Lincoln International Launches Lincoln Lens, a Data & Analytics Platform to Advance Transparency in Private Market Valuations

Lincoln Lens delivers integrated access to valuation insights, proprietary market intelligence, and collaboration tools

Lincoln International, a leading global investment banking advisory firm, today announced the launch of Lincoln Lens, a comprehensive digital platform designed to meet the evolving needs of private equity and private credit clients seeking greater transparency, efficiency, and market context in their valuation processes.

Lincoln Lens integrates valuation insights, portfolio monitoring capabilities, and direct access to Lincoln’s proprietary private markets database—encompassing data from more than 7,000 privately held portfolio companies and 2,500+ asset-backed finance investments—into a single, secure platform.

“Private market participants require faster access to information, clearer ways to interpret results, and tools to help them communicate with stakeholders,” said Ron Kahn, Managing Director and Co-Head of Lincoln’s Valuations & Opinions Group. “We built Lincoln Lens to give our clients a more transparent way to capture the market intelligence and portfolio monitoring they need to make informed investment decisions.”

Lincoln Lens offers a range of integrated capabilities:

• Market Intelligence & Benchmarking: Self-service access to Lincoln’s private markets database, enabling users to contextualize their portfolio performance against relevant market benchmarks for transaction multiples, pricing, leverage, fundamental performance, and other key metrics.
• Digital Valuation Summaries: Structured, interactive views of valuation conclusions with clear visibility into key outputs, sensitivities, and period-over-period changes.
• Portfolio Analytics: Aggregated views of portfolio-level trends, risk indicators, and valuation drivers to support investment committee preparation and limited partner reporting.
• Collaboration & Project Management: A centralized workspace for tracking valuation status, exchanging documents, and managing diligence requests in real time.

Lincoln Lens will be integrated into the firm’s engagement process for Valuations & Opinions clients. This launch reinforces Lincoln International’s position as a leader in private market valuations and represents the firm’s latest strategic investment in expanding access to private markets data.

“As allocation to private market asset classes continues to rise, demand for high-quality, actionable data is at an all-time high,” said Brian Garfield, Managing Director and Head of U.S. Portfolio Valuations. “For over a decade, Lincoln has provided investors and fund managers with proprietary data to contextualize their performance. Lincoln Lens offers market participants even deeper benchmarking capabilities and intelligence to stay ahead and maximize outcomes.”

To learn more about Lincoln Lens, email lens@lincolninternational.com.