Ark PES

Not all managers grow and scale the same way or at the same time. There is no magic AUM number at which a private equity or venture capital firm suddenly outgrows its technology stack. A $200 million manager can have a highly scalable back office, while a

A practitioner's guide to the operational questions every GP asks Table of Contents Introduction Emerging managers face difficult operational trade-offs early in a fund's life: invest in professional back-office infrastructure before the AUM exists to jus

Ask a GP who has been weighing a move off their current fund accounting and LP reporting platform what's been holding them back, and migration friction almost always comes up. The concerns are familiar: six-month+ implementations, parallel systems running

Your bill for your fund accounting and investor portal platform just arrived. It's 40% higher than last quarter. Why? You onboarded new LPs, raised a new SPV, and your team needed extra user seats, all standard growth activities. As the CFO, you're now fa

Bill Ward, co-founder and CEO of Ark, brings deep operating experience from the private capital and fund administration ecosystem. After years of working directly with fund administrators and GPs, Bill saw firsthand how legacy technology created unnecessa

We founded Ark with a bold idea: private capital technology should work for GPs and fund admins - not against them. Today, we're proud to share a major milestone: Ark now powers 500+ clients across the private capital ecosystem. From first-time fund manag

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

Risk management is front and center across public and private capital markets in today's volatile geopolitical and macroeconomic landscape. According to the Coller Capital Global Private Capital Barometer (42nd Edition, Summer 2025), LPs cite geopolitical