K1 Investment Management

K1 does take kids for specific roles, but they are great about teaching you all parts of the deal process. For example, as a sourcing analyst, you would be taking your investment pitch from first contact to eventually pushing it through the investment committee. The bad part is that the pay is not great, they will work you hard, and possibly throw you away after. They started up in an era of low interest rates and they only invest in B2B SAAS companies with particular metrics. They can't find any deals right now and are learning that they overpaid for deals in the past few years. They are cutting people left and right and I don't think they will be able to drive strong returns with their newer funds. The culture is pretty cutthroat (firing someone at 7 PM two days before Christmas over a zoom call and not acknowledging that person was cut loose to even their own teammates). I would not work there due to the culture but you will have pretty solid exit ops. I have heard of some of the Analysts that got laid off landing solid roles at shops that pay street.

If you want to get into PE out of undergrad and know that banking is not for you, I would consider it an option with the idea of being there for a couple of years and jumping ship to another PE shop. Just remember that it is temporary, your bosses will kind of suck, and you need to be ready to be laid off at any time.

Edit: one more thing to think about is the fact that the firm is extremely dominated by males, so if you are a woman it may not be a culture fit.