iLEVEL-Maestro integration: connecting value creation plans to financial impact in private markets

Value creation has always been an important lever in generating returns, but in a market where opportunities for multiple expansion are scarce, it has become a critical differentiator. As the rapid economic growth and cheap capital that characterized much of the past decade give way to a period of sustained high interest rates, the ability to create value will offer investment managers a market advantage for years to come. It is against this backdrop that we are pleased to introduce a new integration between our iLEVEL private markets operating system and Maestro’s dedicated value creation platform - connecting the power of iLEVEL’s data with Maestro’s leading value creation capabilities.

Maestro: A purpose-built value creation platform

Maestro is the first platform to bring sponsors and their portfolio-company management teams together to streamline and manage the value creation process more transparently and efficiently, from planning to execution through to measurement and reporting. Maestro combines best-in-class technology and built-in best practices to help operating partners set up plans, define goals, orchestrate execution and replicate success across the portfolio.

As a company backed by S&P Global Ventures, Maestro has carved a path as an innovator, an  industry leader and a category creator that recognized and filled an unmet need among value-focused private equity and venture capital firms.

Connecting operational inputs to financial outcomes

The integration between iLEVEL and Maestro solves one of the persistent challenges involved in value creation: connecting inputs to outcomes.

GPs have always struggled to track the activities captured in the value creation plan in terms of the impact those activities have on company financials. By integrating with Maestro, iLEVEL now enables investment managers to consolidate operational and financial metrics so that the value-generating initiatives can be quantified and attributed to specific projects.

The iLEVEL platform, which streamlines data collection, portfolio analytics, valuations, benchmarking, cash forecasting and reporting workflows, has long been considered the industry standard for creating a single source of truth for portfolio company financials, including revenue and expenses. Now mutual clients of iLEVEL and Maestro can connect these validated, normalized financials, including improved revenues and cost controls, directly to specific value creation activities.

The integration enables clients to:

● Gain a centralized, real-time view of financial and operational metrics.

● Support an automated process that cleans and normalizes the data.

● Maintain greater transparency and coordination between GPs and their portfolio companies.

● Generate deeper insight into the operational levers that create the greatest value.

● Quickly deploy successful strategies across the portfolio.

Client feedback

The reaction from mutual clients has been very positive, with the operations lead at one company noting: “The new integration between iLEVEL and Maestro has greatly improved visibility into operational performance across the portfolio, leveraging the rich data in iLEVEL combined with the powerful visualization capabilities in Maestro. Manual processes have been removed, and it has enabled us to work smarter and faster with less time spent on data manipulation and more on driving business growth.”

Building on the iLEVEL mission

From the beginning, iLEVEL has been committed to growing the flow of data analytics and insights between private capital market participants. The new Maestro integration expands on that mission by facilitating greater openness and deeper insights between GPs and their portfolio companies.

This new integration is the latest in a series of exciting releases to the iLEVEL platform scheduled for this year. Watch this space for more news!

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