Data room
18 May 2022
Diligend partners with Intralinks
The partnership enables mutual clients to automate document acquisition from Intralinks’ virtual data room directly into Diligend
16 May 2022
5 minutes with… DealsPlus
We caught up with founder Venkat Subramaniam to discuss how the platform is standardising deal closing and investment management processes
12 May 2022
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
9 May 2022
And the nominees are…
SyndicateRoom’s Graham Schwikkard recounts his journey from COO to CEO by bringing the firm’s tech function from Portugal to the UK, leading to the creation of a bespoke nominee platform to run its EIS fund
29 April 2022
5 minutes with… +SUBSCRIBE
+SUBSCRIBE’s Rafay Farooqui talks us through the platform’s onboarding and subscription document processing capabilities
26 April 2022
Intapp and KPMG AG announce strategic alliance
Partnership aims to accelerate digital transformation for professional services and capital markets firms
25 April 2022
JTC launches virtual chief sustainability officer service
The outsourced offering aims to help clients to understand, definite and implement their own ESG strategy, policies and reporting
20 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Juri Pervjakov, BaltCap
“With increasing workloads, we’ve had to consider the new role of the back office, how to streamline processes and automate workflows"
14 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Peter Tucker, IK Partners
“Running an IT department for almost 200 users (and growing), requires all areas of the IT service to evolve with the business”
14 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Lyndon Arnold, Triton Partners
“The ultimate objective is to use technology to improve manual processes and facilitate growth in every area, from capital raising through to investment activity”
14 April 2022
Unlimited partnership
Over the past year, there has been a surge of partnership agreements between various private equity-focused tech providers. Additionally, these same tech providers have joined forces with a number of service providers. But who is doing what, with who?
13 April 2022
Due diligence goes digital
A new report found the majority of survey respondents intend to use more technology and tools to get diligence done in the future
13 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Mark Gully, InvestIndustrial
"In addition to our digital transformation programme there are a number of innovative ideas being explored that, once they come to fruition, will make an impact across the PE industry. Watch this space!”
13 April 2022
CTOs: Dealing with (unfair?) pressure
Alex Tyler and Ingolv Urnes of psKINETIC look at the challenges and successful coping strategies
12 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Victor Davies, Bregal Investments
“We want to build in more automation and use data in a more intelligent way to make decisions, across our IT and investment teams.”
11 April 2022
mnAI acquires Regulation Technologies
The acquisition aims to enhance mnAI’s data insights offering
11 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Adrian King, Pollen Street Capital
“We want to streamline our processes and the way we communicate with our key stakeholders, to enable us to scale deals and AUM efficiently”
11 April 2022
InvestorFlow merges with Cloud Theory
The combined business has also secured a $30m series A investment from Ambina Partners
11 April 2022
Comment: Unlocking private markets’ ESG potential
Hemal Mehta, founder and CEO of AtomInvest discusses the importance of sophisticated tech when it comes to ESG data collection, analysis and reporting
8 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Frédéric de Frésart, Argos Wityu
"Our IT infrastructure has evolved into a single hybrid network. Everyone uses and shares the same tools. That has been a huge evolution for our employees because it completely changed the way we work"
7 April 2022
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.”
6 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Patrick Gloor, Montana Capital Partners
“The most important part of my work was and still is, constantly improving cyber security while maintaining the flexibility needed by our employees.”
5 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Marc Boullier, PAI Partners
“I want to digitalise deal sourcing, taking into consideration finance, ESG and procurement”
4 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Neil Hendricks, Hg
“We encourage a feedback culture, so people can tell us what is working, what isn’t and what helps with their day jobs. That’s the best way to ensure our technology is constantly fit for purpose”
4 April 2022
Techwork 2022: Ash Patel, ECI Partners
“Some of my main achievements for the firm include outsourcing our IT services to a managed service provider (MSP) so I can put a greater focus on the strategy and governance part of IT"
4 April 2022
The Techwork 2022
Our annual Techwork report charts the industry’s digital progress by focusing on a select group of individuals responsible for this crucial work
1 April 2022
“Every PE firm should have a CTO” - Jolt Capital
The need for PE firms to have a CTO is becoming increasingly important, and could become key to a firm's survival
1 April 2022
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"
30 March 2022
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
28 March 2022
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
25 March 2022
ESG Book adds ESG data convergence project metrics
Private equity GPs and LPs, globally, will now have access to meaningful, performance-based, comparable sustainability data from private companies
25 March 2022
Entrilia launches PE & VC operations solutions
Phase one of the launch includes private equity and venture capital fund accounting, investor insights as well as business intelligence solutions
23 March 2022
Thoma Bravo acquires Anaplan for $10.7bn
The cloud-based platform acts like a traditional data warehouse and supports PE firms with budgeting and cash flow forecasting, sale realisation modelling and carry modelling
17 March 2022
PE and private debt still behind on digital transformation
Broadridge’s latest report found only 12% of PE and private debt respondents identified as leaders when considering their digital maturity level, compared with 41% of other investment and asset managers
1 March 2022
Standard Metrics secures $23.7m series-A
The private markets IR platform will use the fresh capital to develop the solution and scale its network of investors and private companies
25 February 2022
Finance function seeks tech talent
Intertrust’s latest survey found most CFOs expect to hire professionals with this skill set over the next three years
16 February 2022
Improved tech solutions can drive operational efficiencies
Panellists at the recent Real Deals Mid Market conference agreed ODD, deals and the full investment period could greatly benefit from collaborative software solutions
14 February 2022
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.
10 February 2022
Blow it all up and start again
Could the rise of 'corporation zero' - designing a fund's operations from scratch - be the remedy to private equity's tricky tech upgrade?
3 February 2022
Canoe partners with Bipsync
The partnership aims to streamline and automate investment document collection and categorisation processes
27 January 2022
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
25 January 2022
EDC to collect ESG data
Collecting data annually using one platform with a standardised methodology, allows for consistent, comparable pan-European statistics
18 January 2022
Framework rebrands to daappa
The fintech platform has also released two new products as part of its digital transformation
10 January 2022
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
3 January 2022
Diligend secures additional investment
Fresh capital will see the due diligence platform expand its fund manager offering
14 December 2021
5 minutes with… Exchangelodge
We caught up with Ian Rubenstein from Exchangelodge to find out what makes the company different from other data technology providers in the private capital markets space
13 December 2021
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
13 December 2021
Citco launches digital capital management platform
The single dashboard platform aims to enable PE funds to manage their capital events securely, in real time
13 December 2021
SimCorp launches cloud data warehouse
The new solution aims to provide SimCorp’s clients with access to all the data they require, when they need it
9 December 2021
LISTEN: Talking tech transformation
Hear the insights and expert views of five PE and VC finance and tech professionals on key tech trends
11 November 2021
Novata secures $21m series-A
Novata provides PE firms and private companies with reporting metrics, a database to store information, and tools for analysis and reporting to key stakeholders
10 November 2021
Alter Domus partners with Canoe
The partnership provides clients with alternative data management solutions
3 November 2021
Allvue launches platform for emerging PE and VCs
"It is essential that smaller firms have the necessary infrastructure to hold their own against industry peers."
1 November 2021
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
1 November 2021
Intertrust launches ESG data solution
The solution aims to help GPs meet ongoing, critical ESG demands by providing an integrated approach to collecting and analysing ESG data, while managing ESG risk in portfolios
27 October 2021
Blockchain and big data most important future tech tools
Intertrust Group’s latest report found 46% of respondents cited blockchain/DLT as the most important tech tool for private capital funds over the next five years
13 October 2021
LPs paying more for administrative costs
25% of LPs are being charged separately for expenses such as in-house legal, accounting and computer software
7 October 2021
LISTEN: The Drawdown speaks to Private Equity Technology Podcast
Alice Murray, editor of The Drawdown, speaks to Lisa Weaver-Lambert and Alex Agran of the Private Equity Technology Podcast
28 September 2021
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.”