The secure investor platform built for how private markets firms actually work
Intralinks pioneered the virtual data room, and for M&A dealmaking it's still a name people know. But most of the firms comparing us with Intralinks today aren't buying just a data room. They're buying the software their IR team lives in every day - for fundraising, onboarding, reporting and servicing LPs - and asking a much sharper question: why pay for a document-sharing tool when you can run the whole investor lifecycle, more securely, for less, on one platform?
On core data room capability - secure sharing, permissions, audit trails, compliance - Atominvest is built to the same institutional-grade standard Intralinks is known for. We're not conceding that ground and winning somewhere else. We compete there directly, and then we do everything Intralinks doesn't.
The real question: does your platform hold you back, or move as fast as your firm does?
The job in front of a private markets team isn't “store files securely.” Every serious platform, including ours, clears that bar. The real job is running the full investor relationship without friction: a fundraise that flows straight into onboarding, an investor portal your LPs actually enjoy using, reporting that doesn't mean answering the same question every quarter, and an admin experience your own team doesn't have to fight with.
That reframes the comparison around four questions:
- Is the platform genuinely secure and easy for your team to administer, or does every change mean a support ticket?
- Does one system carry the LP from fundraise through onboarding, reporting and servicing, or are you stitching tools together yourself?
- Does the vendor keep shipping, or does the product feel the same as it did three years ago?
- What does it actually cost - all-in, not just the headline number - and how painful is it to scale up as you launch new funds?
Why firms move to Atominvest
1. A direct, secure alternative to the data room you already have
Atominvest isn't a different kind of product that happens to avoid the data room fight - it's a secure virtual data room in its own right, built to the access-control, permissioning, and audit-trail standard your compliance team expects, and most of our clients use it exactly the way they'd use Intralinks: to run fundraises and share sensitive documents with LPs and counterparties safely. The difference is what's built around it. Where Intralinks' core is the data room with fundraising and reporting layered on top, Atominvest starts from the same secure foundation and adds true lifecycle management - onboarding, servicing, and reporting - as one connected system, not three products bolted together.
2. An investor experience your
LPs actually notice In private markets, the LP experience is the product. A clunky, dated portal reflects on your brand every time an investor logs in; a modern one supports retention and re-ups. Atominvest's interface was rebuilt around this: clean, modern, and designed to feel like software your firm is proud to put in front of an LP - not a document repository with a portal bolted on.
3. Built for the people who have to run it, not just the people who buy it
This is where most firms feel the difference fastest. Intralinks is widely known among fund admin teams as difficult to configure and slow to change - standing up a new data room or adjusting permissions typically means opening a request and waiting on their team. Atominvest was built so your own IR and ops teams can self-serve: configure a new fund, adjust access, and manage reporting workflows directly, with far more administrative functionality available to you out of the box.
4. A product that keeps moving
Private markets reporting standards, LP expectations, and regulatory requirements don't stand still, and your platform shouldn't either. Intralinks' development pace on its alternative-investments products has been notably slow, with long gaps between meaningful feature releases. Atominvest ships new capability continuously, so the platform adapts to what your LPs and your market are asking for now, not what the roadmap looked like several years ago.
5. Transparent pricing, and a genuinely lower total cost of ownership
This is the number one reason firms switch. Intralinks' pricing is quote-based, opaque, and structured in a way that makes every new fund, every new data room, and every added user a fresh negotiation - firms consistently describe having to go back to their account team just to get a straight answer, let alone stand something up quickly. Atominvest's pricing is straightforward and scales with you, without the friction of re-negotiating every time you launch a new vehicle. We’ve also heard from those who’ve switched to us that Intralinks has tripled their pricing in the last year alone.
6. Plays well with the rest of your stack
Atominvest integrates directly with your CRM, so investor and prospect data moves between fundraising, IR and your commercial team without manual re-entry or duplicate records.
7. Delivered, not just deployed
We pair the software with hands-on implementation and customer success, and we take accountability for adoption, not just uptime. Firms report up to 12x faster investor onboarding and an 85% reduction in manual reporting work after moving to Atominvest.
Where does Intralinks still make sense?
For most PE, growth equity and private credit firms, less often than it used to. Intralinks has scale: SS&C is a large, well-capitalized company, and Intralinks has a long transaction history in M&A dealmaking specifically. If your primary use case is pure sell-side M&A document exchange with no ongoing LP relationship to manage, that heritage is real.
But for the fundraising-through-servicing lifecycle that most GPs actually run day to day - the thing this comparison is really about - there's very little Intralinks does on security, document sharing, or data room fundamentals that Atominvest doesn't also do, on the same platform that also handles onboarding, reporting and servicing, with better admin tools, faster development, and clearer pricing.
At a glance
A side-by-side comparison of Atominvest and Intralinks (SS&C).
How to choose
Four questions settle most of these decisions:
- Do you need a secure data room, or a secure data room plus everything after it? Atominvest gives you both on one platform. Intralinks gives you the first and bolts the second on.
- Can your own team administer the platform, or are you dependent on their support desk? If every change means a ticket, that's a hidden cost worth pricing in.
- What's the real, all-in cost - including what happens when you launch your next fund? Opaque, per-negotiation pricing adds up fast; ask both vendors to show you the total cost across a 3-year, multi-fund scenario, not just the headline number.
- Is the vendor still building? Ask both what's shipped in the last 12 months. The answer tells you a lot about who you're actually signing up with for the next five years.
Frequently Asked Questions
Intralinks, now SS&C Intralinks, is best known as the pioneer of the virtual data room, used for secure document exchange in M&A, capital raising and investor reporting. Its alternative-investments products, FundCentre and InvestorVision, add fundraising, onboarding and LP reporting around that data-room core.
Atominvest matches Intralinks on the core job - a secure, institutional-grade data room - and then goes further: one connected platform for fundraising, onboarding, reporting and servicing, with easier administration, faster product development, transparent pricing, and native CRM integration. Intralinks' center of gravity is still the data room, with the rest layered on top.
Yes. Atominvest is built to institutional-grade security, permissioning, and audit-trail standards for document exchange and fundraising - most clients use it in the same way they'd use a traditional VDR - and then get the rest of the investor lifecycle on the same platform.
Most often, cost and administrative friction. Intralinks' pricing is quote-based and opaque, having tripled in the last year, and standing up a new data room or changing access typically requires going through their team. Firms moving to Atominvest cite predictable pricing, self-serve administration, and a platform that keeps shipping new capability.
Intralinks pricing is quote-based and varies by product (data room, FundCentre, InvestorVision), number of funds, users and documents. Account for how costs change as you launch new funds or co-investments, and weigh total cost of ownership, implementation, ongoing admin, and the cost of every follow-up negotiation, rather than the headline license alone.
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