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Every answer below is aimed at a question people measurably search for, is written from named sources, and links to the page that handles the job itself. None of them is a landing page in disguise.

Every answer here is aimed at one measured question a person who keeps a fund's investors actually types into a search box, and every number on the page is worked from the figures on this site's own worksheets rather than from a benchmark. This site publishes no fund's return and no ranking of funds; it explains what the record has to hold and how the figures on an LP letter are computed.

• Software for private equity firms: what a fund of each size actually runs

  Software for private equity firms is four products, not one. What a first fund, a mid-sized firm and a multi-fund manager each run.

• The best CRM for private equity, judged on the investor record it keeps

  The best CRM for private equity depends on which relationships you mean. Five products ranked on how they keep the fund's investors, not its deals.

• Private equity CRM software: the two records it keeps, and which one is the fund's

  Private equity CRM software keeps two records: the deal pipeline and the investors. What each holds, what a PE CRM computes, and which comes first.

• CRM private equity funds actually use, from the first close to fund three

  Which CRM private equity funds run at each stage: a spreadsheet at the first close, an investor record at fund one, a deal CRM at fund two.

• The best CRM for venture capital, judged on the LP record

  The best CRM for venture capital is a deal CRM for most funds. Five products ranked on how each keeps the LPs, their commitments and the quarterly figures.

• Venture capital CRM: the investor side, the deal side, and what a fund keeps in each

  A venture capital CRM keeps two things: the deal graph and the LP record. What goes in each, what a fund computes from the LP side, and the close.

• CRM for VCs: the record a first fund needs before it needs a pipeline

  A CRM for VCs at a first fund is the LP record, not the deal graph: commitments, calls and the quarterly figures. What to keep now, what can wait.

• The best private equity software, sorted by the job each product does

  The best private equity software is five products for four jobs. Ranked by the job each does, deal pipeline to investor record, and who each suits.

• Private equity management software: what it manages, and where the investor record sits

  Private equity management software manages four things: deals, portfolio companies, the books and the investors. What each holds, and what comes first.

• Private equity business management software: the firm's back office, not the fund's

  Private equity business management software runs the management company: its own books, people and compliance. How that differs from the fund's record.

• VC fund management software: what a fund runs on before it hires an administrator

  VC fund management software for a fund with no administrator yet: the investors, the calls, the quarterly figures, and what still needs an accountant.

• Venture capital software: the stack from the LP record to the deal pipeline

  Venture capital software is a stack of four: the deal pipeline, the portfolio, the fund's books and the LP record. What sits in each, and when.

• Venture capital management software: managing the fund, the firm and the investors

  Venture capital management software means three jobs: the fund's capital, the firm's business and the investors. What each needs, and which is a record.

• Software for venture capital firms: what a small fund runs and what a large one adds

  Software for venture capital firms by fund size: what a first fund runs, what a firm with a deal team adds, and what a multi-fund manager outsources.

• Venture capital tools: the free ones a small fund actually uses

  Venture capital tools a small fund runs on without a platform: a capital call worksheet, a TVPI worksheet, a K-1 calendar and a data room. What each does.

• Fund management software solutions, matched to a first-time fund's investor side

  Fund management software solutions come in three shapes: the administrator's platform, the deal CRM with an investor tab, and the investor record.

• Fund administration software: what it does that a spreadsheet cannot, and what it is not

  Fund administration software keeps the ledger, computes the NAV and issues capital account statements. What a small fund does itself, and where it stops.

• LP reporting: what the quarterly letter carries and where each figure comes from

  LP reporting is a quarterly letter with a fixed set of figures: paid-in, distributions, residual value, DPI, RVPI and TVPI. Where each comes from.

• What is a capital call, and what does the notice have to state

  What is a capital call: a fund's request for part of an investor's commitment, as a percentage, with a due date. What the notice states.

• PE fundraising: the pipeline from first meeting to closed commitment

  PE fundraising is a pipeline of prospective investors with a stage each, ending in a commitment. What the record holds at each stage and at the close.

• The private equity fundraising process, stage by stage, and what the record holds at each

  The private equity fundraising process from preparation to final close: the documents, the first close, the later closes and the equalisation call.

• Private equity fundraising software: the prospective-investor record before the commitment

  Private equity fundraising software is the prospective-investor record: every LP approached, with an owner, a stage and a soft circle, then a commitment.

• How to find limited partners, and how to keep the ones you find

  How to find limited partners for a first fund: the four sources a general partner actually closes from, and why the record starts before the commitment.

• Capital calls private equity funds make: how often, how much, and what the record holds

  Capital calls private equity funds make over an investment period: how often, what share each takes, the notice period, and what the record holds per LP.

• TVPI definition: total value to paid-in, and what moves it quarter to quarter

  TVPI definition: distributions plus residual value, divided by paid-in capital. How it splits into DPI and RVPI, and what moves it between letters.

• Net TVPI: what the LP actually gets, after fees and carried interest

  Net TVPI is total value to paid-in after management fees and carried interest: the multiple an investor actually experiences. How it differs from gross.

• MOIC: the multiple on invested capital, and how it differs from TVPI

  MOIC is total value divided by invested capital, deal by deal or for a fund. How it is computed, how it differs from TVPI and IRR, and where it belongs.

• VC fund performance: TVPI, DPI, RVPI, MOIC and IRR as the LP letter reports them

  VC fund performance is reported in five figures: TVPI, DPI, RVPI, MOIC and IRR. What each says, what each hides, and how they come from the record.