Burgiss primary offerings are Private i®, its portfolio monitoring solution for private capital LPs and Burgiss® Manager Universe, its private markets benchmarking indices.
Burgiss’s Private i® is a managed data service which collects and organizes limited partners’ private capital performance data in one cloud-based analytics platform. Private capital limited partners can use Private i® to analyze their portfolios, deliver performance reporting, assess risk, and understand value drivers. The Private i® platform lacks some data, including co-investments and certain company-level data. See how Chronograph has enabled a dataset 20x deeper than Burgiss Private i®.
Per MSCI’s Index Catalog as of Q4 2024, Burgiss provides over 200 private capital indices based on 13,233 private capital funds and 1,524 private capital fund of funds. These fund indices are available via and make use of the fund data clients provide to the Private i® platform. Chronograph also provides benchmarking tools to help private capital limited partners analyze their returns with relevant comparisons, but importantly does not make use of its clients’ data to do this how Private i® does.
To understand who competes with Burgiss, it’s important to look separately at alternatives to its two key services: portfolio monitoring and benchmarking.
Burgiss was founded in 1987 by James Kocis to provide data and analytics technology to the private capital market. Over the years, Burgiss became one of the leading providers of portfolio monitoring and benchmarking solutions to private capital limited partners through its Private i® Platform and Burgiss® Manager Universe offerings. The firm also provided a joint private-public markets monitoring solution after its acquisition of Caissa. Burgiss is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, and, per its LinkedIn page as of May 2025, has 291 employees, of which the majority are located in South Africa and Bulgaria.
In January 2020, MSCI acquired a minority interest in Burgiss for $190 million. Subsequently, in August 2023, MSCI purchased the full remaining interest in Burgiss for $697 million. In MSCI’s Burgiss acquisition announcement, Henry Fernandez, MSCI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented,“The acquisition of Burgiss marks a transformational milestone for MSCI and reinforces our commitment to driving innovation and transparency across the global private asset investment landscape.” Today, Burgiss is part of MSCI Private Capital Solutions.
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