Blog
October 11, 2024
Pepper was built by alternative asset practitioners who spent years running private credit operations on the same fragmented, manual tools the industry still relies on today. Every compliance gap, every reconciliation failure, every quarter-end scramble — they've lived it. That experience is embedded in every feature Pepper ships.
Most private credit and alternative asset management teams run on a patchwork of disconnected point solutions — a CRM here, a monitoring tool there, quarterly exports to assemble reports. Pepper replaces that patchwork with a single cloud-native platform where data enters once and flows automatically to every function: deal management, portfolio monitoring, investor reporting, and compliance.
CRM and Deal Flow Management
Private credit CRM software built for the deal structures and relationship types that generic sales CRMs don't understand. Pepper connects every sponsor, intermediary, borrower, co-lender, and LP relationship directly to the deals and funds they are associated with — so relationship intelligence and deal data live in the same record, not in parallel systems.
Read moreDeal Management
Private credit deal management from first screen to close — deal scoring against investment criteria, multi-tranche structuring, documentation, and IC-ready reporting built in. At close, deal data flows automatically into portfolio monitoring. No re-entry. No information lost at the most critical handoff in the deal lifecycle.
Read morePortfolio Data Management
Private credit portfolio management software built for the instrument complexity of direct lending, mezzanine, distressed debt, and secondaries. Pepper normalizes data across every loan, tranche, covenant, and cash flow event into one structured data model — with real-time synchronization that eliminates the lag between a deteriorating asset and the moment your team recognizes the risk.
Read moreFund Operations
Manage liquidity, valuations, and maintenance of multi-asset, multi-currency, forever evolving portfolios.
Read moreReporting and Analytics
Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics with speed, accuracy, and insight.
Read moreReporting & Investor Communication
Providing accurate and meaningful insights to both current and potential investors in your funds and portfolios.
Read moreIntegrated Fund Management
Pepper provides an end to end integrated platform to investment managers to make smarter new investing decisions while better managing their existing investments.
Read morebuilt for the Private credit and alternative asset management run on data. When that data is fragmented across systems, decisions are slower and riskier than they need to be. Pepper's architecture ensures investment data is structured, current, connected, and actionable — from the moment a deal enters the pipeline to the moment an LP receives their quarterly report.
Deploy the modules you need today — CRM, deal management, portfolio monitoring, fund operations, LP reporting. Every module connects to the same data spine, so there's no re-integration cost when you scale.
IC presentations, LP-facing reports, and portfolio dashboards configured to reflect how your firm actually evaluates and communicates its portfolio — not a generic template.
Purpose-built for private credit means Pepper's default configuration already reflects how your operation works. Most clients are live in 90 days, with no professional services dependency.
Every module draws from one underlying data record — so what your investment team sees and what your LPs receive is always the same number, from the same source.
Pepper AI operates on the structured, investment-grade data your team has built in the platform — making its outputs verifiable in a way externally-trained models cannot match.
Investment-grade security built in — encrypted at rest and in transit, role-based access controls, full audit trails, and multi-jurisdiction compliance support.
Pepper connects natively with leading data, cloud, and analytics providers — so your
existing investments extend further, not start over.
Most AI tools for investment management are trained on generic data — and produce outputs that sound plausible but cannot be verified against your actual portfolio.
Pepper AI is different. It operates on the structured, investment-grade data your team manages on the Pepper platform — deal records, covenant terms, borrower financials, LP obligations. The reliability of Pepper AI is directly tied to the quality of your data foundation, which is why we built the data platform first and the AI second.
CIMs, term sheets, and borrower financial statements processed in minutes. Key metrics extracted and mapped directly to deal records, with human review at the point of judgment — not at the point of data entry.
Financial trends across your portfolio are analyzed continuously against covenant terms. Credit investments showing deterioration patterns — margin compression, coverage ratio drift — flagged 60–90 days before a technical breach, not after.
Run 20 parameterised stress scenarios across your full book in the time it used to take to run three. Rate sensitivity, sector shocks, default cycles — modelled simultaneously, not sequentially.
Counterparty engagement patterns analysed across your CRM. Intermediary relationships going quiet — fewer calls, fewer deal referrals — flagged before the pipeline impact becomes visible.
Private credit software andalternative investment platform: who we serve Pepper is purpose-built for the data complexity of private markets — not adapted from a generic investment or CRM platform. Each strategy has its own data model, workflow logic, and reporting requirements built in from the start.
Private credit software for direct lending, mezzanine, and distressed debt managers. Pepper centralises deal tracking, covenant compliance monitoring, portfolio valuation, and LP reporting in one platform — replacing the spreadsheets and point tools that create reconciliation risk and reporting lag in credit fund operations.
Secondaries portfolio management software for GP-led transactions, LP stake acquisitions, and fund-of-funds structures. Pepper connects deal evaluation, NAV monitoring, and LP reporting in one environment — giving secondaries teams portfolio-level visibility across underlying fund positions without reconciliation between systems.
See Pepper for secondaries managersFund of funds portfolio management software with consolidated visibility across underlying fund investments, vintage year performance attribution, and multi-manager LP reporting. Pepper's data model preserves the relationship between top-level fund positions and underlying portfolio company exposures — enabling the transparency that sophisticated allocators now require.
See Pepper for funds of funds managersPepper is really the only end-to-end solution I’ve found in the deal space.
In our industry we need to have real-time data on pricing of funds… and investors in the private equity space, and having everything in front of you [has been] key for us.
The wide array of assets (directs, underlying funds) and the sheer number of interests we own makes the system a necessity for our business. The platform provides flexibility and scalability. And Pepper keeps evolving with the business.
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August 16, 2024
Pepper is private credit and alternative asset management software — the operating system for managers who need deal management, portfolio monitoring, covenant compliance, fund operations, and LP reporting to work from a single source of data. It replaces the fragmented combination of spreadsheets, legacy platforms, and point tools that most alternative asset managers still rely on — and is purpose-built for the instrument complexity and reporting demands of private credit, secondaries, and fund of funds.
Pepper AI is built on the structured, investment-grade data your team creates in the platform — not on generic training data. Because the underlying data is clean, connected, and specific to your portfolio, the outputs are verifiable in a way that generic AI tools cannot match. Current live capabilities include: document extraction from CIMs and term sheets, covenant early warning signal detection, portfolio-level stress scenario modelling, and relationship intelligence across your CRM counterparty network.
Most private credit and alternatives managers are operationally live on Pepper within 90 days. Legacy platforms like eFront and Allvue typically require 12–18 months. The difference is design intent: Pepper's default configuration already reflects how alternative asset managers work — direct lending workflows, secondaries data structures, fund of funds reporting logic — so implementation is configuration, not construction.
Pepper is built natively on the cloud and all its functionality sits on a secure cloud platform. Users access through a secured browser connection. There are no local installations. Pepper can integrate directly with your existing systems, data providers and administrators. Cost of usage is based on the period of contract and the total usage of the platform. You never ever have to buy or replace an equipment. It scales effortlessly based on your needs. And you always are working on the latest version of the software.
A user can unload an unlimited number of documents related to the fund, deals, and transactions. Pepper’s document searches through every document, providing critical access to trapped information.
Pepper is built to be used by everyone at a fund.. Pepper supports the end-to-end investment lifecycle. Users typically include: analysts, investment committee member, portfolio managers, investor relations, operations, finance and compliance. There are no restrictions on the number of users. Every user gets his or her login based on the roles and responsibilities
Pepper is designed to work in an ecosystem. We integrate with a variety of other products that extend the productivity at an Investment Management firm. We will be happy to integrate with any tools that you are currently using and ensure seamless data flow.
Pepper works for the Fund Manager. It captures the deals, transactions, and operations data through a variety of ways, including data imports, APIs, Excel interface, data extraction from PDFs, as well as plain old manual inputs.
Pepper has a CRM system custom-built for asset managers. Our CRM allows portfolio managers to track every aspect of their deal flow, from key dates, contacts, documents, workflows, and files, all stored directly at the deal level. We offer at-a-glance views of all underlying holdings in each deal, coming directly from the live asset library, email and calendar integration directly into the Pepper system, as well as API connectivity to tools you may already be using, such as Slack, Dropbox, Hubspot, and more.
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