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Figures are conservative estimates based on typical EU senior-engineering salaries and infrastructure costs for a production-grade platform. Your actuals may vary.
Many investment funds consider developing their own portfolio-management software. The reality: a conservative estimate puts an in-house build at over €856,000 in the first year, typically 9–12 months to an MVP, and around four senior engineers to hire and manage long-term — without regulatory compliance out of the box and without network effects.
Direct staffing costs for the core roles alone (backend, frontend, ML/AI, tech lead) typically run around €613,000 per year. Add recruiting fees, cloud infrastructure, LLM APIs, compliance costs (GDPR, EU AI Act, SFDR) and tooling — roughly another €243,000. In our experience this is a floor, not a ceiling.
Visontio is an EU-native Investor Operating System for VC, PE, CVC and family offices. The platform connects deal sourcing, portfolio KPI tracking, LP reporting and AI-assisted analysis in one governed, GDPR-compliant environment. Visontio Enterprise offers full white-labeling: your domain, your SSO, your data residency within the EU.
An in-house build is structurally an island: no cross-fund benchmarks, no shared data foundation, no network effect. With Visontio, founders maintain a single profile that automatically serves every investor in the network — and each new fund strengthens the value for all existing ones.
From 2 August 2026, the full penalty regime of the EU AI Act applies (up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover). Visontio is built to be audit-ready. An in-house build would have to construct this compliance layer itself and maintain it indefinitely.