Screendoor
$150.00M AUM
private equityfund of funds
Screendoor is a venture capital fund of funds platform redefining how LPs access and invest in early stage VC emerging managers. With over a decade of experience in pensions, family offices, and financial institutions, our team specializes in identifying and backing the next wave of venture capital leaders, offering early visibility and access to VC firms shaping the future of innovation. We provide LPs access to highly competitive VC managers driving alpha that would be challenging for allocators to otherwise identify, access, and underwrite. We uniquely integrate our robust LP frameworks with the strategic expertise of established GPs, such as Homebrew, Forerunner, and Precursor Ventures, enabling us to source and underwrite the non-obvious in our manager selection and support process.
Screendoor is a strategic partner to many prominent institutions, including endowments, foundations, RIAs, and family offices because we offer not only potential returns-driven portfolio exposure, but also a valuable pipeline of direct relationships for your own portfolio as these funds mature.
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US VC Emerging ManagersFund of Funds
Traditional fund-of-funds and LP portfolios weren't build for the next generation of VC funds. Screendoor is.
This is our second vintage of our "fund I" strategy that is designed to provide our LPs with exposure to the first institutional funds of US early stage emerging managers.
Many new firms intentionally aim to keep small fund sizes, creating exclusive opportunities that limit direct institutional LP access. Even LPs that are active in the venture capital ecosystem have a difficult time finding, underwriting, and accessing potential outperforming Fund I's because Fund I’s do not fit their traditional diligence frameworks. Other LPs must wait for a full traditional track record, leaving them as bystanders without exposure to the very performance in Fund I’s that generates the signal to invest in their future fund offerings.
Screendoor LPs can have exposure to and early relationships with a diversified basket of 20-24 potential outperforming funds that could one day become the capacity-constrained brands of the next-generation. We serve as an extension of our LPs' teams, providing market intel, support building their ideal venture capital portfolios, and early relationship access into the next generation of industry-defining managers.
US VC Emerging Managers + Co-InvestmentsFund of Funds
Traditional fund-of-funds and LP portfolios weren't build for the next generation of VC funds. Screendoor is.
Our Echo strategy is designed to provide LPs with exposure to the Fund IIs + of managers that LPs struggle to find, diligence, and access. Echo also provides our LPs with co-investments sourced from managers across the entire Screendoor platform: our 2021 vintage, our Fund I strategy of funds, and our Echo strategy of funds.
Many new firms intentionally aim to keep small fund sizes, creating exclusive opportunities that limit direct institutional LP access. Even LPs that are active in the venture capital ecosystem have a difficult time finding, underwriting, and accessing the Fund IIs and IIIs of emerging managers. Other LPs must wait for a full traditional track record, leaving them as bystanders without exposure to the very performance that generates the signal to invest in their future fund offerings. Echo will invest in these competitive, small funds that have the early signals of a strong track record in progress. Regardless of our prior relationship, every Echo fund goes through a full underwriting.
Screendoor LPs can have exposure to and early relationships with a diversified basket of 20-24 potential outperforming funds that could one day become the capacity-constrained brands of the next-generation. We serve as an extension of our LPs' teams, providing market intel, support building their ideal venture capital portfolios, and early relationship access into the next generation of industry-defining managers.
Other managers
Spur Capital Partners
Bartlesville, United StatesSpur Capital is a venture fund of fund focused on early-stage managers in the US. We have built durable relationships with top-tier venture capital firms and been early to identify the next generation of talent. Our limited partners are leading private foundations, endowments, families and institutional investors across the United States and Europe.
private equityfund of funds
StepStone Group
La Jolla, United StatesStepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices, and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals. StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private market portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt, and real estate asset classes.
infrastructuresecondary
TPG
San Francisco, California, United StatesTPG (Nasdaq: TPG) is a leading global alternative asset management firm, founded in San Francisco in 1992, with $229 billion of assets under management and investment and operational teams around the world. TPG invests across a broadly diversified set of strategies, including private equity, impact, credit, real estate, and market solutions, and our unique strategy is driven by collaboration, innovation, and inclusion. Our teams combine deep product and sector experience with broad capabilities and expertise to develop differentiated insights and add value for our fund investors, portfolio companies, management teams, and communities.
buyoutprivate equityreal estategrowth
Portfolio Advisors
Darien, United StatesPortfolio Advisors is a global private asset manager specializing in the U.S. middle market. We provide tailored private equity, private credit and private real estate investment solutions through a variety of customized programs, including direct, secondary and primary investments, and junior and senior credit. Since our founding in 1994, Portfolio Advisors has served as an active partner to the middle-market community, leading to superior access and value creation for clients and sponsors alike.
In 2023, Portfolio Advisors combined with FS Investments, a pioneer in the democratization of alternative assets. Together, we manage over $75 billion in assets and offer a broad suite of alternative strategies to both institutional and individual investors. The combined company has more than 500 employees across offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia, with headquarters in Philadelphia and Darien, CT.
private equitysecondary
Catalyst Capital
Los Altos, United StatesOur firm, led by the youngest GP in history, focuses on high-conviction investing, targeting a small number of high-potential startups founded by young, innovative entrepreneurs. We provide significant capital and hands-on support, including mentorship, expert networks, and strategic follow-on investments. Leveraging personal experience as an exited founder, we build deep relationships with founders, offering tailored guidance. Our belief is that young founders bring unmatched innovation and energy, which drives the outsized returns we aim for.
Blue Owl Capital Inc.
New York, United StatesAt Blue Owl, we are doing more than just investing in private markets—we are shaping the future of alternatives. We serve our investors by being a partner of choice for businesses seeking private capital solutions.
private equityreal estateprivate debtsecondarygp stakesdevelopment / minority capital
Star Mountain Capital
New York, United States"Bringing large market expertise to smaller companies, Star Mountain’s philosophies include a data-driven and systematic approach to investing. Its long-term focus includes substantial investments in team, technology, brand and culture. Star Mountain’s complementary investment verticals and Collaborative Ecosystem® provide insights, relationships and resources to assist companies in maximizing value:
1. Providing senior and/or junior debt to established, growing small and medium-sized companies.
2. Investing minority or control equity capital into established, growing small and medium-sized companies.
3. Purchasing investments and LP positions from other investors in lower middle-market funds and companies.
4. Providing strategic LP capital (including separate accounts) to lower middle-market funds.
Star Mountain’s specialty is helping grow companies that generally have at least $15 million of revenue or under $50 million of EBITDA through organic and strategic initiatives such as acquisitions.
Team includes former Head of Credit Suisse Alternatives ($100 bn AUM), Chief Risk Officer GSO / Blackstone, Head of Leveraged Loan Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch and BAML (underwrote ~$50 bn in event driven financings), Co-Heads of ~$6 bn Merrill Lynch and BAML Private Equity, ~$11 bn Citigroup Private Equity and Merchant Banking Division of BNP Paribas and Head of Media & Communications Merchant, Investment and Corporate Banking at BMO. Investment professionals have an average of 20+ years of experience."
private equitysecondary
Ace Management Partners LLC
New York, United StatesAt Ace Management Partners, we are a technology-driven investment firm that leverages our expertise and strategic partnerships to identify and invest in selective, high-potential Pre-IPO companies. Our team is passionate about fostering strong relationships with our clients and partnering with them to achieve their investment goals. We believe in constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation and utilizing cutting-edge tools to drive success and deliver superior returns to our investors. Our focus on technology and innovation allows us to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving Pre-IPO market, and our strategic partnerships enable us to gain unique insights and access to top-tier investment opportunities. We believe that strong relationships are the foundation of success, and we work tirelessly to build and maintain partnerships with our clients. We are driven by a constant pursuit of excellence and a passion for delivering exceptional value and transparency to our clients. Join us on our journey to shape the future of investing.
Flowstone Partners
Avon, United StatesFlowStone Partners provides investors with institutional-quality, diversified exposure to the Private Equity asset class through secondary, primary, and co-investment strategies. The FlowStone senior investment team has over 65 years of combined private equity secondary and primary investment experience. As opposed to institutionally oriented fund-of-funds investment managers, our investment strategies are executed through an investment vehicle that strives to meet the unique requirements of individual- and smaller institutional investors
private equitysecondary
Thomas H. Lee Partners
Boston, United StatesTHL Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies in three industry groups: Financial Technology & Services, Healthcare, and Technology & Business Solutions. We partner with management teams to build great companies of lasting value and strive to generate superior returns for our investors. We couple our deep domain expertise with dedicated internal operating resources to transform and build great companies of lasting value in partnership with management. Since 1974, we have raised more than $35 billion of equity capital, invested in over 170 companies and completed more than 600 add-on acquisitions representing an aggregate enterprise value at acquisition of over $250 billion.
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