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Primary Overview

Over our 30-year history, the HarbourVest team has cultivated long-standing relationships with top performing fund managers. In today’s competitive private equity market, it is critical to partner with leading managers that have proven and successful track records. HarbourVest leverages its investment expertise and industry relationships to construct diversified portfolios for investors; portfolios that benefit from our access to leading managers.

Experience

Our primary partnership investment team members are active in key investment regions throughout the world, providing an important local perspective and helping us to identify and evaluate global opportunities. As a result, our partners benefit from decades of teamwork and investing expertise.

Access

HarbourVest’s reputation as an experienced and well-established investor in private equity funds results in substantial deal flow. We serve as a long term, value-added partner with a deep knowledge of the private equity asset class. In many cases, our platform and access enables us to review partnership investment opportunities before they are formally launched.

Relationships

Effective relationships are the foundation of HarbourVest. Our extensive network of industry relationships provides access to some of today’s most successful venture, buyout, and credit managers. In addition, HarbourVest proactively sources opportunities and builds relationships early in an organization's development by promoting an open-door policy for meeting with fund managers

Portfolio Construction

HarbourVest draws upon our 30 years of experience as a fund-of-funds pioneer to select investments and build diversified portfolios. Each year, the HarbourVest team reviews hundreds of primary fund investment opportunities, and we are highly selective in our approach investing in only a small percent of funds raised.