CEPRES DATA ADVANTAGE
Gold standard investment grade data straight from the source
Get granular, actionable data and insights from the world’s largest private market investment data network
Unlock data-driven insights for better investment decisions
At CEPRES, our data advantage comes from direct sourcing from private equity fund managers, including 93% of the PEI 100. We access detailed data directly from GPs' warehouses, down to the portfolio company P&L level, ensuring accuracy and depth. This allows investors to look beyond high-level metrics into cash flows, strategy, and returns. CEPRES clients can explore key performance indicators like CAGR and EBITDA, gaining a deeper understanding of fund performance.
Our best-in-class data governance ensures every data point is verified, enabling precise, actionable insights and true apples-to-apples comparisons. This rigorous process allows for 100% accuracy, giving our clients the confidence to make true apples-to-apples comparisons and actionable investment decisions.
Because if you don't have CEPRES, you don't know.
Unmatched Data Sourcing
CEPRES Data Network
For over 20 years, CEPRES has served the world’s most influential private market investors. Today, we are the largest provider of verified private market intelligence and facilitate data exchange between thousands of LPs, GPs and more.
Our data network solves the capture, distribution and consumption of private market investment data as the basis for collaborative investment decision-making processes.
We ensure data is verified and reconciled to the highest level before consumption, using robust ETL processes, backed by expert investment analysts. Data is also sourced from and reconciled against quarterly statements to attain the highest accuracy and granularity. Throughout the process, any gaps, discrepancies or inconsistencies are checked before the GP shares internally or with chosen investors
Unique Data Processes
Superior Data Quality
CEPRES data processing is comprised of harmonized procedures, resulting in quality standards above and beyond other data suppliers. Our managed SaaS data network collects primary sourced data from GPs, while a precise legal framework and trusted Mediation Team to ensure SLAs are met. Our strict data processing automation and verification procedures ensure the highest level of data accuracy.
Unrivaled Data Security
Best in class governance and security.
CEPRES has developed the most secure platform and policies to protect your data and ensure you maintain control over who has access and how.
Data is protected by industry-leading security standards. In over two decades of processing investment data on more than 13,000 funds and more than 100,000 PE-backed deals, we have never had a security or confidentiality breach. All named data is protected with 256-bit military-grade encryption, making it uncompromisable.
Read our Data FAQs to find out why the CEPRES’ Data Ecosystem, our data sourcing capabilities, and our data security measures are peerless.
What Makes Us Different
Data sourced directly from private equity fund managers, including 93% of the PEI 100.
Our legal framework allows us to source data directly from GPs’ data warehouses or data lakes, down to the portfolio company P&L level.
Look-through to portfolio company performance.
Deep, granular data, enabling you to look through high-level fund performance metrics into the underlying cash flows of a fund’s portfolio companies.
Unmatched portfolio company performance.
Explore operating company performance — CAGR, revenue growth, margin, EBITDA and thousands more.
Best-in-class data governance.
We verify and reconcile every single data point at the highest level — ensuring 100% of the data you utilize is accurate, governed and actionable.
CEPRES Data Solutions
Look-through Data
Look-through data is the gold standard for private market data. Based on the underlying cash flows and operating metrics of a fund’s portfolio companies and assets, look-through data can help evaluate asset-level capital-weighted returns, delivering insights into the true value and performance drivers of investments.
Market Intelligence
In the age of private equity digital transformation, data is the new currency. Backed by operating company cash flow data from thousands of the world’s top GPs and LPs, CEPRES Market Intelligence helps private market investors maximize returns, reduce risk and uncover hidden potential. All while gaining a true outside-in perspective.
Managed Data Network
CEPRES is the largest provider of verified private market intelligence and has facilitated data exchange between thousands of LPs, GPs and more. Our data network solves the capture, distribution and consumption of private market investment data as the basis for collaborative investment decision-making processes.
Market Research
CEPRES Market Research provides investors with comprehensive fund, deal, and asset level analyses to make and test market theses and underwrite investment strategies. Model and forecast risk, returns, cash flows and NAV for portfolio optimization, and get an outside-in vantage point to optimize asset allocation, reduce beta, and maximize returns.
CEPRES works directly with GPs to source the data you need to meet your portfolio goals. We verify every data point, down to individual operating cash flows, ensuring that 100% of your data is accurate, actionable and governed.
With more than 13,000 funds and 1,000,000 cash flows, CEPRES provides the most accurate, actionable private market data.
Leverage 50+ years of portfolio company cash flow performance as empirical evidence to make more informed investment decisions.
CEPRES Data Partnerships
Through our partnerships with some of the world’s most influential companies in the private capital markets, CEPRES provides clients with actionable data and analytics to help them make better investment decisions.
Replicator Index
The Solactive CEPRES US Private Equity Industry Replicator Index utilizes CEPRES data to provide exposure to buyout funds with North American focus replicating their performances with publicly listed securities from the United States 500 universe.
DealEdge
Jointly built by Bain & Company and CEPRES, DealEdge is a powerful, intuitive digital advisory product that gives private equity investors unprecedented insight into which deals have the most potential and where hidden opportunities exist to create value.
API integration
CEPRES partners with LeadingMile to utilize their cutting edge API integration to provide CEPRES data users with data accuracy and precision across third-party systems.
Featured Content
The PE industry has grown rapidly over the last two decades, recording an extraordinary increase in funds raised, fund size, deal volume, and overall deal size. But a perennial challenge – illiquidity – has remained largely unresolved, until now.
The Solactive CEPRES US Private Equity Industry Replicator Index is a new approach that provides return exposure to the return profile of buyout funds focused on North America.
This new replication approach, based on reweighting publicly listed equities, can deliver a similar performance to the North American private equity sector.
Insights
Securing Private Market Investments to Meet Liquidity Obligations: A Guide for Insurance Companies
Download our comprehensive guide today to discover strategic approaches for securing private market investments amidst 2025's financial challenges. Equip your insurance company with the tools to navigate regulatory demands, mitigate risks, and maximize returns in a volatile market environment.
Top Private Market Trends to Watch in 2025
With private market assets under management expected to surpass $15 trillion globally by 2025, the sector is poised for another dynamic year. For professionals navigating private equity, venture capital, and other alternative assets, staying ahead of emerging trends will be crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. Understanding key shifts in technology, regulation, and market dynamics will be vital for making informed decisions and seizing new opportunities.
In this whitepaper, we will explore the top trends shaping the private markets in 2025, including the rise of AI, the expansion of private wealth, the growth of private debt, the influence of U.S. political leadership, and the increasing importance of data-driven decision-making.
Maximizing Private Capital Returns While Managing Risk for Pension Funds
Public and private pension funds carry the immense responsibility of ensuring long-term financial stability for retirees. Achieving this goal requires navigating a complex investment landscape marked by uncertain markets, increasing regulatory demands, and the need for sustainable growth. In 2025, leveraging advanced portfolio management software and granular deal-level data has become crucial for pension funds investing in private capital markets. These tools help address key concerns like managing long-term liabilities, balancing risk and return, and ensuring transparency.
Download our whitepaper to gain deeper insights into how these tools can transform your portfolio strategy.
Securing Private Market Investments to Meet Liquidity Obligations: A Guide for Insurance Companies
Download our comprehensive guide today to discover strategic approaches for securing private market investments amidst 2025's financial challenges. Equip your insurance company with the tools to navigate regulatory demands, mitigate risks, and maximize returns in a volatile market environment.
Top Private Market Trends to Watch in 2025
With private market assets under management expected to surpass $15 trillion globally by 2025, the sector is poised for another dynamic year. For professionals navigating private equity, venture capital, and other alternative assets, staying ahead of emerging trends will be crucial to maintaining a competitive edge. Understanding key shifts in technology, regulation, and market dynamics will be vital for making informed decisions and seizing new opportunities.
In this whitepaper, we will explore the top trends shaping the private markets in 2025, including the rise of AI, the expansion of private wealth, the growth of private debt, the influence of U.S. political leadership, and the increasing importance of data-driven decision-making.
Maximizing Private Capital Returns While Managing Risk for Pension Funds
Public and private pension funds carry the immense responsibility of ensuring long-term financial stability for retirees. Achieving this goal requires navigating a complex investment landscape marked by uncertain markets, increasing regulatory demands, and the need for sustainable growth. In 2025, leveraging advanced portfolio management software and granular deal-level data has become crucial for pension funds investing in private capital markets. These tools help address key concerns like managing long-term liabilities, balancing risk and return, and ensuring transparency.
Download our whitepaper to gain deeper insights into how these tools can transform your portfolio strategy.