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Capital is not scarce.Access is.

Private markets have absorbed more and more of the value being created, while the machinery for distributing capital into them has narrowed. Two forces moving in opposite directions. Everything we do sits in the space between them.

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Thesis

Why Avalanche

Across venture and private equity, we connect clients to what they're looking for: whether that's capital, deal flow, or secondary liquidity. Precisely, discreetly, and at pace.

01

Global Network

Direct relationships with LPs, family offices, and institutional investors across the US, Europe, and the Middle East - and the reach to go beyond them when the mandate demands it.

02

Both Sides of The Table

Our team has operated as investors and as operators - which means we understand what capital allocators need to see, and how to position an opportunity that gets funded.

03

Precision & Execution

We don't approach the market broadly. Every mandate is matched against a curated set of investors whose criteria, geography, and appetite align - minimising meaningless conversations.

The divergence

Two forces, moving apart

The pool of capital is widening. Alternatives keep compounding, and the number of people who can commit without a committee - family offices above all - keeps growing.

The routes that reach them are narrowing. Distribution has consolidated into fewer, larger intermediaries serving fewer, larger issuers. Supply of capital and access to capital have decoupled.

The space between those two lines is the whole reason this firm exists.

What we believe

Five positions we build on

Not predictions. These are the structural features of private markets that every mandate we take is built to work with.

01Private markets are where value is created now.
The listed universe has been shrinking for a generation while the private one has multiplied, and companies stay private for years longer than they used to. This is not a cycle. It is a permanent relocation of where enterprise value is built, held and traded.
02The capital pool is widening. The channels into it are not.
There is more capital than ever, and more people with the authority to commit it. Distribution has moved the other way, consolidating into fewer, larger intermediaries serving fewer, larger issuers. Supply of capital and access to capital have decoupled.
03Concentration at the top is structural, not a phase.
Mega funds and mega rounds have taken a rising share of committed capital for a decade, through bull markets and bear ones alike. Any plan for the lower and mid-market that assumes a return to a flatter distribution is a plan built on a wish.
04Relationships are the settlement layer of private capital.
No allocator has ever wired money because of a scoring model. They wire it because someone they trust brought the deal. What has changed is not the role of relationships but how systematically a firm can build, hold and deploy them.
05Access is infrastructure, not a rolodex.
Treated as a contact list, a network is a depreciating asset - worth most on the first mandate and less on every one after it. Treated as infrastructure, it compounds. That distinction is the whole of how this firm is built.

Where the gap sits

Every raise runs on three layers of relationships

Most raises exhaust the first two and never reach the third. The third is where the capital actually is.

  1. 01

    Your own network

    Family, friends, direct industry contacts. Where the first close comes from, and rarely any further.

    We serve emerging fund managers from Fund I to Fund IV, and companies from Seed to Series D. Past that threshold, capital tends to find the issuer. Before it, nothing about track record, traction or networking guarantees the outcome, and most founders and GPs in this bracket are still doing the work of finding capital themselves.

  2. 02

    The extended network

    Existing investors who re-up, and their referrals. Productive until the arithmetic asserts itself: a finite network cannot deliver an increasing amount of capital indefinitely.

    Why This Segment, Deliberately

    01It Is The Segment The Market Structurally Ignores
    Concentration at the top is not a temporary cycle. Everyone below the mega-fund tier competes for a shrinking share of visible attention, which is precisely where an access layer produces the most value per unit of effort.
    02It Is The Segment No Existing Solution Was Designed For
    Placement firms and investment banks hold institutional networks assembled for established funds and mature issuers writing multi eight-figure cheques. That network was priced and built for a different part of the market, and it does not translate down.
    03It Is The Segment Whose Operating Reality We Know
    Across more than seventy mandates in venture, private equity, private credit and real estate, we settled here on purpose. We understand the pace, the missing internal resources and the level of support this bracket actually requires.
    04Both Sides Of The Table Compound Each Other
    Serving funds and companies at the same stage of maturity is not divided focus. The GPs we raise for become allocators we can introduce, and the companies we raise for become the dealflow those GPs want to see. Every mandate deepens the network the next one draws on.

  3. 03

    The addressable universe

    Allocators who would fund the deal and will never encounter it, because nothing in the process was built to put it in front of them. This is the layer that has been growing while access to it has not.

    No issuer accesses infinite capital through a finite network. Each available route either works the first two layers harder or automates the same push. The third layer is where the widening capital pool actually sits, and reaching it predictably is the whole discipline.

    How we do it

Team

The people you work with

A team covering both sides of a raise - origination, structuring, investor relationships, and the tooling underneath them.

  • Bernardo Almeida

    Managing Partner

  • Lev Valestkiy

    Partner & General Counsel

  • Bruno Erckmam

    Partner

  • Tatjana Sotirovik

    Investor Relations Manager

  • Lucas Barrozo

    AI Implementation Engineer

  • Arsenio Renato

    Associate

  • Sara Ribeiro

    Account Executive

  • Erik Gallegos

    Account Executive

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