The deep dive · Private · Read November 3, 2026

Juniper Square

The back office for private funds. Software plus fund administration for 2,300+ GPs, valued at $1.1B in 2025, and now opening its data to AI agents.

Juniper Square release, Jun 2, 2026
Valuation
$1.1B Series D, June 2025, led by Ribbit Capital. No earlier valuation was ever published.
Raised
About $371M across five announced rounds since 2018 (our sum), plus a Nasdaq investment of undisclosed size.
Customers
2,300+ GPs 750,000 LPs and about $1 trillion of LP capital run through the platform.
Watch
No revenue The company has never published revenue, ARR or headcount.
AI
Agents + MCP JunieAI agents, an oversight agent called Fay, and a read-only MCP beta for Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot.
Liquidity
None found No tender offer or staff share sale has been reported.
Hiring
37 → 46 remote listings since Oct 10.
01 · The business

Software for fund managers, plus people who run the books for them.

Juniper Square sells GPX, its fund software for investor relations, fundraising, reporting and LP portals, to private equity, venture, real estate and credit managers. It also acts as fund administrator, doing the accounting for over 2,000 fund entities. It says fund admin grew over 100% a year for three years. No revenue split is published.

Juniper Square Series D release, Jun 16, 2025
The moat, in three parts
  1. 1
    It holds the fund's books, not just a dashboard
    45,000+ investment entities, 750,000 LPs and 1.25 million positions sit in its system, which its AI and partner tools build on.
    Juniper Square release, Jun 2, 2026
  2. 2
    Software and fund admin sold together
    Its admin team oversees more than $300B in assets. A manager that hands over its accounting is slow to switch away.
    Juniper Square release, Jul 28, 2026
  3. 3
    Customers rarely leave
    The company reported portal retention above 99% in 2023 and 98% lifetime customer retention in 2019. Both are its own figures.
    Juniper Square release, Feb 13, 2023
The competition, by what it is worth
  • Carta
    $7.40Bprivate, Aug 26
  • Addepar
    $3.25Bprivate, May 13
  • Juniper Square
    $1.10BSeries D, Jun 16

Private values are the last reported round; they can be stale. Listed values are market value. Bars start at zero.

02 · Funding

Every round, and what its terms give away.

Juniper Square is private, so there is no share price. What its investors paid, and on what terms, is the closest thing to one.

$1.10B
latest valuation, Series D Jun 16
$371M
raised in all

Not disclosed. Fund administration grew over 100% a year over three years, per the company.

Juniper Square releases; total is our sum of announced rounds
6 rounds and offers, newest first
  1. Sep 4
    Strategic investment
    Led by Nasdaq Ventures
    Amount and terms not disclosed. Comes with a partnership on data and liquidity tools, including secondaries.
    Juniper Square release, Sep 4, 2025
  2. Jun 16
    Series D$130M at $1.10B
    Led by Ribbit Capital. About 12% of the company, if all new shares
    With Fifth Wall, Redpoint, HighSage Ventures and Blue Owl. Company does not say whether $1.1B is pre or post-money.
    Juniper Square release, Jun 16, 2025; Bloomberg Law
  3. Feb 13
    Growth round$133M
    Led by Owl Rock (Blue Owl)
    Called growth capital; round name, valuation and equity vs debt mix not stated. Fifth Wall and Pappy Capital joined as new investors.
    Juniper Square release, Feb 13, 2023
  4. Nov 21
    Series C$75M
    Led by Redpoint Ventures
    With Ribbit, Felicis and Zigg Capital.
    Juniper Square release, Nov 21, 2019
  5. Dec 12
    Series B$25M
    Led by Ribbit Capital
    Brought total funding to $33M.
    Juniper Square release, Dec 12, 2018
  6. Jan 31
    Series A$6.0M
    Led by Felicis Ventures
    Brought total equity funding to $8M.
    Juniper Square release, Jan 31, 2018
Round-terms checks
1 flag · last raise 16 months ago
  • Down round or flat round?Cannot tell. The $1.1B in 2025 is the only valuation the company has published; the 2023 and 2019 rounds came with no price.Juniper Square releases, 2019 to 2025
    Open
  • How much of the company the last round soldAbout 12% ($130M of $1.1B), if $1.1B is post-money. Normal for a Series D.Juniper Square Series D release, Jun 16, 2025
    Clear
  • Time since the last raiseAbout 17 months since the Series D and 14 since the Nasdaq investment. The gap before the Series D was 28 months.Juniper Square releases
    Clear
  • Structured or unusual termsNone reported. The only recent SEC Form D (filed May 9, 2025) lists $44M of plain equity with a first sale dated Oct 2019, which does not match the $130M Series D.SEC Form D, filed May 9, 2025
    Open
  • New outside lead or insiders only?Insider-led. Ribbit led the 2018 Series B and its partner Nick Shalek sits on the board. Fifth Wall, Redpoint and Blue Owl were also existing backers.Series D release; SEC Form D related persons
    Flag
  • Employee liquidityNo tender offer or staff secondary found. The Nasdaq deal covers secondaries for customers' funds, not for Juniper Square staff.Juniper Square release; news search Nov 3, 2026
    Open
  • Layoffs in the last 12 monthsSearched news and the company press page: no layoffs reported since Nov 2025. It posted 49 openings, 45 remote, on Nov 3, 2026.Ashby job board; news search Nov 3, 2026
    Clear

Clear: checked, nothing found. Flag: found, with the source. Open: could not be checked.

Going public

No filing reported

03 · Footnote flags

What the record says, and what we think it means.

The fact is the source's. The read, in italics, is ours.

  1. 01
    Good

    Became a $1.1B company in June 2025.

    $130M Series D led by Ribbit Capital, to fund JunieAI. Bloomberg reported the round the same day.

    The first published price in eleven years. It gives staff a reference point for their equity, though not a liquid one.

    Bloomberg Law, Jun 16, 2025
  2. 02
    Watch

    SEC filings do not line up with the announced rounds.

    Juniper Square has filed four Form Ds, the latest on May 9, 2025: $44M of equity, first sale Oct 29, 2019. None found for the $130M Series D or the $133M 2023 raise.

    Probably late or partial paperwork rather than anything hidden, but it means outsiders cannot check round sizes against filings.

    SEC EDGAR, CIK 0001662890
  3. 03
    Good

    Nasdaq is an investor and a product partner.

    Nasdaq Ventures invested in Sep 2025. Nasdaq eVestment data went into the CRM in Jan 2026, then powered Capital Intelligence, launched Sep 23, 2026.

    A public market operator as backer and partner. It also makes Nasdaq a natural buyer if it ever wants one.

    Juniper Square releases, Sep 2025 to Sep 2026 (press page)
  4. 04
    Neutral

    Three acquisitions in a year.

    Forstone Luxembourg (closed May 2025), Tenor Digital for private credit loan operations (Oct 2025), and Sightglass for AI due diligence questionnaires (Apr 2026). No prices disclosed.

    Buying its way into Europe, private credit and AI. Integration work tends to follow.

    Juniper Square releases, May 2025 to Apr 2026
  5. 05
    Good

    No longer just a real estate tool.

    Founded for commercial real estate, it now says private equity and venture firms are four of its five largest customers by revenue.

    Spreads its risk beyond the single asset class it was built for.

    Juniper Square Series D release, Jun 16, 2025
  6. 06
    Neutral

    A fund-services veteran became COO.

    Stephanie Miller joined Jul 2025. She was CEO of Hazeltree and of Intertrust Group, and Global Head of Fund Services at J.P. Morgan.

    Fits a company whose growth is fund administration, a services business that needs operating discipline.

    Juniper Square release, Jul 22, 2025
  7. 07
    Good

    Remote by default since 2021.

    Its careers page says most staff work remotely across the US, Canada and India, with a San Francisco office for those who want it. In 2021, 45% chose its cloud hub.

    Remote is policy, not a perk. San Francisco is its filing address, not a central HQ.

    Juniper Square careers page; May 12, 2021 release
04 · Who gets paid most

Sales is paid 5% under market. Engineering, 6% under.

Still Remote data, daily since Oct 10
Posted pay against the same level at other remote employers
Compared level by level against 400+ remote employers, then averaged. Number of posted ranges beside each team.
AI and ML listings, Oct 10 to Nov 3
5 → 4−20%
Remote listings, same days
37 → 46+24%

We save every company's roles, pay by team and level, AI share and churn every day, so each month this page can say more. Sparklines use their own scale.

05 · Built for the agentic era?

Can AI agents do business with Juniper Square?

We checked the agent payment programs, developer docs and site rules an AI assistant would meet.

Our verdict

Ahead of most fund software. Agents can read fund data over MCP today; acting on it is still on the roadmap.

Still Remote read
LiveNot foundPartly
  1. An MCP server for AI agents
    Headless GPX, Jun 2026, works with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or any MCP client. Limited beta, read-only; write actions are on the roadmap.
    Juniper Square release, Jun 2, 2026
    Mixed
  2. Its own AI agents
    JunieAI has agents for investor relations, fund admin, portfolio and investment work, model-agnostic, with per-agent permissions.
    Juniper Square release, Jun 16, 2025
    Yes
  3. An agent that checks other administrators' work
    Fay runs 150+ checks on financial statements from any fund admin. AI extracts figures; the math runs in deterministic code.
    Juniper Square release, Jul 28, 2026
    Yes
  4. Docs that AI tools can read
    junipersquare.com/llms.txt returns 404. No public developer docs site found; the API is described only in releases.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Not found
  5. Lets AI crawlers read its site
    robots.txt explicitly allows GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web and Google-Extended. It blocks only a few system folders for everyone.
    checked Nov 3, 2026
    Yes
  6. Outside data wired in for AI
    Nasdaq eVestment data (30,000+ institutions) feeds its AI matching in Capital Intelligence. Matches stay suggestions until a person accepts.
    Juniper Square release, Sep 23, 2026
    Yes
05 · Inside the company

Where Juniper Square puts AI to work.

AI and ML job titles, share of open remote listings
Juniper Square
8.7%
Every company we track
6.4%
4 of 46 Juniper Square listings on Nov 3. Scale 0% to 10%.
  1. 1
    An AI-governed back office
    The new CIO's brief includes AI governance and building an AI-native IT group. ISO/IEC 42001 certifies how it manages AI risk.
    Juniper Square release, Oct 8, 2026
  2. 2
    Its own fund admins use the agents
    Customers who use Juniper Square as administrator get Fay as part of the service, so its accountants work alongside the agent.
    Juniper Square release, Jul 28, 2026
  3. 3
    Hiring for agent engineering
    Open roles include a forward deployed engineer for applied AI and a product lead for agent runtime and evals.
    Ashby job board, Nov 3, 2026
06 · What the hiring says

More listings than on Sep 7, led by engineering.

Remote listings on its board, dailyAxis starts at zero
Listings as the board shows them, so a title posted in several places counts each time. Team counts are open roles, repeated titles once.
14 of 46
roles are engineering
7
sales roles, the next biggest team
4
countries named in its remote roles, led by United States
+7
new roles in the last 7 days
07 · Private scenario builder

What has to be true for $1.1 billion to hold?

Juniper Square does not publish revenue, so the starting number is your assumption, not ours. A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.

No revenue figure has been published.
No growth rate has been published.
Competition
Economy
Fast-growing private software often prices at $15 to $40 per $1.
$
Worth in two years, in your world
$2.16B
+96% vs the $1.10B Series D
$86M revenue, growing +40% a year after competition and the economy
Series D $1.10B
$0$2.64B
Up round territory

At 25x, Juniper Square needs $44 million of revenue to be worth $1.1 billion. Your world gets there with $86 million, so the next round likely prices above the last.

Your equity, two years out
$196,000

$100,000 of equity valued at the $1.10B Series D price would be worth about $196,000 on paper in this world, before dilution from new rounds, taxes and vesting. Private shares only turn into cash at a sale, an IPO or a tender offer.

A way to think, not a forecast, and not investment advice.

Juniper Square Series D release, Jun 16, 2025
08 · Where it looks headed

The signals, and which way they push.

  1. Tailwind
    Moving into private credit and PE.

    Tenor Digital bought for private credit; PE and VC are now four of its five largest customers.

  2. Tailwind
    Shipping AI products steadily.

    AI CRM (Oct 2025), Sightglass (Apr 2026), Headless GPX (Jun), Fay (Jul) and Capital Intelligence (Sep 2026).

  3. Tailwind
    A big-name partner on data and liquidity.

    Nasdaq invested and is working with it on secondaries and data tools.

  4. Headwind
    Richer rivals in the same rooms.

    Carta (last priced at $7.4B) also sells fund admin to VC and PE; Addepar raised at $3.25B in 2025.

  5. Headwind
    Hard to value from outside.

    No revenue, headcount or recent valuation update, and Form Ds that do not match announced rounds.

09 · Bold predictions

Where Juniper Square ends up, if we had to bet.

Our calls, not facts. Each one is tied to something that already happened, so you can judge the reasoning.

  1. 1

    Juniper Square lists on a US exchange by 2031.

    Long shot 16%IPO

    It publishes no revenue and its only valuation is $1.1B from 2025. No filing or banker hire has been reported.

    Series D release; news search Nov 3, 2026
  2. 2

    A market-data or fund-services giant buys Juniper Square by 2032.

    Coin flip 50%M&A

    Nasdaq already invested and partners with it. A $1.1B price is small for a listed market-data or fund-services company.

    Juniper Square release, Sep 4, 2025
  3. 3

    Fund administration becomes the bigger half of the business.

    Likely 72%Products

    Admin grew over 100% a year for three years, and Luxembourg and Tenor add more of it. Software alone is easier to swap out.

    Juniper Square Series D release
  4. 4

    Agents outside Juniper Square can send LP notices and update fund records through its MCP server.

    Likely 72%AI

    Write actions and a headless LP portal are on the Headless GPX roadmap. ISO 42001 and the new CIO are the controls that would let customers allow it.

    Juniper Square release, Jun 2, 2026
  5. 5

    Juniper Square and Carta become the two default fund platforms for venture and PE managers.

    Likely 72%Competition

    Juniper Square left its real estate base for PE and VC, where Carta already sells fund admin. Both bundle software with services.

    Series D release; Simpson Thacher

Read by the Still Remote research agent on November 3, 2026 from the sources linked on this page. Facts and scenarios only, not investment advice.