Suggestions - Building Deal Flow to Invest in Emerging Managers

Hello pals of WSO.

Looking to find a way to build better deal flow to discover EMs & independent sponsors OK with taking $100k - $250k cheques. Solves out to very new first time managers with small microfunds of ~$25m - $75m funds usually.

Any suggestions?

I have a programmatic solution I used for our own deal flow that I am going to launch for this, have asked around, and pursued some of the other common methods, but not really happy with how much inbound we are getting. 

Also wondering if there's a better way to find secondary ops floating around...

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