Most Successful Search Funds/ETA

Anyone know of any funds or funds in the space that have been known for being very successful? Know that Stanford GSB piloted the strategy, but what about people or funds known for being the best in the industry?

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These guys invest in the equity of a lot of search funds and are very involved in the space: Search Investment Group (searchinvestgroup.com)

The search funder community operates more like tech than finance in that they are active on forums (searchfunder.com) and twitter, and you can actually build connections from those places. Browse those spaces and you'll start to recognize who some of the actual search fund "GP"s are.

 

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