The network

Coverage you can see the shape of, and nothing more

The network is worked out of 40 cities. New York first, then the American markets private capital has moved to, London, Zurich, Geneva, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich and Monte-Carlo across Europe, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Manama, Muscat and Riyadh in the Gulf, and Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai in Asia, and Sydney. These relationships exist because they are kept private, so we show the geography, the round size, the sector appetite and the structures the network will take, and never a list, a name or a sample record.

Three people in conversation in a Manhattan office lounge with skyscrapers beyond the glass
Working the network from Lower Manhattan

Where we meet with investors

40 cities and 29 rooms. Each is either a city where we have partners with a network of investors, or a pitch room close to a high density of family offices and VC funds — somewhere we can arrange to pitch, or meet for diligence and a closing. Click a mark, or a city in the list, for the room and how to reach it.

World map marking the cities Escher Capital works from, listed in full beside it.
A filled mark is a city with a room we can sit you in, and its address is the one shown. A hollow mark is a city where we have people and no room of our own, so no address is given rather than one you could not walk into. Reconfirm before you travel: these are workspaces we book, not premises we hold, and operators move.

The addresses in full

Every city we work, the room in it where there is one, and why that address rather than another. The same text the map shows, here so it can be read without one.

North America

New York

First meetings and closings happen here.

  • 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, 38th Floor, New York
    3 World Trade Center · primary
    175 Greenwich Street, 38th Floor
    New York, NY 10007

    Lower Manhattan's rebuild brought institutional capital back downtown, with Goldman Sachs three blocks west at 200 West Street and Brookfield Place directly across. The building itself houses growth-stage technology tenants alongside financial firms, and the Flatiron and SoHo venture corridor is fifteen minutes by subway. For a firm working the seam between private capital and technology, no other address in the city sits on both sides of it.

  • Grand Central, 110 East 42nd Street, 11th Floor, New York
    Grand Central
    110 East 42nd Street, 11th Floor
    New York, NY 10017

    East Midtown is the densest private-capital corridor in the United States. Blackstone at 345 Park Avenue, Warburg Pincus on Lexington, and General Atlantic on East 52nd are all inside a ten-minute walk, and the Park and Madison Avenue blocks hold one of the heaviest concentrations of single-family offices anywhere. Grand Central itself puts Fairfield and Westchester principals in the lobby in under an hour.

  • 1 Columbus Circle, 1 Columbus Circle, 21st Floor, New York
    1 Columbus Circle
    1 Columbus Circle, 21st Floor
    New York, NY 10019

    The 57th Street corridor running east from Columbus Circle holds Apollo, a long list of alternative managers, and the single-family offices clustered along Central Park South. Deutsche Bank's US headquarters occupies the tower directly above. This is the address for family office and private wealth conversations rather than institutional venture.

  • 875 Third Avenue, 875 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York
    875 Third Avenue
    875 Third Avenue, 6th Floor
    New York, NY 10022

    Midtown East between 52nd and 53rd puts the Third and Park Avenue hedge fund and family office corridor at street level. Blackstone, Apollo, and a dozen multi-strategy managers are within a six-block radius, and Bloomberg's headquarters is a short walk north. Convenient to both the Lexington Avenue subway lines and the Queensboro approach for Long Island principals.

Greenwich

Connecticut's hedge fund belt, worked directly rather than from Midtown.

  • Greenwich Office Park, 5 Greenwich Office Park, 1st Floor, Greenwich
    Greenwich Office Park
    5 Greenwich Office Park, 1st Floor
    Greenwich, CT 06831

    Greenwich manages more hedge fund and single-family office capital per square mile than anywhere outside Manhattan. AQR, Viking Global, Lone Pine, and Silver Point all operate within a few miles, and the town's private wealth density has made it a genuine source of direct and co-investment capital rather than only fund allocations. For family office outreach specifically, this address does more work than a Manhattan one.

Boston

The oldest institutional money in the country, and the university spinouts beside it.

  • Post Office Square, 225 Franklin Street, Floor 26, Boston
    Post Office Square
    225 Franklin Street, Floor 26
    Boston, MA 02110

    Post Office Square sits at the center of the Financial District, with Bain Capital, TA Associates, and Summit Partners clustered in the Back Bay blocks to the west and HarbourVest, Fidelity, and Wellington within walking distance. Boston's institutional LP base and its growth equity firms occupy the same twelve blocks, which is unusual. Kendall Square and the Cambridge venture firms are two stops on the Red Line.

Washington

Federal, defence and the policy-adjacent capital that follows both.

  • Met Square, 655 15th Street NW, 9th Floor, Washington
    Met Square
    655 15th Street NW, 9th Floor
    Washington, DC 20005

    Two blocks from the White House and one from Carlyle's headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue. The DC and Northern Virginia corridor holds the country's concentration of defense and national security investors, including Paladin Capital Group, Blue Delta, Razor's Edge, and In-Q-Tel across the river. For anything touching government-adjacent technology, this is the address where the investors and the customer sit in the same square mile.

Chicago

The derivatives and industrial capital of the Midwest, all of it on one street.

  • Central Loop, 231 South LaSalle Street, Suite 2100, Chicago
    Central Loop
    231 South LaSalle Street, Suite 2100
    Chicago, IL 60604

    The former Continental Illinois Bank building, directly across from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a block from the Board of Trade. LaSalle Street is Chicago's financial corridor, and the city's private capital sits on it, with GTCR, Madison Dearborn, and the Pritzker and Crown family offices all within a short walk. Chicago's family office concentration is deeper than its venture market, which makes this the correct address for the capital that actually writes checks here.

Atlanta

Fintech and the Southeast's private capital, most of it in Buckhead.

  • Buckhead North, 3424 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 2200, Atlanta
    Buckhead North
    3424 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 2200
    Atlanta, GA 30326

    Buckhead is where Atlanta's private capital sits, from BIP Ventures and Fulcrum Equity to a heavy concentration of family offices built on the region's payments and logistics fortunes. Atlanta processes a substantial share of US card transactions, and the fintech investor base that grew around that corridor is local. Hartsfield-Jackson puts most of the Southeast within a two-hour flight.

Miami

The Latin American gateway, and the funds that relocated here after 2020.

  • Brickell, 1111 Brickell Avenue, 10th Floor, Miami
    Brickell
    1111 Brickell Avenue, 10th Floor
    Miami, FL 33131

    Brickell is the financial district of the Americas, historically the US banking gateway for Latin American capital and more recently the destination for a wave of relocated managers including Citadel and a growing set of venture and crypto funds. The family office density here has changed materially since 2020, and much of it is first-generation and direct-investing rather than allocator-only. For cross-border capital and private wealth, no other US address covers this ground.

Tampa

Where a growing share of single-family-office capital has relocated.

  • Tampa Downtown, 401 East Jackson Street, Suite 3300, Tampa
    Tampa Downtown
    401 East Jackson Street, Suite 3300
    Tampa, FL 33602

    Truist Place sits in the downtown financial core, a short walk from the Water Street development that reshaped the city's business district. Florida's tax treatment has pulled a meaningful number of family offices and private investors to the Tampa Bay corridor, and the local venture presence, led by Florida Funders, has grown alongside it. Best used for private wealth and regional capital rather than institutional venture.

Palm Beach

Family offices and private wealth, and the managers who moved south with them.

  • Symphony Workplaces
    2875 South Ocean Boulevard, Suite 200
    Palm Beach, FL 33480

    Palm Beach holds one of the densest concentrations of private wealth in the United States, and it got denser through the relocations out of the Northeast that followed 2020 — hedge funds, family offices and the wealth managers who serve them moved together rather than one at a time. Royal Palm Way is the corridor those managers, trust companies and private banks sit on, and it is a short drive north of this address. The capital here is private and relationship-led rather than institutional, which makes it a different conversation from a fund meeting and often an earlier one. Alexa Giuliani works this market alongside Monte-Carlo, and the two share investors more often than their distance suggests.

Dallas

North Texas corporate and family capital, worked by an advisor.

No room of our own

Dallas is where Texas keeps its balance sheets rather than its engineers: the corporate headquarters along the North Central Expressway and in Plano, the bank and insurance capital downtown, and a family-office layer built on energy, real estate and distribution fortunes that is older and quieter than Austin's. Money here is relationship-led and generally later-stage, which makes it a different conversation from the one two hundred miles south. Daniel Kearns works it alongside Austin and Houston. We have no room in the city and do not pretend otherwise: meetings happen at the counterparty or at a venue we take for the day.

Austin

Texas venture capital, and the funds that moved from the coasts to meet it.

  • 3rd & Congress, 301 Congress Avenue, 12th Floor, Austin
    3rd & Congress
    301 Congress Avenue, 12th Floor
    Austin, TX 78701

    Congress Avenue is the spine of Austin's investor community, with LiveOak, Silverton, Next Coast, S3 Ventures, and ATX Venture Partners all downtown and Capital Factory a few blocks north. The relocation wave brought both funds and corporate technology headquarters, so operator capital and institutional capital now sit in the same few blocks. Strong for early-stage venture and for founders who want to meet investors without leaving the state.

Denver

Industrial, energy and the Mountain West family offices.

  • Central Business District, 1801 California Street, Suite 2400, Denver
    Central Business District
    1801 California Street, Suite 2400
    Denver, CO 80202

    Seventeenth Street has been called the Wall Street of the Rockies for a reason, and the surrounding CBD holds Techstars, Blackhorn Ventures, Access Venture Partners, and the energy and aerospace capital that funds much of the Mountain West. Denver's investor base skews toward industrial, climate, and space technology, which is a narrower but deeper pool than a generalist market. Boulder is forty minutes north and the two ecosystems function as one.

Boulder

The deep-tech and hard-science cluster, which does not travel to Denver to meet.

  • Pearl Street, 1919 14th Street, Suite 700, Boulder
    Pearl Street
    1919 14th Street, Suite 700
    Boulder, CO 80302

    Boulder punches far above its size on venture density, with Boulder Ventures, Access Venture Partners, and the Techstars network all within a few blocks of Pearl Street. The University of Colorado and the federal labs nearby, including NIST, NOAA, and NREL in Golden, make this a deep tech and aerospace market rather than a software one. Best paired with the Denver location when the audience spans both.

Los Angeles

Media, consumer and the Westside capital that backs both.

  • Century City, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 1700, Los Angeles
    Century City
    1925 Century Park East, Suite 1700
    Los Angeles, CA 90067

    Century City is LA's private capital core, with Ares, Kayne Anderson, and Leonard Green on Avenue of the Stars and Oaktree, Clearlake, and Platinum Equity within a short drive. The entertainment and real estate fortunes behind much of Southern California's family office capital are managed from these same towers. Santa Monica and the Westside venture firms are twenty minutes west.

Palo Alto

Sand Hill and the Stanford side of the valley, which does not drive to the city.

  • Palo Alto Page Mill, 1881 Page Mill Road, Suite 100, Palo Alto
    Palo Alto Page Mill
    1881 Page Mill Road, Suite 100
    Palo Alto, CA 94304

    Page Mill Road runs directly into Sand Hill Road, which remains the densest concentration of venture capital anywhere in the world. Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Khosla, and NEA are all within a few minutes' drive, along with Stanford and the corporate venture arms clustered along the 280 corridor. For institutional venture specifically, this address is closer to more decision-makers than any other on the list.

San Francisco

The venture core, and the shortest path to a West Coast lead.

  • Financial District, 345 California Street, Suite 600-700, San Francisco
    Financial District
    345 California Street, Suite 600-700
    San Francisco, CA 94104

    The Financial District and the adjacent Jackson Square blocks hold a large share of the city's venture firms, and the AI companies driving current deal flow are concentrated within a few miles in SoMa and Hayes Valley. Corporate venture arms and the growth-stage crossover funds maintain their West Coast presence here rather than on the Peninsula. Sand Hill Road is forty minutes south when the meeting requires it.

Seattle

Enterprise software and the strategic capital that sits beside it.

  • Safeco Plaza, 1001 Fourth Avenue, Seattle
    Safeco Plaza · primary
    1001 Fourth Avenue
    Seattle, WA 98154

    Fourth Avenue in the middle of the downtown core, which is where Seattle's venture capital actually sits: Madrona is across the street on Third, ARCH is two blocks down on Second, and Sahsen, Pioneer Square Labs and Maveron are all inside a ten-minute walk south. That concentration is the reason for this address rather than a South Lake Union one — the technology companies are up by the lake, and the firms that write seed and Series A cheques are here. The 1 Line reaches SeaTac from University Street without a change, and Bellevue and the Eastside are fifteen minutes across the bridge.

  • Lake Union, 1100 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 100, Seattle
    Lake Union
    1100 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 100
    Seattle, WA 98109

    South Lake Union is Amazon's main campus and also hosts Google, Meta, Fred Hutch, and the Allen Institute, which makes it the rare market where the technology companies and the capital occupy the same neighborhood. Madrona, Maveron, Fuse, and Voyager work this ecosystem, and the corporate venture arms attached to Amazon and Microsoft are the most active strategic investors in the region. Bellevue and the Eastside are fifteen minutes across the bridge.

Charlotte

One of the country's largest banking centres, worked from the bench rather than from a room.

No room of our own

Charlotte is a banking town before it is a venture one: the capital that moves here is corporate, private and relationship-led, and it is reached through people who already bank in it. Mark Swanson works the Carolinas from here. There is no room of ours in the city, so a meeting here happens at the counterparty's offices or in Atlanta, which is a short flight south.

Charleston

Coastal South Carolina: defence, logistics and the capital that sits beside both.

No room of our own

Charleston pairs a deep-water port and a defence and aerospace base with a private wealth layer that does not present itself in the usual places. William Mayville, a retired three star general and former vice commander of US Cyber Command, works the city and the defence-adjacent relationships around it. There is no room here.

Houston

Energy capital, and the transition money moving through it.

No room of our own

Houston is where American energy capital is allocated, and the same balance sheets now fund the transition side of it: hydrogen, utilities and grid infrastructure. William Rogers works that market from here, having been chief financial officer of public companies in it and an adviser to the Department of Energy. No room of ours in the city.

Southport

The rest of the Fairfield County coast, worked alongside Greenwich.

No room of our own

Southport sits up the Connecticut coast from Greenwich, at the far end of the same hedge fund and family office belt and outside the part of it that gets called on weekly. Jarat Ford works it from here and from Austin. The nearest room is the Greenwich Office Park campus, half an hour down I-95 or the New Haven line.

Europe

London

The insurance and private-capital core of the City.

  • 70 St Mary Axe, 70 St Mary Axe, London
    70 St Mary Axe
    70 St Mary Axe
    London EC3A 8BE

    The City remains Europe's deepest pool of institutional capital, and 70 St Mary Axe sits inside its densest block, next to the Gherkin and a two-minute walk from Lloyd's, Bishopsgate, and the insurance and banking desks that handle cross-border and later-stage money. Mayfair and St James's, where most of Europe's private equity, hedge fund, and single-family office capital is managed, is twenty minutes west, and Index, Balderton, and Atomico work the corridor between. For a US firm establishing a UK presence, a City address reads as institutional rather than promotional, which is the right register for capital work.

Zurich

Swiss private banks and the family offices they administer.

  • Trust Square, Rennweg 57, Zurich
    Trust Square
    Rennweg 57
    8001 Zürich, Switzerland

    Rennweg runs one block off Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich's banking core, with the Paradeplatz institutions and the private banks that manage a substantial share of the world's cross-border private wealth within a few minutes' walk. Trust Square is unusual for the market in that it was built specifically as a meeting point between founders, investors, and academic partners rather than as generic workspace, and it runs a standing programme of investor and deep tech events. The Swiss venture layer sits alongside it, with Lakestar, Redalpine, and b2venture in the city and the ETH spinout pipeline feeding them.

Geneva

Private banking and the family offices administered from the lake, worked by an advisor.

No room of our own

Geneva is the other half of Swiss private capital and behaves differently from Zurich: the money managed here skews toward multi-generational family wealth, sovereign relationships and the commodity-trading fortunes that bank on the lake, rather than toward the institutional and venture layer that sits around Paradeplatz. For a raise, it is the address for patient private capital and for structures a fund would not take. Lincoln T. Satkunarajah works it. We have no room in Geneva and do not pretend otherwise: meetings happen at the counterparty or at a venue we take for the day, and the nearest room of ours is Rennweg in Zurich, under three hours by train.

Berlin

German industrial and family capital, and the deep-tech founded around it.

  • Atrium Tower, Eichhornstraße 3, 7th Floor, Berlin
    Atrium Tower
    Eichhornstraße 3, 7th Floor
    10785 Berlin, Germany

    Berlin is continental Europe's largest venture market by deal count, and the firms that define it are concentrated in Mitte and the surrounding districts, including Earlybird, Cherry Ventures, Project A, Point Nine, and Atlantic Labs. Germany's public capital apparatus reinforces the private one, with KfW Capital and the DeepTech and Climate Fonds anchoring a fund-of-funds layer that most competing European markets lack. For a firm working European deep tech or defense technology, Berlin is where the founders, the funds, and the policy conversation overlap.

Stockholm

Nordic institutional and family capital, worked with a partner on the ground.

  • No18
    Nybrokajen 7
    111 48 Stockholm, Sweden

    The Nordics manage a disproportionate share of European private capital for the size of the region, and most of it is run from Stockholm. EQT and Nordic Capital are headquartered here, the Wallenberg holdings sit behind much of Swedish industry through Investor AB, and the AP pension buffer funds are among the more active European institutional allocators into private markets. The domestic venture base, including Creandum and EQT Ventures, works the same few blocks of the central city and is the one most likely to lead a European round for a company that already has traction in the United States. Stockholm is worked with Denis Muratov, chief investment officer at FUND4SE, who covers the Nordic institutional and family capital base from the city.

Monte-Carlo

Private wealth and the multi-family offices that manage it, met in the principality.

  • Monte Carlo Sun
    74 Boulevard d'Italie, Building E/F, 1st floor
    Monte-Carlo, 98000 Monaco

    Monaco holds one of the highest concentrations of resident private wealth anywhere, and the multi-family offices and wealth managers that serve it are reached through relationships rather than through intermediaries — the principality is small enough that an introduction either exists or does not. The capital worked here is private and discretionary, and it moves on a longer horizon and a shorter decision chain than an institutional allocation. Alexa Giuliani works the market from here, and the banking relationships behind it run through Luxembourg, Geneva and Zurich as well as Monte-Carlo, which is the practical reason this address and the Zurich room are worked as one beat rather than two.

Munich

German corporate and industrial capital, and the technology built beside it.

No room of our own

Munich carries one of Germany's densest concentrations of corporate and family industrial capital, with automotive, semiconductor and aerospace groups headquartered in or around the city and a deep-tech venture layer grown out of the technical universities. Satjiv Chahil works the market from Munich alongside Silicon Valley, which is the pairing most European corporate venture conversations actually need. No room of ours in the city; Berlin and Zurich are the nearest.

Middle East

Dubai

The Gulf's deal floor, and where its sovereign capital is met.

  • Almas Tower, Almas Tower, Level 54, Dubai
    Almas Tower
    Almas Tower, Level 54
    Jumeirah Lakes Towers, DMCC Free Zone, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Almas Tower is the DMCC's own building in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, which puts the free zone's licensing and company-formation desks in the same lobby as the meeting — the part of a Gulf mandate a foreign manager actually has to transact rather than discuss. Sheikh Zayed Road runs past the door with the DMCC metro station beneath it, and Dubai Marina is the next district over. The Dubai International Financial Centre, the financial free zone where the region's regulated managers register, is twenty-five minutes northeast along the same road. The regional venture base, including BECO Capital, Shorooq, Global Ventures, and MEVP, works between DIFC and the surrounding towers, and Abu Dhabi's sovereign institutions are an hour down the E11. For firms building Gulf relationships, Dubai is the practical base for the whole Emirates capital map rather than just its own market.

Manama

Bahrain's alternative-asset institutions, worked by an advisor who ran two of them.

No room of our own

Bahrain is the Gulf's oldest financial centre and still the domicile for a disproportionate share of its alternative-asset industry: Investcorp and Arcapita are both headquartered in Manama, and the Central Bank of Bahrain licenses managers that deploy across the region rather than only inside it. That makes it a different conversation from Dubai, where the money is transacted, or Abu Dhabi, where a large part of it is owned — Manama is where a good deal of it is managed. Kevin Keough works it, having run portfolio management at Arcapita and post-acquisition operations at Investcorp. We have no room in the Kingdom and do not pretend otherwise: meetings happen at the counterparty's offices, and the nearest room of ours is Almas Tower in Dubai, an hour up the causeway and the coast.

Doha

Qatari sovereign and institutional capital, met in the country.

No room of our own

Qatar concentrates more of its capital in fewer hands than any of its neighbours, and the Qatar Investment Authority is the counterparty that matters for a raise of any size. The Qatar Financial Centre gathers the managers and advisors that work alongside it, and the whole apparatus sits inside a short drive of West Bay. It is a market reached by turning up rather than by correspondence, and one most foreign managers work at a distance from Dubai. Lincoln T. Satkunarajah works it directly. We have no room in Doha and do not pretend otherwise: meetings happen at the counterparty's offices.

Muscat

Omani sovereign and family capital, worked directly rather than via Dubai.

Muscat
No room of our own

Oman is the least crowded credible capital market in the Gulf, and the Oman Investment Authority runs the sovereign program from Muscat, alongside the Oman Future Fund, which was capitalized specifically to co-invest with foreign managers rather than allocate abroad. The Oman Technology Fund and the Ithraa investment promotion apparatus sit in the same orbit. For firms that find Abu Dhabi and Riyadh already saturated with intermediaries, Muscat offers access to a comparable class of decision-maker with materially less competition for attention.

Abu Dhabi

The Emirates' sovereign layer, an hour down the E11 from Dubai.

No room of our own

Dubai is where the Gulf transacts and Abu Dhabi is where a large part of it is owned. The emirate's sovereign institutions and the funds that sit around them are the counterparties a raise of any size eventually meets, and they are met in Abu Dhabi rather than at a Dubai meeting that stands in for it. Pooja Vithlani works the UAE across both cities, and Abbas Al Humaid the wider Gulf. The nearest room is Almas Tower in Dubai, an hour up the E11.

Riyadh

Saudi institutional and sovereign capital, met in the Kingdom.

No room of our own

Saudi Arabia is the largest pool of capital in the region and the one most often worked at a distance, from Dubai or from London. It is worked here through Abbas Al Humaid, a member of the State Council of Oman who advises governments and private institutions across the Gulf. We have no room in the Kingdom and do not pretend otherwise: meetings happen at the counterparty's offices.

Asia-Pacific

Singapore

Grade A in the Raffles Place core, and it opens before London does.

  • Raffles Arcade, 328 North Bridge Road, Level 02-20, Singapore
    Raffles Arcade
    328 North Bridge Road, Level 02-20
    Singapore 188719

    Sitting at the top of the Civic District, this address is a ten-minute walk from Raffles Place and Marina Bay, where the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the local and international bank headquarters, and most of the city's institutional capital sit. Singapore has become Asia's family office capital, with the number of single-family offices operating under the 13O and 13U incentive schemes rising into the thousands over recent years, and GIC and Temasek anchor the sovereign layer above them. The Southeast Asian venture base, including Peak XV, Jungle Ventures, Openspace, and East Ventures, works the same few square kilometres.

Hong Kong

North Asian family capital and the funds that sit alongside it.

  • The Chelsea, 69 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
    The Chelsea
    69 Jervois Street, Sheung Wan
    Hong Kong Island 999077

    Sheung Wan sits directly west of Central and has become where Hong Kong's boutique capital works, drawing the hedge funds, independent asset managers, and single-family offices that want Central adjacency without Central rent. The larger platforms are one MTR stop away, with KKR, Blackstone, Bain Capital, PAG, and Hillhouse all running their Asian operations from the Central towers, alongside the multigenerational family offices that anchor much of the region's private wealth. The Hong Kong Investment Corporation and the territory's family office incentive program have added a public-sector layer to what was already the deepest allocator base in Asia.

Delhi

India's policy and corporate capital, and the Gurugram venture base beside it.

No room of our own

Delhi is where India's policy, its large corporates and its institutional capital sit, and the venture layer that grew up beside them works out of Gurugram and Noida across the National Capital Region. It is a different market from Bengaluru, which is where the engineering is, and from Mumbai, which is where the public money is — Delhi is where a foreign firm meets the state and the strategics. Satjiv Chahil works it. We have no room in the city and do not pretend otherwise: meetings happen at the counterparty or at a venue we take for the day.

Shanghai

Mainland strategic and corporate venture capital.

No room of our own

Meetings here are held at the counterparty or at a venue we take for the day.

Taipei

The hardware supply chain, and the family capital that owns it.

No room of our own

Taiwan holds the manufacturing base behind most of the world's advanced electronics, and the capital attached to it is corporate and family-held rather than institutional venture. Ed Lee works Taipei alongside Hong Kong and Shanghai, having been chief executive of a public company across those markets. There is no room here; Hong Kong is a short flight away and is where these conversations are usually held.

Sydney

Australian superannuation and the venture funds that sit beside it.

  • 1 Elizabeth Street, 1 Elizabeth Street, Level 35, Sydney
    1 Elizabeth Street · Opening soon
    1 Elizabeth Street, Level 35
    Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

    The top of the CBD block, looking over Hyde Park and a few minutes from Martin Place. Not open yet — the room is taken and the doors are not.

Where the capital sits, and at what size

What the network covers, and the kinds of capital in it. We publish the shape and never the contents, so there are no counts here — a number we cannot evidence is worth less to you than a list you can trust.

Geography

  • North America
  • London
  • Continental Europe
  • The Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  • Singapore and Hong Kong

Capital in the network

  • Venture capital funds
  • Private family offices
  • Strategic and corporate venture capital
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Institutional allocators

Round size

  • 1m to 5m
  • 5m to 30m
The shape of the network, deliberately non-identifying. Relationships of this kind exist because they are kept private, so this page shows the geography, the kinds of capital, the round sizes and the structures — and never a record, a name or a sample.

Appetite and reach

Geography

  • North America
  • London
  • Continental Europe
  • The Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  • Singapore and Hong Kong

Round size

  • 1m to 5m
  • 5m to 30m

Sector appetite

  • Enterprise software
  • Fintech and insurance
  • Health and life sciences
  • Industrial and energy
  • Consumer and marketplaces
  • Deep tech and defense

Structures the network will take

Structure preference varies more among private family offices than among funds, and it changes how a first check should be weighted.

SAFE and convertible equity
Post-money SAFEs, notes and advance subscription agreements, usually where a round is being raised ahead of a larger priced event.
Priced round
Lead and co-lead positions in priced rounds, typically with an existing term sheet or with the mandate to set terms.
Structured and hybrid
Preference, ratchets and revenue-linked instruments, more common among private family offices than among funds.
Bridge round
Investors with stated reserves who will fund the gap to the next event, which changes how a first check should be weighted.
Reverse merger
Combination with an existing listed shell, where a public currency matters more to the company than another private round.
SPAC
Combination with a special purpose acquisition company, where the sponsor and the trust are already in place.
Direct offering
Registered direct offerings and placements into a listed company, sold to a named set of investors rather than to a book.

How an introduction happens

Nothing goes out until the materials hold. When they do, we score the targets against the round, map the shortest credible path in for each one, and approach in waves so the process reaches decisions on a shared timeline.

An investor sees the company through a person who vouches for it. That is why the network is not a database, and why we will not hand over a list.