Prompt

Can you recommend a performance analytics dashboard for consolidating revenue, burn, and runway across our portfolio?

Finance · Private Equity & VC / Private equity vc1 observationLast seen Jul 23, 2026

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Jul 23, 2026 · OpenAI APIWeb search: off

Yes — for consolidating revenue, burn, and runway across a portfolio, I’d look for a dashboard that supports:

  • Portfolio-level rollups across all companies
  • Standardized KPI definitions so every company reports the same way
  • Monthly cash burn and runway calculations
  • Revenue by company, ARR/MRR, and growth trends
  • Investor/board-ready views with drill-downs by entity, sector, stage, or geography
  • Automated data ingestion from accounting, banking, and CRM systems

Strong options to consider

1. Looker / Power BI / Tableau + a central data model

Best if you want maximum flexibility and already have internal data/ops support.

Pros

  • Highly customizable
  • Can combine data from QuickBooks/Xero, Stripe, bank feeds, ERP, and CRM
  • Good for portfolio aggregation and custom runway formulas

Cons

  • Requires data engineering or a strong analyst team
  • You’ll need to define and maintain metrics consistency

Best for

  • Firms with many portfolio companies
  • Teams that want a bespoke dashboard and have someone to manage it

2. Rho / Fathom / Jirav

These are more finance-focused and easier to stand up than a custom BI stack.

Fathom

  • Great for financial reporting, KPI dashboards, and benchmarking
  • Useful for burn and runway reporting
  • Can consolidate multiple entities

Jirav

  • Strong for budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning
  • Good for cash runway modeling
  • Better if you want forward-looking dashboards, not just historical reporting

Rho

  • Stronger as a financial operations platform
  • Helpful if you want banking + spend visibility in one place
  • Less of a portfolio analytics layer by itself, but useful data source

Best for

  • Lean finance teams
  • Firms that want quicker deployment without building everything from scratch

3. Visible.vc

Very common in venture/portfolio reporting.

Pros

  • Built for portfolio companies and investor updates
  • Centralizes company reporting and KPI tracking
  • Easier onboarding for portfolio companies

Cons

  • Less flexible than BI tools
  • Financial depth may be lighter than a dedicated FP&A stack

Best for

  • VC or growth equity firms that want standardized reporting across a portfolio

4. Carta (depending on your use case)

More known for cap table/equity management, but can be useful if you want portfolio visibility tied to ownership and company metrics.

Best for

  • Firms already using Carta and wanting broader portfolio context
  • Teams that care about ownership, financing, and performance together

My practical recommendation

If you want the best balance of speed + portfolio-wide reporting, I’d shortlist:

  1. Visible.vc if you want a venture-native reporting layer
  2. Fathom if you want stronger finance reporting and consolidation
  3. Power BI / Looker if you need a truly customized portfolio analytics dashboard

What I’d choose by scenario

  • Small/mid-sized portfolio, want quick rollout: Visible.vc or Fathom
  • Need scenario planning and runway forecasting: Jirav
  • Need deep customization and enterprise-grade reporting: Power BI / Looker
  • Need spend + banking + basic analytics: Rho plus BI layer

Key implementation tip

No matter which tool you choose, success depends on standardizing:

  • Revenue definition: booked vs recognized vs recurring
  • Burn definition: gross burn vs net burn
  • Runway formula: cash / monthly net burn
  • Reporting cadence: weekly/monthly
  • Data sources: accounting, bank, CRM, and payroll

If you want, I can also give you:

  1. a feature comparison table for these tools, or
  2. a recommended dashboard structure for portfolio revenue/burn/runway reporting.

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