Paige Finn Doherty explains what emerging fund managers need to track to raise capital successfully. Execute your original strategy, monitor portfolio performance using TVPI by vintage, and maintain strong LP relationships. Prove you can deliver results even in tough markets.
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What key benchmarks should emerging managers keep in mind for 2022, 2023 to set themselves up for success while raising?
I don't know if this counts as a benchmark, but I would say the doing of what you're doing, right? Are you investing your portfolio? How are your portfolio companies going? Bringing the— to our conversation we had earlier, what did you say you were going to do? And then are you doing it? And if things have changed, why have they changed? Really kind of bringing your body of work and paying attention to it because there will be metrics on what the TVPI chart looks like for the vintage and things like that. Yeah. That's not really as relevant as, as developing a relationship with an LP that says, oh, well, I think Paige is going to be doing this kind of work. And look, in a tough market, she was able to do it successfully and all those portfolio interim benchmarks. Right. But it's— and they on paper, they look like kind of how your company's doing.