Build the relationships that make your first deals close.
The capital provider relationships, sourcing infrastructure, and credibility signals that define whether you close deal one, or stall on it. Built specifically for IS in their first two transactions.
Why attend
Meet capital providers and co-sponsors who back Emerging Independent Sponsors
Family offices, SBICs, and non-control equity providers who have backed first-deal IS before, in one room, taking meetings across two days.
Peer learning from IS who recently closed their first deal
The most useful advice for a first-deal IS comes from someone who did it 18 months ago, not someone who did it 15 years ago.
Understand first-deal economics before you negotiate them
Management fees, carry, promote, what is market for deal one, and what experienced IS wish they had pushed harder on. Numbers on the table.
Build the credibility signals that get capital providers to take the call
Before you have exits to show, you need to show something else. The roundtable on presenting to capital without a track record answers this directly.
Features and benefits
26 curated 1-2-1 meetings across both days
Meet capital providers, advisors, and fellow IS at your deal stage. The networking platform opens 3 weeks before the Summit.
Your meetings are matched before you arrive
We profile every attendee on deal stage, sector, and capital focus before the platform opens. Your six most relevant introductions are identified before you book a single meeting.
Sector deal clinics, all four open to Emerging IS
Healthcare, B2B services, niche manufacturing, and essential services. Pre-register for the clinic that matches your active deal sector. Qualification: one closed deal or active LOI in the sector.
Content tagged to your deal stage
Every session is tagged by deal phase and audience tier. You can see at a glance which panels, roundtables, and clinics are built for where you are.
Matchmaking and networking
26curated 1-2-1 meetings across both days
6personalised meeting suggestions before you arrive
3wkearly platform access to build your schedule
Platform filtered to your deal stage and sector
LOI gate active, capital providers are actively deploying
Emerging IS roundtable peer network
Sector-assigned lunch seating Day 1
A selection of relevant sessions
Keynote
Keynote Sessions
Pre-deal
Executive Exchange: Building your sourcing engine from scratch
Pre-deal
Executive Exchange: First deal economics, fees, carry, promote
Pre-deal
Executive Exchange: Presenting to capital without a track record
Post-close
Roundtable: Managing Investor to Operator Friction
Deal execution
SBIC deep dive: the equity assist in plain English
Sector deal clinics, all four open to Emerging IS
Healthcare services
Deal clinic
B2B services
Deal clinic
Niche manufacturing + industrial
Deal clinic
Essential services
Deal clinic
Qualification: one closed deal or active LOI in the sector. Pre-register at registration. Open door for listeners where space allows.
Standard pass · 26 meetings · 3 weeks early platform access · full programme
