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samir kaju

T2 · manager / operator

27-year venture veteran (started at SVB in 1999); built Allocate to connect $10T wealth advisor capital to private funds; previously saw dotcom boom/bust and 2008 GFC warehouse lending failures.

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Allocate targets $10T wealth advisor market to unlock private asset allocation from 3% to 20%+

Private markets grew from $1T to $17T while wealth advisors manage $10T with only 3% in alternatives vs 20-50% for endowments; Allocate builds the infrastructure bridge for advisors to discover, access, and report on private funds, capturing a massive allocation shift.

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HIGHsamir kaju·TBPN·2 months ago·Spoon = Bent, Apple vs OpenAI, Snap Rips, Ads in BMW, The Most Feared (John B. Quinn) Live· position
Allocate targets $10T wealth advisor market to unlock private asset allocation from 3% to 20%+
Private markets grew from $1T to $17T while wealth advisors manage $10T with only 3% in alternatives vs 20-50% for endowments; Allocate builds the infrastructure bridge for advisors to discover, access, and report on private funds, capturing a massive allocation shift.
"Private funds are now more numerous... 3,000 asset managers to 30,000 within 15 years... private markets grew from a trillion to 17 trillion... there's $10 trillion of capital bei…"
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Venture Capitalrisk
Private market valuations disconnect from exit reality as 2021 vintage faces reckoning
Allocate CEO Samir Kaju and hosts highlight massive growth in private capital (3k to 30k managers, $1T to $17T) but warn of disconnect between private markups and exit valuations, predicting pullback within 2 years.
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Venture Capitalmixed
Private markets at $17T but wealth advisors only 3% allocated — massive rebalancing ahead
The 17x growth in private market AUM vs public markets creates a structural allocation gap: endowments target 20-50% alternatives but $10T wealth advisor channel sits at 3%; Allocate and similar platforms will capture fees on this rebalancing, though Samir Kaju predicts a private market pullback within 2 years as 'gravity returns'.
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Private Marketstailwind
Wealth advisor channel ($10T, 3% alts) is the next frontier for private market democratization
With private markets at $17T and 30,000 fund managers, the massive allocation gap between institutional investors (20-50% alts) and wealth advisors (3% alts) creates a structural tailwind for platforms that productize private fund access for the mass affluent.
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AI Bubble / Capex Debaterisk
Veteran LP predicts private market pullback within 2 years: 'see who's wearing swim trunks'
Despite AI being 'bigger than railroads', supply-demand imbalance in venture capital (30K managers, $10B+ funds) creates expensive mistakes; historical power law (6% of companies return 60% of gains) will amplify; Kaju expects gravity to return in 6-24 months, wiping out overcapitalized 2021-vintage portfolios.