CB Insights vs. IMS Platform

It is great for investment teams looking for new opportunities. Good for inside sales teams looking for well-funded clients.

Incentivized

In our specific use case we used IMS to manage the investor acquisition process and manage reporting going forward. Basically, it's a powerful, real-estate focused CRM that understands our pain points and issues. Additionally, it was cost efficient for our organization since we weren't using any of the waterfall technology, nor did we have extensive complicated ownership structures that we needed to import. We were essentially starting from the beginning, with very few implementation needs. In this situation, the software worked perfectly. We have been very happy with the service and technology. That said, if you have an extensive investor relations apparatus and need something that requires a tremendous amount of implementation (i.e. an entire, existing, investor management system) it may be a more difficult process

Incentivized

• Transparency - lets me separate the hype from the reality.
• Real-time intelligence-packed reporting. The graphs and metrics they provide along with their perspectives allow anyone to apply their own understanding and reproduce a nearly identical perspective.
• Their daily e-newsletter is chock full of intelligence presented in such a fun and entertaining way, it makes you want to pay for it too!

Incentivized

• Investor Management
• K-1 Distribution
• New Investment Pages
• Clear Dashboards
• Customer Support

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• Might only suggest more corporate events

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• Confusing UI (Hard to Use)
• Implementation Issues
• Missing Functionality

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Very responsive and eager to maintain client relationships.

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Better Pricing & Better ROI !

Incentivized

We evaluated IMS against Juniper Square and the Crowdstreet white label platform. IMS came to the top for us because of our specific use case (i.e. less implementation needs, primarily investor acquisition and investor management). Also, at the time, IMS was way more cost effective for the functionality that was offered compared to its immediate competitors

Incentivized

• Positive from the operational efficiency of getting this intelligence in a ‘breaking news’ format from this highly trusted resource.
• Positive From the extensive, highly detailed reporting they do on both the markets that matter to us today, and those that are shifting so quickly that we should have them on our radar too.

Incentivized

• Increased investor acquisition
• Increase investor engagement
• Saved significant time in managing investor
• Massive time savings in K-1 distribution
• High quality investor reporting system

Incentivized