Private equity portfolio software is the holdings side of a fund's software stack, and the search for it is usually a search for one of three things: private equity portfolio management software that keeps the positions and their marks, portfolio asset management software that keeps the assets themselves with their KPIs, or software for portfolio management in the generic sense, which for a fund means the same record under a less specific name. This page is what that record has to keep, what the free worksheets on this site work from it, and the two neighbouring products, the deal side and the LP side, that the phrase is sometimes reaching for instead.
The record: four fields per holding per quarter
Cost, ownership, mark and the KPIs reported, filed by quarter. Everything private equity portfolio software does is a view over those four: the position's value and multiple, the portfolio's gross, realised and unrealised multiples, the roll-forward from last quarter's marks, the company's review. A product that keeps only the latest quarter cannot show a trend, and the trend is what the partners' meeting asks about.
The arithmetic, free on the page
One position from cost, ownership and the mark: $4,000,000 at 12% of a $60,000,000 mark is $7,200,000 and 1.8x. The book: 1.78x gross, 68.75% unrealised, 18.2% in the largest position, an 11.1% loss ratio. The quarter: $58,000,000 to $63,000,000, 6.9% on opening. Each is a worksheet on this site with no account; the paid plan keeps the record they read from.
The two products the phrase software for portfolio management reaches for
The deal side (sourcing, pipeline, diligence, data rooms) is the investment team's and the deal ventures' on this estate; private equity portfolio software starts when the deal has closed and the company is a holding. The LP side (commitments, capital calls, the investor update, TVPI and DPI as reported) is the relationship venture's, live at rapportvo.com; this record keeps the marks the update draws on and nothing about the investors themselves.
Reading the private equity portfolio management software lists
Every list of private equity portfolio management software ranks suites that do all three sides plus fund accounting, priced per fund after a demo. Ask each product two questions: does it keep the four fields per holding per quarter and export them as a table, and what does the portfolio lead pay if the fund accounting and the investor portal go unused. LPreportly is the holdings record at $79 a month for the whole team and publishes no other vendor's figures.
A quarter in the record, worked
Quarter end. The KPI requests went out four weeks ago; thirty-two of forty companies have reported, and the record shows which eight have not. The marks: three companies raised priced rounds this quarter, so three marks move to the new post-money under the valuation policy, one company is written down after a missed plan, and the rest carry forward. The positions recompute from ownership and mark, the book's multiples from realised and unrealised, and the roll-forward from last quarter's $58,000,000 through $6,000,000 invested, a $2,000,000-cost exit that returned $5,000,000 and a net $1,000,000 mark change to $63,000,000. The review for each company is built from its KPIs. None of that is a spreadsheet rebuilt on the Thursday; it is the same record read on the Friday.
What the export has to contain
Every holding and every quarter as rows: holding, quarter, cost, ownership, mark, value, each KPI, each mark change with its reason. That table is what the auditor asks for at year end, what the administrator reconciles the marks against, and what a successor fund's portfolio lead inherits. A product that exports the report as a PDF and not the figures as a table has kept the document and lost the record, and the difference shows the first time somebody asks why a mark moved in a quarter two years ago. LPreportly's export is the table; every worksheet on this site is a view over one row of it.
Why the record is one price for the team
The people who touch the holdings record are the portfolio lead, the partners who read the review and the finance person who reconciles to the administrator: three to six people at a small fund, none of whom will use it every day. Per-seat pricing punishes exactly that pattern, which is why the suites price per fund after a demo and why the figure is never on their pages. LPreportly Pro is $79 a month for the whole team, printed on the pricing page, and the worksheets stay free with no account whether the fund subscribes or not.
Two funds, one record, and what each reads
A buyout fund with eight holdings reads the record from the marks down: which holding moved, why the policy moved it, what the roll-forward says about the quarter, and which position carries the book. A venture fund with forty reads it from the KPIs up: which companies reported, whose runway shortened, whose growth stalled, and only then which marks moved, because most of them did not. The same four fields per holding per quarter serve both readings; the difference is the order the partners' meeting takes them in, and a product built for one fund's reading makes the other fund's portfolio lead keep a spreadsheet. The worksheets on this site are the eight-holding and the forty-holding readings in one arithmetic, and the record is the same table under both.
Questions people ask about private equity portfolio software
What does private equity portfolio software keep?
Each holding's cost, the fund's ownership, the fund's mark and the KPIs reported, by quarter, and the arithmetic over them: the position, the portfolio's multiples, the roll-forward and the review. LPreportly works the arithmetic free and keeps the record for $79 a month.
Is portfolio asset management software different?
Not for a fund: it is the same record named from the assets' side. Where the assets are buildings, the real estate portfolio management guide on this site says what changes.
Does it include the investor portal and capital calls?
No. Those are the LP side, the relationship venture's product at rapportvo.com. This hub keeps the holdings side and links there rather than repeating it.