Venture Capital
WAD Capital: Institutionalizing the European Search Fund
By Jeff Barnes, MBA TL;DR: Belgium-based WAD Capital has reached a €67.5 million first close for its debut fund, with €25 million committed by the European Investment Fund (EIF) and European Investmen
Jeff Barnes, MBA··11 min read
Private Equity
Search Fund LP Investing: What the 2026 Stanford Data Says About Returns, Risk, and the Operator Bet
Search fund LP investing delivers headline returns that most private equity funds cannot match on paper. The 2026 Stanford Graduate School of Business Search Fund Study reports a 33.9% aggregate...
Jeff Barnes, MBA··12 min read