MARKET INTELLIGENCE - BENCHMARKING
Unmatched insights into risk, return and value drivers with CEPRES Benchmarking
- Expand your benchmarking beyond the return-only views down to PortCo operations
- Benchmark against the most comprehensive private market performance data available
- Create the most flexible custom benchmarks with more than 500 filter combinations
- Compare side by side to your portfolio, on fund, deal and operational levels
- Use detailed cash flows to evaluate risk-adjusted returns and guide decisions
Benchmarking provides highest level insights driven by CEPRES Market Data
Granular, actionable private equity performance analysis
CEPRES’ Benchmarking tool allows investors to create their own custom benchmarks on fund, deal and asset operations level with data on venture capital, growth, buyout, private debt, private real estate and more. What’s more, with access to operating cash flow data, investors have access to accurate and actionable data that is not available anywhere else.
Investors can compare performance against actual marketplace metrics cut across thousands of dimensions, including IRR, MOIC, Alpha, and TVPI, as well as operational KPIs, including revenue CAGR, EBITDA, loan interest and more. Users can easily assess the risk-adjusted returns of their investments, adjust strategy and allocation, and optimize portfolio construction and diversification. At the core of benchmarking your assets operational strengh, also value creation benchmarking and other P&L related benchmarks are availabe only at CEPRES.
Because if you don't have CEPRES, you don't know.
Features
Benchmarking beyond Charts - CEPRES AI
Apply the intelligence of CEPRES AI to answer your questions of how your portfolio tracks against market benchmarks and trends. Get deep insights on your portfolio returns or companies operations vs. their peers in the market.
Comprehensive Performance Metrics
Aggregated GP-delivered data to benchmark against peers’ funds and markets’ deal level returns, cash flow pacing, and operational KPIs such as growth, margins, and entry multiples.
Accurate Cash Flow Data
Access to accurate, actionable operating cash flow benchmarking data that is available nowhere else. Get the correct input data for CF J-curve benchmarking on fund and deal level.
Unrivaled Data Quality
Data are GP provided directly from the source and aggregated according to strict confidentiality rules. No single deal or fund is retracable. Therefore no incentives to deliver biased data. Furthermore, data are verified by CEPRES teams, cleaned and LP proven.
Unmatched Data Coverage
Data universe of over 13,700k+ funds, 140,000k+ unique deals and 1,800,000 cash flows.
Multi-Level Performance Comparison
Custom benchmarks at both the fund and deal level.
Market Data Solutions
DealEdge
The world’s largest private market dataset combined with expert-built analytics for optimized, strategic decision-making.
Market Intelligence
Market Intelligence empowers investors with the world’s largest private market investment data network, delivering cutting-edge look-through data.
CEPRES AInsights
Stop Guessing. Start Knowing with CEPRES AInsights.
As markets grow increasingly complex, data volumes soar and market volatility impacts decision-making, investors face mounting challenges in identifying actionable signals. CEPRES AInsights is the first and only market solution to address this need by leveraging advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on institutional-grade financial data, macroeconomic indicators, alternative data sets, and real-time market intelligence. Built on CEPRES' secure data network spanning 6,000+ LPs and GPs and providing transactional data on 16,500+ illiquid funds and 140,000+ unique deals, the new CEPRES AInsights is the first deployment of AI to the front office for enhanced investment decision-making.
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As private capital markets become increasingly complex, leveraging data-driven decision-making is essential for staying ahead and making informed investment choices. Find out how CEPRES AInsights helps LPs and GPs to extract meaningful insights quickly and efficiently.
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