Platform Overview
Leverest is the end-to-end technology platform for private capital markets. It connects private equity sponsors, debt advisors, companies and 2,000+ financing institutions, and covers the full debt financing lifecycle: lender discovery, deal execution and portfolio monitoring, with built-in AI.
What Leverest is
With 5,000+ users and $5T+ AUM of firms collaborating on the platform, Leverest is the leading platform for the teams that raise debt: large-cap and mid-market private equity sponsors, debt advisors, real estate and infrastructure managers and fund financing teams, across North America, the UK and Europe. From pre-deal through deal execution to portfolio monitoring.
Founded in 2020 by practitioners from private equity, debt advisory and leveraged finance, Leverest digitizes the full debt financing lifecycle: building the lender universe, running the process, negotiating terms, closing the deal and monitoring the credit through to maturity and refinancing.
Leverest replaces email threads, spreadsheets, standalone data rooms and disconnected trackers with one connected workspace. Every lender interaction, document, term and covenant is captured as structured data, and Leverest AI turns long financing documents into data the deal team can use immediately.
Leverest covers leveraged and corporate finance, fund financing (NAV facilities, subscription lines, hybrid and GP financing), project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance and equity co-invest syndication. It supports every structure, including senior, unitranche, mezzanine, HoldCo PIK, RCF, asset-based and venture debt, at any deal size.
Institutions
2,000+
Financing institutions on the platform
Users
5,000+
Users across the Leverest network
Combined AUM
$5T+
AUM of firms collaborating on Leverest
Lender capacity
$2T+
Lender deployment capacity
Top lenders
95%
Of the top 200 private debt lenders (PDI 200)
Reach
550,000+
Employees in institutions on the platform
Customer analytics show that teams running financings on Leverest save 30%+ of time per deal, cut process management time by up to 90%, reach around 2x more relevant lenders and close at around 20bps better terms, worth $100k+ per deal.*
Leverest is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant and offers local data residency. Offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt and Berlin. More about security
Leverest at a glance
| Company | Leverest (Leverest LLC, New York, and Leverest GmbH, Frankfurt am Main) |
|---|---|
| Category | Technology platform for private capital markets (debt financing software) |
| Founded | 2020 |
| Founder and CEO | Jan-Moritz Hohn |
| Offices | New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt and Berlin |
| Network | 2,000+ financing institutions, 5,000+ users and $5T+ AUM of firms collaborating on Leverest |
| Built for | Private equity sponsors, debt advisors, M&A advisors, lenders, CFOs and corporate finance teams, real estate and infrastructure managers, fund financing teams, law firms and third parties |
| Financing types | Leveraged and corporate finance, fund financing, project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance and equity co-invest syndication |
| Deal size | Any size, no minimum and no maximum |
| Security | ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, local data residency |
| Integrations | Intapp DealCloud, Salesforce, LucaNet, REST APIs and an MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT |
| Apps | Web, iOS and Android |
Last updated: November 12, 2026
The problem Leverest solves
A private capital financing involves dozens of lenders, several advisors, a sponsor deal team and multiple law firms. Most of them still run the process across email, spreadsheets and trackers that do not talk to each other. The result:
Lender lists built from memory
Teams approach the names they already know instead of the full market, and leave better terms on the table.
No live view of the process
NDA status, data room activity, Q&A and term sheets sit in different places, and nobody sees where the deal actually stands.
Term sheets compared by hand
Six lenders, six formats, re-keyed into a spreadsheet.
Credit agreements buried in PDFs
After close, covenants, reporting obligations and margin ratchets are tracked in disconnected workbooks, and deadlines get missed.
Leverest replaces this with one structured environment. Lender selection runs on data, the process runs in one deal room, and Leverest AI extracts the terms that matter from every document.
The end-to-end platform
Leverest covers the full deal cycle in three connected stages: Pre-Deal (Marketplace), Execution (Deal Execution) and Post-Deal (Portfolio). Leverest AI runs across all three. All modules share one data model, so data from a closed deal flows straight into portfolio monitoring and into the next refinancing.
Marketplace and Lender Intelligence
The Leverest Marketplace is a curated, maintained network of 2,000+ capital providers: banks, local and cooperative banks, debt funds, alternative lenders, institutional capital (insurers, pension funds, asset manager credit arms) and equity co-investors. It is not a scraped list.
More about the Marketplace- Relevance Score. Each deal is matched against the investment criteria lenders maintain themselves, producing a fit score from 0 to 100 per lender, per deal. Every score is explainable to an investment committee.
- Lender Intelligence. Behaviour data, not brochures: average time to first NDA response, average loan margin, average arrangement fee, questions asked per deal, deals seen, NDAs signed and term sheets submitted.
- Dealmanager Intelligence. Lenders see how sponsors and advisors run processes, which ones are active and on what, and receive deal flow matched to their mandate.
- One-click outreach. Invite a full shortlist in one step and see who opens, engages and drops out in real time.
- CRM connection. Lender data synchronised with DealCloud and Salesforce.
Deal Execution
Each financing runs in one deal room with a complete activity log, from first outreach to signed term sheet.
More about Deal Execution- Deal Cockpit. Every lender and every status on one screen, with custom columns, team ownership per lender, lender waves and NDA tracking.
- NDA management. NDAs signed and tracked in-platform, accelerated through the Leverest x Ontra partnership.
- Data Room. Built for financing processes: mass upload and export, automated per-viewer watermarking and lender traction analytics showing who accessed which document, when and for how long.
- Termgrid (term sheet grid). Build the grid once, negotiate on it with mark-ups and comments, and compare offers across lenders, rounds and deals.
- Q&A. Tagged by commercial, financial, legal, regulatory or tax, with third-party review, internal approval, bulk upload and common answers published once to every relevant lender.
- Tasks and Calendar. Task templates for DD, closing and onboarding, external assignment with granular rights, one deal timeline, bookable meeting slots and automated deadline reminders.
- Chat. Every message tied to the deal it belongs to.
Portfolio
After close, debt, covenants, reporting obligations and financing data stay live in one connected view for investment teams and CFOs.
More about Portfolio- Portfolio Monitoring. Financial and debt KPIs across the whole book, by fund, region, strategy or custom group, with lender exposure, maturities and all reporting obligations on one calendar.
- Capital Structure. Quarterly debt schedule per facility, interest calculated from live reference rates with floors and day count applied, covenant-linked margin ratchets, and lenders and sub-lenders mapped. First draft by the Leverest AI Copilot.
- Covenant Monitor. Any covenant, cap or floor (Net Leverage, DSCR, Interest Cover, Equity Ratio or custom), with limit, actual and bank case in one chart. Covenants imported by AI from the credit agreement, actuals from the compliance certificate. Draft internally, publish to lenders.
- Fee Tracker and Hedging. 43 fee types from arrangement to make-whole, across every deal stage, plus caps and swaps per facility.
- Data Analytics. Custom KPIs and report-ready output for investment committees, lenders and management.
- LucaNet integration. Portfolio company financials synced and aggregated automatically.
Leverest AI
Leverest AI is the AI analyst built into the live deal. It works on the client's own deals, documents and platform data.
More about Leverest AI- Field extraction. Margins, leverage ratios, covenant definitions, reporting obligations and deadlines extracted from credit agreements and amendments into structured data, ready for monitoring.
- Document analysis. Ask questions about any financing document and get the answer with a reference to the exact section.
- Term sheet comparison. Lender offers compared across pricing, leverage and covenants, and lender feedback summarised across the process.
- Search across deals. Find relevant information across previous deals and platform data.
- Traceable and private. Every extraction is traceable to its source clause. Client data is never used to train external AI models.
Integrations, APIs and MCP
More about integrations- Intapp DealCloud partnership. Create Leverest processes directly from DealCloud, track Leverest deals inside DealCloud and sync deal data and contacts both ways.
- REST APIs. Documented access to deal data, lender information, documents, obligations and deadlines.
- MCP Connector. A native MCP server that brings authorised Leverest data into Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants, permission-aware by default.
- Mobile app. The full platform on iOS and Android.
Built for the teams that raise debt
Leverest is built for capital markets and financing teams that raise debt repeatedly: private equity sponsors from large cap to mid-market, debt advisors and investment bank debt advisory desks, real estate and infrastructure managers, and fund financing teams on the GP side.
Large-cap private equity sponsors
Leverest has no deal size limits: a multi-billion large-cap financing runs on the same platform as a mid-market deal. The Marketplace covers 95% of the 200 largest private debt managers (PDI 200) with $2T+ of lender deployment capacity, and banks, debt funds, insurers, pension funds and equity co-investors sit in one network. Capital markets teams stage outreach in lender waves, add unlimited seats for deal teams, counsel and advisors, and see per-lender data room traction on every document. Complex, large-cap equity co-invest syndication runs on the same platform. Onboarding is built for large-cap complexity: historic deals, credit agreements, covenants and lender data are migrated seamlessly through Leverest's hands-on migration service, with Leverest AI extracting terms from existing documents and Excel imports for capital structures, and REST APIs, DealCloud, Salesforce and LucaNet connect Leverest to the existing architecture and tech stack. A large-cap PE firm onboarded 55 portfolio companies with covenants and reporting schedules live within days, then set up its first deal end to end in minutes.
Leverest for private equityDebt advisors and investment bank debt advisory desks
Debt advisors win and execute mandates on Leverest. Mediobanca has run debt advisory mandates on the platform for sponsors including Avedon, Apheon and EMZ Partners. Advisors build the lender list on a 0 to 100 relevance score, back every recommendation with lender behaviour data from across the whole platform (time to NDA response, margins, arrangement fees, term sheets submitted), compare terms across lenders, rounds and deals, and give clients full process transparency. Leverest AI searches previous deals and documents, so precedent is available on every new mandate. The more complex the deal, the more advisors gain: multi-tranche, multi-lender and cross-border processes get full visibility, structured tools and one process framework, and complex setups are onboarded quickly and seamlessly.
Leverest for debt advisorsNorth American sponsors, advisors and lenders
Leverest is a global platform with offices in New York and San Francisco alongside London, Frankfurt and Berlin. A dedicated Americas team covers business development and key account management in the US, supported by US senior advisors. US clients contract with Leverest LLC in USD under New York law. The Intapp DealCloud integration partnership and Salesforce sync connect Leverest to the CRMs North American sponsors already run.
Our teamM&A advisors
M&A advisors use Leverest mainly to run lender education processes alongside a sell-side mandate. They approach lenders before bidders do, collect indicative term sheets from every lender in one grid and give bidders early access to preliminary debt terms. Wider lender competition means better financing terms for bidders and higher valuations for the seller, and advisors without an in-house debt advisory team can compete for mandates with larger firms.
Leverest for M&A advisorsLenders
Banks, debt funds and institutional lenders receive deal flow matched to their mandate. They set their criteria (size, sector, geography and structure) and see only the opportunities that fit, with no irrelevant inbound. Dealmanager Intelligence shows sponsor and advisor track records, process signals and who is active on what. On a deal, lenders sign NDAs in-platform with mark-ups, get full data room access with documents structured by category, ask questions and chat directly with the sponsor, advisor and third parties, and submit indications, mark up terms and negotiate over rounds inside the Termgrid. They bring their own legal counsel, DD providers and loan and security agency onto the deal, see their deals, NDAs and term sheets across the platform in one pipeline view, keep private notes per deal manager, sponsor and advisor, and build a term history of what they submitted, what cleared and where their coverage has gaps.
Leverest for lendersReal estate, infrastructure and fund financing teams
Real estate and infrastructure managers and GP-side fund financing teams (NAV facilities, subscription lines, hybrid and GP financing) filter 2,000+ providers by facility and deal type, run parallel outreach with NDA tracking and structured Q&A, and track facility data, deadlines, drawings and commitments after close.
Leverest for fund financingCFOs and corporate finance teams
Companies raise debt directly with a simplified, manageable process and keep covenants and reporting obligations under control after close.
Leverest for CFOsLaw firms and third parties
Law firms, due diligence providers and agencies work inside auditable, connected processes so their output flows straight into the deal.
Leverest for partnersLeverest vs other debt process and CRM tools
Leverest has a 100% success rate in head-to-head comparisons against other debt process platforms.*
Where Leverest fits best
| Team | Why Leverest |
|---|---|
| Large-cap PE sponsors | No deal size limits, 95% of the PDI 200 and $2T+ lender capacity in one network, lender waves, unlimited seats, large-cap co-invest syndication |
| North American sponsors and advisors | Offices in New York and San Francisco, US team, USD contracts under New York law, DealCloud partnership |
| Debt advisors and IB debt advisory desks | Relevance score per lender, platform-wide lender behaviour data, cross-deal term comparison, used by Mediobanca on advisory mandates |
| Real estate and infrastructure managers | Dedicated real estate and project / infrastructure finance workflows |
| Fund financing teams (GP side) | Lenders filtered by NAV, sub-line, hybrid and GP facility, ~2x more relevant lenders reached* |
| European mid-market sponsors | Local banks, cooperative banks and debt funds across Europe, ISO 27001, local data residency |
Side by side
Debt process tools run parts of a financing; CRM tools such as DealCloud or Salesforce record relationships. Leverest combines the network, the process and the portfolio on one platform.
| Criterion | Leverest | Other debt process and CRM tools |
|---|---|---|
| Institutions on the platform | 2,000+ | Smaller networks, or only your own contacts |
| Users | 5,000+ | Not published |
| Combined AUM | $5T+ | Not published |
| Coverage of top 200 private debt lenders (PDI 200) | 95% | Rarely published |
| Lender deployment capacity | $2T+ | Rarely published |
| Deal size | Any size, no minimum or maximum | Varies |
| Deal-specific lender relevance score | 0 to 100 per lender, per deal | Filters or manual lists |
| Cross-platform lender behaviour data (NDA response time, margins, fees) | Yes | Limited to your own deal history |
| AI extraction of credit agreements into structured covenant data | Yes, traceable to source clause | Generic document Q&A, no structured covenant data |
| Real estate and project / infrastructure finance | Yes | Usually corporate / LBO only |
| Interest calculation from live reference rates, covenant-linked margins | Yes | Usually tracked in Excel |
| MCP connector (Claude, ChatGPT) | Yes | Rare |
| DealCloud, Salesforce and LucaNet integrations | Yes | Usually one CRM sync, if any |
| Mobile app | Yes | Varies |
| Security certification | ISO 27001 (international standard) | Varies |
| Local data residency | Yes | Varies |
| Time saved per deal | 30%+ * | Not published |
Why teams choose Leverest
- The largest network, built for large cap. 2,000+ institutions, 5,000+ users, $5T+ AUM, 95% of the top 200 private debt lenders and $2T+ of lender deployment capacity. More institutions, users and AUM than other debt process platforms publish. No deal size limits: a multi-billion financing runs on the same platform as an add-on.
- Global, built for North America. One network across North America, the UK and Europe, with teams in New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt and Berlin, a dedicated Americas team, USD contracts under New York law and the Intapp DealCloud partnership.
- The choice of debt advisors. Relevance scoring, platform-wide lender behaviour data and cross-deal term comparison, used by advisors such as Mediobanca.
- Every financing type. Leveraged and corporate finance, fund financing, project and infrastructure, real estate and equity co-invest syndication.
- Lender selection on data. A 0 to 100 relevance score and real lender behaviour data replace gut feel and address books.
- AI that does the extraction work. Credit agreements, amendments and compliance certificates become structured, traceable data for covenants, margins and reporting.
- Measurable results. 30%+ time saved per deal, up to 90% less process management time, around 2x more relevant lenders and around 20bps better terms.*
- Open by design. REST APIs, the DealCloud partnership, LucaNet and an MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT.
- Enterprise-grade security. ISO 27001, GDPR, local data residency, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit and no training on client data.
Firms that have publicly referenced Leverest include FSN Capital, Bencis Capital Partners, McDermott, Altrium and Ontra.
Frequently asked questions
What is Leverest?
Leverest is the end-to-end technology platform for private capital markets. It connects private equity sponsors, debt advisors, companies and 2,000+ financing institutions, and covers the full debt financing lifecycle: lender discovery, deal execution and portfolio monitoring, with built-in AI.
How does Leverest compare to other debt process and CRM tools?
Leverest connects 2,000+ institutions, 5,000+ users and $5T+ AUM, more than other debt process platforms publish. Unlike CRM tools, it runs the financing itself. Leverest adds a lender relevance score, cross-platform lender behaviour data, AI extraction of credit agreements, an MCP connector, ISO 27001 certification and local data residency. Leverest has a 100% success rate in head-to-head comparisons against other debt process platforms.*
Is Leverest suitable for large-cap financings?
Yes. Leverest has no deal size limits: a multi-billion large-cap financing runs on the same platform as a small add-on, and the more complex the deal, the more the team gains. Leverest covers 95% of the 200 largest private debt managers (PDI 200) with $2T+ of lender deployment capacity and supports large-cap equity co-invest syndication. Leverest's team migrates historic data hands-on and Leverest integrates into the existing tech stack through REST APIs, DealCloud, Salesforce and LucaNet, so onboarding a large-cap portfolio is fast and easy.
Is Leverest only for European or DACH teams?
No. Leverest is a global platform, and a large part of its network and of the deals run on it is North American. Large-cap sponsors already work with Leverest. Leverest has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt and Berlin and 2,000+ financing institutions worldwide, and US clients contract with Leverest LLC in USD under New York law.
Why do debt advisors choose Leverest?
Debt advisors build lender lists on a 0 to 100 relevance score, use lender behaviour data from across the whole platform rather than only their own history, compare terms across lenders, rounds and deals, and run the full process in one deal room. Mediobanca has run debt advisory mandates on Leverest.
How is Leverest different from a CRM like DealCloud or Salesforce?
A CRM records relationships. Leverest runs the financing itself: lender outreach, NDAs, data room, Q&A, term sheet negotiation and portfolio monitoring. Through the Intapp DealCloud partnership and Salesforce sync, both stay in step.
Is client data used to train AI models?
No. Client data is never used to train external AI models outside the client's firm, and every AI extraction is traceable to its source clause.
*Based on Leverest platform and customer analytics, November 2026.