Funds are stitched together. Operating model borrowed from a peer fund. Platform borrowed from a banking template. Back office outsourced to an administrator who runs on a system the manager will never own. The result: each fund cycle starts from scratch and the institution never gets sharper.
Q-Lana approaches fund management as one continuous discipline. Three offerings, sequenced. Q-LIA designs the operating model. The Asset Management Platform runs the fund on one disciplined system. Managed Administration operates the middle and back office on the same platform until the in-house team takes over.
One operating discipline. Three doors in, depending on where you are. The institution gets sharper with every cycle. the second fund is wiser than the first before deployment begins.
Each offering solves a different shape of problem. Each one starts with a conversation. Each one runs on the same operating discipline so they compound rather than compete.
The design discipline. Practitioners who have run funds work with managers to conceptualize the operating model itself. Investment process, IC governance, risk policy, monitoring routines, capital allocation discipline. Five work areas covering everything from fund vehicle setup to ESG, audit, and TAF coordination.
Inside Q-LIAThe operating system. End-to-end management of debt, equity, convertibles, and alternative products on one configurable low-code platform. Twelve module families covering origination, accounting, valuation, NAV production, monitoring, covenant management, and reporting. Cloud or on-premise. AUM-based pricing.
Inside the PlatformThe outsourced operations team that runs on the same platform an in-house team would otherwise operate. For emerging managers and funds under €100M. Pre-disbursement administration, NAV production, audit support, capital calls, quarterly reporting. The system the manager grows into rather than away from.
Inside Managed AdministrationMost fund failures are not investment failures. They are operating-model failures that surface as portfolio problems eighteen months later. The model is borrowed and never re-grounded. The platform is procured and never aligned to the model. The administrator runs on a system the deal team cannot read. Reconciliation is monthly and painful, and the audit committee starts asking questions that nobody can answer cleanly.
Q-LIA designs the operating model that the platform runs and the administrator operates. The three offerings share a single discipline. Pick the entry point that matches where you are. The way of working is the same.
We currently manage an Africa-focused impact fund. We have built fund management capacity for AECF Capital, structured the Microfinance Liquidity Fund (MLF) for Access to Finance Rwanda, and designed blended-finance vehicles where DFIs anchor concessional capital alongside commercial tranches.
Our team brings 30+ years of senior global experience across fund structuring, credit risk management, and blended finance. Our approach to fund management is Africa-rooted by design. Local incorporation, local leadership, local execution, anchored in international standards and DFI investor expectations.
Five work areas: fund establishment, capital mobilization, deal origination & portfolio management, treasury & risk, ESG and reporting. →
Twelve module families. End-to-end. Configurable low-code. IFRS 9 accounting, NAV production, covenant monitoring, ESG tracking. →
Outsourced middle and back office. Pre-disbursement administration, accounting, NAV production, audit support, capital calls. →
Different is better than better. The fund managers that win the next decade will not be the ones with the cheapest stack or the loudest AI. They will be the ones that turn operations into a system: practitioners who design the model, a platform that runs the fund, a back office that compounds with every cycle.
We built Q-Lana for the fund manager whose the second fund is wiser than the first before deployment begins. The one whose IC memo is the operating manual because the people who designed the workflow have written one before.
Q-Lana is the operating system built for the fund that takes its operating model seriously. Three offerings, one accountable partner, one platform underneath.
Thirty minutes, senior to senior. No pitch deck. A working session on where your fund operations leak today and what changes when the platform takes over.
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