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Use Cases
First-Time PE Funds
Turn your fixed costs into variable by outsourcing investment team responsibilities to Launch Growth Partners on an as-needed basis
Raising a first-time fund or operating as a fund-less sponsor often puts PE firms in a bind, where you need to raise capital to fund investments, but in order to raise that capital, you need proof-points of your investment strategy
This catch-22 makes it difficult to budget your management fees between paying placement agents, broken deal fees, search firms, key subscriptions, paying yourself and actually building out your investment & value creation teams
Finding the right new hires requires patience and can be made even more difficult by limited budget constraints
Challenges
Turn your fixed costs into variable by outsourcing your investment team responsibilities to experienced private equity professionals on a deal-by-deal or as-needed basis
Launch Growth Partners offers experienced private equity professionals to act as your fully outsourced investment team, offering flexible pricing to fit your firm's budget
Depending on the firm’s budget, we can work on one-off assignments, drafting the materials required for marketing your investment strategy, or work as an outsourced deal team until you reach the point where you can staff internally
Solutions

Continuation Funds / New Fundraises
Manage longer-hold portfolios without compromising your investment team’s capacity by outsourcing portfolio management responsibilities to Launch Growth Partners
Transitioning out of an investment vehicle can be a challenge for an investment team
Whether the firm has exited via secondary / continuation fund or simply moving onto a new vintage fund, the capacity of the investment team is often compromised between two contradicting objectives: 1) fundraising & pursuing investments for the new fund vs. 2) managing the portfolio / exits of the prior fund
Challenges
Bring on the investment professionals at Launch Growth Partners to manage the portfolio through exit
Launch Growth Partners will continue to implement your firm’s investment strategies, while providing relief for your investment team to focus on new fund investments
Launch Growth Partners offers flexible pricing to meet your firm’s budget and needs
Solutions
GP Retirements
Manage the winding-down of your portfolio without tying down your investment team by outsourcing responsibilities to Launch Growth Partners
When PE firms or family offices decide to wind down their operations, Partners and Managing Directors are placed in a delicate and compromising situation
The investment firm still needs resources to manage the exit of existing portfolio companies, while understanding that the existing investment team likely needs to look out for their own long-term careers
Challenges
Bring on the investment professionals at Launch Growth Partners to manage the winding down of the portfolio through exit
Launch Growth Partners will act as your portfolio management team, continuing to execute on existing strategies, while interfacing with management on exit and compensation plans
Launch Growth Partners offers flexible pricing to meet your firm’s budget and needs
Solutions

Staff Augmentation - Interim Investment Professional
Bridge the resource gap and augment your investment team’s capacity by outsourcing responsibilities to Launch Growth Partners on an as-needed or year-round basis
Growing private equity firms are often faced with the challenge of capacity planning, as the arrival of quality deals won’t always match the capacity of the investment team
Finding the right new hires requires patience, often requires contracting a headhunter and typically forces the investment team to spend additional time conducting a thorough interview process
Additionally, start dates are typically confined to the end of the new hire’s current contracts / bonus periods, then require
And once new hires finally start, they typically require HR onboarding, plus training and deal reps to get fully up to speed
Challenges
Bring on the investment professionals at Launch Growth Partners to bridge the gap between deal work and team capacity
Launch Growth Partners offers experienced private equity professionals to act as interim members of the investment team, helping to evaluate and / or execute new investments that may stretch beyond the capacity of the current investment team
Launch Growth Partners offers flexible pricing to meet your firm’s budget and needs
Solutions
Staff Augmentation - Interim Corporate Development Lead
Bridge the resource gap and begin executing add-on M&A immediately after closing your platform investment by outsourcing Corporate Development needs on an interim basis
Buy-and-build strategies often require a significant investments in personnel, including corporate development and strategy
However, finding the right people for the job can take time, creating a resource gap for the investment team to fill on top of their already demanding responsibilities of portfolio management and new deal evaluation
This resource gap makes it difficult for new platform investments to begin executing on high-velocity M&A within the first year of the strategy
Challenges
Bring on the investment professionals at Launch Growth Partners as Interim Corporate Development
Launch Growth Partners offers experienced investment professionals to act as interim corporate development, enabling PE funds to begin executing on and integrating their M&A pipeline immediately after closing their platform investment
Launch Growth Partners offers flexible pricing to meet your firm’s budget and needs
Solutions

Outsourced Theme Generation
Identify attractive investment themes without compromising your investment team’s capacity by outsourcing your theme generation process to Launch Growth Partners
Private Equity has become a rather saturated industry over the years, yet the core pillars have not changed: beating the market by quick, yet responsible deployment and identifying stable, undervalued assets with high cash flows and / or growth potential
But with more capital in the market and more investment banks representing sellers, it has become increasingly difficult to find quality targets without having to compete in bank-led processes, reducing the likelihood of close and forcing PE firms to pay above market multiples.
Challenges
Many firms are converting to a thematic, industry-first investment model, in which they identify tailwinds within specific industries and business models, then pursue a proprietary sourcing strategy to find platforms and add-ons that best fit their investment strategy, rather than just pursuing businesses that happen to be for sale.
Outsource your theme generation process to the experienced thematic investment professionals at Launch Growth Partners who can conduct mile-deep industry research and draft IC materials that help you determine whether that industry or business model is a fit for you
Solutions

One-Off Assignments
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Term: 1-4 weeks
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Pricing: $1-10k per week / assignment
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Mini-model: $1k / week*
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One Page Opportunity Overview: $1k / week*
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Datapack: $5k / week*
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IC Deck & Equity Model: $5k / week
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Fund Model: $10k / week*
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Fundraising Materials: $10k / week
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Includes:
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Deal Diligence: CIM Review, Datapack creation, financial modeling (3-4 case equity models, lender models), drafting of IC memos
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Portfolio management: KPI dashboards, covenant calculations, budget drafting, quarterly valuations, management incentive plans
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Fund Modeling / Fundraising: Fund Metrics, New fund modeling
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*Requests to edit post creation are a 25% upcharge on price
Interim Support
Success-based Pricing
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Pricing: $50-150k per deal closed
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Pricing dependent on sourcing & deal complexity
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Retainer-based Pricing
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Term: 3-36 months
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Retainer: $3k per week minimum
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Variable Payments:
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Hourly Overages: TBD per project needs
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Closed Deal Fees: TBD per project needs
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Analyst Support Fees: TBD per project needs
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Annual Subscription
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Reserve capacity for multiple projects per year by purchasing credits
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50% annual rollover for unused credits