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Impact Amplifier Makes Good Intentions Investable
From Nando’s pepper farmers to businesses turning waste into products, the South African firm works on the awkward middle of impact investing: getting good ideas ready for money, then checking what the money changes.
A91 Partners is buying into India’s everyday ambitions
Coffee, ceiling fans, insurance and software: A91 Partners backs the businesses a growing India buys and uses. Its $665 million third fund puts a larger price on a patient, hands-on approach.
The $1.5 Billion Data Room That Wants to Run the Whole Deal
Intralinks helped replace couriers, binders and guarded rooms with a browser. Thirty years later, it is betting that security, workflow and AI can turn that original wedge into the operating system for high-stakes finance.
The Guy Who Got Paralyzed, Then Turned Storage Units Into a $350M Machine
AJ Osborne was paralyzed and on life support in his mid-30s. The storage units he owned kept paying his family the whole time. Cedar Creek Capital is what he built next.
The Small-Portfolio Bet Behind Mendoza Ventures
The Boston firm is trying to prove that a venture fund can stay institutional, stay hands-on and still widen the door. Its method is unusually finite: three technical sectors, a 12-to-15-company portfolio and more contact than a quarterly board meeting.
The Firm That Bets on Companies That Already Work
For 40 years, Summit Partners has looked for founders who already found something that works - then handed them capital and a playbook to make it bigger. The results include Uber, McAfee, Klaviyo, and $9.5 billion of fresh dry powder.
The Firm That Built a Resale Market for Private Equity
Jeremy Coller spent 36 years arguing that private equity needed a second-hand market. Now that the market is worth trillions, EQT is paying up to $3.7 billion to own the firm that started it.
The Landlord Betting That America Still Needs to Buy Milk in Person
While the internet was busy declaring the shopping center dead, a West Palm Beach firm quietly assembled 14 million square feet of the stuff - and keeps selling it at a profit.
The Venture Firm That Invests in the Investors
Top Tier Capital Partners built a business one layer above the startup pitch: backing venture funds, buying illiquid stakes, and following the strongest signals into growth companies. Its product is not a single bet but a carefully engineered view of the venture ecosystem.
The Landlord, the Fund Manager and the Operator - All Under One Roof
Hamilton Point Investments built a private-markets machine around an unfashionable idea: the people raising the money should stay close to the people fixing the boilers, leasing the apartments and reporting the results.
Quota Lab, Inc.
Quota Lab, Inc. is a Seoul-based fintech company behind QuotaBook, a cloud equity-management platform that digitizes cap tables, stock options, RSUs and fund reporting for startups and investors. Founded in 2019 by former venture capitalists and graduated from Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, it has become the default equity-management infrastructure for a large share of Korean startups and VC funds, and is often described as the 'Carta of Asia.'
Maybern
Maybern is a New York-based fintech building the operating system for private fund finance. Its platform unifies fund accounting, waterfall and fee calculations, capital calls, distributions, and LP reporting into a single 'Performance Book of Record', replacing the spreadsheet sprawl that has long defined the back office of private equity, private credit, and real estate funds. Founded by former Cadre engineers Ross Mechanic and Ashwin Raghu, the company raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures in November 2025 and supports over $80 billion in assets under management.