Raoul Kouamou

Raoul — been working on outbound origination with municipal and environmental services funds and Hilltop Circle Group has been on my radar. would be good to connect.

Raoul — though we share a PE background, I've seen first-hand how challenging early proprietary origination can be. Jealous of what you've built at Hilltop Circle Group. Been helping funds like Mentmore and Wingman with their outbound origination — curious what email infrastructure you're using for your origination outreach these days — still mostly on shared IPs like Instantly, or have you moved to private/dedicated senders? Happy to share what's working best for similar municipal and environmental services funds if useful. — Russ

Raoul — from the looks of things, we share a roughly similar path — both did stints in IB (you at BNP and Deutsche, me at Greenhill) before moving to the investing side. so figured it made sense to reach out. also, and perhaps relevant to you, we've been building custom deal origination systems for funds acquiring and operating service businesses, which sounds close enough to what you're doing at Hilltop Circle. One of our clients, Backer Group, uses a system we built to source service and light industrial businesses — it scores targets on owner readiness and acquisition fit, finds the right contacts, and runs personalized outreach across LinkedIn, email, and even letters. everything integrates with their CRM so origination just runs in the background while they focus on the portfolio. Given you're growing REI and presumably looking at more acquisitions in the utility services space, I wondered if you wanted to take a look under the hood of what we've built? could be relevant, could not — no worries either way. fairly free this week and next, just let me know a time that suits. very best, Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23