From Prospect to Partner: Unifying the Fundraising Lifecycle with Ark and Passthrough
In a market where capital is harder to secure, the experience you provide your LPs is a key part of your value proposition. Today’s investors expect institutional-grade professionalism from day one, but for many smaller and mid-market GPs, the back-office reality is still a fragmented mess of PDFs and manual spreadsheets. Ark is changing that. […]
Securing Capital Flows & Data Integrity: A Playbook for Private Fund CFOs
Private Fund CFOs are playing an increasingly strategic role in safeguarding capital flows and sensitive information against hidden threats in today’s digital-first environment. Ark, Conduit Security, and the NCFTA explore how leading venture capital and private equity CFOs are strengthening their workflows, managing vendor and LP data, and ensuring operational integrity across their front, middle, […]
Bank Integration, Capital Call Reconciliation and Financial Data Synchronization now on Ark
Ark provides secure sandbox to test full platform upon request BOSTON, July 9, 2024 – Ark announced availability of bank integration, capital call receipt reconciliation and financial data synchronization. Demos are available via request here – https://share.hsforms.com/1GG4w1GFdSI2CbECzxw_XoA3uf5n Ark’s bank integration allows GPs and fund administrators to securely harmonize funds’ bank accounts and credit facilities within the platform. This integration […]
Ark Selected by Blue Star Innovation Partners to Enhance Fund Operations and Investor Reporting
BOSTON, April 18, 2024 – Ark, a leading provider of technology solutions for private capital investment managers, announced an agreement with Blue Star Innovation Partners (BSIP) to provide their solution platform in support of the company’s business operations and investor reporting. BSIP is a growth equity firm investing in leading software and payments companies and […]
Introducing a New Approach to Fund Accounting with Ark’s Latest Innovation
Ark Pioneers Innovative Solutions to Meet the Needs of Private Capital Managers and Fund Administrators BOSTON, April 16, 2024 – Ark is excited to announce the introduction of its latest breakthrough in fund management technology: a comprehensive fund accounting solution designed to revolutionize the way private funds operate. Moving beyond the traditional constraints of general […]
The Investor Experience Series Episode 4: What does a complete solution look like at an affordable price?
Cornerstone Fund Services offers a complete solution at an affordable price. What does that look like from the standpoint of the investor experience their clients offer? A highly developed body of thinking, research and best practices have been accumulated on the “customer experience,” “user experience.” We have investor relations as a practice. But the “investor […]
The Fund Services Series Episode 3: How employee-owned fund services win
In this episode of The Fund Services Series, Bryan Botha of Ark and Susan Gillick of Standish Management talk about how employee-owned fund services are winning in the market . Bryan Botha also discusses the new Ark fund operations platform that was announced last week. Chris Gale 00:03 Thanks, everybody, for joining us. This is […]
The Fund Services Series Episode 2: Fund Administration Technology
Mike Trinkaus of 4Pines Fund Services, and Bryan Botha of Ark clear away the hype and nonsense around fund admin tech, and drill down on what the sweet spot for fund administration technology is, and what decisions industry leaders will be forced to make. Chris Gale 00:01 Welcome, everybody, to the Fund Services Series. This […]
The Fund Services Series Episode 1: Fund administration software in the era of recession
In the first episode of The Fund Services Series, Ark’s Head of Sales, Bryan Botha, discusses the following topics with Fund Services Advisor, Jay Maher: Whether hard times ahead will force decisions on fund services technology The key trends in fund accounting software and IT The pain points found in today’s private capital tech stack […]
