LeadingMile and qashqade announce strategic partnership

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AMSTERDAM/ZURICH February 5, 2024- LeadingMile Consulting, a leading European consultancy firm specializing in solution implementation for the alternative investment sector, and qashqade AG, a Zurich-based pioneer in private market operations automation, have announced a strategic partnership focused on elevating the efficiency of private market operations for their clients.

This collaboration between LeadingMile and qashqade will empower clients to benefit from the combined strength of both offerings, with an emphasis on LeadingMile’s expertise and experience in Alternative Investments solutions and qashqade’s cutting-edge platform for automated waterfall calculations and capitalization table modelling.  

“LeadingMile is dedicated to providing excellence through implementing innovative solutions to the alternative investment sector, and our partnership with qashqade represents the next step towards that goal.” said Martijn Voorhaar, Founder & CEO of LeadingMile Consulting. “Through this combined effort, we enable private market firms to leverage advanced technology and expert guidance to master the complexities of their operations more efficiently.”

“Partnering with leading consulting firm LeadingMile strengthens our business offering across Europe and gives more alternative investment firms access to what we do best, which is streamline their calculation, allocation, tracking and reporting processes.” said Oliver Freigang, qashqade’s CEO & Co-Founder.  

About LeadingMile Consulting

LeadingMile is a dynamic, full-service consultancy firm specialising in solution implementation. Focusing on the alternative investment sector, LeadingMile also serves the wider financial industry, including businesses in the asset management, wealth, pension, banking, and insurance sectors. Our consultants cover data, technology, strategy, business change, and testing, and bring the right sensitivity to problem-solving and solution provision.

As seasoned alternative investment professionals, LeadingMile brings exceptional human capital, services, and technology to meet wide-ranging business and IT needs, whether it is system implementation, business intelligence, data migration, project management, BPO and Asset Based Consulting.

About qashqade AG

Founded in 2018, qashqade provides private market organizations an enterprise product suite for streamlining their calculation, allocation, tracking, and reporting processes. Built by private markets experts, for private markets experts, the qashqade platform offers a flexible, modular based solution for fund managers, fund administrators and investors alike, and is asset-class agnostic.  Headquartered in Zürich, qashqade also has offices in New York, London, and Budapest. Visit qashqade.com for more info.

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