Stephanie Geveda Startup Firm - Thoughts?
I'm sure a few monkeys on the forum have worked with Stephanie Geveda (ex Warburg). Can anyone give any insights to what working with her would be like? Got an inbound about her new fund and seems promising ($1.5B) but haven't heard of her before
Have heard she's a killer - was leading business services at WP (one of the better groups) and really crushed it there. If she's got 1.5B will be a lot of upside for associates
Which HH?
Assume it's based in NYC? What's the fund called? Would be very interested in learning more.
All I know about the group is that it had a lot of junior turnover during COVID. Also IBS is such a shitty acronym for a group.
She's very smart & very intense, expect returns to be very good but culture will probably not be great
Which HH contacted you and what position is this for?
Anyone know the actual recruiter for this? I just got an inbound from one of the fraudy ones with it
Culture will be awful
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Which HH?
Bump - which hh??
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Culture is going to be awful, but you'll learn a bunch
Anecdotal
Either I, or a very close connection worked on sell-side, she was lead and a bidder at her prior firm. Presented early look on a real gem of an asset. At this point i believe she was on her way out given the timing. Engaged and took materials. Bid in line with other sponsors on asset (very aggressive multiple and/or credit for PF, she knew what was up). After vacuuming up all the LOI stage materials just disappeared, didn't even respond to her relationships. There were more than 1 heavy hitters on the deal given the size.
Her resources really awkward / robotic / hate their life and seem to want to let it be known passive-aggresively when communicating on the phone or even email.
Another point, anecdotal to me, earlier in career, WP was final bidder for a sizeable tech asset, had exclusivity, just disappeared randomly with no communication/response
This was after negotiating purchase price and conceding to over 50% premium on their initial bid lol. Ended up trading for double that (so if their initial bid was $100, it traded for $200). On that deal I'll say, was impressed with the fresh out of college resource they put on this, really smart and quick thinker. Normal for them? Idk, those were my experiences. I don't count all the nonsense interactions where they take a book and then ghost. So many PE firms do that especially to the **** groveler MDs :)
Anyone see where the fundraise shook out? Saw the SEC filing dropped
Bump any update on this? Looks like they just had a first close of $330mm few weeks ago with a target of $750mm
Seems like they are trying to raise at the worst time. Did they ever make a hire?
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