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Global private equity AUM — a market demanding institutional-grade operational infrastructure
Typical hold period - requiring continuous portfolio monitoring, value creation tracking, and LP reporting across every asset
Target companies a mid market PE fund may track at any point in the origination funnel
Information captured at origination - deal terms, IC memos, due diligence — flows automatically into portfolio monitoring at close. No re-entry. No data lost at the most critical handoff.
KPls, financials, board reporting, and value creation milestones updated continuously from live data - not assembled from management pack exports before every board meeting.
Quarterly LP reports generated directly from live portfolio data. What your LPs receive traces back to the same record your investment team monitors - no separate reporting assembly process.
As you add funds, add assets, and expand strategies, Pepper's modular architecture scales without adding integration overhead or reconciliation complexity.
Deal data, portfolio data, and LP reporting
all connected to the same live record.
Buyout, growth equity, co-investments,
and
credit managed on one platform.
IRR, MOIC, DPI, TVPI, and portfolio
company
KPIs - live, not a quarterly export.
Full origination funnel from first contact
through IC approval, without losing context.
Encrypted at rest, HTTPS in transit, RBAC,
full audit trails across every record.
Capital account statements and investor
reports from live data — quarter closes in days.
Pepper Al extracts deal data from CIMs automatically, drafts IC memos from structured deal records, monitors portfolio company performance continuously, and assembles LP report narratives at quarter-end - all on your investment data, not generic models.
From origination to exit, every workflow in the private equity lifecycle runs on Pepper's unified data spine - so your deal team, portfolio team, and IR team all work from the same live record.
Deal origination & 
Due diligence 
Deal structuring &
Portfolio company &
Value creation tracking
Portfolio valuation
Cash flow & fund 
Compliance & risk 
CRM & deal sourcing 
Fundraising & LP 
Sophisticated deal sourcing, rigorous due diligence, and disciplined value creation — running on spreadsheets, siloed CRMs, and disconnected fund admin tools. Pepper replaces the patchwork.
Origination data in one place, IC memos in another, due diligence files in a shared drive — no single view of a deal from first contact to close
Finance teams spending days pulling KPls and financials from portfolio company reports into management packs - version risk at every step
Co-investments, continuation vehicles, and GP commitments managed in separate spreadsheets with no common data model linking them to fund-level performance
IR team spending 10-15 days pulling portfolio data from fund admin, valuation models, and management packs into LP-specific report formats
100-day plans, operational improvement milestones, and exit preparation checklists managed in separate documents with no link to live portfolio or fund data
Pepper Al ingests CIMs and deal documents automatically, populating structured deal records before your analyst starts reading. Origination, evaluation, IC approval, closing, and monitoring all flow forward on that same record - no re-entry at any stage.
Pepper Al analyses KPIs, financials, and value creation milestones continuously across your portfolio — flagging revenue deceleration, margin compression, or EBITDA deterioration 60-90 days before they surface in a management pack. Board prep becomes a review, not a rebuild.
Pepper tracks all investments simultaneously across Investment, Fund, Portfolio, and Asset levels. Drill | down into any position for underlying detail, or roll up using any hierarchy — by fund, strategy, vintage, or geography - with no manual aggregation.
Pepper Al assembles first-draft LP report narratives - fund performance summary, portfolio company updates, capital activity — from structured data each quarter. Your IR team reviews and approves.Reports go out in days, not the 10-15 days it takes when built from exports.
Operational KPls, EBITDA improvement targets, and exit readiness metrics tracked in Pepper against live portfolio company data - with Al flagging when actuals diverge from the value creation plan, giving your team time to intervene before exit timelines slip.
PE investment decisions are judgment-intensive and highly time-compressed. Pepper Al handles the data assembly and pattern recognition so your team focuses on conviction. It operates on the structured investment data your team has built in the platform — not on generic training data that has no understanding of your portfolio or your investment criteria.
CIMs, management presentations, and due diligence documents processed in minutes. Revenue, EBITDA, leverage, growth rates, and key risk factors extracted and mapped to deal records automatically. Your analyst reviews the output - not the source document.
Time saved: 4-6 hours per deal on document extraction and data entry
Financial trends across your portfolio companies analysed continuously - revenue growth deceleration, margin compression, working capital deterioration - flagged before they surface in a board pack. Your team identifies risk early, not when it has already compounded.
Use case: Early identification of underperforming portfolio companies
Run scenario analysis across your full portfolio simultaneously - rate sensitivity, sector shocks, recession cycles, exit timing shifts. Your IC sees the full sensitivity range, not the two scenarios your team had time to model before the meeting.
Output: IC-ready scenario tables from live portfolio data
Pepper's Due Diligence Agent runs autonomously across the full pre-investment workflow
- purpose-built for the deal volume and evaluation intensity of private equity origination.
The agent ingests the CIM and management presentation, extracts financials and operational KPls, screens
the company against your investment criteria and mandate, surfaces comparable transactions from your deal
history, flags sector, leverage, and management risk factors, and assembles a first-draft IC memo - all
before your analyst has finished reading the executive summary.
The agent doesn't make investment decisions. It eliminates the hours of data assembly, document
extraction, and formatting that precede them - so your team arrives at the analysis and conviction stage
with a fully structured view of the deal already in hand. Every output is traceable to a source document
and overridable at any point.
Full workflow: CIM ingestion → financial extraction → mandate screening → comparable surfacing → risk flagging → IC memo first draft
Practitioner-level insights on PE operational infrastructure, Al in deal management, and building the data foundation that supports institutional-grade investing at scale.
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