PROPRIETARY PRIVATE MARKET DATA & ANALYTICS
The leading private market data analytics platform
CEPRES is the largest and leading platform for private market data and analytics, our verified ecosystem spans over 16,500 funds and 140,000 unique deals. Through one modular platform, users access deal-level data, full fund cash flows, and company KPIs — all sourced directly from GPs for unmatched accuracy and insight — to help you unlock better investment outcomes.
The best private market data set
The best private market data set
CEPRES provides insights on your potential investments and existing portfolio — down to single operating assets. All CEPRES data is user-generated and comes directly from portfolio companies’ cash flows and fund managers’ data warehouses and lakes. With CEPRES, you can access the most accurate, granular and actionable private market data.
The founder of the look-through investment
The founder of the look-through investment
In the early 2000s, the idea of large-scale data exchange in the private markets was unfathomable. CEPRES recognized that investors needed to look through fund performance into the underlying deal and asset performance to make better investment decisions. We started by providing investors access to granular, actionable private market data and insights to enable the look-through investment. Today, we are a full-scale private capital markets investment operating platform. We combine the largest private market data network with award-winning SaaS solutions to help power better private market investments across the investment lifecycle. Learn more about our milestones from the last 20+ years below.
2001
Starting as The Center of Private Equity Research ("today CEPRES"), we began collecting and analyzing fund, deal and underlying portfolio company data directly from GPs.
2001
Data was collected through a European Commission-backed research project on illiquid asset risk management, aimed at supporting early-stage life insurance investments in private equity.
2003
CEPRES began collaborating with Fund of Funds, introducing FoF underwriting and portfolio forecasting & optimization models. All built on a growing collaboration with GPs to harness deal and portfolio company data.
2012
CEPRES became an independent company and began to broaden the direct client base into other verticals. CEPRES wins first significant US and European insurance clients and starts to roll our its global footprint.
2014
CEPRES expands to the US and opens first New York based office under CEPRES Corp to better serve the private equity's largest market.
2017
ILPA as well as AIC, chooses CEPRES as the best practice due diligence partner, including the transfer of track record data between GPs and LPs.
2018 and following years
CEPRES wins „Best Portfolio Management Software“ and „Best Data Management Provider“ Awards consecutively over many years.
2019
CEPRES extents its partnership network and becomes an increasingly essential backbone of the Private Markets data and analytics infrastructure serving many major industry players to professionalize their Private Markets offering.
2020
CEPRES and Bain & Company launch DealEdge, formally bringing together the world's largest private equity advisor and world's largest private market data network.
2021
CEPRES manifests its position as the largest Private Market Data Network and launches a suite of product updates or complete revisions that represent now CEPRES‘ New Generation technology standards.
2022
CEPRES launches CEPRES Fund Screener to help limited partners quickly analyze general partners’ track records.
2022
CEPRES launches Predictive Intelligence, the next generation of Portfolio Forecasting, using advanced methodologies to help LPs run deep stochastic forecasts for better investment planning and regulatory compliance.
2023
CEPRES launches Analysis Builder, which revolutionizes the way user can generate digital custom analytics and dashboarding with a click of a button and serve their clients better.
2023
CEPRES is integrating AI into backend data processing and workflows as its Data Network and logistics rapidly expands, especially in Look-Through Data analytics—a field it has led since 2001.
2024/2025
CEPRES launches innovation after innovation with focus on AI enabled use cases. CEPRES AI has been launched as a Front-End Consultant, revolutionizing analytics and deep data analysis with direct value for the user.
CEPRES accelerates your private equity digital transformation
CEPRES accelerates your private equity digital transformation
Despite digital transformation investments within portfolio companies, private equity digital transformation remains nascent at the investment and deal-making level. With CEPRES, transform your investment process with a light footprint, easy-to-implement solution purpose-built for front office investors. No matter where you are in your private equity digital transformation journey.
Deep private market expertise
From day one, investment know-how has been CEPRES’s DNA. Our leadership team comes directly from private equity deal teams and best-in-class technology — bringing together the skills and expertise to help drive better investment outcomes.
Today, it matters to granularly understand into which assets we are invested via our funds and how they operationally perform. This knowledge helps us to treat Illiquid investments with the same proficiency as traded ones and to justify an increase in AuM.
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Thought Leadership
15.12.2024 /
REPORT
CEPRES 2025 Private Credit Outlook
As we move into 2025 with a 50 basis point rate cut already implemented, private credit faces a mixed yet promising outlook. Private credit is directly impacted by these rate changes.
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26.11.2024 /
ARTICLE
The PE Data Collection Landscape: How GPs Are Meeting Modern Transparency Requirements
The broader private equity landscape has experienced remarkable change over the past decade across several areas – from portfolio management best practices to leveraging AI and modern data platforms within portfolios at scale – and top performing funds have been able to successfully adapt their investment approach to what the market and LPs expect.
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22.10.2024 /
ARTICLE
Introducing the DealEdge Free Trial: Unlock Market Insights with CEPRES Data
We’re excited to introduce the DealEdge Free Trial, powered by CEPRES' exclusive data. With the launch of this free trial, we’re also proud to announce that DealEdge has crossed the threshold to over 50,000 deals, covering 570+ subsectors and 200+ countries from 1970 to 2024.
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22.10.2024 /
ARTICLE
How will the decline in interest rates affect the private capital markets?
The twenty-first century has experienced a range of different interest rate regimes - from the aperiodic near-zero interest rate environment of most of the 2010s to the fluctuations seen in the early 2000s, and now again (more sharply) in the 2020s.
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