Curtis Maly

Hey Curtis — congrats on launching Poudre Pass. Similar IB → PE background here — been deep in engineered products origination lately. Would be good to connect.

Hey Curtis, similar background, weirdly — I'm from Zimbabwe, did growth equity in London, not building an engineered products fund like Poudre Pass. most funds I talk to have a database — PitchBook or Grata — maybe a CRM, and then the origination setup is mostly Excel and email from there. but proprietary deal flow still feels thin. thesis, network, and intelligence never sync into one system — so origination resets every cycle instead of compounding. does origination look different at Poudre Pass? — Russ

Hey Curtis, similar background, weirdly — I'm from Zimbabwe, did growth equity in London, not building an engineered products fund like Poudre Pass. most funds I talk to have a database — PitchBook or Grata — maybe a CRM, and then the origination setup is mostly Excel and email from there. but proprietary deal flow still feels thin. thesis, network, and intelligence never sync into one system — so origination resets every cycle instead of compounding. does origination look different at Poudre Pass? — Russ

hey Curtis — one more thought on origination. after hitting this wall myself doing growth equity, I ended up building origination infrastructure for funds full-time — Mentmore Capital, Axiom Equity, Noble Rock, a few others. at my old fund we had a solid stack and smart people, and origination still restarted from scratch every cycle. the funds who systematise it early end up compounding deal flow — the ones who don't keep resetting. curious if Poudre Pass has cracked that or if it's the same pattern. — Russ

hey Curtis — no stress on any of this. we documented the origination infrastructure we've built across funds — tech stack, workflows, prompts. free to share if it'd be useful at Poudre Pass. either way, I'm around if origination ever becomes a conversation worth having. — Russ

Hi Curtis, looks like we share a similar PE path — though I'm from Zimbabwe and ended up doing growth equity in London, not building an engineered products fund in Colorado. most engineered products funds I talk to are running on PitchBook or Grata, maybe Affinity, and then basically Excel and email for everything else on the origination side. yet the off-market pipeline stays weirdly thin. the intelligence is all there but it's scattered across tools and inboxes — so nothing compounds into a real origination edge. does origination look different at Poudre Pass? Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23

hi Curtis — been thinking more about origination. after hitting this wall myself doing growth equity, I ended up building origination infrastructure for funds full-time — Mentmore Capital, Axiom Equity, Noble Rock, a few others. the pattern I keep seeing is that the funds who systematise it early end up compounding deal flow in a way that's really hard to replicate later. happy to compare notes on what's actually moving the needle if you're interested. Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23

hi Curtis — something about this keeps rattling around. I hit this exact wall doing growth equity — tonnes of data subscriptions, decent CRM, but nothing connecting it all systematically. spent more time stitching than actually originating. imagine Poudre Pass has a way more dialled setup — but figured I'd ask. Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23

hi Curtis — completely separate from all that. we put together a playbook on PE origination — the tech stack, the workflows, some of the prompts and automations that actually move the needle. happy to send it over if it'd be useful at Poudre Pass. Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23

hi Curtis — I'll leave it here. the origination playbook is yours whenever — no expiry on that. I'm deep in this space all day, so if it ever becomes a conversation worth having, I'm around. Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23