Ark PES

Ark (Ark PES) develops a back-office and investor relations software platform for the private capital markets. Its product set spans four core areas: fund accounting, built around a general ledger with real-time financial data, customizable reporting and automated workflows; a branded investor portal with configurable dashboards, document management and multi-factor authentication; reporting and analytics, including role-based dashboards, drill-through from financial statements to journal entries and transactions, and LP statements with automatically calculated metrics such as RVPI, DPI, MOIC and TPI; and fundraising, covering data rooms, investor onboarding, watermarking and document controls, targeted campaigns and engagement tracking on document interactions and email notifications.

Additional platform capabilities cited by the company include portfolio investment tracking, investor allocation calculations (including carried interest) exportable to Excel with intact formulas, capital call and distribution automation, API-driven general ledger connectivity, and multi-manager platform administration for service teams. The company states it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and that its infrastructure continuously replicates data for high availability and redundancy, and it maintains a Trust Center for security documentation. Named leadership includes co-founder and CEO Bill Ward, CFO and COO Jeff Welton, and Director of Product Katie Gavin.