Ardour Secondaries OS

Liquidity &Secondaries OS for
LPs & Family OfficesGPs & SponsorsSecondary Funds

Ardour Secondaries sits between LPs, GPs, and secondary funds—turning fragmented, one-off transactions into a continuous, data-driven liquidity engine.

Trusted by leading institutions

Top 10 LPGlobal GPLeading Secondary Fund
app.withardour.com
Total NAV
$2.4B
+12%
Liquidity Score
78
Active Deals
12
+3
Buyers Matched
47
+8
Fund
NAV
Liquidity
Structure
Status
Fund III
$340M
High
LP Sale
Active
Fund IV
$520M
Medium
CV
Pipeline
Growth II
$180M
High
Strip
Active

What is Ardour Secondaries?

One OS for Every Side of the Secondary Trade

Ardour Secondaries replaces scattered spreadsheets, VDRs, and email chains with a shared operating system for private markets liquidity.

LPs and GPs use Ardour to understand where liquidity should come from and how to structure it. Secondary funds use Ardour to see the right opportunities at the right time, fully contextualized and ready to underwrite.

Liquidity Engine for LPs & GPs

Upload portfolios, run diagnostics, and design secondary/NAV solutions before you ever call a banker.

Sourcing & Relationship OS for Secondary Funds

Get a live feed of mandates and deals that match your mandate, and run IOIs, bids, and notes in one place.

Shared Deal Objects, Not Spreadsheets

Everyone works off the same scenarios and assumptions—no more 20 versions of the same Excel file.

Platform Capabilities

What Our Customers Get

A comprehensive suite of tools designed for institutional-grade private markets liquidity operations.

Portfolio Liquidity Diagnostics

Turn quarterly Excel reviews into a real-time liquidity cockpit.

  • Ingest fund reports, capital account statements, and deal docs.
  • Score positions by liquidity need, concentration, performance, and time-to-exit.
  • Surface "top candidates" for LP-led sales, GP-led CVs, NAV loans, or pref equity.

NAV & Structuring Scenario Engine

See the full impact of every structure before you run it.

  • Compare straight sales, strip sales, CVs, NAV loans, and pref equity side-by-side.
  • Model DPI, IRR, residual NAV, and alignment metrics for each option.
  • Run scenarios at the fund, strip, or portfolio level.

Buyer & Relationship OS

Make every interaction with secondaries and allocators intentional.

  • Map buyers by strategy, ticket size, geography, and structure appetite.
  • Generate targeted buyer lists from each liquidity scenario.
  • Track IOIs, bids, NDAs, and relationship notes in one place.

Execution & Governance

Bring structure to the messy parts of deals.

  • Centralize consents, ROFRs, LPAC materials, and election workflows.
  • Power closing checklists, e-sign flows, and settlement instructions.
  • Tie every deal back to realized DPI/NAV uplift.

Built for Every Side of Secondaries

Built for LPs, GPs, and Secondary Funds

LPs & Family Offices

Liquidity & Portfolio-Shaping Engine

  • Diagnose over-allocations, aging tails, and concentration risk across your whole book.
  • Design and compare LP-led portfolio sales, strips, and tail clean-ups.
  • Evaluate NAV loans and pref structures alongside plain-vanilla sales.
  • Set buy-side mandates to selectively buy into secondaries that improve your portfolio.
See LP & FO Workflow

GPs & Sponsors

GP-Led, NAV & Tender OS

  • Identify assets that fit a GP-led CV or strip, with built-in conflicts & alignment metrics.
  • Model roll-over, fee resets, and new-money economics for existing and new LPs.
  • Run employee/founder tender offers with clean ROFR / consent orchestration.
  • Compare selling assets vs NAV lines vs CVs in one scenario engine.
See GP-Led Use Cases

Secondary Funds

Sourcing & Relationship OS

  • Configure mandates by ticket size, strategy, sector, and deal type.
  • Get a curated feed of LP/GP-driven opportunities that match your mandate.
  • Manage IOIs, bids, win/loss outcomes, and relationship notes in one pipeline.
  • See how your bids change LP/GP DPI, alignment, and liquidity outcomes.
See Secondary Fund Workflow

The Ardour Secondaries Platform

Six Powerful Modules

LPsPensions, endowments, family officesFund IFund IICV / AnnexSPV ACo-invest SPVCompany AUnderlies multiple vehiclesCompany BUnderlies multiple vehiclesCompany CUnderlies multiple vehiclesGP / SponsorFund managerROFRConsentPortfolio OSDeal Graph™Funds • SPVs • Companies • Rights

Portfolio OS & Deal Graph™

Live map of funds, SPVs, companies, and vehicles. See who owns what, how vehicles connect, and where consents and ROFRs live—down to the LP, GP, and company level.

Book Liquidity

Amber – manageable

Scored on aging, liquidity need & concentration

Tail exposure

NAV > 10 years

0%

Long-dated, low-liquidity positions

Liquidity shortfall

vs policy range

$0m

Gap under 3-year lookthrough

Aging & liquidity buckets

Now · 0–12m

14 positions · 26% NAV

Soon · 1–3y

21 positions · 38% NAV

Later · 3y+

Long tail

Stress scenarios

Base
Base case DPI1.45x
Stress DPI1.18x
NAV drawdown-19%

Position scores roll up into policy bands to flag shortfalls early.

Liquidity Diagnostics

Scored view of positions by liquidity need, aging, and concentration. Tail exposure, liquidity shortfall, and stress scenarios—across your entire private markets book.

Straight sale

Clean exit, full transfer

Strip sale

Sell a slice, keep upside

CV / Continuation

Featured

Roll assets into new vehicle

NAV facility

Featured

Leverage on existing NAV

Pref equity

Structured capital, downside cushion

NAV & Structuring

Scenario Engine

Simulates LP/GP outcomes across structures

Scenario comparison

LP vs GP

CV + NAV facility

Balances LP liquidity and GP upside.

LP DPI (lookthrough)

LP: 0xGP: 0x

GP gross IRR

LP: GP: 0%

Residual NAV at exit

LP: 0%GP: 0%

Compare straight sale vs strips vs CVs vs NAV & pref structures.

NAV & Structuring Scenario Engine

Design and compare alternative structures—straight sale vs strip vs CV vs NAV facility vs pref equity—with clear DPI/IRR/residual NAV impacts for LPs and GPs.

Filters & mandates

Start from your structure.

LP stakes · PE / BuyoutVenture & growthNAV / structuredTicket: $25–250mRegion: US / EU

Curated target list · 0 buyers

Ranked on fit & history.

Buyer & Relationship

OS

Living memory of IOIs, bids & relationships

Atlas Secondaries

Dedicated secondary fund

Active

LP-led & GP-led, buyout

Last: IOI submitted 6 weeks ago

NorthBridge Sovereign

Sovereign / SWF allocator

Active

Large tickets, CVs

Last: Shortlisted for syndicate

HarborView Insurance

Insurance balance sheet

Active

Yield-focused, NAV & pref

Last: Past bidder, no recent

IOIs & bids timeline

Process memory
TeasersIOIsBidsClosing

Every touchpoint linked to buyer & structure.

Buyer & Relationship OS

Directory of secondary funds and allocators, filtered by mandate. Turn structures into curated target lists, track IOIs and bids, and build a living memory of your secondaries relationships.

Consent Tree

GP

LPAC
LP1
LP2

3 of 4 approved

LPAC Workflows

Notice sent
Quorum met
Awaiting vote

Quorum: 67% met

Execution &

Governance

Process OS

Clean & auditable

Election Management

Option A65%
Option B25%
Abstain10%

Closing Room

0%complete
4 docs pendingOn track

Audit Trail

Full history
InitiatedConsentsElectionsDocsClosed

Every action timestamped & linked.

Execution & Governance

Consent trees, LPAC workflows, election management, and closing room infrastructure—everything you need to run clean and auditable processes.

Existing cap table

Single source of truth for venture & growth.

Holder% FD
FoundersEligible28%
Employees (ESOP)Eligible18%
Seed & angelsEligible12%
Series A22%
Series B16%
Option pool (unissued)4%

Playbook reads directly from cap table.

Venture & Growth

Secondaries

Playbook

Cap-table-aware workflows

Tender offer

Cross-round, broad-based
  • Offer to employees & early investors
  • Reference last round valuation

Employee liquidity

Programmatic
  • Cap-table-aware eligibility
  • Windows & vesting checks

Direct secondary

Targeted
  • Large early holders or angels
  • Buyer matching from OS

Inside-led recap

Insider-led
  • Existing investors lead
  • Stacked with primary round

Workflow spine

Cap-table-aware
Plan
Notify
Collect elections
Settle & record

Same playbook across tenders, employee programs & recaps.

Venture & Growth Secondaries Playbook

Cap-table-aware workflows for venture & growth: tender offers, employee liquidity programs, direct secondaries, and inside-led recaps—built on top of your existing cap table.

How Ardour Secondaries Works

The Liquidity Stack

01

Discover – Ingest Portfolio Data

Connect fund admin files, capital account statements, and reporting PDFs—or load our demo portfolio. Ardour auto-maps funds, SPVs, companies, vintages, and exposures.

02

Diagnose – Liquidity & Concentration Diagnostics

Score each position by liquidity need, concentration, performance, and time-to-exit. See aging tails, NAV in over-weight sectors, and projected liquidity shortfalls under multiple scenarios.

03

Design – NAV, Structuring & Scenario Engine

Turn candidates into side-by-side structures: LP-led portfolio sales, GP-led CVs, strip sales, NAV loans, and pref equity. Quantify DPI/IRR/residual NAV and alignment for each scenario.

04

Match – Targeted Buyer & Counterparty Workflow

From each scenario, generate curated lists of secondary funds and allocators by strategy and ticket size. For LPs/FOs, optionally define buy-side mandates and see inbound secondary opportunities.

05

Execute & Measure – Run the Process and Learn From It

Run consents, elections, and closing through Ardour's workflow. When deals close, Ardour updates your DPI, NAV, and liquidity metrics—closing the loop for the next cycle.

Results That Matter

Supercharge Your Liquidity Program

50-70%
Time Reduction

Reduction in time spent preparing secondaries and GP-led processes.

3-5x
More Options

More structural options evaluated per transaction (LP-led, CV, NAV, pref, tender).

2-3x
Better Matching

Increase in 'right-fit' secondary counterparties engaged per deal.

>90%
End-to-End

Of deal workflows completed without leaving Ardour (from scenario to closing).

Seamless Integration

Integrates With the Tools You Already Use

Bring your administrator files, CRMs, and data vendors under one roof—without ripping anything out.

Data & Research

PitchBook
S&P Capital IQ Pro
Preqin
Burgiss

Fund Admin & Portfolio

eFront
Allvue
iLevel
CSV/Excel

CRMs

Salesforce
DealCloud
Affinity

Storage & VDR

Box
Dropbox
Intralinks
Datasite

Workflow & E-sign

DocuSign
Adobe Sign

Normalize and enrich your portfolio data with Ardour's ingestion engine.

Use existing VDRs for heavy diligence while keeping process tracking inside Ardour.

Keep your CRM as the system of record for relationships while Ardour becomes the system of record for secondary & liquidity workflows.

Enterprise Security

Enterprise-Grade Security, Private by Design

  • Siloed environments per customer; no model training on your data.
  • Optional customer-VPC or on-premise deployments for sensitive institutions.
  • Full audit trails on every document, scenario change, and workflow action.
View Security & Architecture

SOC 2 Type II

Enterprise-grade compliance

Data Encryption

AES-256 at rest and in transit

Audit Trails

Full activity logging

Private Deployment

Customer-VPC options

Ready to Turn Secondaries Into a Strategic Advantage?

See how Ardour Secondaries can help you diagnose liquidity, design smarter structures, and run cleaner processes—whether you're an LP, GP, or secondary fund.

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