Deal source statistics for search funds?

by an investor from Columbia University - Columbia Business School

8 months ago

Any stats out in the universe for the source of deals closed by search funds. Proprietary sourcing is preached as the gospel, but my hunch is that most closed deals are sourced via intermediaries. Especially in recent years as search funds have proliferated and PE has moved down market.

Anybody with actual data? Thought Stanford would have it but didn't see anything there.

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professional from Bentley College

I thought that the Stanford paper had some statistics on this and it was like 80% deals are brokered. Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure those were the numbers in the report.

3 weeks ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

One of my investors last year participated in 8 transactions with their searchers. All but one were proprietary (they definitely stress industry driven, proprietary outreach though).

7 months ago | like reply | 0 likes

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