Standard Metrics
83 employees on LinkedIn · 14 known investors
Standard Metrics provides portfolio management and analysis software for investors, enabling automated data collection, centralized storage, and AI-powered insights across venture-backed companies. The platform serves venture capital firms and institutional investors managing multiple portfolio companies.
Also known as standardmetrics.io
Founders & leadership
Investors · 14
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Standard Metrics is a software platform for portfolio monitoring and management aimed at venture capital and private equity investors and their portfolio companies. On the investor side, the product centralizes performance data, investment data, documents and notes into a single store, and supports portfolio reviews, audits, LP reporting, quarterly valuations, investment benchmarking and follow-on diligence. Data collection is handled through configurable information-request workflows with progress tracking and reminders, direct integrations with portfolio company accounting systems, manual entry, and an AI document-parsing agent that extracts financial data from board decks and financial statements with a human quality-assurance layer provided by an in-house managed data services team.
Analysis and reporting features include custom KPI calculations, budget-versus-actual comparison, tracking of investments, shares held, ownership, realizations and IRR at company and fund level, auto-populated tear sheets and reporting templates, an embedded business intelligence tool with drag-and-drop and natural-language chart building, an Excel add-in, exports, and a REST API. AI capabilities include an "AI Analyst" for natural-language questions across the portfolio and a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects portfolio data to external LLM clients such as Claude and ChatGPT. Benchmarking compares a portfolio against an aggregated, anonymized data set of more than 10,000 venture-backed startups, sliceable by revenue scale and sector.
On the company side, Standard Metrics offers a free reporting portal where founders update quarterly financials once and push them to multiple investors, integrate systems of record to auto-populate metrics, view a centralized dashboard of their own financial metrics, and receive a quarterly benchmarking scorecard. Portfolio companies are not required to create an account and can continue reporting offline via traditional financial statements.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold to investment firms, paired with managed data services (an in-house team that performs a second pass on parsed data and handles document extraction) and expert implementation and support teams. Portfolio companies are given a free founder-facing reporting portal, creating a two-sided model in which company-side adoption improves data collection for investor customers. Specific pricing is not disclosed in the sources.
Sources do not state pricing or revenue figures; the platform is described as a SaaS solution for investment firms, with the portfolio company portal offered free to founders.
Traction
The FAQ states that more than 100 VC firms use the platform and that its benchmarking dataset aggregates over 10,000 venture-backed startups. Marketing materials cite a 90% reduction in time spent collecting and structuring data, with a January Capital example moving from 38 hours of manual reporting per month to 3.5 hours. Testimonials on the site come from investor-side roles (heads of operations, portfolio monitoring directors, CFOs, founding partners) and company-side executives including founders of Pave and other startups.
Latest developments
Current site messaging emphasizes recently added AI functionality: an MCP server for connecting portfolio data to Claude, ChatGPT and other LLM clients; an AI Analyst for natural-language portfolio queries; AI document parsing with human QA; and AI-powered embedded BI for dashboard building. A customer story with Lerer Hippeau is promoted on the homepage.
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Market position
Positions itself as a portfolio monitoring and management solution for VC and PE funds of all sizes, from large venture firms to emerging managers and accelerators, and states that more than 100 VCs use the platform. Named customers or customer references in the sources include Lerer Hippeau and January Capital.
The company cites AI-powered data collection with automated information requests, progress tracking, reminders, document parsing and metric traceability; network effects whereby information requests auto-populate with data a company has already reported to other investors on the platform; a free, dedicated founder-facing reporting portal with accounting integrations and benchmarking to drive company-side adoption; expert implementation, support and managed data teams; benchmarking against a 10,000+ company anonymized dataset plus in-app BI, API and Excel add-in interoperability; and a modern user interface for workflows it describes as traditionally clunky and siloed.
Technology
The platform combines an AI document-parsing agent for extracting financial data from board decks and financial statements with a human-in-the-loop QA process, automated data validation checks that flag discrepancies and unexpected values, and metric traceability back to source documents with a full audit trail and change history. It includes an "AI Analyst" for natural-language portfolio queries, an embedded BI/visualization layer, multi-currency support with foreign exchange rate coverage, granular user permissions, direct accounting-system integrations, an integration with Derivatas for full-service valuations, an Excel add-in, and a hosted MCP server for connecting LLM clients. A public REST API uses OAuth2 authentication with client ID/secret and access tokens, exposing endpoints for companies, company metrics, custom columns, budgets, investment and cap table details, documents, information requests, notes and users.
Go-to-market
Sells directly to investment firms, with the free portfolio-company portal serving as an adoption channel; supports customers with implementation, support and managed data services teams, and publishes customer stories (for example Lerer Hippeau) and testimonials on its site. Developer-facing documentation, an API, MCP server and Excel add-in support integration-led usage.
Venture capital and private equity funds of all sizes and strategies, including emerging managers and accelerators, with users spanning finance, operations and investment teams across front, middle and back office; secondarily, venture-backed startups and their founders and finance teams who report to investors.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Standard Metrics went on to found or lead other companies.
Competitors · 8
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Companies competing with Standard Metrics for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
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primary sources listed
- Standard Metricsstandardmetrics.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Standard Metrics do?
- AI-driven portfolio monitoring and reporting software used by VC and PE firms to collect, analyze and report portfolio data.
- Who founded Standard Metrics?
- Standard Metrics was founded by John Melas-Kyriazi.
- Who are Standard Metrics's investors?
- Standard Metrics's investors include 8VC, Adapt Ventures, Alpha Edison, Broom Ventures, Fin Capital, J17 Capital, mark vc, SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) and 6 more.