Solutions
Venture capital fund
Invests primarily in startups and high-growth companies.
No credit card. Nothing is charged until your first 30 days are over.
What this kind of fund is
Small cheques into illiquid positions, revalued occasionally, with limited partners who want a clear statement of where their money stands.
What the administration actually involves
The same boundary applies here as to private equity, and for most venture funds it is the deciding one: FundFlow has no commitments, no capital calls and no distribution waterfalls, and it does not track portfolio companies. If your limited partners hold commitments you draw down, this is not the tool yet. If they hold units in a pool that is revalued periodically, it fits.
For that shape the work is small. Enter the month's asset values, and NAV, the koers, fees and every holder's value are recomputed from them. Anchor the fund with an opening position at a month you choose and close forward, so earlier years stay in your existing records rather than needing to be rebuilt. Reports use the same blocks every time, personalised per LP, with the computed figures frozen when you save so a later revaluation cannot change a statement you already sent.
What makes it hard
Revaluations that rewrite history
Marking a position up changes today's NAV, and it must not change the statement an LP received last quarter. If the reporting reads live figures, it does.
Long gaps between valuation events
Months where nothing was marked still need a defensible value and a consistent report, which is exactly when a manual process gets skipped.
LP reporting that scales badly
Twenty LPs is a mail merge. Forty is an evening. Either way the per-recipient figures are copied by hand, which is where the mistakes come from.
How FundFlow fits
Periodic revaluation, cleanly recorded
Enter the month's asset values and the engine recomputes NAV, koers and every holder's value from them, marking the result stale if you change an input afterwards.
A track record from the month you start
Anchor the fund with an opening position (the koers and each holder's units at a chosen month) and close forward. Earlier months stay in your existing records.
Reporting that is the same every time
The same report blocks, personalised per LP, with the computed figures frozen at the moment you save so a later revaluation cannot change a statement you already sent.
Where FundFlow stops
Same caveat as private equity: this is unit and NAV accounting. There are no commitments, capital calls or distribution waterfalls, and no portfolio-company tracking.
Questions managers ask
What happens to a statement I already sent if I revalue later?
Nothing. Computed report blocks store their values when you save the report, so recomputing the month afterwards cannot change a statement that has gone out. Each send is also recorded per recipient with a status, so a failure is visible as a failure rather than as silence.
Do you track portfolio companies?
No. FundFlow values the fund, not the investments inside it. You enter asset values and cash flows and it does the fund accounting: NAV, koers, fees, holder values and reporting. Company-level tracking stays wherever you do it now.
Read how these parts work
The parts of FundFlow this kind of fund leans on most.
Other kinds of fund
Hedge fund
Privately pooled capital using broader, often more complex investment strategies.
How FundFlow fitsPrivate equity fund
Invests in private companies, typically taking substantial ownership stakes.
How FundFlow fitsPrivate credit fund
Invests by lending directly to companies or other borrowers.
How FundFlow fits
Value the pool for one month and report it
Anchor the fund at your last reported NAV, enter this month's values, close it and send yourself an LP statement. That is the whole evaluation.
In your first session
- Confirm your LPs hold units rather than commitments before you invest time in the rest.
- Anchor the fund at your last reported NAV so you are comparing against something you trust.
- Enter this month's asset values, close, and mail yourself the LP statement to see what an investor receives.
No credit card. Nothing is charged until your first 30 days are over.