Growth equity/Co-investment fund

Friend of mine has an opportunity to join a fund that specializes in growth equity and direct co-investments. The fund focuses on investment opportunities in the territory of $15-75mn, preferring fully-dulted ownership of less than 51% and buying positions in preferred/common equity/structured vehicles. They target companies with EBITDA of at least $8mn. My friend recently graduated from an Ivy and has not been able to find relevant PE jobs elsewhere. Would an opportunity at the above fund provide exit opportunities to a direct PE down the line?

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At this point he should be happy with whatever he can get...he is targeting one of the most competitive fields out there (esp straight out of undergrad) and competing against a bunch of trained eager laid off bankers who want to jump to the buyside...doubt he is going to get much traction in the PE job hunt under current conditions.

I would take it...focusing on exit opps at this point is also ridiculous

 
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