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Backstop Solutions Suite Overview

What is Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop, a service of ION Analytics, has a mission to help clients break down the barriers to data access and deliver better decisions. As part of ION Analytics, our industry-leading services redefine the way firms operate in private markets, reshaping the institutional investment industry at the intersection of human insight and machine intelligence. Our core strength lies in developing technology that serves as a definitive source of truth, empowering clients with actionable insights, and seamless institutional knowledge sharing, while optimizing day-to-day success. Backstop is an investment management platform for consultants, OCIOs, pensions, funds of funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and real estate investment firms.

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Product Description

Backstop offers the industry-leading, cloud-based productivity suite to funds of funds, pensions, endowments, foundations, investment consultants, family offices, hedge funds, and private equity firms

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

The Backstop Suite’s cohesive solutions have become the gold standard across the alternative investment world.

The Backstop Suite helps our fund manager clients strengthen their relationships with investors and interact with their many service providers while also maintaining their ability to adapt to the ever-evolving regulatory landscape.

Allocators use these same components of the suite in addition to Backstop’s research and portfolio management features to make better investment decisions and accurately account for their investment activity.

We are honored to have helped accelerate the growth of the alternative investment industry. We look forward to evolving with our clients and continuing to support them in their quest for operational agility and improved business performance.


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Year Founded
2000
HQ Location
London
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269 employees on LinkedIn®

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Lots to learn, but the Backstop team is there to help."
streamlining information and making that information easily accessible or emailed out automatically to all employees.
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Mark Q.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Powerful CRM, difficult UI"
It is very powerful - for an asset manager, it does everythign you could possibly need
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5.0 out of 5
"Excellent CRM"
The ease of sending an email campaign. The functionality of contact sorting, etc.
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Backstop Solutions Suite Demo - Portfolio Management
Monitor all portfolio activity, performance and related research via a single source of truth across multi-asset class investments.
Backstop Solutions Suite Demo - Research Management Insights at Your Fingertips
Conduct “pulse checks” at a moment’s notice with research management intelligence brought together on Backstop Home Base.
Backstop Solutions Suite Demo - Client Service Insights at Your Fingertips
A new way to start and end your day with key insights into your top investor interactions, opportunities, activity, and more on Backstop Home Base. Showcase all the efforts you and your team bring to the firm.
Backstop Solutions Suite Demo - Backstop Pipeline Manager
Analyze and explore all elements of your pipeline in real-time - effectively track, monitor, and manage fundraising efforts by slicing and dicing data by team member, geography, lead source, expected close date, opportunity stage, probability, and more.
Backstop Solutions Suite Demo - Work on the go with Backstop mobile
Transform your work away from your desktop with our new Backstop Mobile app. Access crucial information, manage contacts, connect to Google Maps, and add meeting notes all from the convenience of your smart phone.
Backstop Solutions Suite Demo - Backstop Client Portal
Optimize investor relations, business development and more while securely sharing sensitive fund information with your clients.
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Portfolio Administration Leader
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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop is a wonderful CRM system that allows us to track important documents and contacts and keep data that meets our business needs at the same time and reports to support deliverables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop is a small CRM with strengths for the financial investment industry, perhaps could support more customer/client community to increase shared business practices to help one another grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backstop CRM software allows us to customize data fields to meet our needs. There are many standard out-of-the-box solutions to meet simple needs and with the right contributions of individuals in your own business, you can configure the software or create custom data fields to track other data that might be important to your business such as Due Diligence or onboarding new managers or funds to your business. Show your pipeline and share information across your enterprise. It helps create transparency within your organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Director of IR
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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

It is very powerful - for an asset manager, it does everythign you could possibly need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

The UI is clunky - it look old and takes much longer than is should to do anything. It moves very slow. Customer support need to be improved - there is a seperated site with different log in and it can be diffiuclt to get someone on the phone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backstop is our CRM and a CRM is the lifeblood of a sales organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop was built specifically for the investment industry. Many other CRM systems are flat and require a lot of customization. Backstop provides you with a relevant and useful tool out of the box but also allows you to create your own customizations. The Outlook plugin and relationship functionality are so helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Creating reports and using some of the tools like the Excel Toolkit can take time to master. I have found recently that it is difficult to get useful assistance from the helpdesk on matters like this. I also wish they offered a plugin similar to Outlook but for Gmail users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking interaction and communication with investors and prospects. Centralizing reporting details on funds and investor accounts. Providing reporting summaries for accounts in aggregate based on relationship. A useful email blast tool to disseminate information quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Avery Champion of Backstop Solutions Suite

Thank you for your feedback! We are happy to hear that Backstop provides relevant and useful tools for your team. We have flagged your comment about offering a plugin similar to Outlook for Gmail users for our product team to review and consider.

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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop offers an easy-to-use CRM/RMS. Our team can streamline due diligence and portfolio performance monitoring, track contacts, documents & meeting notes. The client service and support teams are great partners. Backstop has consistently invested in product enhancements. IntellX is a helpful new service offered to collect and retrieve documents from our manager emails and portals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

There is not much we dislike about Backstop. In 8+ years, we have raised occasional enhancement request ideas and minor bug fixes. Our requests are always promptly reviewed. They don't always make it into production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Backstop Solutions Suite:

A great partner for any institutional allocator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backstop provides our team with a centralized source of data for our portfolios. Notes, documents, and reports are shared efficiently and retained securely. It is a helpful tool to track our portfolio planning, liquidity terms, and due diligence process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Posting notes and sharing them with colleagues is much easier on this platform. It is simple to learn and train incoming team members on how to use it. Other platforms have a steeper learning curve and it's harder to find specific entities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

If a firm uses an acronym such as SGC and I want to search for it, I must type Star Growth Capital to access the entity. This process is tedious and often involves googling firm names. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides a database to store notes, search for them, and quickly access information (especially during meetings when time is key). It provides a one stop shop to document call notes and distribute them to team members via email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Avery Champion of Backstop Solutions Suite

Thank you for your feedback! We are happy to hear that Backstop is easy and simple to learn for your team. Have you tried using the “*” key to help populate more expansive search results within the platform? Please reach out to our client care team to learn more if this is something you’d be interested in getting complimentary training on.

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Senior Administrative Asst.
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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

I have been working with Backstop for over 8 years and I feel the updates have been great! I am an Administrative Asst in the investment office and find it very helpful in assisting with my tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

I find the report function a bit tedious but is improving. Also, my co-worker is unable to enter the values after the update on the Income and Expense tab. We were not sure if this was due to the update but she prefers the previous version that gives the option to just enter. Previously we had issues entering the values the updated way which caused issues with the returns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

We mainly use Backstop as a CRM and storage database. It assists us with tracking capital calls, distributions, and performance. I like that Backstop has the capability to do anything we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sam Bolda of Backstop Solutions Suite

Thank you for your feedback! We are happy to hear that Backstop is flexible and user-friendly for your team. We have flagged your comments about reporting and the update to your Income and Expense tab for our product team to review and consider.

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Vice President, Investor Relations
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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

It's easy to use, flexible, intuitive and has unlimited Support/Education. I've used many CRMs and Backstop is the only one I have ever recommended as all others pale in comparison. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

In 10+ years of using the system, I haven't had any deal breakers. There's been an occasional "it'd be nice if..." but either that gets added or I missed a way to do that task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Backstop Solutions Suite:

Make sure to ask to speak with a user for your specific needs. The last reference I did was for a company that wanted to build data rooms in Portal which I've done. Having that specific a reference helps in evaluating properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the most basic level, a relationship manager with document permissioning flexible enough for finicky investors and an investor portal that can be built out as desired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sam Bolda of Backstop Solutions Suite

We appreciate working with your team, Maria! Thank you for this feedback. We have noted the importance of finding users that can speak to specific needs for reference calls. Your input on product and user experience has been extremely helpful.

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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop is very intuitive to use and navigate. The team was very helpful in setting up our CRM system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Nothing I strongly dislike - if there was anything I would say is that implementing a CRM system can be challenging to work through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backstop helped us implement a CRM system to better track documents we were receiving from investment managers we work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Backstop Solutions provides an adaptable, ever-evolving product suite. Their customer service is fantastic and the products meet my needs as a Hedge Fund Investor Relations Professional. I have been a Backstop user for nearly 7 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

There aren't many things that I dislike about Backstop but there are certain reports that I have wanted to run but have been unable to access the data in the way I prefer. This is not a frequent issue though. I am on the product improvement list for these types of requests and can attest that Backstop does consider these improvement requests and often integrates them over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main solution that Backstop provides to my firm is marketing pipeline tracking and tracking current investor interactions and account details. The CRM definitely allows me to be more productive by having a lot of information automatically at my fingertips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Backstop Solutions Suite?

The Help Center is most helpful as they are always one click away and willing to hop on a call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Backstop Solutions Suite?

Some information can require extra clicking around to find at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Backstop Solutions Suite solving and how is that benefiting you?

CRM, report building, email blasts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.