Strategic Finance Infrastructure
Install the financial backbone your fund and portfolio companies need to scale with confidence.
Capital is powerful, but without financial clarity, even the best investments underperform. At The Extraordinary Lab, we help funds and operators build institutional-grade finance systems: models that scale, dashboards that drive insight, and reporting that builds LP trust.
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Financial System Discovery & Audit
We start by assessing your existing financial systems—fund-level or portfolio-level. Whether you’re dealing with disconnected spreadsheets, late reporting cycles, or no dashboards at all, we diagnose gaps across forecasting, performance tracking, and capital flow visibility.
Fund & Portco Modeling
We build tailored models that support IRR, TVPI, DPI, and NAV tracking, plus 3-statement integration where needed. For portfolio companies, we create operational and board-friendly models that connect actuals with strategic scenarios.
LP Reporting & Board Dashboards
We create clean, repeatable dashboards that meet the needs of LPs, board members, and internal teams. Whether it’s quarterly updates, capital call schedules, or forecast vs. actuals, your reporting will inspire confidence, not confusion.
Capital Call & Distribution Workflows
We help you structure, track, and automate capital call and distribution logic, including expense allocations, fee structures, and co-investment tracking. No more manual calculations, just audit-ready workflows that scale.
Budgeting & Forecasting Systems
We install rolling forecast tools, burn analysis templates, and OPEX planning models. These help portfolio CFOs and fund operators plan with precision, not guesswork, across cash, runway, and capital efficiency metrics.
Scenario & Exit Modeling
We design flexible exit scenario tools that model valuation sensitivity, ownership waterfalls, equity dilution, and return profiles across multiple outcomes. These systems prepare your fund or portfolio for smarter exits and better decisions along the way.
Margin, CAC, & Payback Metrics
For portfolio companies, we install finance frameworks that tie customer acquisition, gross margin, and payback models into a unified system. These help teams make efficient growth decisions based on data, not assumptions.
KPI Design & Operator Alignment
We don’t just hand over models, we align your KPIs across functions. From board-level metrics to department-specific indicators, we make sure your finance systems drive strategic action, not just reporting.
Diagnose
We assess your current systems, reporting cadence, and financial visibility across fund and portfolio layers—highlighting gaps that slow down insight, investor confidence, or execution.
Build or Deploy
We either install our VC/PE Fund CFO Kit or build custom models, dashboards, and capital workflows based on your exact needs—across both fund operations and portfolio finance.
Integrate
We ensure tools are integrated with internal workflows, synced to actuals, and usable by internal teams. If needed, we train your ops and finance leads to own the systems long-term.
Optimize
We track adoption, refine reporting, and iterate based on board, LP, and internal feedback. Finance becomes a growth engine—not a bottleneck.