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Insight Equity and all the spinouts: Trive Capital, Gauge Capital, Sky Island Capital, Lometa Capital Partners, Mitre Peak, Prophet Equity, and Broadwing Capital. Also Kainos Capital, Crossplane Capital, Trinity Hunt Partners, Lone Star, CenterOak Partners, Arctos Sports Partners, Luther King Capital Management (Headwater), LongWater Opportunities, Rosewood, Havencrest, Riata, Satori, Redbird, CIC, Riverside (small office), Align Capital Partners, Paceline Equity Partners, Highland, Lantern, SunTX, Renovo, Halifax, Pharos Capital, Surge Private Equity, Latticework Capital, Hunt, Perot, Bass, Blue Star Innovation Partners (Jerry Jones family office), EnCap NGP and Tailwater (all 3 energy focused), and Elm Creek Partners. Might be a few more but this is the vast majority.
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On the energy side, there's also some smaller shops such as Pearl, Edge, and Cresta. Would add that EnCap closed their Dallas office back in 2020.
above answer pretty much covers it.
This thread comes up pretty frequently though - if you do a search on here you'll get opinions on many of these places
Bringing this back as I am hoping someone may have some comp numbers for PE funds in Dallas? Salary + total comp at the associate level.
Dallas notoriously comps below market. Expect low $200s as a first year associate regardless of fund size.
I would assume that isn't bad given it's Dallas and not nyc? Not sure
Dallas is markedly more expensive in terms of COL than you'd think. Throw in the fact that every other car is a Range Rover or GWagon and you've got a recipe for someone earning $200K feeling like a lower class citizen. Just the culture of the city, unfortunately.
Agree with original comment, low $200k at the larger funds and mark that down to even below $200k for smaller funds.
Biggest thing is no state taxes of course. Rent is much cheaper than NYC but it's crept up in recent years - the one bedrooms in luxury buildings can run you $3k these days.
Great COL improvement, but given a lot of the Dallas PE people come from Houston it's a lot more expensive than that. And those coming from NYC see a COL improvement, but their friends in NYC are making $300k or more. Tradeoffs for sure.
What's the latest on Insight Equity?
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Thoughts on Trinity Hunt?
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