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Actionable Insights from Private Capital Experts
 

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Private Markets

PRIVATE EQUITY | VENTURE CAPITAL | ENTREPRENEURSHIP | INNOVATION POLICY

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Actionable Insights from Private Capital Experts

 

Bella Private Markets focuses exclusively on providing solutions to the challenges facing the private capital industry. Led by Dr. Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon, Bella combines rigorous academic approaches with real world industry expertise to provide actionable insights for our clients. We focus on complex, customized projects that require thorough analysis, whether quantitative or qualitative in nature, to help our clients improve performance, optimize operations, and chart winning strategies for the future.

 
 

Who do we help?

We serve as trusted advisors to the senior management of organizations across the private market landscape, including fund managers, asset owners, and other market participants interested in funding innovation and entrepreneurship.

Click below to learn more, or explore some of our past work.

 
 
 
 

Featured Insights

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Projecting Possible Returns in Private Equity
Projecting Possible Returns in Private Equity

From asset allocation planning to cash flow management, projecting cash flows is an important - yet notoriously difficult - exercise for private equity fund managers and investors alike. In the video above, Bella Private Markets explains how custom-built simulations can help solve many of the challenges associated with estimating future returns to private equity investments. For more information about the use of simulations in private equity, read more here.

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Best Practices for Angel Networks
Best Practices for Angel Networks

In 2019, Bella was commissioned by Victorian state-government funded body LaunchVic to conduct a deep dive into the global investing landscape and to provide recommendations for newly-formed and seasoned angel investors alike. Click here to read an article about the study posted in The Australian Financial Review, or view a summary of the report on LaunchVic’s website here. To request a copy of the full report, please email hello@launchvic.org.

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Angel Groups: Giving Startups Their Wings
Angel Groups: Giving Startups Their Wings

Entrepreneurs and the companies they start are pivotal for stimulating the innovation needed for economies to grow and societies to progress. We all know the stories of the founders who built their global companies out of a single-car garage or their freshman dorm room, but the individuals and groups that provided them the needed money in the beginning are less often discussed. In this post, Samuel Holt explores the angels and angel groups who provide critically important funding in a company’s early days, and discusses some of the best practices that help these financiers succeed.

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More Information

Bella’s work has taken us around the globe on customized projects for interesting clients investigating a wide range of topics. To explore some of the areas in which we have helped clients in the past, click the downloadable brochures below for more information.

 
 
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Custom Research
Custom Research

Private capital investment poses an infinite number of complex questions without readily available answers. We help answer these questions through customized projects that employ thorough analysis, whether quantitative or qualitative in nature.

Click the image to learn more about how Bella uses academic best practices to answer practitioner questions.

Ecosystem Development
Ecosystem Development

Private capital investment can be a powerful engine for economic growth, and established companies can also harness the vibrancy of entrepreneurship to propel internal innovation.

Click the image to learn more about our approach and how we have worked with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and DFIs across six continents to help catalyze innovation and private market investment.

Impact Assessment
Impact Assessment

Impact assessment in the investing world is becoming increasingly important as more investors call on asset managers to consider the effects of their investments beyond the bottom line.

Click the image to learn about how Bella brings academic rigor and decades of industry expertise to the process of defining, measuring, and assessing impact in practice.

 
 

Dr. Josh Lerner &
Ann Leamon

Bella Private Markets is guided by the expert leadership of its two founding partners, Dr. Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon. After working together at Harvard Business School for a decade, the two partnered in 2010 to found Bella and respond to the needs of private capital industry. With more than 45 years of combined experience, Josh and Ann bring unparalleled expertise and insight to our clients.