AYU, a global private members’ community for family offices and alternative investment funds, has launched AYU Capital, a new matching service designed to connect funds and founders with verified family office investors.
The new offering aims to streamline access to capital by helping investment seekers understand appetite within the fast-growing family office market and facilitating introductions to interested investors. At the same time, it provides family offices with curated deal flow, including introductions to funds and direct investment opportunities, while allowing them to remain anonymous.
The service is powered by Cupid, AYU’s AI-driven platform, which matches opportunities with suitable investors and curates introductions and meetings.
Historically, connections between family offices and funds or founders have been marked by inefficiencies. Family offices often face large volumes of unsolicited approaches, leading to disorganised information and frustration, AYU explained. Meanwhile, funds and founders spend considerable time and resources identifying and pitching to potential investors.
AYU Capital seeks to address these challenges by structuring data and using artificial intelligence to generate targeted, high-quality introductions.
The platform accepts submissions across the spectrum of private capital opportunities, including direct investments, hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, private credit, real estate funds and digital assets. It also supports co-investment activity, as family offices increasingly collaborate with one another or raise capital for their own projects, by providing a structured environment to facilitate these opportunities.
Alexander Fink, principal of Fink Family Office and VC Fund, Empirical Ventures, said: “I’ve been a member for over a year now and the curated connections from AYU, both digital and in person, have been hugely valuable. I’ve met some incredible people there. As we are both a family office investor and a fund manager, it’s the perfect community for us”
Gus Morison, CEO of AYU, commented: “This new service has been developed in response to demand from our members for a platform that prioritises the specific needs of family offices. Other cap intro platforms have put tech and deal flow first, but few understand that there’s no point having the tech and deal flow, if you don’t have people who trust you enough to use it. AYU Capital and Cupid reflect AYU’s people-first and product-second philosophy.”
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