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The $2 Trillion Business of Making Private Equity Boring
Gen II began as a boutique for managers who wanted their fund accountant to answer the phone. Seventeen years later, it has turned capital calls, compliance checks and investor PDFs into a $2 trillion infrastructure business - and a useful playbook for founders building in unglamorous markets.
Cardo AI
Cardo AI is a fintech company building the operating system for asset-based finance and private credit. Its platform unifies deals, collateral data, workflows, cash-flow modeling, and reporting into a single system purpose-built for the operational demands of structured credit - replacing spreadsheets and fragmented tools used by asset managers, bank lenders, credit originators, and fund administrators. Founded in 2018 by Altin Kadareja and Euron Metaliaj, the company runs technology across more than $100B in asset volume and raised a $15M Series A in November 2024 co-led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, FINTOP Capital, and JAM FINTOP.
Allocate
Allocate is a Palo Alto-based financial technology company building an intelligent operating system for private market investing. Its platform equips wealth advisory firms and institutional family offices with modern infrastructure to source, diligence, build, and manage private portfolios - spanning venture capital, private equity, and private credit - through a single interface. Founded in 2021 by longtime venture bankers Samir Kaji and Hana Yang, Allocate automates subscriptions, capital flows, and portfolio operations, and has scaled to billions of dollars on platform serving over 1,200 advisory firms and family offices.
Standard Metrics
Standard Metrics (formerly Quaestor) is a San Francisco-based financial data and portfolio monitoring platform for venture capital. It automates the messy work of collecting, standardizing, and benchmarking metrics from private portfolio companies, giving investors real-time performance data and giving founders a single source of truth for investor reporting. More than 100 VC firms track thousands of portfolio companies on the platform, which now connects directly to LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT through a Model Context Protocol server.
John Melas-Kyriazi
John Melas-Kyriazi is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Metrics, a San Francisco financial data platform that automates reporting between venture investors and their portfolio companies. A Stanford-trained engineer who once tinkered with guitar pedals in his basement, he spent six years investing at Spark Capital before noticing that the venture industry ran its data on spreadsheets and email. He left to fix it, building a networked system where startups and investors collaborate on the same numbers. He is also an active angel investor in 40-plus companies.
Abacum
Abacum is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform built for the office of the CFO. Founded in 2020 by former finance operators Julio Martinez and Jorge Lluch, it pulls financial and operational data into one place so finance teams can forecast revenue, model scenarios, plan headcount, automate reports, and trade spreadsheet drudgery for strategic decision-making. Backed by Scale Venture Partners, Atomico, Y Combinator and others, Abacum has raised over $90M and serves hundreds of mid-market companies across 31 countries, including Strava, Aiven, JG Wentworth and Mastercam.
Juniper Square
Juniper Square is a San Francisco-based fintech company that provides an end-to-end fund operations platform for private markets managers - combining software, data, and fund administration services for general partners in private equity, venture capital, real estate, and credit. Founded in 2014, the company serves over 2,100 GPs managing more than 40,000 funds and $1 trillion in LP capital. In June 2025, Juniper Square raised a $130M Series D at a $1.1 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status, with major investors including Ribbit Capital, Fifth Wall, and Redpoint Ventures.