Alt Goes Mainstream

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with Christopher Ailman , the Chief Investment Officer of one of the world’s largest institutional investors, CalSTRS . Chris and I had a fascinatin...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast and hello from AltsLA. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with the 44th Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle , the Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments . We discussed the...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s episode, we go to Europe, and specifically Berlin, a region where some of the most exciting activity in the VC world is occurring. We have Filip Dames , a Founding Partner at Cherry Ventures , a top pan-European early-stage VC fund that has around $700M AUM, lead us in a discussion about why Europe is such a compelling place to invest and...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we have a private equity expert who is as thoughtful and sharp as they come. Graham Elton is the Chairman of Bain & Company ’s EMEA Private Equity practice, where he’s helped many of the largest PE and alts firms navigate a growing market and build successful businesses. Graham has also spearheaded the industry standard in reports —...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. We have a special episode today – it’s a collaboration between Alt Goes Mainstream and Venture Unlocked: Samir Kaji , the Co-Founder & CEO of Allocate and the Venture Unlocked Podcast , and I have a back and forth discussion about the future of private markets and venture. If you are an allocator to private markets or a VC fund manager, you won’t wa...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s podcast, we have an expert in alternative assets and fund accounting. We welcome Gareth Hewitt , a fund accounting veteran and co-founder of LemonEdge , to the show. Gareth is the CEO and Co-Founder of LemonEdge, where they are building a better, more efficient fund accounting software platform. With backing from Blackstone , Lauren Iaslo...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode of Alt Goes Mainstream features someone who is building a vertical SaaS solution for fund managers and LPs. Today’s guest is Michel Geolier , the Co-Founder and CEO of Betterfront , a b2b company dedicated to private markets. He’s building a comprehensive solution to enable fund managers to more efficiently and effectively fundraise...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast and Welcome to Wrexham . On today’s show, we go to Wrexham , the town in North Wales that has become a football (soccer) mecca due to a blend of its rich history as home to the 3rd oldest club in the world and a recent injection of Hollywood with Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying the club. We talk with Shaun Harvey , the Advisor to the Board at...

On the latest episode of Alt Goes Mainstream, we talk with one of the pioneers of the online investment space. Today’s guest is Ben Miller , the Co-Founder and CEO of Fundrise , one of America’s largest direct-to-investor alternatives investment managers. Ben has tremendous experience and expertise in both the real estate space and in building innovative alternative investment technology solutions...

We have an exciting episode today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. We are joined by Mathias Pastor , the Co-Founder of Semper , a London and Paris based company that uses liquidity to align the interests of private companies, employees and investors. Mathias and his co-founder Balthazar de Lavergne created Semper after observing that private companies are staying private longer and employees an...

We have a special episode today on Alt Goes Mainstream. Our guest today is Henry Ward , the CEO and co-founder of Carta, one of the most innovative and exciting companies in private markets. Henry founded Carta from the kernel of an idea and they are now trusted by over 30,000 companies, 5,000 investment funds and 2.1 million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity v...

We believe that good things come in bunches. On the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we’ve covered a number of innovative ways in which more investors are now able to access alternative investments thanks to innovation in infrastructure that pools investors together. Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we are lucky enough to peer into a market that’s creating a bunch of excitement: the early sta...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the third podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world. We are partnering with CAIA , the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client centered out...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the second podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world. We are partnering with CAIA , the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client centered ou...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the first podcast in a three part series with titans in the alts world on how they’ve built and run some of the world’s largest investment managers. We have partnered with CAIA , the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has rich experience in the alts space. Robert Picard , who was recently tapped to become the Head of Alternatives at Hightower , a $117B AUM wealth management platform, has over 32 years of experience on the buy and sell side in alts. Robert came onto the podcast to discuss how he’s witnessed alts evolve over the past 30 years. He’s work...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a fascinating episode with a wealth management veteran who has transformed his firm into a full fledged asset manager with significant private markets capabilities. Lorenzo Esparza is the CEO and Founding Principal at Manhattan West where he leveraged his legal, corporate, and financial experience to form the modern version of an investment firm. Lo...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has seen virtually every evolution of the internet and financial services since the 1990s. Graham Jenkin is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoinList , the leading token issuance platform in the crypto space that has helped a large number of the top crypto projects by market cap get their earliest funding and customers with an initial token sal...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has seen the alts and crypto worlds from multiple angles. Don Stalter is a Partner at Global Founders Capital (GFC) where he focuses primarily on the US early stage venture market. He has a deep operating background as a founder and operator at some of tech’s leading marketplaces. He co-founded CityDeal, which was acquired by Groupon. He...

Hi from Mexico City. Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream Podcast we travel to one of the most exciting regions in the startup world – Latin America, which has seen venture backed funding dollars of $14.8B flowing into the region in 2021 come in higher than the prior 6 years combined. Brian Requarth comes onto the podcast to talk about building the company that he wish he had when he was an entreprene...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who is making alts go mainstream by streamlining the process of investing into funds. Carta and fund manager veteran Tim Flannery is the Co-Founder of Passthrough , a fund workflow automation tool that digitizes and automates the fund subscription process. We had a fascinating discussion about how Passthrough is providing critical market inf...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a special guest on an important topic that is core to why alts are going mainstream – community. We have community builder extraordinaire Max Rothery , the VP Community at Finimize . Max is responsible for engaging and serving Finimize’s 1 million global audience. Finimize is building the world’s largest finance community of investors globally – and...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who helps us bridge the gap between the past, the present, and the future. Ethan Kurzweil , a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners , who is leading BVP’s crypto efforts and the BessemerDAO , comes onto the show to help us make sense of the evolution from the Web2 to Web2.5 to Web3 world. Ethan and I had a fascinating discussion. We talked ab...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a fascinating conversation about how soccer is a compelling alternative investment. We talk with Justin Papadakis , the COO & Chief Real Estate Officer of the United Soccer League . The USL is the largest and one of the fastest growing professional soccer organizations in the United States. Justin and I had a fascinating conversation about how sport...

Today, we have a guest on Alt Goes Mainstream who lives at the intersection of culture and finance as sports is increasingly becoming an investable asset class. Angel City FC Co-Founder & President Julie Uhrman and I had a fascinating conversation about how sports and investing are merging together – and how that’s informed how she’s building Angel City FC . Julie and team have been innovative in...