelf solutions will no longer work to achieve GPs’ data requirements

TDA 2022 Advisory/Consultancy: Fundraising winner: Asante Capital Group

The placement agent's team explains how they support each and every project to ensure their clients are successful

73 Strings partners with LemonEdge

The partnership aims to facilitate the flow of data between portfolio monitoring and accounting modules

Depending on data

Key takeaways from The Drawdown’s most recent breakfast briefing event, which discussed how private equity professionals are defining their data strategies

Profile: Bonnie Kraus, Crane Venture Partners

The COO discusses her career path to Crane, what PE could learn from VC as well as what’s in store for the firm in Q1 2023

ESG Book raises $35m series B

The new funding, led by Energy Impact Partners, will advance ESG Book’s next-generation technology

LP appetite for PE suffers sharp decline

The Rede Liquidity Index score has decreased from 70 in 2021 to 55 for H1 2022 signalling a sharp fall in LP investor appetite.

Profile: Susan Wilkins, Actis

The COO discusses her pathway from Actis portfolio company to the GP, taking over management of Abraaj funds and her role as a member of the inclusion & diversity committee

5 minutes with… +SUBSCRIBE

+SUBSCRIBE’s Rafay Farooqui talks us through the platform’s onboarding and subscription document processing capabilities

Intapp and KPMG AG announce strategic alliance

Partnership aims to accelerate digital transformation for professional services and capital markets firms

Techwork 2022: Hind el Gaidi, Astorg

“Our ultimate aim is to capture the full value chain. From fundraising right the way through to exits, we want to ensure we have best of breed systems in place that will help us to ensure every part of the process is going well.”

Real-time data reporting remains a source of friction between LPs and GPs

KKR's Catherine Cutts: "The demand for more granular data versus the ability for GPs to produce that is a source of friction in LP-GP relations"

GP tech adoption looms large on LP investment decisions

The majority of LPs' investment decisions are influenced by GPs’ level of technology adoption, according to a recent survey by Brackedale consulting and AssetMetrix

Let’s talk about the data

Tim Friedman, founder of PE Stack, discusses all things data, including the adoption of alternative data sources and how to create a data plan

Profile: Richard Drover, Apis Partners

The CFO discusses his responsibilities outside the finance function, his 100-day plan of action to improve and enhance Apis' processes as well as the challenges of joining a new firm

Operational Lens: Pantheon Secondary Opportunities Fund (PSOF)

With a total AUM of $52.3bn, Pantheon is a machine when it comes to fundraising. We take a look at the $624m PSOF, to discover how the pros get the job done.

Your data: Time to take the steering wheel

Private capital firms cannot let off-the-shelf software solutions control data strategy, writes Ingolv Urnes of psKINETIC

Profile: Bart Elema, Waterland Private Equity

The partner, CFO & risk officer discusses how his role and responsibilities have evolved over nearly two decades, why Waterland domiciles its funds in the Netherlands, as well as securing the firm's first ESG equity bridge facility

Operational forecast for 2022

We take a look at Alpha FMC’s predictions for PE operations this year, as well as individual forecasts for CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CDOs and heads of compliance

DiligenceVault adds ESG, D&I questionnaires

New questionnaires from The Asset Owner Diversity Charter and The ESG Data Convergence Project are now available

Diligend secures additional investment

Fresh capital will see the due diligence platform expand its fund manager offering

Vistra launches investor servicing portal

The new portal is powered by tech firm Eleven and enables alternatives fund managers and administrators to create engaged client communities, automate workflows and grow at scale

Citco launches digital capital management platform

The single dashboard platform aims to enable PE funds to manage their capital events securely, in real time

LISTEN: Talking tech transformation

Hear the insights and expert views of five PE and VC finance and tech professionals on key tech trends

Data is king (even when it comes to fund domiciles)

Common standards would enable decent data governance, which would do away with skills and talent challenges the fund administration market is suffering from

SEI buys Finomial

Deal aimed at enhancing cloud-native technology capabilities

5 minutes with… Michel Geolier, Betterfront Technologies

“We enable GPs to lead with their story, to present their track record to prospective LPs, which then gives them the chance to look through the data to understand what sets this GP apart from its competition.”

The Drawdown Awards 2021: Winners announced

Congratulations to the winners of our recent 2021 Drawdown Awards

Synechron partners with Accelex

Partnership aims to accelerate unstructured data extraction and management