Biz Wiz
This Allocate product gives investors access to high-conviction, fully diligenced private market opportunities.
What is Curations?
The total amount of money an investor has agreed to invest in a fund.
What is Committed Capital?
This is the year in which a private fund begins making its first investments, used to group and compare funds raised and deployed under similar market conditions.
What is Vintage Year?
At Allocate, this is a small, cross‑functional team that owns a specific product area, bringing together roles like product, engineering, and design to deliver outcomes together.
What is a Squad?
Early-stage investors often allocate to this high-growth private market asset class, which provides capital to startups before they become profitable.
What is Venture Capital?
In 2025, Allocate made a strategic asset acquisition of this platform to advance its vision for an operating system of private markets.
What is The Coterie?
The ongoing charge a fund manager takes (often a percentage of committed capital) to cover the costs of running the fund.
What is Management Fee?
Before committing capital, LPs dig through this online treasure trove of track records, references, and financials.
What is the dataroom?
This team member focuses on preventing and detecting defects in our software—designing tests, automating checks, and improving processes so that features ship reliably and work as expected for users.
What is a Quality Engineer?
This private market asset class involves acquiring or developing property outside of publicly traded REITs and can include core, value-add, and opportunistic strategies.
What is Private Real Estate?
This Allocate fund administration platform combines proprietary technology with an experienced accounting team to deliver institutional‑grade back‑office support for private market funds.
What is Atlas?
Cash or other value a fund returns to its investors, typically from exits, income, or other realized proceeds.
What is Distribution?
Named for the shape it makes on a chart, this pattern shows early losses followed by later gains in a fund’s performance over time.
What is a J Curve?
The end-to-end framework used by Allocate to describe every step of creating software, from idea to launch.
What is the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?
Also known as direct lending, this asset class offers higher yields by providing loans to companies unable to access traditional bank financing.
What is Private Credit?
This Allocate program offers education, resources, and training to help advisors and investors build expertise in private market investing.
What is Allocate Institute?
In addition to calling capital, Allocate’s capital call batch tool can also request this type of money from investors, used to cover the costs of operating and administering the fund.
What is Fund Expense?
A structured document prepared by an investment team to present a deal, fund, or opportunity to the firm's Investment Committee for approval.
What is Investment Committee Memo (IC Memo)?
A curated set of reusable user‑interface and interaction elements that are designed and built to be used repeatedly across our application.
What is a UI Library (or What is a Component Library?)
This type of investment allows an LP to participate directly in a single company alongside a lead sponsor, often with lower fees and more control than in a traditional fund.
What is a Co-Investment?
This Allocate flagship conference brings together 250+ leading LPs, fund managers, and tech leaders for peer‑led sessions on the future of innovation and venture capital.
What is Beyond Summit?
The total value of client assets that a service provider, such as a fund administrator or platform, services and supports operationally—without necessarily managing the investment decisions for those assets.
What is Assets Under Administration (AUA)?
A standardized questionnaire that an investor uses to evaluate a fund manager before making an investment.
What is Due Diligence Questionnaire (DDQ)?
Every Friday, this podcast hosted by one of our team members dives into the world of product management, discussing current hot topics at Allocate as well as broader industry trends.
What is The Gigglitz Weekly?
This private market strategy involves purchasing existing fund interests or portfolios from other investors, often to gain exposure at a discount or shorten the J-curve.
What are Secondaries?