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The success of our clients is what drives us.
Gretchen Perkins
Partner
“SPS is a powerful tool for Avance to identify the investment bankers active in the sectors in which we want to invest. Their client service is responsive, strategic, and so helpful in my function. I consider our relationship manager an extension of Avance’s business development efforts.”
Amit Singh
Vice President
“SPS has been a foundational tool for helping establish Bessemer Investors’ intermediary coverage strategy. Their proactive services team provides invaluable insight and works closely with us to finetune and filter the database for our sourcing priorities, enabling continuous improvement over multiple years.”
Charlie Gifford
Senior Partner
“SPS has been a value added service provider since the first day we signed them up. The intel they share on completed deals is the perfect conversation starter whenever I speak to investment bankers, and very easy to access on the fly. We have used the data to help change the behavior of certain deal sources and to increase our mindshare with specific intermediaries.”
Andrew Cantwell
CEO and Managing Partner
“SPS has been an important tool for us as we build out our origination effort at Carlson Private Capital. It allows us to identify gaps in our current strategy and target relevant intermediaries for optimal use of time.”
Nikhil Bhat
Managing Director, Co-Head of Investments
“Building a best-in-class sourcing and business development function is a key strategic imperative for Vestar. SPS’ data provides valuable insight, helping us focus our energies in areas that will yield the greatest opportunity. We also value their consultative, partnership-oriented approach.”
Jon Leiman
Partner
“SPS enhances our BD efforts by enabling us to identify and strengthen our relationships with emerging and newer firms that aren’t necessarily on our radar screen.”
Ted Kramer
President & CEO
“SPS provides us valuable insight on relevant deal sources. Their forward-thinking approach to data and analytics aligns well with our deal sourcing, which is core to our Firm’s success.”
Matthew Thompson
General Partner
“As a sector-focused fund, deal sourcing is ingrained in our DNA and critical to our success. SPS provides us cutting edge tools and analytics to stay ahead of our competition.”
Scott Erickson
Principal, Head of Business Development
“SPS has been an invaluable resource to our business development approach. The tools and support team have made travel, relationship development, and tracking deals much more efficient.”
Kristin Horne Johnson
Managing Director of Capital Markets & Business Development
“SPS has been a valuable resource for our business development efforts. Their comprehensive, proprietary data has allowed us to efficiently identify areas of the market where we should be spending more time.”
Tim Frend
Managing Director
“SPS is the best platform to identify coverage gaps and find targeted deal sources that can serve as thought partners given relevant experience.”
Andrew Peix
Managing Director
“Sutton Place has helped our team identify potential gaps in our BD coverage. As a result of the platform, we’ve been able to develop new relationships with intermediaries and find deals we may have otherwise missed.”
David Duke
Partner, Business Development
“SPS is key to our sourcing and relationship development strategy and execution. Not only does the data provide valuable insights as to where we should spend time, their custom client service helps us constantly improve how we use it.”
Jack Waterstreet
Managing Partner
“After using SPS at our prior firm, it was an easy decision to sign up when we started Sky Island. SPS allows us to be incredibly efficient with the time and resources we dedicate to business development. And, with their constant addition of new features, it becomes an even more valuable tool over time.”
Aakash Patel
Partner
“SPS has bolstered our business development efforts by providing us with proprietary, relevant data and analytics that is customized to our investment strategy and target markets.”