For the CEOs of most private companies, the fundraising process is often a ‘first time’ experience that leads to an enormous amount of time being wasted. In particular, time is wasted in the almost impossible task of trying to identify all relevant lead investors and in endless conversations and meetings with inappropriate investors, often with limited support from existing investors.

With an incomplete knowledge, it is almost always a very lengthy process to attract a term sheet from a lead investor and almost impossible to establish competing investor syndicates.

IPEEX tracks the entire universe of investors. It is the only capability that (1) identifies and ranks lead investors based on their historic investment activities and their demonstrable appetite, (2) maps all co-investment relationships enabling, for the first time, CEOs to use their existing investors’ relationships more effectively to get meetings, (3) eases the thorough preparation of meetings, and (4) uses up to date intelligence on who to approach and why for the highly efficient creation of a syndicate.

IPEEX has bee described by many senior industry professionals as a “disruptive” capability that optimizes speed, price and proceeds.

IPEEX is particularly suited to senior users. It is simple yet powerful (compact and well connected) and is based on up-to-date intelligence. Effortlessly, it enables senior users using a search and answer cascade which reflects their natural thought process to gain an instantaneous high level view and benchmark (1) all venture backed companies by region, sub-sector and/or technology focus, time elapsed since last fundraising and aggregate funds raised, and (2) all investors by level of activity in each region or sub-sector and as lead investors.

As a deal prospecting platform, IPEEX is of particular interest to (1) investors, for identifying and benchmarking new investment opportunities, (2) advisers, for assisting their existing clients and competing more effectively for larger clients, (3) limited partners, for allocating funds more effectively and finding alternative routes into the best deals, and (4) listed companies, for staying on top of their sectors of interest and identifying the most important investors who they need to establish and maintain relationships with.