Chronograph
for Limited Partners
Unify data from fund commitments, secondaries, co-investments, directs, and more to turn scattered PDFs, Excel files, databases and other sources into a complete view of private capital performance and exposure.
Insights, Revealed
Chronograph provides unrivaled insights on underlying fund and portfolio company performance. No clunky templates, no self-reported data, no burdens on GPs, no new work.
Unprecedented Breadth + Depth
Capture all available information about your private capital portfolio to put your returns in context
Complete Private Capital
Analytics
Intuitive Cloud Analytics
Access all underlying fund and portfolio company data, cash flows, capital account balances, partnership financials, fund terms, valuation metrics, leverage measures, and every other data point about your portfolio.
Measure performance in real-time with post-account adjustments, mark-to-market benchmarking, scenario analyses, asset modeling, cashflow forecasting, and more.
Spend time on what matters – meeting managers, interpreting analyses, and developing a thoughtful view.
Flexible Data Querying & Export
Accessing databases shouldn’t require a specialized skill set. Easily integrate validated data direct to Excel models and downstream reports.
Extract information and build bespoke reports in seconds with Chronograph’s powerful Excel plug-in. Pivot, filter, refresh, select custom currencies & date ranges, and save as reusable templates.
For bulk extraction, use the ‘Custom Views’ query builder to compare any data over time and export or share with team members instantly.
Simplified Reporting
Hassle free, Microsoft compatible
Make internal and external reporting easier with Chronograph’s extensive toolset.
Chronograph integrates with your existing systems to provide investment, reporting, and financial professionals a consolidated interface for interacting with, protecting, and making use of your data.
Create team-sharable templates and raise brand standards easily refreshable information sets to confidently communicate your message to stakeholders.
Power models and reports with our Microsoft Office toolset.
Upgrade existing models with the robust Chronograph xConnect Excel plug-in.
Export charts and underlying data for any graph, table, or other representation from the platform with a single click.
Effortless Data Management
Spend time analyzing information, not managing it
Streamlined Operations
Painless at onboarding, and every quarter thereafter.
Chronograph is designed to require as few internal resources as possible. No required operational changes, no lengthy software integrations, and no burden on your GP relationships.
All information on Chronograph LP is auditable to a source document or original database. Explore financial and valuation metrics over time, incorporate budgets and projected values, synthesize in-house models and manager reports, and capture the complete detail of your underlying exposures with a data process you can trust.
Uncompromising Accuracy
Reconcile various information streams to provide a single source of truth, rigorously validated for accuracy and completeness.
Eliminate errors and uncertainty with Chronograph’s ‘click-to-tag’ and ‘click-to-audit’ functionality.
Interactive ‘cloud-grids’ allow investment professionals to quickly manipulate and validate financial data in a familiar and collaborative way, and then easily import and export and data to-and-from Excel.
Free your team from repetitive data entry and guarantee absolute precision with Chronograph’s robust data capture technology. No more digging through folders for lost files or wondering where a figure came from.
“Chronograph’s flexible data collection and reporting technology has enabled us to harmonize KPIs and deepen insights across our portfolio. Our investment, value creation, and finance teams can all easily collaborate with consistent and trusted data.”
“Chronograph acts as a critical hub for our data collection, valuation, and reporting processes. We are constantly collaborating with the Chronograph team to discover new capabilities and expand our use case.”
“Using Chronograph’s reporting capabilities has increased efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in our quarterly reporting to our LPs. Being able to automatically pull in portfolio company data to our quarterly letters and easily manage drafts has drastically improved the review process and collaboration between partners, associates, and the finance team.”
“Having worked with Chronograph and incumbent solutions at prior firms, I’ve seen firsthand how Chronograph drives value for stakeholders. It was critical for us to implement Chronograph as early as possible. The platform has been an integral part of our technology stack since day one and continues to support key data management processes within Knox Lane.”
“Chronograph’s technology has allowed us to capture and structure more than seven million data points from our portfolio, and we feel the LP solution is unique in its ability to capture such a rich and complete data set.”
“Since entering the market, Chronograph has changed the way private equity firms and their investors interact with their data, offering elegant and innovative software designed to enable robust, timely, and transparent reporting and analysis.”
“As secondaries investors, we are investing in hundreds of funds and thousands of companies. This means our data scales up in a very rapid way. We’ve found that unlocking our data and prioritizing its value in our investment cycle has helped us become better investors.”
“We knew we needed to streamline data collection from our portfolio companies to improve operational efficiency. We wanted a tool that allowed for full flexibility in complicated workflow design and delivered a modern user experience. With Chronograph, we can pivot on a dime and collect additional data as needed.”
“Previously, our reports were not stored in the database. Anytime we needed to trace the origin of a specific metric, we had to manually search for the report. The ability to click on any metric in Chronograph and instantly access its location in the corresponding source report has been really powerful.”
“Chronograph’s flexible data collection and reporting technology has enabled us to harmonize KPIs and deepen insights across our portfolio. Our investment, value creation, and finance teams can all easily collaborate with consistent and trusted data.”
“Chronograph acts as a critical hub for our data collection, valuation, and reporting processes. We are constantly collaborating with the Chronograph team to discover new capabilities and expand our use case.”
“Using Chronograph’s reporting capabilities has increased efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in our quarterly reporting to our LPs. Being able to automatically pull in portfolio company data to our quarterly letters and easily manage drafts has drastically improved the review process and collaboration between partners, associates, and the finance team.”
“Having worked with Chronograph and incumbent solutions at prior firms, I’ve seen firsthand how Chronograph drives value for stakeholders. It was critical for us to implement Chronograph as early as possible. The platform has been an integral part of our technology stack since day one and continues to support key data management processes within Knox Lane.”
“Chronograph’s technology has allowed us to capture and structure more than seven million data points from our portfolio, and we feel the LP solution is unique in its ability to capture such a rich and complete data set.”
“Since entering the market, Chronograph has changed the way private equity firms and their investors interact with their data, offering elegant and innovative software designed to enable robust, timely, and transparent reporting and analysis.”
“As secondaries investors, we are investing in hundreds of funds and thousands of companies. This means our data scales up in a very rapid way. We’ve found that unlocking our data and prioritizing its value in our investment cycle has helped us become better investors.”
“We knew we needed to streamline data collection from our portfolio companies to improve operational efficiency. We wanted a tool that allowed for full flexibility in complicated workflow design and delivered a modern user experience. With Chronograph, we can pivot on a dime and collect additional data as needed.”
“Previously, our reports were not stored in the database. Anytime we needed to trace the origin of a specific metric, we had to manually search for the report. The ability to click on any metric in Chronograph and instantly access its location in the corresponding source report has been really powerful.”
“Chronograph’s flexible data collection and reporting technology has enabled us to harmonize KPIs and deepen insights across our portfolio. Our investment, value creation, and finance teams can all easily collaborate with consistent and trusted data.”
“Chronograph acts as a critical hub for our data collection, valuation, and reporting processes. We are constantly collaborating with the Chronograph team to discover new capabilities and expand our use case.”
“Using Chronograph’s reporting capabilities has increased efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in our quarterly reporting to our LPs. Being able to automatically pull in portfolio company data to our quarterly letters and easily manage drafts has drastically improved the review process and collaboration between partners, associates, and the finance team.”
“Having worked with Chronograph and incumbent solutions at prior firms, I’ve seen firsthand how Chronograph drives value for stakeholders. It was critical for us to implement Chronograph as early as possible. The platform has been an integral part of our technology stack since day one and continues to support key data management processes within Knox Lane.”
“Chronograph’s technology has allowed us to capture and structure more than seven million data points from our portfolio, and we feel the LP solution is unique in its ability to capture such a rich and complete data set.”
“Since entering the market, Chronograph has changed the way private equity firms and their investors interact with their data, offering elegant and innovative software designed to enable robust, timely, and transparent reporting and analysis.”
“As secondaries investors, we are investing in hundreds of funds and thousands of companies. This means our data scales up in a very rapid way. We’ve found that unlocking our data and prioritizing its value in our investment cycle has helped us become better investors.”
“We knew we needed to streamline data collection from our portfolio companies to improve operational efficiency. We wanted a tool that allowed for full flexibility in complicated workflow design and delivered a modern user experience. With Chronograph, we can pivot on a dime and collect additional data as needed.”
“Previously, our reports were not stored in the database. Anytime we needed to trace the origin of a specific metric, we had to manually search for the report. The ability to click on any metric in Chronograph and instantly access its location in the corresponding source report has been really powerful.”
Harness AI capabilities across your entire portfolio
Synthesize and summarize large data sets on demand to quickly gain key insights on fund and company performance, market and industry updates, transaction activities, outlooks for investments, news on management teams, and ESG reporting.
Building on Chronograph’s existing dynamic document tools and data management infrastructure, Chrono AI allows LP clients to interface with the millions of documents they keep on Chronograph, spanning quarterly reports, capital accounts statements, partnership financials, capital calls and distributions, legal notices, formation documents, LPAs, and AGM materials.
API + Connectivity
Engineered for Integration
The days of walled gardens are over – easily integrate existing architecture and data sources upstream and downstream.
Chronograph serves as a private capital ‘macro service’ with interconnectivity at its core.
From modern standards to industry-leading middleware architecture, Chronograph’s APIs are designed for developer ease-of-use and interoperability.
Access data at scale with our GraphQL-based APIs. Chronograph makes it easy to get data out both at runtime and in bulk.
Connect your existing systems and vendors with seamless GUI middleware. Integrate accounting, CRM, and benchmarking solutions to unlock new levels of consolidated analysis.
Approved developers can generate a key and start building immediately with helpful tools like a dynamic schema knowledge-base that’s always up to date.
Snowflake Data Warehousing
Plug-and-play
Chronograph’s Snowflake Connectivity-as-a-Service offering, Snowbank, significantly simplifies data ELT at scale, making it easy to port all client data into a long-term persistence medium.
Implementation is turnkey via Snowflake’s Secure Data Share features. Achieve real-time data replication with no limitations on extraction or access.
Our integrations unlock new forms of aggregate analyses through the Snowflake plug-in suite. Reduce time-to-production for services built on top of data managed in Chronograph.
Realize automated and compatible migrations and updates to models. Eliminate resource-intensive data warehouse integration management.
ESG
Now with Data
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are now major considerations for private capital investors. However, many investors feel at a loss how to aggregate and monitor ESG information in their funds and portfolio companies.
Chronograph offers a high integrity, centralized data collection system that empowers private capital investors to properly collect, manage, and report ESG standards.
Access meaningful, performance-based, and comparable ESG data from across your portfolio from a single interface.
Security + Confidentiality
Without Compromise
Rest easy knowing that your sensitive data is protected by industry-leading security standards.
Our policies are client-centric and make it simple: we will never share your private information. We are not a public database, benchmark provider, or consultant.
As a trusted provider to many of the world’s largest private capital investors, Chronograph takes protecting client data, intellectual property, and any personal information extremely seriously – and embraces best practices and leading technology to ensure compliance.
Chronograph’s vendors and operations are SOC I/II and ISO27001 compliant, and we place client security and confidentiality at the heart of everything we do.
