Our team maintains an active dialogue with alternative fund managers across a wide range of strategies, ensuring we stay at the forefront of industry insights and identify the best athletes. Our objective is to broaden your universe of quality managers, empowering you to make informed investment decisions with confidence.
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In today's dynamic investment landscape, we recognize the overwhelming array of choices you face when sourcing new managers. Your inbox is undoubtedly inundated with meeting requests and factsheets. That's where we come in – functioning as an extension of your team, we offer valuable insights into managers across diverse asset classes, strategies, and backgrounds.
Our selection process ensures that we partner with exceptional fund managers, allowing us to present you with high-quality, relevant opportunities. Our unwavering focus remains on value creation, identifying and collaborating with managers who truly distinguish themselves in the market.
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Hedge Funds
Long Only
Credit
Private Equity
Venture Capital
REAL
ESTATE
We take the time to thoroughly understand your specific parameters and preferences when evaluating managers, ensuring that our recommendations are tailored to your unique perspective. By adopting your lens, we help you identify and source managers that align with your distinct needs, including preferences in:
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Strategy
AUM SIZE
PEDIGREE
SECTOR EXPERTISE
INVESTMENT GEOGRAPHY
TRACK RECORD
Cultivating lasting relationships within the allocator community is at the heart of our mission. As your dedicated partner, our team aligns your portfolio requirements to deliver more effective solutions and elevate your manager selection process.
Discover how we can be an invaluable resource for your organizaiton. We begin with an introductory call or meeting, where we gain a comprehensive understanding of your investment preferences and current mandates. Armed with this insight, we curate a selection of high-caliber manager ideas tailored to your unique parameters. When a particular manager piques your interest, we facilitate direct connections, ensuring seamless communication between you and the investment team.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can you tailor manager ideas based on my current priorities or portfolio needs?
How does PilotShip Partners source and vet managers?
Are managers paying you to be introduced to us?
What types of alternative asset managers do you work with?
PilotShip works with quality alternative investment managers across the full spectrum of strategies and development stages. Our carefully chosen client base includes private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, long only, credit, and real estate strategies. We're strategy-agnostic but quality-focused – partnering with both first-time funds launching initial vehicles and established firms managing billions in assets.
What unites our managers isn't size or strategy, but institutional-quality investment processes, verifiable track records or pedigrees, and professional approaches to investor relations. We're selective about who we represent because our most valuable asset is credibility with allocators. This disciplined approach ensures when we make introductions, investors know the manager meets our standards for consideration.
Is there any cost or obligation for me to engage with you?
How does PilotShip Partners source and vet managers?
What types of alternative asset managers do you work with?
Our manager selection process combines thorough due diligence with practical assessment of allocator fit. We source managers through industry relationships, referrals from existing clients and allocators, and direct outreach to teams with compelling investment approaches. Our vetting process examines quantitative elements (performance history, risk metrics, AUM trajectory) and qualitative factors (team experience, operational infrastructure, strategic differentiation).
We conduct extensive interviews with investment teams, comprehensive background checks, review documentation, and analyze strategy performance across market cycles. We assess whether managers have realistic expectations aligned with their development stage and current market conditions. This disciplined approach safeguards our credibility with institutional investors and ensures we engage only with managers demonstrating quality and rigor required.
Can you tailor manager ideas based on my current priorities or portfolio needs?
Are managers paying you to be introduced to us?
Is there any cost or obligation for me to engage with you?
Can you tailor manager ideas based on my current priorities or portfolio needs?
What types of alternative asset managers do you work with?
Absolutely. Tailoring manager recommendations to your specific allocation priorities is core to our approach. We take time to understand your portfolio construction goals, current exposures, and strategic caps across asset classes. We adapt to range of team structures to ensure manager recommendations reach appropriate decision-makers.
When you share investment parameters – whether seeking uncorrelated strategies, specific sector exposures, emerging managers, or established platforms – we carefully match you with relevant opportunities from our manager roster.
Our team regularly discusses your evolving mandate needs, allowing precise, timely introductions rather than overwhelming you with unsuitable options. This targeted approach respects your time and focuses only on managers that genuinely complement your existing portfolio.
How does PilotShip Partners source and vet managers?
Are managers paying you to be introduced to us?
Is there any cost or obligation for me to engage with you?
Can you tailor manager ideas based on my current priorities or portfolio needs?
Are managers paying you to be introduced to us?
What types of alternative asset managers do you work with?
We are engaged by the managers we represent on a flat-fee basis. Importantly, we are not compensated per introduction — whether we introduce a manager to 10 investors or 100, our compensation remains the same. This structure allows us to remain independent, selective, and aligned with both sides of the market.
Our credibility with institutional investors is core to our business, so we only work with managers who meet high standards in terms of process, performance, and institutional readiness. We do not 'push product' or pressure investors to take meetings — doing so would undermine trust we've worked to build.
Our role is being a thoughtful matchmaker, helping allocators discover strategies that genuinely align with their mandates.
Is there any cost or obligation for me to engage with you?
How does PilotShip Partners source and vet managers?
Are managers paying you to be introduced to us?
What types of alternative asset managers do you work with?
No, there is absolutely no cost or obligation for allocators to engage with PilotShip Partners.
Our goal is to be a valuable resource to you whether you're actively allocating capital today or simply tracking strategies for potential future investments. We understand that allocator mandates evolve, and maintaining relationships during quieter periods often leads to productive engagement when your priorities shift.
Is there any cost or obligation for me to engage with you?
How does PilotShip Partners source and vet managers?
Can you tailor manager ideas based on my current priorities or portfolio needs?
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