So I am looking to potentially move to the Southeast for family reasons and starting my job search with the goal of being down there by year end to March next year. I am currently looking for any advice on head hunters in the area for PE/VC/HF work...please let me know.
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This will widely vary based on what part of the SE are you are looking to move to. Lot of scattered, smaller firms in the area who don't necessarily use headhunters like they do up north.
Nick Medica at Forrer Group is pretty good. [email protected]
Thanks Im actually already working with Brad Forrer for them and they have been great - really just wanted to see if the community had any other ideas of types of work that I can use alongside Forrer Group.
i actually have this guy on linkedin... guess everyone does.
Depending on where you are you are likely to find the market pretty insular. For example Florida is characterized by middle market companies, banks, there's not a huge finance scene, everybody knows everybody. People went to targets or to top local schools. NC has a fair amount of sell side firms, dominated by Wells and BoA, as well the firms that spun out of them. Again mostly targets e.g. Duke, Carolina and wake to a lesser extent. My suggestion is to look into real estate, corporate banking and the like. Traditional high finance isn't as big here as in NYC
Thanks so I am mainly looking for NC and Atlanta and have had some Corp Dev and MM PE interviews and just looking to expand the reach....any suggestions or more info about the RE/Corp Banking type work?
Your usual suspects on RE TD, Regions, Wells, BoA, in NC the triangle corp dev is mostly tech or life science, Charlotte has banks, energy and the like.
There's a pretty good concentration of PE/HF in Charlotte and Atlanta. Pamlico, Fronteir, Ridgemont are some PE shops in Charlotte. Roark is big in Atlanta.
DM me. I used to live and work in the southeast
VC in the Southeast (Originally Posted: 03/24/2015)
I am entering an SEC school as a finance major, and I would like to know if you have any advice as far as VC in the south east goes. Raleigh or Charlotte would be my preference, but I'm not sure much of what Atlanta might have to offer. Will it be difficult to break into VC in the south east? I mean it's not Sandhill Road or anything, but I'm sure it is still harder than I imagine. Any and all responses are appreciated. Many thanks and best regards,
Extremely hard with very limited shops out there. Most shops don't have any analysts at all and the ones who do pay is pretty low. GT has a investment fund thas pretty big but the guy who ran it for two years still couldn't get a job after running it.
You can cold call Southern Capitol Ventures in Raleigh but traditional VC is basically non existent in the SE. Do you have any entrepreneurial or tech experience?
Search this site for some more answers, there are some really informative threads by people in the industry.
VC is probably the toughest thing to get into in finance, at least right now. There simply aren't that many outside of the big institutional players of the Bay Area, Boston and NYC that employ many people at all except for the Principals, and those that do exist just don't need that many people to run them like the above post stated. Most of the funds outside of the big areas are small and invest in early stage companies so there's just not that much analysis or diligence work to do-three partners can run $50-$100MM with a secretary and basically like an idea or not. And to get into the big ones in the Valley or Boston you pretty much need to go to Stanford or Harvard, maybe Wharton. And it's probably not a career track because most VC's want incredible industry experience, you having had started up and successfully exited a company, you're a serious finance baller with lots of experience in a top group at a top IB and have a great network or you're a top Valley lawyer with a great network.
As an incoming freshman, why do you want VC? Do you really know what it really is or does it just sound cool, and don't take that in a demeaning way? Search around this site and take a look at the different areas of finance and consulting. And concentrate on getting good grades in college. And have some fun.
VC in southeast USA (Originally Posted: 05/05/2013)
Given my interest in private equity, I wanted to know what types of VC there is in the southeastern US, specifically cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Nashville, etc.
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Somewhat similar to banking - there are opportunities but firms are smaller. Many of them are focused on a particular industry. For example, Clayton Associates and Council Capital in Nashville both focus the majority of their efforts on healthcare companies. A lot of times there aren't many opportunities at the junior level as well. HIG has a decent growth equity presence in Atlanta, and they hire junior guys. Most of these cities also have a decent angel network.
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