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ISSF’s bet: fund the investors, bring the money to Jordan
Jordan’s ISSF started with $98 million and a practical wager: backing venture funds could bring more capital to local founders. Its next chapter tests how far that approach can travel.
Dubai’s AED1 Billion Bet on the Investors Behind the Startups
Dubai Future District Fund backs technology companies and the venture funds that finance them. Its next test is turning patient capital into customers, specialist expertise and businesses that can grow beyond Dubai.
Transpose Platform backs the people who back the founders
A venture firm with about $2.65 billion under management has two ways into the next startup: invest in its founders, or back the fund that finds them. Transpose Platform makes a business of doing both.
The Small-Fund Strategy Behind Taurus Private Markets
Taurus is building a private-markets portfolio around a deliberately narrow idea: smaller specialist funds, rigorous manager selection and incentives that travel in the same direction as investors.
The Boston Firm That Buys Into Everyone Else's Funds - and Manages $161 Billion Doing It
It started in 1982 as an insurer's venture arm with two employees and $200 million. Four decades later, HarbourVest sits on roughly $161 billion and a simple idea: you don't have to pick the winners if you own the whole board.
The Fund That Writes the First Check Into the First Check
It backs the venture funds nobody else will anchor - the ones run by first-time, underrepresented managers - and it shows up at the moment they need it most: the first close.
The Quiet Firm in Chapel Hill That Grades Venture Capital's Rich List
TrueBridge Capital Partners has spent nearly two decades buying into the funds most investors can't get into - and quietly building the model that decides who tops the Forbes Midas List.
The firm that invented the private-equity fund-of-funds is still here 50 years later
Half a century ago it started as a bank's growth-equity desk. Today Adams Street runs about $73 billion in private markets - and every dollar of it is owned by the people who work there.
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.
Ark
Ark is a Boston-based software company that builds a cloud platform for running private capital funds. Founded in 2017, it combines fund accounting, an investor portal, LP reporting, and fundraising tools into one system used by venture capital, private equity, fund-of-funds, and real estate managers as well as the fund administrators who service them. By 2026 the platform supported more than 500 GPs and administrators overseeing roughly $185 billion in assets. In July 2026, AngelList acquired Ark to fold its fund-administration software into AngelList's banking, payments, and cap-table infrastructure.
Allocate
Allocate is a Palo Alto-based financial technology company building an intelligent operating system for private market investing. Its platform equips wealth advisory firms and institutional family offices with modern infrastructure to source, diligence, build, and manage private portfolios - spanning venture capital, private equity, and private credit - through a single interface. Founded in 2021 by longtime venture bankers Samir Kaji and Hana Yang, Allocate automates subscriptions, capital flows, and portfolio operations, and has scaled to billions of dollars on platform serving over 1,200 advisory firms and family offices.
Revere
Revere builds cloud software that helps allocators in private markets manage their portfolios without drowning in spreadsheets and PDFs. Its platform, Revere ONE, ingests fund data automatically, standardizes it across venture capital, private equity, real estate, private credit, and hedge funds, and surfaces performance and risk in interactive dashboards. Founded in 2020 by former AngelList institutional-capital lead Eric Woo and Chris Shen, Revere serves family offices, fund-of-funds, corporate venture groups, and other sophisticated allocators.
Titanbay
Titanbay is a London-based private markets infrastructure provider that helps private banks, wealth managers and fund managers launch, distribute and operate private market funds. Its API-first platform handles fund structuring, investor onboarding, capital flows, compliance and reporting end-to-end, opening up private equity, venture capital and other alternatives that were historically reserved for large institutions. Backed by Motive Partners, abrdn and FNZ, the company surpassed $1bn in assets under management and was named to the 2025 WealthTech100.