Our Story
Influent was formed after Ely Place’s founder Daniel Roddick and Navable’s CEO Jennifer Anderson met by chance at a conference and realised that each was trying to achieve similar goals with highly complementary offerings.
Ely Place was looking for a solution to a problem many of its clients were facing: high net worth individual (HNWI) investors and smaller institutions represent a large proportion of their LP base, but the process of onboarding them and managing them is time-consuming and highly inefficient. At the same time, Navable was looking for new use cases for its digital onboarding and management technology, developed for a client base of large, blue-chip asset managers.
Influent streamlines investor onboarding for GPs, and also meets the growing demand from the HNWI community for access to private markets investment opportunities. In the past, individual investors relied on personal relationships which led to a fragmented market that was difficult for GPs to access. The Influent marketplace* creates an ecosystem of HNWIs investing in private markets and an environment for GPs to showcase offerings, interact with prospective investors, and secure allocations.
*Coming soon
Fund Admission Criteria
Indicative and subject to change
To ensure all funds listed on the platform are of institutional quality, they must:
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Be Fund II or beyond, OR
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Be Fund I backed by institutional investors with established private markets portfolios, for example; the UK government (British Business Bank)
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Be managed by a team that has a demonstrable track record of investing together
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Be managed by a regulated General Partner
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Use an appropriate, established fund structure, for example: a UK Limited Partnership, Scottish Limited Partnership, etc.
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Use reputable legal advisors, auditors, fund administrators, and other relevant professional services firms
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Provide, at a minimum, a pitch deck, an audited track record, team biographies, and investment case studies to be available for investors to download from the fund profile