Scientific Infra & Private Assets

Name

Scientific Infra & Private Assets

Legal name

Scientific Infra and Private Assets Pte. Ltd.

Website

https://sipametrics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Private market data and benchmarking

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Investment Management Advisory (RIA) (FSAEAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Private Banking Alternatives & Private Markets Access (PE/VC, Hedge Funds, Real Assets) (FSABADAH)

Keywords

• Private market indices
• Infrastructure benchmarking
• Private equity analytics
• Asset valuation data
• Performance benchmarking

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Data Platform Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to privateMetrics and infraMetrics platforms providing indices, benchmarks, and valuation comparables data. Available via web platform, Excel Add-in, Python API, and R API. Some features require a subscription.
2. Research Reports Sales: Sale of premium research reports including the 2025 Private Infrastructure Fund Alpha Report ($5,000), 2025 Private Buyout Fund Alpha Report, Private Infrastructure Universe ($955), and Private Equities Universe. Reports document risk-adjusted performance of private funds and managers.
3. Index Data Licensing: Licensing of index data including infra300, infra100, infraDebt100, InfraGreen, and privateMetrics indices to institutional investors, asset managers, and fund managers for benchmarking and performance measurement.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA) supplies data, indices, and analytics for infrastructure and private equity investors via its privateMetrics® and infraMetrics® platforms. These platforms use AI-driven asset pricing models to process tens of thousands of private market transactions monthly, producing market indices, benchmarks, and valuation comparables that institutional investors use to benchmark fund performance, validate NAVs, and measure manager alpha. The offering is complemented by the privateAlpha® fund rating platform and premium research reports on private market alpha, all delivered through web platforms, MSExcel and Python APIs.

Product overview

Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA) operates as a data and analytics provider offering a platform of indices, benchmarks, and valuation data for private markets. The core products include privateMetrics® for private equity market data and infraMetrics® for infrastructure market data, supported by alpha-focused products like privateAlpha® for fund manager ratings. SIPA's index family includes infra100®, infra300®, infraGreen®, infraDebt100, and private2000® indices that compute one million private asset prices monthly. The platform is accessible via MSExcel Add-in, Python API, and R API (forthcoming), with data serving investors representing over USD 1 trillion in assets under management. In March 2026, SIPA was acquired by PEI Group, a London-based global business intelligence provider.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• privateMetrics®: Private equity market indices and benchmarks platform providing valuation data and analytics for private companies.
• infraMetrics®
• privateAlpha®

Products and services

• privateMetrics® Platform Subscription platform providing private equity market indices, benchmarks, and valuation comparables for institutional investors, asset managers, and consultants; uses an AI-driven asset pricing model processing tens of thousands of private market transactions monthly across 150+ countries.
• infraMetrics® Platform Subscription platform offering valuation inputs and benchmarking for unlisted infrastructure investments, producing monthly asset valuations and indices across sub-segments such as energy, renewables, debt, and project finance.
• privateAlpha® Platform Subscription platform for skill-based fund and manager ratings in private equity and infrastructure markets, applying the Direct Alpha Method to SIPA's privateMetrics® and infraMetrics® benchmarks to identify funds that generate positive alpha.
• privateMetrics® MSExcel Add-in MSExcel Add-in product enabling institutional analysts to access privateMetrics® data and analytics directly within Excel worksheets for custom benchmarking and fund alpha work.
• privateMetrics® Python API Python API providing programmatic access to privateMetrics indices, benchmarks, and valuation data for quantitative research and portfolio system integration.
• Global Infrastructure Universe Review Premium research report analysing the private infrastructure sector — market sizes, trends, and revenue potential across 25 countries mapped to TICCS segments by EV, size, and market cap.
• 2025 Private Market Alpha Report Over 800-page annual premium research report providing alpha-based ratings of 600 funds and more than 150 fund managers across global private equity markets.
• 2025 Private Infrastructure Fund Alpha Report 800+ page premium research report providing alpha-based ratings of 500 infrastructure funds and over 70 fund managers, including returns, styles, and skill ratings; priced at $5,000.

Quantifiable outcome

• Platforms compute 1 million private asset prices monthly
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• PEI GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 March 2026PEI Group, backed by Bridgepoint, acquired Scientific Infra & Private Assets on March 23, 2026. The acquisition integrates SIPA's infraMetrics, privateMetrics and privateAlpha platforms into PEI's existing portfolio of business intelligence and analytics offerings, expanding global access to SIPA's private asset data.
• EDHEC Business SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019SIPA was spun out from the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute in 2019. EDHEC Business School continues to advance academic research and innovate with technologies in risk measurement and valuation in private markets, particularly using AI and language processing. PEI maintains partnership with EDHEC for continued academic research development.
• EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute (EIPA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016EIPA was established in 2016 by EDHEC Business School and launched the private infrastructure asset pricing research program. While SIPA commercializes the research, EIPA continues to develop new applied research in investment and private markets, focusing on machine learning and language processing.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• PitchBook: PitchBook (Morningstar) provides PE/VC deal, fund and valuation data and benchmarks to institutional investors, overlapping with SIPA's private equity benchmarking and comparables offering for similar buy-side and advisor customers.
• Preqin: Preqin is a leading provider of data, analytics and benchmarks for private markets, offering performance benchmarks and fund-level data for PE, infrastructure and private debt — directly competing with privateMetrics and infraMetrics for the same institutional LP/GP buyer.
• Burgiss: Burgiss provides private capital performance benchmarking and analytics for LPs and GPs; it is one of the closest direct competitors to privateMetrics in private equity performance measurement and is often benchmarked in the same RFPs as SIPA.

Broad incumbents

• MSCI: MSCI is a global index provider serving institutional asset owners and asset managers; it has been expanding private-asset index coverage and competes with SIPA in the broader benchmark and analytics category, though from a much wider product portfolio.
• Bloomberg: Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg Intelligence provide deep institutional financial data and analytics, including growing private-market coverage, competing with SIPA for the same enterprise subscriptions and data-driven benchmarking use cases.
• FTSE Russell: FTSE Russell (part of LSEG) is a major regulated global index provider competing in institutional benchmark licensing; relevant comparability comes from its regulated index administration infrastructure and large enterprise client base.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global offers broad financial data, indices and private-markets intelligence through its Market Intelligence and Dow Jones Indices franchises; it competes with SIPA in serving large institutional clients that need integrated data plus benchmarks.

Emerging players

• StepStone Group: StepStone is a private-markets investment platform with proprietary performance data, analytics and indices (e.g., InfraMetrics-style benchmarks via StepStone Infra); comparable to SIPA on data-driven benchmarking for institutional private-markets investors.
• Cambridge Associates: Cambridge Associates publishes widely-used private-investment benchmarks and manager-research analytics for endowments, pensions and foundations; it competes with privateMetrics and privateAlpha on benchmark credibility and manager evaluation.

Others

• Bain & Company: Bain's Private Equity Report is a widely-cited reference for PE performance and returns; while a consultancy rather than a data vendor, it competes for mindshare and benchmarks in the same institutional conversations where SIPA's privateMetrics indices are evaluated.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sipametrics

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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