ADVISORY
Consulting services for
Investors
Think of us as your investment firm's additional partner or investment committee member.
The difference is we have spent our entire careers as direct investors and board directors at some of the top venture capital and private equity groups in the world. We know first-hand what it takes to be top quartile return generating machine and how to get your practice there.
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Starting a Fund or Investment Vehicle
In this current environment where markets are getting much more efficient, the private equity and venture capital space provides one of the most compelling sources of outsized returns, if you have the access.
For family offices, high-net-worth individuals, corporations, or broader institutional investors, Ignition develops strategies to help you build strategies to get direct exposure in this PE/VC asset class or launch your own vehicle.
Recent Success:
1.) Strategized and launched a corporate venture fund for a global corporate F1000 company that was looking to strategically expand in adjacent more innovative categories. 2.) Consulted an international family office on launching a direct end-to-end investment practice with multiple different strategies (venture, debt, and late stage growth). 3.) Consulted an angel investor consortium on launching an accelerator and analyzing investment scout programs.
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Fund Strategy and Operations
For existing investment firms, we know just how competitive the space is. It is utmost important to improve differentiation and increase your edge.
In the diverse environment where you have nimble seed funds to massive multi-discipline venture groups with deep operational and portfolio support, we know how to best tailor your offering to create the brand that attracts founders and makes the best returns for LPs.
From rethinking your portfolio strategy to hiring the right personnel or developing a new team, we are here to help.
Recent Success:
1.) Advised many investment firms on launching portfolio company operations teams and value-added services, post-investment (BD, corp dev, talent, marketing, etc). for their specific industries. 2.) Strategized with multiple investment firms on how to create processes to improve investment returns, mitigate risk, and overall portfolio construction strategy (teach best practices of how a top VC sources and evaluates deals). 3.) Helped multiple investment firms strategize on how to build and lead an investment team (from sourcing to hiring and interviewing analysts up to general partners). 4.) Advised a European venture capital fund on how to grow firm into a global brand, hire top investment partners and improve overall returns.
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Investment Analysis and Due Diligence
For private equity or venture capital firms, Ignition is a trusted partner for the entire investing lifecycle from sourcing & diligence (business and technical), to execution, post-investment value creation, and risk management.
We've helped many top investments firms analyze and conduct deep diligence on specific companies or industries, culminating in an extensive market map for a category or an investment memo for a company.
Recent Success:
1.) Entrepreneur-in-residence of a private equity fund was interested in buying or founding from scratch a semiconductor company. Ignition helped the team analyze the entire value chain of semis industry to understand how to build a company that captures the upside of the AI hardware boom while minimizing binary R&D risk. 2.) Helped a Korean venture capital firm market map, build a sourcing process, and come up with an evaluation system for Crypto and Web3 companies. Client was specifically interested in the metaverse and decentralized finance categories and we supported due diligence and investment decisions in a specific company.