Andrew Gomez

Hey Andrew — congrats on launching Silicon Street. Similar PE background here — been deep in service business origination lately. Would be good to connect.

Hey Andrew, similar background, weirdly — I'm from Zimbabwe, did growth equity in London, not building an operator-led fund in SoCal. 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 Silicon Street? — Russ

Hey Andrew, similar background, weirdly — I'm from Zimbabwe, did growth equity in London, not building an operator-led fund in SoCal. 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 Silicon Street? — Russ

hey Andrew — one more thought on origination. after hitting this wall myself doing growth equity, I ended up building origination infrastructure for funds full-time — Axiom, Noble Rock, Mentmore, a few others. I hit this exact problem at my old fund — tonnes of subscriptions, decent CRM, nothing connecting it all. the funds who systematise it early compound deal flow in a way that's really hard to replicate later. curious if Silicon Street has cracked that or if it's the same pattern. — Russ

hey Andrew — appreciate the connect either way. we documented the origination infrastructure we've built across funds — tech stack, workflows, prompts. free to share if it'd be useful at Silicon Street. either way, I'm around if origination ever becomes a conversation worth having. — Russ

Hi Andrew, looks like we share a similar PE path — though I'm from Zimbabwe and ended up doing growth equity in London, not building an operator-led fund in SoCal. the typical origination setup I see is a data subscription, a CRM that's half-populated, and a lot of Excel and Outlook doing the heavy lifting. 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 Silicon Street? Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23

Hi Andrew, looks like we share a similar PE path — though I'm from Zimbabwe and ended up doing growth equity in London, not building an operator-led fund in SoCal. the typical origination setup I see is a data subscription, a CRM that's half-populated, and a lot of Excel and Outlook doing the heavy lifting. 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 Silicon Street? Russell searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23

Hi Andrew — in case this got buried. A bit more detail: I've built proprietary deal origination infrastructure for 20+ search funds and PE groups. Bespoke software that connects a system of record with research agents, scraping, thesis-matching, and multi-channel outreach (LinkedIn, email on private IPs, WhatsApp). All to get qualified replies. The 322-company UK register is one output of the pipeline. Here's the link — sample.searchloop.ai Want a quick call? I can walk through how I built this and share some of the actual names. — Russ

Hi Andrew — last nudge. 322 UK companies open to sale, mapped from 300+ direct owner conversations. 10 sectors — you pick. sample.searchloop.ai Want a quick call? Happy to walk through how I got this and share some names. — Russ

Andrew — going to assume the timing's off. I'll leave it there. Link's sample.searchloop.ai if you ever want it — always up for a quick call. — Russ

hi Andrew — 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