Retained by capital. Accountable to the mandate.
Ascentivelab Group is retained by family offices, investment firms, venture investors and private lenders. It originates and advises on negotiated transactions inside a stated thesis.
The capital sets the criteria.
Family Offices
Direct-investing families and their principals. A mandate here is the company reached before it is taken to market, on criteria the family has set.
Venture & Growth Investors
Funds backing companies before scale. A mandate here is the company past its federal award or its first trial, reached before a round is announced.
Private Equity
Control and growth investors. A mandate here is the next add-on under a platform already owned.
Private Credit & Direct Lenders
Unitranche and senior facilities. A mandate here is the credit reached before a sponsor process forms around it.
Wealth Management & Private Investors
Platforms and private investors allocating directly. A mandate here is the asset itself, not a fund interest in it.
Project Finance
Sponsors and institutions financing energy and infrastructure. A mandate here is development equity before construction.
The companies the Firm brings have already been tested.
Companies past the SBIR and NIH review that most applicants never clear.
Companies with a trial underway or complete, and the data to show for it.
Companies already supplying the Department of Defense or a federal agency.
Nothing is sent until it qualifies.
The company has been reached before a process exists, the willingness to transact established, and the terms tested against the mandate before anything is sent.
Each company arrives with the reason it fits, stated first.
A capital partner’s thesis and check range are held as closely as a company’s name. Neither is discussed outside the mandate.
An opportunity that misses the stated criteria is not sent. A quarter can pass with nothing sent.
The fields the Firm records for every mandate, on one page.
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Within a thesis and geography, one capital partner holds the relationship.
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