Predictive Analytics in Private Markets
We develop advanced analytical tools and tailor-made solutions to invest in Venture Capital and Private Equity.
Latest White Paper: Transforming Private Equity Secondaries - The AI Revolution in Asset Selection
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Rooted in Science.
Driven by Data.
Excel spreadsheets, historical records and gut feeling are not enough to give investors the private market risk, return and liquidity profile they really want. Investors can improve their private markets portfolios using our state-of-the-art analytical tools and streamlined, automated workflows. On top, our investment team helps investors accessing tailor-made financial solutions.
Founded in 2020 by Mark Schmitz (formerly Partner at VC firm Lakestar) and Professor Reiner Braun (Technical University of Munich), equation is contributing to the digital transformation of the venture capital and private equity investment industry. Everything we do is guided by the fusion of our decades of experience in world-class quantitative private markets research and investment execution.
How we solveAccess
Venture Capital
For our clients, we invest in outstanding fund managers before they become household names - and before they become inaccessible. Our data driven view allows detection and systematic access to a new investor universe.
Private Equity
Technology and data science allow for ever more sophisticated and tailored investment strategies. Data-driven investing will become the predominant way of capital allocation in the asset class.
Analytics
Informational Edge
To create and maintain an informational edge, we process an exponentially growing trove of private markets data. On top of this data, we create statistical frameworks that allow us to predict changing dynamics in private markets efficiently.
Task efficiency
Our insights are used to create value at various stages of the investment process. They are conveniently embedded into workflows of investment teams.
Media
Sifted: equation buys VC fundraising platform Betterfront
Sifted: VCs love to invest in software companies, but it isn’t every day that they buy them. Yet today, German fund of funds Equation is announcing its acquisition of VC fundraising software startup Betterfront Technologies. Both companies are based in Munich and declined to share details of the acquisition.
equation AG acquires Betterfront Technologies to boost fundraising efficiency and private market secondaries
Next-generation asset management firm equation AG has today announced the acquisition of Betterfront Technologies to re-invent the archaic fundraising process in Private Markets and to facilitate liquidity for Venture Capital and Private Equity investors.
Betterfront allows fund managers to visualize their track record and connect seamlessly with their investors via a smart data room. Since its inception in 2019, the company supported emerging and established fund managers in raising more than €4B with its all-in-one fundraising platform. On a global level, and despite macro-economic and geopolitical challenges, $1+ trillion has been raised in each of the last six years, with expectations for Private Markets to reach $18.3 trillion in AuM by 2027 (Preqin).
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