VC portfolio management tools are sold as suites, and the four that a small venture fund's portfolio lead actually uses fit on one page: one position worked from cost, ownership and the fund's mark; the portfolio's analytics over realised and unrealised holdings; the quarter's valuation roll-forward; and the portfolio company review from its KPIs. Portfolio management venture capital teams do is the loop that runs those four each quarter over forty companies that report in forty shapes, and the tool that matters most is the record they land in. This page is the four tools, free on this site, and the record behind them.
The position, at the mark
12% of a company marked at $60,000,000 is $7,200,000, $3,200,000 above its $4,000,000 cost, 1.8x, 11.4% of a $63,000,000 fund; the company's revenue up 50% and 12.5 months of runway beside it. The portfolio monitoring worksheet works the eight inputs into six figures with no account, and a venture fund runs it forty times a quarter, which is why the paid plan works it from the record instead.
The book, and what a venture book looks like
Gross, realised and unrealised multiples, the unrealised share, concentration and the loss ratio, from the analytics worksheet. A venture fund's unrealised share reads high for years and its loss ratio is real by design; a book where two holdings at 4x sit beside ten at 0.6x has the same gross multiple as a flat 1.5x and a different story, and the worksheet shows the figures that tell it.
The quarter, and each company's
The portfolio valuation roll-forward works the fund's quarter from five figures: opening marks, investments, exits at cost, proceeds and the net mark change. The review sheet works each company's quarter from nine: growth, runway, headcount and the position at the mark. Both are free on this site; the paid plan keeps every quarter's sheet against the holding so the trend is a column.
The record behind the tools
Holdings with cost, ownership, mark and KPIs by quarter, and every review, kept against the fund and exportable, for $79 a month for the whole team. Not the cap table, which is the company's; not the capital calls and the investor update, which are the relationship venture's at rapportvo.com; not the deal pipeline. Four tools, one record, and the boundary kept.
Questions people ask about vc portfolio management tools
Which vc portfolio management tools does a small fund actually need?
Four: a position at the mark, the portfolio's analytics, the valuation roll-forward and the company review, all free on this site, and the record they read from, which is LPreportly Pro at $79 a month for the whole team.
What does portfolio management mean for a venture capital fund?
The quarterly loop of collecting each company's KPIs, marking each position at the fund's policy, working the positions and the book, and writing the reviews, over many small and mostly unrealised holdings.
Does LPreportly keep the cap tables of the portfolio companies?
No. The cap table is the company's record and another venture's subject. LPreportly keeps the fund's view: cost, ownership, mark, KPIs and the review.