Any stats out in the universe for the source of deals closed by search funds. Proprietary sourcing is preached as the gospel, but my hunch is that most closed deals are sourced via intermediaries. Especially in recent years as search funds have proliferated and PE has moved down market.
Anybody with actual data? Thought Stanford would have it but didn't see anything there.
Deal source statistics for search funds?
by an investor from Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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