Jul 28
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Nicole Davis
Aumni is proud to introduce Scott Sherrill, our COO and member of the leadership team. As a former lawyer, Sherrill is a champion for Aumni’s values and manages multiple responsibilities that are critical to Aumni’s daily stability in a time of exceptional growth.
Jul 26
According to Private Equity International, Triago puts co-investment, separate accounts, and direct investments at $206B in 2019, of which 32% (~$66B) is co-investment capital. Furthermore, private markets firm Capital Dynamics found that, for funds launched between 1998 and 2016, 60% of co-investment funds delivered a higher net internal rate of return compared to single-sponsor funds.
Jul 22
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Aumni Co-founder and President, Kelsey Chase, sits down with Garret Clark, Managing Director of Silicon Slopes, at StartFEST 2021, to discuss fundraising tips and VC industry trends, including his take on the benefits of secondary transactions for founders and investors. Kelsey explores the outcomes that available liquidity is bringing to the private capital market and delves into the reasons that investors are turning to Aumni to better analyze each contracted ownership position throughout a company’s development.
Jul 20
Our Big Money webinar series has yielded invaluable expert advice for emerging managers navigating today’s unique market conditions. In the latest webinar installment, we had the pleasure of hearing from Sharmila Kassam, Executive Director of the AIF Global Institute. In the Q&A below, Sharmila shares her take on institutional readiness, new investment relationships, due diligence, and check size dynamics. She also addresses how to uniquely position your fund's thesis in the market as well as how to compete for LP dollars as a first-time fund.
Jul 14
We are thrilled to announce that Aumni has received its SOC 2 Type II certification – Security and Availability discipline, an exceptional achievement . For those of our customers who don’t speak “cyber security,” we have been verified by an independent third-party auditor that we can be trusted to keep our customers' data safe and our systems highly available as a result of our implementation of foundational security practices and industry leading security solutions.
Jul 13
In this Aumni Spotlight Q&A, we hear from our VP of Product, Sahil Pandya. Sahil shares his career journey, including his transition from Yelp to Aumni, his insights on Aumni’s product philosophy, and the wisdom he’s gained from the obstacles that he and his teams have overcome. He also gives us a glimpse into his favorite product features and what he treasures most about Aumni’s company culture.
