Private Equity Benchmarking
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Compare your and competitors' performance against actual marketplace metrics cut across thousands of dimensions, including IRR, MOIC, alpha, TVPI and more, as well as operational KPIs, including revenue CAGR, EBITDA, loan interest and more. CEPRES calls this approach beyond benchmarking — providing deeper insight into true drivers of investment returns — helping investors build more effective portfolios and unlock better investment outcomes.
Learn moreCreate your own benchmarks
CEPRES Benchmarking allows you to create your own custom benchmarks at both the fund and deal level. You have flexibility in analyzing against benchmarks that aren't handpicked to tell a story. You can also benchmark against funds/portfolios within your own portfolio, enabling you to make better decisions.
Compare relative performance
Develop new portfolio strategies by measuring a GP’s track record or your own portfolio of investments against the returns of the broader private or public markets.
Get a full picture
Gain insights across the entire private market landscape, with data on venture capital, growth capital, buyout, private debt, private real estate and more.
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 11,000 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.
Make apples to apples comparisons
Fund-level performance is not enough, and deal-level returns can vary wildly between two subsectors of the same industry — something fund-level performance would not reflect. CEPRES data goes down to operating cash flows, meaning CEPRES data is more accurate and actionable than any other data available.
With CEPRES, you can stop wasting time building complex macros and database connectors or cherry-picked data from third-party providers. Leverage a consolidated platform powered by the best private market data to do the heavy benchmarking lifting for you.
Accelerate your digital transformationWe almost gave up on like-for-like benchmarking before using CEPRES. Now for the first time, we can really understand capital weighted alpha generation on the industry level and don’t need to rely on GP provided numbers or public proxies.
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Proving an investor's investment thesis
An investor wanted to prove its chosen sectors were largely protected against market cycles. CEPRES delivered risk-adjusted alpha analysis for their sectors with beta correlation versus relevant public markets to show how its strategy held up in varying market cycles. The investor proved low beta correlation and its sectors were defensive and non-cyclical, helping to underwrite its strategy and increase its target size for fundraising.
Thought Leadership
Despite Macro Headwinds, CEPRES Expects Private Equity Valuations to Hold Up in 2023
Over the past four years, private market investors have confronted three significant macro shock events — the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and 40-year inflation highs. As the market faces intersecting headwinds of geopolitical instability, inflation and volatility, CEPRES evaluated how asset owners are managing their holdings.
Private Equity Exits Tumble to Decade-Long Low as Managers Hold Back
Private equity fund managers have sharply pulled back on sales of their portfolio companies this year, with exits from their strategies perhaps the most visible evidence of a weakening market that has seen declining valuations, slower fundraising and other flagging indicators.
Venture Managers Hit Fundraising Record, But Warning Signs Flash
New forecasting based on recent economic shocks predicts venture distributions to slow by 2024, deferring into later years, with the peak drop of 79% coming next year.
Despite Macro Headwinds, CEPRES Expects Private Equity Valuations to Hold Up in 2023
Over the past four years, private market investors have confronted three significant macro shock events — the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and 40-year inflation highs. As the market faces intersecting headwinds of geopolitical instability, inflation and volatility, CEPRES evaluated how asset owners are managing their holdings.
Private Equity Exits Tumble to Decade-Long Low as Managers Hold Back
Private equity fund managers have sharply pulled back on sales of their portfolio companies this year, with exits from their strategies perhaps the most visible evidence of a weakening market that has seen declining valuations, slower fundraising and other flagging indicators.
Venture Managers Hit Fundraising Record, But Warning Signs Flash
New forecasting based on recent economic shocks predicts venture distributions to slow by 2024, deferring into later years, with the peak drop of 79% coming next year.