Whenever I talk with emerging startup founders, especially when they’re at the earliest stages of building their company, I often suggest joining or forming a group of peers to whom you hold yourself accountable. This group can help you brainstorm your career path, spend dedicated time discussing your ambitions with you, and can also provide for some decent downtime fun.
We all know that founders are on the receiving end of a torrent of advice. Still, I suggest this because I have proof that it works: alongside Marina Hadjipateras of TMV, Heather Hartnett of Human Ventures, Alexia Bonatsos of Dream Machine, and Virginie Raphael of Full Circle, I founded such a group in 2018: Transact Global.
Today Transact Global is the fastest-growing community of emerging fund managers worldwide. Collectively, we manage $1.5 billion+ AUM and our 150+ members include managers from countries across the globe from Venezuela, France and Canada, to Dubai, Nigeria, Mexico, and China.
We are a virtual club of diverse, cool emerging fund managers who not only share advice, experience, and wisdom, but we have fun doing it — not because we have to, but because we want to and we believe that progress is made by the support we provide to others. Transact Global is a community, a resource, and an opportunity for all of us to grow and profit.
At Transact, we support each other with connections, deal flow, best practices, and advice on fundraising and fund management. We foster a trusted, open and robust community in which there is room for everyone to win. We exchange ideas and help each other raise capital through:
- Bi-weekly discussions and events hosted by thought leaders, institutional LPs, emerging tech experts, innovative vendors, and others.
- Weekly email updates to keep our group in-the-know.
- Active daily WhatsApp group with 100+ contributors.
- Fundraising pods to accelerate the time required for an underrepresented manager to raise a fund.
If this sounds like something that, to borrow a venture cliche, would “be helpful,” come create meaningful change with us by joining forces with like-minded managers. Together we will invest in an equitable future that reflects the way the world truly looks.
There is power in numbers and we want to hear from you. Let’s transact.
