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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.
StepStone Group and the Business of Getting Into Rooms Most Investors Never See
A private markets firm started in 2007 now helps steer roughly $700 billion across private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure - and it is quietly opening the door to individual investors.
The Private Equity Firm That Grew Out of a Turnaround Shop
Born from one of the world's best-known restructuring firms, A&M Capital bets that operators, not just financiers, make the better owners of mid-sized companies.
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 $485 Billion Machine Learning to Speak Retail
Carlyle grew up serving institutions behind closed doors. Now its three-part private-markets platform is courting wealth investors, financing the real economy, and trying to make scale feel like an advantage rather than an abstraction.
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.
Sydecar
Sydecar is a deal execution platform that automates the back office for venture investors. It lets fund managers, syndicate leads, and emerging VCs spin up Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) and funds with banking, compliance, contracts, tax, and reporting handled in one place - turning what used to take weeks of legal and administrative work into a next-business-day process. Founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, the company has supported thousands of investment vehicles and administers more than $1 billion in assets.
Brian Yee
Brian Yee is a General Partner at Saints Capital, a San Francisco firm that has spent 25+ years building one of the oldest direct and GP-led venture secondary platforms in the market. He invests across SMB software, e-commerce, marketplaces, and digital health, with a working range of $100K to $5M and a sweet spot near $1.5M. His background runs through Goldman Sachs (TMT investment banking), General Atlantic, and ACME Capital before settling into the secondaries seat at Saints.
Sean Engel
Sean Engel is General Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Top Tier Capital Partners (TTCP), a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with $8.1 billion in regulatory assets under management. A UC Berkeley alum and former varsity rower, Engel joined TTCP's predecessor Paul Capital in 2010 and has spent over 15 years building expertise in LP secondary transactions, direct co-investments, and fund of funds strategies. He co-led the firm's landmark $925M capital raise in 2022 - the Venture Velocity Fund 4 - which included a dedicated $421M climate tech separate account. Engel oversees a global investment team, serves on the Investment Committee, and is known for a data-driven, relationship-first approach to identifying high-growth venture-backed companies across pre-seed through Series B.