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Q-Lana NextGen for Fund Managers

The Operating System for Fund Managers.

Your operations are the ceiling on scale. Turn them into one system. Process becomes platform, and platform becomes scale.

01Design the operating model with practitioners who have run funds.
02End-to-end management of the investment process on one system.
03Outsource the middle/back office operations, on the same platform.
Three ways of working with us → Read the discipline
Practitioners who have run funds. Emerging managers, established funds, and institutions on four continents.
Atlas Impact Fund II
Vintage 2023 · €250M target · Investing
On Track
Capital Deployed
€127M
51% of fund size
Fund Net IRR
12.4%
Above target
Active Investments
18
3 in pipeline
Days to Next NAV
12
Q2 close on schedule
Portfolio Concentration vs Limit
Renewable Energy
64%
Healthcare
42%
Agriculture
28%
Single name
82%
Operations · Last 24h
Q2 NAV pack ready for IC review. 18 holdings revalued, 2 flagged.
Valuation Module · 08:42
Capital call notice due in five business days. €18M, 9 LPs.
LP Reporting · Yesterday
Covenant compliance certificate received from Solaris Renewables.
Monitoring · 06:15
This is what Portfolio 360 looks like inside Q-Lana. Every facility, every limit, every NAV cycle, in one view.
We know the work

If you run a fund, you already know where the friction sits.

The fund’s investment policy lives in a deck but lacks execution discipline. The IC memo lives in someone’s inbox.

Portfolio company data sits in twenty-seven spreadsheets and nobody owns the master.

Capital deployment pressure outpaces what the deal team can credibly diligence.

The second fund starts from scratch on operations. Nothing from the first fund compounds.

The fund administrator runs on a different system than the deal team. Reconciliation is monthly and painful.

We have sat in those rooms. We know which fix moves the needle.

How we engage

Three doors. One way of working.

Q-Lana for fund managers is not a single product on a price list. It is three serious commitments. Each one solves a different shape of problem. Each one starts with a conversation. Pick the door that matches where you are.

Offering 01

The Asset Management Platform.

Run the entire fund on one system.

End-to-end asset management system across debt, equity, and alternative products. Assessment, due diligence, disbursement, monitoring, collection, portfolio management, reporting. Asset-level accounting, valuation, NAV production, invoicing, covenant monitoring, KYC monitoring, Impact and ESG tracking. One operating system. Configured to your fund structure, not the other way around. The deal team and the LP team see the same fund, in real time, every day.

This is the platform we wished existed when we ran portfolios ourselves.

Origination Analysis Disbursement Asset-level accounting Valuation & NAV production Covenant & ESG monitoring Document repository
Inside the Platform
01 Sourcing & Acquisition 02 Investment Application 03 Pre-Due Diligence 04 Due Diligence 05 Approval 06 Pre-Disbursement 07 Monitoring 08 Exit CROSS-CUTTING · COVENANT & ESG CROSS-CUTTING · PORTFOLIO 360 & NAV Eight phases. Two threads. One platform.
Investment Process & IC Governance Risk Policy & Concentration Pre-Disbursement Conditions Monitoring & Escalation Capital Allocation & Pacing Portfolio Management Discipline
Offering 02

Q-Lana Investment Advisors (Q-LIA).

Design the operating model with practitioners who have run funds.

Fund operating models are borrowed from a banking template, copied from a peer fund, or stitched together as the manager grew. Q-LIA rebuilds it from the inside out. Investment process, IC governance, risk policy, monitoring routines, capital allocation discipline. All shaped to how the fund actually invests, not how somebody else thought it should.

The IC memo becomes the operating manual because the people who designed the workflow have written one before.

Investment process & IC governance Risk policy & concentration framework Monitoring & escalation Capital allocation & pacing Pre-disbursement & conditions precedent Portfolio management discipline
Inside Q-LIA
Offering 03

Managed Administration.

Outsource the middle and back office on the same platform.

For emerging managers and funds under €100M, Q-Lana operates the back office on the same platform an in-house team would use. As the fund scales, the in-house team takes it over without re-platforming. Most administrators run on a system the manager will never own. Ours is the system the manager grows into.

This is the engagement that pays for itself before the second fund holds its first close.

Pre-disbursement administration Collateral perfection Accounting & valuation NAV production & audit support Investor onboarding & KYC Quarterly reporting & capital calls
Inside Managed Administration
PHASE 1 Q-Lana operates PHASE 2 In-house team handoff over time THE Q-LANA PLATFORM Asset management + middle/back office Same platform. Operator changes. Fund does not re-platform.

Each starts with a conversation. None starts with a procurement form.

Talk to the team →
Why Q-Lana

What you get when the partner has actually run the business.

01

Practitioners. Not consultants.

The team that designed the platform has run lending businesses, run funds, sat in IC, defended valuations to LPs. The seat you are sitting in is a seat we have sat in.

02

Institutions and funds across four continents.

Commercial banks, DFIs, microfinance, specialized lenders, private debt and private equity funds, impact funds, real estate funds. The pattern library is built from real deployments, not from theory.

03

A platform the deal team opens every morning.

Not a tool that sits in a corner. The system that produces the NAV, the LP report, and the IC pack you actually trust.

04

Long-term partners. Not vendors.

We stay through the valley. The transformation lands because someone keeps showing up after the kickoff celebration ends. The relationship is multi-year by design, not by accident.

The fund managers that scale will be the ones that turn operations into a system first. If you take fund operations seriously, we are the partner worth a conversation.

Drill into the discipline

What lives behind each door.

Each door opens into a full discipline. The cards above set the positioning. The pages below set the substance.

Offering 01

The Asset Management Platform.

Twelve module families. End-to-end. Workflow, contact, rating, accounting, valuation, NAV production, monitoring, covenant management, reporting. Configurable low-code, cloud or on-premise.

Inside the Platform →
Offering 02

Q-LIA. Investment Advisors.

Five work areas: fund establishment and licensing, capital mobilization and IR, deal origination and portfolio management, treasury and risk, ESG and reporting. The design discipline that the platform runs.

Inside Q-LIA →
Offering 03

Managed Administration.

Six functions: pre-disbursement administration, collateral perfection, accounting and valuation, NAV production and audit support, investor onboarding and KYC, capital calls and reporting.

Inside Managed Administration →
A note from the founder

Many fund operating models are stitched together as the manager grows. Borrowed from a banking template. Copied from a peer fund. Bolted onto an administrator’s system the manager will never own. The fund deploys the first vintage and learns. The second vintage starts from scratch on operations. The third repeats the cycle.

Q-Lana is the operating system built for the manager that breaks that cycle. The one whose second fund is wiser than the first before deployment begins.

Christian Ruehmer
Co-Founder, Q-Lana
Three ways forward

Process becomes platform. Three ways to start.

Talk to a practitioner

Thirty minutes. Senior to senior.

No pitch deck. A working session on where your fund operations leak today and what changes when the platform takes over. Operating model, the platform, managed administration: pick the entry point that matters.

Start the conversation
Open a Solution

Drill into the disciplines.

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