Pre-IPO marketplaces, secondary funds, venture syndicates, family-office vehicles, search funds, club deals. Whatever you're running, your investors want proof you're holding what you said you'd hold. Building that proof yourself is expensive and never quite credible coming from you. Fund Base Camp is the missing piece: an independent custodian, with the cryptographic and legal scaffolding ready to go. Sponsors can review the full operational model and company overview before onboarding.
Investors don't ask about custody until something goes wrong. By then it's too late to make custody look credible. These are the three failures that surface most often in due diligence — and the three that an independent custodian eliminates by structure.
You hold the documents. You wrote the spreadsheet that lists them. You sent the email that summarizes them. Every artifact pointing to "we have your subscription documents" originates from you. That is not custody; that is self-attestation.
Traditional fund admins charge $25k–$75k/year per SPV, and their "custody" is an Excel cell that says "yes." Bringing one on for a single-asset $5–20M SPV destroys the economics. Most sponsors skip it; investors notice. Fund Base Camp instead provides a lightweight per-SPV custody pricing structure designed specifically for private-market vehicles.
You could build the hashing, the anchoring, the verification page, the receipt PDF generator, the audit pipeline. You won't. You'll do the deal first and write a note saying "we'll add custody verification in v2." That note will still be open in two years.
The full system, wired and tested. You upload via dashboard or API; we hash, anchor, store, and issue codes. Your investors receive their codes at subscription and verify on demand — without ever asking you.
AES-256-GCM at rest, KMS-managed keys, CloudTrail logging on every object access. One bucket and one keyring per sponsor SPV — no commingled data.
Every document is hashed on deposit and the digest is anchored to OpenTimestamps. ≥3 Bitcoin confirmations make the anchor mathematically final.
Opaque, fixed-length, case-insensitive codes embedded in subscription confirmations. Format: FBC-[series]-[role]-[ticket].
Investors verify at the public verification portal; engineers integrate via GET /api/v1/verify/{code}. No account, no auth, rate-limited.
One-click downloadable PDF with the full custody record, anchor reference, and instructions for offline re-verification. Belongs in the investor's records.
A licensed CPA firm runs Agreed-Upon Procedures over Fund Base Camp's records each year. The report PDF is published openly. Every verification response references it.
Carriers, limits, and effective dates are disclosed on the security and insurance disclosures page. Coverage is appropriate to the asset values under custody — and provided to your prospects on request.
Custody Services Agreement, PPM disclosure language, AUP scope template, and disclosure form for investor-facing documents — drafted and ready to execute.
The legal and technical work has already been done. Onboarding a new sponsor is repetitive, not bespoke — so we treat it that way. Most sponsors begin by reviewing the Custody Services Agreement framework and operational requirements.
Thirty minutes. We confirm which SPVs are in scope, expected document volumes, whether you need API integration or just the dashboard, and any sponsor-specific disclosure requirements.
Counsel-reviewed template, lightly negotiated. Standard turnaround is two business days. The CSA covers indemnification, insurance, attestation cadence, and the operational separation guarantees that make the independence story credible to your investors.
We spin up your per-SPV storage bucket, generate ingestion API keys, and pre-populate transaction-code ranges for any SPVs you're about to close. Dashboard credentials are issued to designated sponsor users, with implementation details available through the integration and API documentation.
Upload your initial documents. We hash, anchor, and confirm the codes resolve on the public verification page. You receive a sample receipt PDF for each. Embed the verification link in your subscription confirmation template, and you're live.
If you run a portal (InvestNext, Juniper Square, your own), we'll provide widget code to embed the verify endpoint so investors don't leave your site. The widget is read-only and accepts the transaction code as a parameter.
Ingest, verify, and download. We don't believe in expansive surface area for the kind of system whose entire value is being narrow and auditable. Additional infrastructure disclosures and operational controls are documented on the security architecture page.
Pricing is annual, per active SPV under custody. There is no per-investor or per-document fee — the unit economics of custody don't scale that way, and we don't price them that way. Independent attestation and insurance allocations are bundled. Sponsors comparing service levels can also review the broader sponsor infrastructure overview.
For one-off vehicles, single-asset SPVs, family-office club deals, and proof-of-concept onboarding before broader rollout.
For sponsors running multiple series throughout the year — pre-IPO marketplaces, venture syndicates, secondary funds, ongoing programs.
For platforms with their own admin team, institutional reporting requirements, or unusual document volumes. Custom AUP scope, custom insurance allocation, custom SLA.
Note Pricing is private and provided per scope sheet. Most sponsors at Tier 02 budget roughly the cost of a single mid-tier engineer-week per year, per SPV under custody. For context: at a 4% placement fee on $10M of subscriptions, custody runs well under 5% of placement.
Each one is the artifact your counsel would produce if they billed for a week. We've already produced them. Your counsel can red-line; you don't have to start from a blank page. Supporting disclosures, policies, and operational notices are also available through the Fund Base Camp legal documentation center.
The master contract between FBC and sponsor. Covers indemnification, insurance carriage, attestation cadence, termination, and operational independence covenants.
Drop-in disclosure language for PPMs and subscription documents referencing FBC as custodian, the verification flow, and the independence relationship.
The agreed-upon-procedures scope shared with the CPA firm — sampling methodology, anchor verification, attestation publication path. Adapted per sponsor as needed.
Carriers, lines, limits, effective dates. Provided to sponsor's prospects on request and published at /security. Refreshed at each policy renewal.
A two-page PDF you can include in subscription packets explaining what FBC is, what the code does, and how the investor can verify independently.
The covenant by which FBC commits to operational separation from any one sponsor — separate signers, accounting, banking, IT. Required by D&O and disclosed in CSA.
Engineering-facing API documentation with endpoint reference, authentication scheme, idempotency, and example payloads. Versioned semantically; deprecations announced 12 months ahead.
The control mapping FBC is using to prepare for SOC 2 Type I (year 1) and Type II (year 2). Available to sponsors and their counsel under NDA on request.
Most sponsors who reach out close their next SPV with FBC custody disclosed in the PPM. The window for "we'll add this later" closes the moment a sophisticated allocator does their first round of diligence. Better to have the answer ready by reviewing the full custody and verification workflow before your next close.