About QFT
We are leveling the playing field for private markets investors.
It is our mission to give every private markets investor the insights they deserve. The same rigor, transparency, and evidence base that public markets investors have had for decades, finally built for the people allocating to private equity. Independent, grounded in research, and designed around the way investors actually work.
We close the gap private markets investors have been working around.
Whether you allocate as a single family office, an institutional LP, a pension plan, or an insurance balance sheet, the same set of structural problems shows up. GP reported numbers without comparable benchmarks. Diligence work split across spreadsheets, email, three databases, and a shared drive. Decisions made on narrative because the evidence base does not yet exist in a form you can use day to day.
QFT was founded to remove the root causes of these problems. We bring deep academic research, proprietary data at deal level, and a platform designed around how investors actually work. For our clients, for the investment committees they answer to, and for the regulators and auditors behind them. Together with our research and institutional partners.
The platform was built on four convictions.
Independence is structural, not optional.
QFT is LP only. Every rating, valuation, and benchmark is produced without input from the GPs being assessed. No revenue from rated managers, no fundraising mandate, no advisory relationships that compromise the assessment. The output is the same regardless of who is asking.
Evidence beats narrative, every time.
Every conclusion is reproducible. Every benchmark is matched on comparable transactions at deal level, not peer averages or self reported summaries. Every rating can be defended in IC, in regulatory review, and in a postmortem ten years from now.
The workflow is the brief.
QFT was designed by the people who would use it. Pipeline, ratings, valuations, and IC memo move on one shared data model because that is how the work actually flows. The platform fits the way investors operate, not the other way around.
Insight should not depend on size.
The same depth of analysis is available to a single family office reviewing one fund as to a pension plan reviewing a hundred. We do not gate the methodology by ticket size or institution type. Every investor gets the underlying evidence.
We know private markets from both sides.
QFT was founded by researchers, allocators, and engineers who had spent careers on opposite sides of the same problem. Academic work that documented how skill could be separated from luck in private equity, but never made it into the tools investors used. Allocation work that needed those frameworks, but had no way to access them at the level of detail that mattered.
We built QFT to close that gap. The founding team brings more than two decades of research, more than fifty peer reviewed publications, and direct allocation experience across European and transatlantic mandates.
What backs our work.
20,000+
Proprietary transactions at deal level in the QFT research base
50+
Academic publications across the QFT founding team
4
PhDs on the founding team, each focused on quantitative private equity
20+
Years of research underpinning the methodology
€1bn+
In investor AUM evaluated on the QFT platform
Foundation
Two decades of research, condensed into one methodology.
Opening now
Three modules live. Investors onboarded across DACH and beyond.
What's next
Continuous expansion. The new analytical standard for private markets.
Join the investors rebuilding private markets analytics with us.
Experience the platform on your own data. A 30 minute walkthrough with the team, a Fund Manager Rating run on one of your own funds, and one month of full platform access.