We specialise in portfolio safeguarding with AI powered simulated governance, financial auditing, communication sentiment and financial monitoring tools in Venture, Debt and Sports.
Businesses that raise equity, take out loans or are financed, all go through very similar motions. We monitor near real time to pickup early warning signals.
Our early warning systems highlight any financial, governance or communication problems that a board need to discuss.
Our integrations work similar to spam filters. It's easy to setup and place no additional burden on founders
Usually, nobody has the time or need to review this until it is too late, Portend however only works with the raw data.
We confidentially monitor data with ICAEW Chartered Accountants and FinCrime Auditors overseeing alerts.
Ensuring you help leaders protect shareholder value using real time due diligence is becoming a requirement, not a nice to have in this tough market.
Our in-house software is similar to military grade tooling, giving Leaders confidence in our alerts and security.
No matter what type of asset you are, an investment, a debtor or even a sports club the same building blocks apply as a business. Portend as a Risk Intelligence provider helps automatically monitor a businesses health and behaviours.
The benefit of foresight means you ask the right questions.
Making sure reported data can be your source of truth.
Demonstrate to your LPs that you do more than deploy.
If you're an Investment Director or Stakeholder then Portend ensures you're aware of any risks that your portfolio may face that could effect your holding either publicly or behind closed doors.
Our financial, communication, and simulated governance tools mean that at a glance, you can walk into any board meeting equipped with critical questions to take action early instead of reacting on a call.
Portend runs a multitude of checks on any given day against monitored firms. These checks assist auditors, accountants, and intelligence analysts in identifying symptoms before they become issues.
We do not publicly disclose what our checks are, but imagine a portfolio undergoing an audit by one of the big four — continuously, and you're always informed and in control.
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No matter if your a startup, debtor, PE, VC, Sports League or Club - your backers are becoming more sophisticated. LPs and Funds of Funds are starting to look deeper into how portfolios are performing, along with what you are doing to encourage good governance.
With multiple high-profile business, startup and sport collapses globally, a new trend in ensuring that leaders and their teams are playing within the rules is the new normal.
Portend technology works for everyone, providing stakeholders at every stage in the value chain with real time due diligence.
We help protect your company and club from a range of risks, so you can concentrate on building a great business.
Reduce lending risks by monitoring debtors as a credit report update only happens after an event, not before.
Raising funds in 2024 is getting harder, highlight your edge by monitoring LP funds with realtime due diligence.
Help companies or clubs keep on the growth path by speeding up claims data or underwriting with Portend.
Global press and media are already commenting on the need for a new standard in real time due diligence like Portend. Seamless, but effective methods to ensure funds are not victims of their own success.
Financial Conduct Authority will examine ‘disciplines and governance’ as concerns over potential blow-ups increase. The FCA will look at who within a firm is accountable for valuations, how information is passed upwards and what other governance procedures are in place.
In venture back businesses, nearly every situation in which I have been involved has been characterised by defects of some sort in internal controls, regulatory compliance, human resources and systems integrity
Every VC does a confirmatory due-diligence, but when things go wrong post-investment it nearly always never comes out - as it’s written to zero. Therefore VCs are not talking about it and it’s more of a problem then GPs like to admit
“The more we looked at real time due diligence within our portfolio, the more reasons we couldn't find not to have it installed in all of our investments. It highlighted issues where we have since guided our founders away from pitfalls. Game changing”
