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Growth deals, with the early record attached.
Late-Stage GP
Companies by trajectory, secondaries, co-investors and the executives your portfolio needs next.
Requests
What you can ask for here
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Quality positions for sale
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Co-investors to complete the round
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Vetted leaders for the role
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LPs to commit to your fund
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Companies or teams that match your thesis
What you can answer
Requests where someone in your role is the person they are hoping hears them.
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A lead investor to anchor your round
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Corporates that invest in your space
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Qualified buyers for your shares
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Buyers who fit your company
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What the role involves
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A recurring responsibility is conducting detailed financial, legal, market, management, customer, and risk diligence before investing or divesting.
responsibility
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A recurring responsibility is maintaining fund controls, valuing holdings, reporting performance and economics to LPs, and disclosing and mitigating conflicts.
responsibility
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A recurring responsibility is negotiating and documenting the financing, ownership, information, voting, transfer, and governance rights required by the investment.
responsibility
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A recurring responsibility is sourcing and screening growth-stage opportunities against the fund's mandate and stated investment criteria.
responsibility
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A recurring responsibility is working with portfolio-company management on strategic, financial, organizational, operational, talent, and capital-markets initiatives that can increase value and reduce execution risk.
responsibility
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The GP builds an investment thesis and conducts financial, market, legal, management, customer, and reference diligence, preserving key assumptions, risks, and mitigants for decision review.
task
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The GP negotiates valuation, security, governance, information, transfer, protective, and funding terms and coordinates legal review through signing and closing.
task
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The GP periodically determines portfolio fair value and prepares timely LP reporting on fund performance, fees, expenses, allocations, carry, capital calls, distributions, and material developments.
task
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The GP screens an opportunity for market position, addressable growth, management quality, sustainable economics, competitive advantage, value-creation levers, and multiple exit paths.
task
What shapes the decisions
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A core investment criterion is a strong market position in a large and growing market with a proven economic model, defensible advantage, capable and aligned management, identifiable value-creation levers, and multiple exit paths.
decision criterion
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LP trust depends on the GP following the LPA, accurately presenting objectives and performance, maintaining controls, using defensible valuation, reporting economics transparently, and disclosing and mitigating conflicts.
trust concern
Tools and vocabulary
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Natural terminology includes GP, LP, LPA, growth equity, late-stage venture, investment thesis, investment committee, due diligence, reference call, term sheet, stock purchase agreement, investors' rights agreement, voting agreement, management rights, minority stake, value creation, fair value, follow-on, IPO, secondary sale, trade sale, carried interest, capital call, distribution, and exit.
terminology
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