I know the city is primarily REPE, but what are the top buyout shops? Ideally, not OG but instead industrial heavy. Are any MF looking at opening offices in Dallas? Or moving teams over?
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Probably Trive Capital. Just raised a new fund. Very sweaty tho and TC of 250k which is below what the general top funds in TX pay.
Did they raise the full 2.5 billion? Or bit the cap of 2.8?
What are the top funds in TX and their pay? The only really major Tx hq'd MF is Vista, and last I heard their pay was 380k. Know some other funds like TA have smaller offices in Tx, but don't think all of them hire more than very small associates for the office.
Gauge Capital. But also very sweaty and underpay
Any idea on Associate pay?
What’s pay at Gauge?
Any info on culture at Guage?
Culture seems ok. No sourcing at all there is a BD team dedicated to that and a diligence team that is separate. They charge 3/30 and the only reason they can do that is they approach businesses with lowball offers and convince them their business is worth that little which can give you a better idea on how their pay is going to be for their employees.
They don’t invest in a specific sector. They are open to investment opportunities in tech, hc, industrial, and retail most of the time.
Friends their swear by the culture, but I always got a culty brainwash vibe from them. Would love for anyone to confirm or correct me.
What are these dallas funds paying A1s?
Honestly, Dallas PE is mostly sweaty and underpaid. Don't know why.
- Sincerely, a former Dallas PE associate
Which Fund would you say is the best?
Trive, Kainos, Gauge, Princeton, Arctos, Trinity Hunt all legit
Seconding this point.
t. Live in Dallas and have parent connections to the PE space
Honestly I feel that. What are your thoughts on Texas Capital IB and Comerica IB? I would assume easy exits to local PE firms?
Align Capital - ~$600M fund and seems like solid group.
any UMM asset backed pc funds opening up in dallas?
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