DealCloud was formed in 2010 by a passionate team with deep private equity, technology, and operating experience to bring technology-enabled efficiency to the private equity, investment banking, and alternative investment sectors. The DealCloud founders believe that there is much inefficiency associated with the traditional industry approach to deal sourcing, deal financing, managing due diligence, managing portfolio companies, conducting industry research, and fundraising. To eliminate many of these inefficiencies, the founders created DealCloud’s flagship product, Private Equity DealCloud (PE DealCloud). The resulting knowledge management system is a platform that allows a private equity firm to centrally manage all firm activities, collaborate efficiently, and to build a firm-wide knowledge base that will survive Associate turnover.