Global private equity fundraising

Smart Growth’s extensive network of relationships extends to active private equity and real estate investors in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. These relationships cross all types of large institutional investors including public and private pension funds, insurance companies, funds of funds, banks, consultants, foundations, endowments, family offices, asset managers, and corporate balance sheet investors.
Smart Growth is constantly in the market, reaching out to both established and new prospective investors in private equity and real estate. Our systematic coverage provides us with a global perspective driven by local investor knowledge.  Smart Growth provides partners with access to qualified investors worldwide, without placing a significant drain on internal resources and without unnecessary distraction from their core business of managing portfolio investments.

Proven Success
Smart Growth Partners has built a successful track record in raising capital for both established and emerging fund managers. We have built a history of success alongside private equity and real estate firms operating across all types of strategies and geographies. Smart Growth has a demonstrated success in international placement of venture capital, growth equity, mezzanine, buyout, turnaround, distressed, opportunistic, real estate and secondary strategies.  A further measure of Smart Growth’s success is the number of repeat mandates awarded to us by clients, with each successive mandate serving as an opportunity to leverage the wealth of knowledge and investor relationships formed in prior efforts. This combination of continuity, trust and an intimate understanding of our clients can lead to highly targeted, more efficient fundraisings, demonstrating the value of long-term relationships. Our ability to close on commitments in all market cycles requires a highly disciplined approach and total commitment to the success of our clients in each partnership mandate.

Expertise
Each Smart Growth partners benefits from a deep institutional expertise across all areas of fund formation, management and fundraising. Contributing to that institutional expertise are several senior team members that have worked as principal investors, investing in 100+ funds, 25+ secondary transactions and 40+ direct investments. We draw upon this invaluable experience to make a critical evaluation of each  client, allowing them to differentiate themselves from their peers and present information in a way which will satisfy the demands of sophisticated institutional
investors.
Smart Growth has developed state-of- the-art systems and reporting to ensure optimal impact and proper coordination throughout the fundraising process. Our partners are able to track the execution of the fundraising process as it unfolds and play a pro-active role in its successful conclusion.

Independence
Smart Growth is owned entirely by members of the team. Fundraising is one of our core business and we are entirely dedicated to the successful completion of a limited number of partners’ placement mandates. Our business model only works with successful outcomes for our hand-picked partners. Each mandate represents both a significant allocation of Smart Growth resources
and a substantial economic event, ensuring our full commitment and a total alignment of interests with our partners. We aim to raise capital from qualified investors, working with integrity and free from conflicts of interest typically driven by “synergies” with other business activities.