Investment Control Tower pulls the operational, financial and risk data from every company in your portfolio into one consolidated view, on one set of definitions, and tells you what needs your attention before the board meeting does. The reporting gets done. Your partners get back to the work that moves the outcome.
| Company | ARR | 12-mo trend | Burn / mo | Runway | Covenant | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HarbourlineFintech · Series B | A$14.2m | A$410k | 26 mo | n/a | On track | |
| Northwind FreightLogistics · Growth | A$9.8m | A$690k | 7.5 mo | 6% headroom | Act | |
| Kestrel HealthHealthtech · Series A | A$7.1m | A$380k | 22 mo | n/a | On track | |
| Saltbush EnergyClimate · Series A | A$5.6m | A$520k | 11 mo | n/a | Watch | |
| Coastal LearningEdtech · Seed+ | A$3.4m | A$190k | 31 mo | n/a | On track | |
| Ironbark SystemsB2B SaaS · Buyout | A$12.9m | cash + | n/a | 28% headroom | On track | |
| Wattle CommerceRetail tech · Series A | A$4.8m | A$300k | 18 mo | n/a | On track | |
| Tidewater LabsDeep tech · Seed | A$3.6m | A$410k | 15 mo | n/a | On track |
Every quarter it's the same. Chase twelve founders for their numbers. Get twelve formats back. Rebuild the consolidation, argue about what counts as ARR, and write the pack.
By the time it reaches the investment committee, the numbers are six weeks old and the risk they describe has already happened.
The firms that win aren't the ones with the neatest quarterly pack. They're the ones whose partners spend the most time in the room with founders, acting on what the numbers say.
One company sends a PDF board pack. Another sends a Xero export. A third replies "end of the week" for the third week running. An associate stitches it together by hand, every quarter, forever.
Three companies define ARR three different ways. One includes services revenue. One is on a June year end. The portfolio total goes to LPs with an asterisk that nobody reads.
A covenant gets tight, a key customer wobbles, runway quietly shrinks. It's all in the data somewhere, but nobody is watching it between board meetings, so you find out when the founder calls.
Control Tower connects to the systems your companies already use, normalises everything to definitions your fund agrees once, and keeps watching between board meetings.
Every company's numbers pulled automatically from source, mapped to your chart of definitions, and rolled up by fund, vintage, sector or stage.
The leading indicators that tell you where a company is heading, not just where it's been, benchmarked across the portfolio so outliers stand out.
Live runway on actual burn, not last quarter's plan, with scenario views so you know who needs a bridge conversation months before they ask.
A consistent risk score for every company across cash, customer concentration, key people, debt covenants and compliance, so the whole portfolio is read the same way.
AI agents watch every company against the thresholds you set and raise a flag the morning something moves, with the evidence and the source attached.
Investment committee packs, board prep notes and LP updates drafted from verified data in your fund's format. Your team reviews and signs off instead of building from scratch.
We walk through how your portfolio reports today: which companies, which systems, which definitions, and where the hours actually go each quarter. You leave with a map of the gaps, whether or not you go further.
We connect to each company's accounting, CRM and billing systems with read-only access, agree one set of KPI definitions with your team, and load your covenants, thresholds and risk appetite. Your first fully consolidated portfolio view is live by the end of the sprint.
Every month the numbers refresh themselves. Agents watch for breaches and trend breaks, draft the IC and LP packs, and brief you before every board meeting. A person always decides; the system does the gathering.
Scope and costs are agreed upfront, in writing, before anything is connected. Nothing renews without you knowing.
See which founders need help this month, not which ones sent their update on time. Spot the breakout and the burn problem early enough to do something about both.
Track every portfolio company against its value creation plan and its debt covenants in one place, and walk into the operating partner meeting with the variances already explained.
Consolidate direct holdings, co-investments and fund positions into one risk-weighted view, with reporting your investment committee and your LPs can rely on.
Less. Each company connects its systems once, with read-only access, and the monthly data request disappears. Most founders are glad to stop rebuilding the same spreadsheet for every investor on their cap table.
Most monitoring tools are a place to store the numbers someone still has to collect and clean. Control Tower does the collecting, reconciles definitions across companies, measures risk consistently, and drafts the reporting. The tool is the start; the work it takes off your team is the point.
Access is read-only and scoped to the data you agree. Each fund's data is kept separate and access-controlled, and every number is traceable back to its source. We talk through your specific security, data residency and compliance requirements before anything is connected.
No. It replaces the copy and paste. Your analysts spend their time on the questions the data raises, building the investment case and supporting portfolio companies, rather than formatting a quarterly pack.
The common Australian stack: Xero, MYOB, NetSuite and QuickBooks for finance, plus CRM, billing and payroll systems. Where a company only reports in spreadsheets or PDF board packs, we read those too and flag anything that doesn't reconcile.
The onboarding sprint runs three to six weeks, depending on portfolio size. The first consolidated view usually surfaces a definition mismatch or a risk nobody had spotted, which is often worth the sprint on its own.
Investment Control Tower is in early access with a small group of Australian funds. We'll show you your own portfolio, consolidated, before you commit to anything.
