The deals worth having are the ones nobody ran a process on.
By the time a book arrives, the price is set and the room is full. The flow that decides your year is the flow you reached first, and reaching it is a reading problem before it is a relationship problem.
The public record already says which companies are raising, which funds have just closed capital of their own, and who moved seats last month. We read that against your mandate and open the conversations it points at.
What you get
Four things, held across the mandate.
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The Field Read
The Desk reads every private raise filed with the SEC, every fund close, every mandate and every senior move in your lanes, and we write it up for you each week, sourced and dated.
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Origination in Your Name
We open conversations with founders and operators against your criteria before a process begins, and hand you the ones worth your time.
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Companies Raising, Screened
The companies raising from your class of capital that come through us are put in front of you first, with the read already done.
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Standing Counsel
A principal on call across the engagement for the questions between meetings: a mandate, a term, a counterparty, a decision the calendar will not wait for.
How it runs
We write the mandate down, read your lanes against it every week, open the conversations in your name, and hand you the ones worth your time.
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We take the mandate
A mandate written for an LP deck will not screen a single company. We take it down to what you actually buy: sector, size, structure, ownership, geography, and the situations you pass on. It is written down, and every name after that is screened against it.
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We read
The signal that mattered was filed weeks before anyone called you. We point the Desk at your lanes and read them continuously: every private raise filed, every fund close, every mandate and every senior move. You get it written up each week, sourced and dated.
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We open
A cold approach from a fund reads as a valuation before it reads as a conversation. We open the conversations in your name, against your criteria, with the read already done. The founder meets a firm that understood the business before the first call.
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We hand over
Most origination stops at a list of names. You get the ones worth your time, with what we know and where it came from. We stay on the mandate between meetings for the questions the calendar will not wait for.
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The mandate, written down and screened against
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The weekly read of your lanes, sourced and dated
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The conversations opened in your name, and the founders worth your time
What the Desk reads for you
Three reads the Desk runs on your lanes, from the public record.
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The Weekly Read
Every private raise filed, every fund close, every mandate and every senior move in your lanes, written up for you each week, sourced and dated.
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The Screen
Your own criteria applied to the co-investment universe, cut down to a count you can actually work through.
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The Co-Invest Tape
Which sponsors have filed co-investment vehicles in your field, read from the filings themselves and never ranked.
How this one is priced
A mandate is scoped to the lanes you want covered and priced to it. Before it starts we agree the number and how it is paid. We hold no interest-bearing instruments on either side of any engagement, and we work only on structures the investment methodology permits. Where we cannot honestly cover a lane, we say so on the first call.
Send us the mandate.
The criteria you actually buy against, and what you are not seeing enough of. A principal reads it himself and answers himself.