Private Equity and Venture Capital

Venture Capital Outsourcing Solutions

We provide comprehensive support to venture capital (VC) firms across the investment life cycle. We help them monitor existing and new markets for consumer behaviour and economic/demographic changes, helping them with real-time market-pulse tracking and sourcing quality targets to invest in.

Our deal-sourcing services help VC clients identify and maintain a pipeline of potentially interesting startups, helping them have increased visibility of startups in the space (95% visibility of attractive companies) and pre-empt investment opportunities. We also conduct VC due diligence by creating diligence frameworks and conducting research, ensuring faster turnaround on deal decision (40-50% reduction in time taken to close a deal).

Our portfolio monitoring and advisory services enable VC firms to track performance of portfolio companies and funds periodically, conduct strategic portfolio reviews and prepare bespoke presentation material for investor reporting with limited partners.

Acuity Knowledge Partners’ VC domain team is experienced in working with all market data sources relevant for VC clients including Preqin, FactSet, CB Insights, Crunchbase, SimilarWeb, App Annie, Venture intelligence, PitchBook and sector-specific sources.

Private Equity and Venture Capital Fund of Funds Support

We help clients capitalise on opportunities in primary fund markets by screening fund managers by fund type, strategy and transaction preference, and by providing detailed due diligence information memorandums.

We work as a pure extension of your global onshore team, providing end-to-end support across the investment lifecycle. Our services include fund screening, fund benchmarking, manager research, manager evaluation, fund and portfolio valuation, portfolio monitoring, custom research and fund marketing. We also conduct due diligence by creating diligence frameworks and conducting research, ensuring faster turnaround on deal decisions (40-50% reduction in time taken to close a deal).

Our portfolio monitoring, fund operations and advisory services enable you to track fund performance periodically, conduct strategic reviews and prepare bespoke limited-partner reports, and source and validate information from general-partner material, fund accounting tools and private-company financial/annual reports.

Private Equity Secondary Fund Support

Acuity Knowledge Partners is able to support clients on multi-fund deals: deal evaluation, fund pricing, portfolio monitoring and closing analytics.

We help your investment team analyse pricing at a fund level, factoring in DCF models, NAV discounting, ESG criteria, investment restrictions and more. We also undertake model updates for activities such as portfolio rebalancing, tracking hedges of public positions, consent requests and unfunded commitment tracking.

Our portfolio monitoring and advisory services enable you to track fund performance periodically, conduct strategic reviews and prepare bespoke material for investor reporting with limited partners.

We also provide comprehensive end-to-end support with all types of general partner-led secondary transactions, including continuation funds, tender offers, strip sales and preferred equity solutions.

Private Credit and Direct Lending Support

Our approach to private credit is to bucket it under capital preservation (senior debt/direct lending and mezzanine), return maximising (distressed debt) and opportunistic/niche (CLOs/CDOs and others).

We work as a pure extension of your global onshore credit team, providing end-to-end support across the research cycle. Our services include opportunity screening, custom research, execution support and fund operations.

Our biggest advantage is that we understand the unique challenges in this space: it requires complex operational flexibility, custom reporting, overcoming regulatory barriers (in certain countries), factoring in ESG considerations, and talented and experienced staff. This enables us to better help our clients and deliver measurable positive business outcomes.

Real Estate Support to Private Markets

Acuity Knowledge Partners is able to support clients on screening, due diligence, deal acquisition and portfolio monitoring.

We help our clients fast-track their investment decisions by assisting them on property and loan screening, transaction and leasing comps, macroeconomic analysis and industry/sector research.

We also conduct due diligence by creating diligence frameworks and conducting research, ensuring faster turnaround on deal decisions (40-50% reduction in time taken to close a deal).

Our bespoke monitoring solutions enable you to track fund performance periodically, conduct strategic reviews and prepare bespoke presentation material for investor reporting. This includes lease abstraction, property and loan tapes, periodic updates of financial models, tracking operational and financial KPIs of investments, valuation templates, maintaining portfolio and sector-specific dashboards, and credit monitoring.