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 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 vendor 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.
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.