Solutions FAQs

A pre-launch or early stage founder led asset management firm operating in the public or private markets. Likely launching or running it’s 1st or 2nd co-invest or co-mingled solution aimed at professional investors. We also welcome conversations with founders who are a few years into their journey, managing modest sums and now ready to scale up.

For those RAISING capital we offer 1 accelerator programme solution with 3 price points. Please note the information in our corporate teaser for specifics.

For those INVESTING we offer a co-invest platform for professionally accredited investors seeking early stage access to a vetted & curated pipeline of world class fund management firms.

When you apply for our accelerator programme we take great care to learn about your team and strategy. If we feel that tastes and appetites are unlikely to favour your firm we will let you know.

We understand that you may bring decades of experience to your new firm - for that reason we don’t offer basic incubation of the type suitable for recent university graduates. Instead, we have structured our programme to provide actionable support in the areas most fund management pros lack muscle memory; distribution, sales and marketing plus operational organisation.

Our expectation is that 75% will graduate. Those who don’t quite make it will still be offered a financially valuable package alongside the tools, skills & peers developed during the 12 week program.

Recognition that a successful asset management firm is an operationally excellent distribution machine. The pursuit of investment performance alone, whilst worthy, will not catalyse asset gathering. We seek to work with founders who desire to pursue personal brand led strategies to build a profitable & durable business despite the ebb & flow of alpha generated from their investment team.

A conversation where the founder leads with performance, fees or risk may not last very long. Similarly, folks who share slides or long pitch decks at the start of a conversation are unlikely to fit well with our approach. Seeing a founder wanting to draw compensation from a new start-up to match their last employed pay is also very concerning! Seeing a projected cost base that has less than 65% devoted to sales & marketing in the start-up years will raise eyebrows here.

No. We make no secret of how hard it is to be accepted on our cohorts given the sheer volume of applications we receive. But once you’re in, we do not pit you against your peers, on the contrary our groups are supportive, sharing and look out for each other.

The entire 12 week phase is held remotely via zoom & google-meet links. Graduation and demo day is held ‘live’ in the heart of downtown Dubai & Abu Dhabi UAE (apart from July when temperatures here hit 130F & we de-camp to the USA for graduation). Each week there is a group call and every 10 days 1on1 coaching with our team. Along with the self directed work we set, please budget for c10 hours per week.

To maintain service standards, we curate 4 cohorts per year, each with 20 individual seats. Competition for those seats is significant and for firms that meet our criteria we accept on a first come first served basis.

We welcome applications from founders located in any of the G20 member countries.