Digitize Your Diligence Process: How private market investors can leverage technology to find their next investment opportunity

The Challenge

Investment selection within the private sector is crucial to performance and selecting the top performing managers for your organization’s portfolio requires significant data and resources. Limited partners with increasingly aggressive mandates to grow allocations can find it challenging to navigate the long and multi-layered diligence process.

More managers, more choices, more uncertainty...

Private Markets Industry

Our Solution 

Through Cobalt, our proprietary private markets data, diligence and analytics platform, you can evaluate funds currently in market and conduct in-depth analysis with insights produced by our global investment team. As a firm, our commitment to tech-enabled and innovative solutions runs deep: We believe that private markets investors with access to cutting-edge technology, combined with the most timely and in-depth private markets data, will be best positioned to win.

Step-by-Step View: Combining leading technology with private markets expertise

We funnel robust quantitative & qualitative insights produced by our 200+ investment professionals directly into Cobalt. Digitizing our workflow in this way enables clients to access exclusive data:

• Timely: As managers go through their fundraising process, we request track record information (both fund and deal). Additionally, we often receive a “first look” at new investment opportunities.
• Scale: Our firm’s global scale and reach enables us to review opportunities spanning different investment strategies and geographies.
• Quality: We normalize due diligence data (including net and gross track records) using a controlled, consistent process.

Within our platform, you can leverage sophisticated tools and resources to power your organization’s investment diligence decisions, portfolio construction, forecasting and more.

Key Features

• Tech-enabled, self-service 
• Partner with a team of strategy specific consultants for each step of your investment process
• Regional and asset class expertise

Our advanced diligence offering provides access to Hamilton Lane’s complete library of Late-Stage Investment Due Diligence Reports, Operational Due Diligence Reports and Initial Screening Memos, in addition to customized investment and relationship management support.

Interested in learning more about how we can provide enhanced diligence support? Please contact us at cobaltdemo@hamiltonlane.com.