Pre IPO modeling without structured data
You’re building a financial model two years before listing, but the underlying data lives in founder PDFs, not a feed. Every analyst rebuilds the same structure from scratch.
On the public side, every position has a system of record, a data feed, and a clean P&L. On the private side, the names you have the most conviction on live in a folder. Vantage is the operating layer that gives your private book the operational rigor your public desk takes for granted.
Your public infrastructure was built for institutional discipline. Your private book wasn’t. The names you have the most conviction on are the ones with the least operational support.
You’re building a financial model two years before listing, but the underlying data lives in founder PDFs, not a feed. Every analyst rebuilds the same structure from scratch.
Opinion letter to portfolio system passes through three hands and two spreadsheets. The chain of custody is real work, and right now no one fully owns it.
Public positions have a dashboard. Private positions have a shared drive. Aggregate exposure across the private book is reconstructed by hand each quarter.
Public companies update on a clock. Private companies update sporadically. Vantage reads everything that arrives and surfaces what changed.
Founder updates, valuation opinions, cap tables, secondary marks. Ingested into one layer the desk can query like a feed.
For any private name, on demand: a one line headline, a synthesis of what’s changed, material items flagged, suggested next actions. Synthesized from every document on file.
Houlihan, Duff & Phelps, Kroll. Read end to end, conclusion tables and all. Cross letter analysis flags inconsistencies before they reach an LP report.
Every update, every deck, every data point filed against the original thesis. The firm’s conviction is documented, not remembered.