How do you identify PE firms that are looking for potential platform company investments in a specific industry?

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Talk to bankers covering that industry. It’s easier to figure out what the bankers specialize in and they can point towards the firms with the most relevant activity / active themes

Also would echo looking at PB. Firms are active in a space. Can also get Claude to crawl PE websites to create a summary of investments by industry

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Door to door knocking at their offices

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