Atif Gilani

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E288: Inside a PE Fund Ranked #1 in IRR, DPI, and TVPI · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

We pursue the same kind of deals that you may have been at your firm, but we are operating at the lower end of the market.

We have more of a valuation discipline that you may have seen at your firm.

We are willing to do more volume that you may have seen at your firm.

So it is and it takes them at least a year.

But once they get it right, they really start to perform and become believers in our model.

When we started in 2010, it was right in the midst of GFC, and there wasn't any capital available for first-time managers looking to start a blind pool of capital.

So through Jesse's research, we stumbled upon this program run by the U.S.

Small Business Administration called the SBIC program, except that

That program was really for mezzanine investors and for people who had a lot more deals on their track record as we did.

But the best thing about that program was for every dollar of capital you would raise from third parties, the program would give you two additional dollars.

dollars of capital.

So essentially, the U.S.

small business administration became our largest LP in our fund bond with 67% of capital coming from them and the rest primarily coming from family offices and high net worth.

So Quantoo is really when we made the transition, not complete, but beginning to make transition from that investor base to bringing in a large university endowment, insurance companies and start building that base.

to our last fund, Fund 4, where instead of the SBA being 67% of our capital, it's less than 20.

We've been able to retain all our large accounts and really proud of

the 130% re-upgrade from our existence, meaning investors who gave us $500 million in Fund 3, not only they've kept that investment with us, but on top of that, they've given us another $650 million.

So we've been able to keep our existings, but expand the LP base and over time diversify our base from the capital that we've been receiving from the SBA.

So I would say it's a matchmaking process.

Obviously, our existings are the ones who know us best, and they always have the first tips at the available capital that we're looking to raise.

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