Automated Fund Reporting for FinTechAutomated Fund Reporting for FinTech

The Challenge

What they were dealing with

An early stage venture fund managing $45M across 28 portfolio companies was producing weekly performance reports manually. One analyst spent nearly two full days every week pulling data from six different sources, formatting spreadsheets, building charts, assembling investor decks, and sending emails. The process was error prone, often delayed, and consumed 40% of the operations team's bandwidth.

Before

The Approach

How I solved it

The fundamental problem was not the reports themselves. It was that a human was acting as the middleware between six data systems that did not talk to each other. The analyst was literally copying numbers from one dashboard, pasting them into a spreadsheet, formatting charts, copying those charts into a slide deck, then emailing the deck to investors. Two days of copy paste work that added zero analytical value.

I built an automated reporting pipeline that connects directly to every data source via API, pulls the numbers on schedule, reconciles them across systems (the portfolio tracker and the bank accounts never agreed, so I built a reconciliation layer), validates everything against historical ranges to catch anomalies, and generates three publication ready outputs: a detailed weekly performance spreadsheet with charts, an investor facing PDF summary with the fund's exact branding and formatting standards, and a Slack digest with key metrics and flags.

The anomaly detection is what the partners love most. If any data point falls outside expected ranges (for example, a portfolio company's revenue drops 20% week over week, or a bank balance does not match expected wire transfers), the system flags it and pings the partner on Slack before the report goes out. They caught two accounting errors in the first month that would have gone to investors unnoticed under the old process. The analyst who used to spend two days on this now spends 15 minutes reviewing the output and clicking approve.

The Results

What changed