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Emerging Managers

Emerging Manager Services

Build it right the first time.

The back office decisions you make at Fund I are harder to reverse than they look. GPFS helps emerging managers build institutional-grade operations from the start, so the infrastructure you launch with is the infrastructure you're still proud of when you're raising Fund V.

The pattern we see with first-time managers

Most emerging managers underinvest in back-office infrastructure at launch. You're raising capital, building a portfolio, and managing an LP base simultaneously.

The back office can wait, until it can't.

The carried interest methodology that was set up quickly doesn't hold up to audit, the track record data lives in a spreadsheet that nobody trusts anymore, a major LP runs operational due diligence and finds gaps that take months to fix. The DIY-approach or fund administrator that was fine for Fund I can't handle the complexity of Fund II.

GPFS eliminates that arc. We build operational foundations designed to scale — not foundations that need to be rebuilt once you're too busy to rebuild them.

What We Build With You

Investor-Ready Operations from Day One

Capital account structures, carried interest methodology, investor portal setup, LP document workflow — everything an institutional LP would examine in operational due diligence, established correctly at launch.

Fund Accounting Infrastructure

General ledger setup, accounting policy documentation, ILPA-aligned reporting templates, SOC 1 compliance. We build these not because you need them for your first fund close, but because you'll absolutely need them to close your third.

Management Company Operations

Banking relationships, payroll infrastructure, T&E policy, vendor selection (auditors, tax, AML, IT) — we've done this with many first-time managers and know where the operational risks sit before they become problems.

GP Services

We structure the economics and governance of the GP entity right from the start, including carried interest allocation methodology, vesting and reallocation frameworks, and GP member reporting.

Track Record Infrastructure

Your performance history will be scrutinized in every future fund raise. GPFS structures track record data within GP Data from Fund I so that it's clean, auditable, and ready for institutional LP due diligence when you need it.

Your Network, Extended

GPFS has deep relationships with the auditors, tax advisors, legal counsel, AML consultants, and technology providers that serve private market managers. We don't just administer your fund, we help you build the right team around it.

Every service connects to GP Data

The data you generate through fund administration isn't siloed in your accounting system. It's structured, validated, and available as a canonical dataset that supports automation, custom reporting, and future AI capabilities — starting from Fund I.

Learn About GP Data

This offering is designed for managers who are:

  • Raising Fund I or in first close, with $50M–$250M in target AUM
  • Founders with prior experience at institutional firms ($20B+ AUM) who know what a real back office looks like
  • Actively running SPVs or co-investment vehicles alongside fund formation
  • Planning to raise multiple funds — not a one-and-done structure
  • Willing to invest in operational infrastructure as a strategic decision, not a line-item cost

Not every emerging manager is the right fit for GPFS. We're the right partner when you care about building it right, not just building it fast.

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When good enough stops being good enough

Established Managers

For managers with $1B-$20B AUM who've outgrown patched processes and need to fix the data foundation.

Precision at scale

Institutional Managers

For $20B+ managers where data integrity is a strategic, board-level concern and not a back-office task.

PRAISE FOR GP FUND SOLUTIONS

  • Douglas T. Lake Jr., Godspeed Capital Management

"GPFS has outperformed as a trusted advisor and cost effective support provider to Godspeed Capital. Thanks to GPFS we were able to mobilize our corporate infrastructure on an accelerated basis to support the growth of our investment platform. We are grateful for the positive working relationship that we maintain with the wonderful team at GPFS."

Ready to buld your back office the right way?

Whether you're pre-fund or approaching first close, we'd like to understand where you are and what you're building toward.

Talk To Our Emerging Manager Team

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Established Managers

Emerging Manager Services

When good enough stops being good enough.

Growth creates operational complexity. At some point, the back office that worked for Fund I starts generating friction — data you don't fully trust, reporting that takes too long, LP requests that expose gaps you'd rather not have. GPFS helps established managers fix the root cause, not just the symptoms.

Patched processes and spreadsheets are not the path to growth

Most managers don't switch fund administrators because their current provider is incompetent. They switch because their current provider hasn't grown with them.

The process that handled one fund, two dozen LPs, and a straightforward waterfall is straining under three funds, institutional LP bases, complex reporting requirements, and data that lives in too many places.

Quarter-end is taking longer. The CFO is doing manual work that shouldn't require a CFO. If your team rebuilds administrator outputs in Excel to trust them, the problem isn't the report, it's the data underneath it. Many administrators will sell you a new dashboard on top of the same broken foundation — a balance transfer, not a payoff. 

GPFS fixes your foundation at the root.

What We Build With You

Data Foundation Reconstruction

We audit your existing data infrastructure — GL systems, spreadsheet models, third-party data sources, historical records — and build a GP Data environment that creates a single, validated source of truth. Eliminate manual reconciliation that's consuming your team's time and eroding confidence in your numbers.

Reporting Modernization

Quarterly financial statements, LP performance reporting, regulatory filings, custom investor deliverables — restructured to produce consistently and on time, from clean data, without heroic effort at quarter-end.

Migration & Transition Management

We've migrated funds from a range of providers and understand the risk in the transition. Our onboarding process is designed to protect data integrity, maintain LP experience continuity, and give your prior administrator a clean handoff, without gaps in your reporting calendar.

Scalable Fund Operations

GPFS's service model is designed to scale with your AUM and fund count without requiring you to scale your internal team proportionally. Adding a fund, a new vehicle type, or a new jurisdiction doesn't require rebuilding your back office when you partner with GPFS.

Track Record Infrastructure

Your performance history will be scrutinized in every future fund raise. GPFS structures track record data within GP Data from Fund I so that it's clean, auditable, and ready for institutional LP due diligence when you need it.

Your Network, Extended

GPFS has deep relationships with the auditors, tax advisors, legal counsel, AML consultants, and technology providers that serve private market managers. We don't just administer your fund, we help you build the right team around it.

Data infrastructure, not just data outputs

GPFS builds the data infrastructure underneath your firm and fund, so that every report, LP communication, and regulatory filing draws from the same validated, canonical source. We build with the understanding of private market nuance.

Learn About GP Data

This offering works best for managers with:

  • $500M–$20B in AUM across multiple funds or strategies
  • Data and reporting complexity that has outgrown current infrastructure
  • A CFO or COO who needs a genuine operational partner, not another vendor to manage
  • A track record of LP relationships they can't afford to disrupt during a transition
  • Willingness to address root causes, not just symptoms — and a timeline that allows it

Not where you are? We also work with:

Build it right the first time

Emerging Managers

For first-time managers who want institutional grade operations from Fund I

Precision at scale

Institutional Managers

For $20B+ managers where data integrity is a strategic, board-level concern and not a back-office task.

PRAISE FOR GP FUND SOLUTIONS

  • Will Porteous, General Partner and COO, RRE Ventures

“GPFS has been a fantastic partner to RRE and our Limited Partners for more than 8 years. The GPFS team is a direct extension of our Operations and Finance team in every aspect of firm operations. They help us consistently achieve our goals in terms of quality, timeliness and accuracy across all transactional and reporting matters.”

Ready to fix the foundation?

Whether you're mid-transition or just starting to evaluate, we'd like to understand your current situation and where the pressure is coming from.

Talk About Your Current Situation

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Institutional Managers

Emerging Manager Services

Institutional complexity requires precise operational architecture

GPFS serves as the operational intelligence layer for institutional-grade private market managers, where multi-fund complexity, LP scrutiny, and regulatory obligations call for a partner that operates at the same standard.

The challenges at institutional scale are different in kind, not just degree.

Multiple fund vintages in simultaneous deployment. Multi-jurisdiction LP bases with unique reporting requirements. Board-level and regulatory reporting that must be consistent, auditable, and defensible. Data fragmentation across legacy systems and multiple administrators.

At this scale, the problem isn't missing infrastructure. It's fragmented infrastructure: data siloed across fund vehicles, vintages, and platforms, with board reporting assembled manually from sources that don't share definitions.

GPFS creates the institutional-grade data infrastructure that your investor base, your board, and your regulators increasingly require.

What We Provide

Cross-Fund Data Consolidation

GP Data aggregates and validates data across multiple funds, entities, general ledgers, and — where relevant — multiple fund administrators. For managers operating across a complex web of vehicles and vintages, this creates the consolidated view that board reporting, regulatory filings, and LP due diligence require.

Institutional Reporting

Board-level performance reports, LP-facing communications, regulatory filings across multiple jurisdictions — produced from a single, validated data source. We eliminate the consistency risk that comes from reports drawn from different systems by different teams.

Regulatory & Compliance Infrastructure

For managers with global LP bases and multi-jurisdictional fund structures, regulatory complexity scales fast. AIFMD, FATCA, CRS, SEC reporting obligations, beneficial ownership — we manage the regulatory data and filings that your compliance function needs to be accurate and current.

LP Data & Transparency

Institutional LPs are increasingly demanding transparency at a level of detail that requires structured data. Custom data requests, side-letter reporting, aggregator templates, ILPA compliance — we manage the LP data relationship at the depth institutional managers need.

Strategic Data Partner

For firms ready to move beyond standard reporting into modeling, scenario analysis, and data-driven LP communication, GPFS provides the data architecture and analytical support to get there. GP Data's Snowflake-based architecture is the foundation for automation, AI integration, and the capabilities that will define institutional fund management over the next decade.

Cross-Administrator Architecture

GPFS can serve as an independent oversight and consolidation layer across multiple fund administrators — providing unified reporting, data governance, and reconciliation even when you work with more than one admin.

At this scale, GP Data isn't a feature. It's the reason.

Institutional managers don't need better reports — they need a data architecture that makes institutional-grade reporting a natural output, not a quarterly construction project. GP Data is that architecture.

Learn About GP Data

This engagement is designed for managers who:

  • Operate with $20B+ in AUM across multiple strategies, vehicles, and geographies
  • Face institutional LP scrutiny that demands audit-traceable, error-free reporting
  • Need cross-fund data consolidation across multiple vintages, entities, or administrators
  • Require board-level and regulatory reporting that is defensible under examination
  • Are ready for a strategic transformation partner, not a transactional vendor

Not where you are? We also work with:

Build it right the first time

Emerging Managers

For first-time managers who want institutional grade operations from Fund I

When good enough stops being good enough

Established Managers

For managers with $1B-$20B AUM who've outgrown patched processes.

PRAISE FOR GP FUND SOLUTIONS

  • Ben Levin, Founder & CEO, Level Equity

 “GPFS has been our back office partner since we raised our first fund. They demonstrate their commitment to our firm and our investors every day, differentiating themselves on quality and service levels in an increasingly competitive market for 3rd party fund administration. GPFS has been a critical relationship for Level as they have helped us successfully grow a multi-billion dollar private asset management business.”

Ready for an institutional-grade conversation?

We understand the complexity. Let's talk about what you're facing and whether GPFS is the right fit.

Talk To Our Institutional Team

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