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CF Private Equity combines the scale and access of a leading global asset manager with the focus and agility of a boutique. We invest across venture capital, growth equity & buyouts, sustainable private equity, and private natural resources, through diversified multi-manager programs as well as dedicated secondaries and co-investment offerings. Across every strategy, we partner with what we believe are many of the world's leading managers - specialists who bring deep sector and geographic expertise.
CF Private Equity is a global private equity platform. We have partnered with institutional investors for more than thirty five years. Built on relationships, not just returns, we bring a disciplined bottom up approach to private capital across the full strategy spectrum, including buyouts and growth equity, venture capital, real assets and sustainability, and secondaries. Our clients include endowments, foundations, public pension funds, insurance companies, family offices, and wealth managers investors who expect their private equity partner to think and speak like a peer, not a vendor. Our team works alongside some of the most sought after managers in global private equity, venture capital, real assets and sustainability, and secondaries. Relationships that we have built over decades and maintained because we have earned our place as a committed values aligned limited partner. Our private equity programs concentrate on sector, geographic and strategy specialists, managers with a defined edge, not generalists with a broad mandate. We invest across The US, Europe, and other developed markets with selective exposure to emerging markets where we believe our relationships provide a genuine analytical advantage. Our managers primarily operate in the small and middle market where there is less competition, valuations tend to be more rational, and bottoms up analysis can create a real edge. With more than 150 direct investments completed, our co investment program is built on the depth of our manager relationships, not sourced from a deal flow database, but cultivated through the advisory board seats and LP partnerships we've maintained for decades. Our substantial portfolio of primary fund commitments gives us a broad real time view of the market and a platform for identifying compelling direct opportunities. Our 300 plus advisory board seats and longstanding manager relationships gives us earlier, deeper visibility into direct opportunities that many LPs can access. That access is not incidental. It's the result of being the kind of LP managers want at the table long term, principled, and genuinely engaged with their strategy. Since 1989, our Real Assets approach has evolved alongside the market, from traditional natural resources to a growing allocation in sustainable sectors. Today, our strategy spans energy production and services, power and energy infrastructure, renewables, mining, agriculture and timber. As the resources markets have evolved, so too have we. We've emphasized our focus on tactical execution, utilizing a combination of secondaries, directs and co investments. We believe exposure to these private natural resources sectors may provide potential diversification and inflation hedging benefits to a broader portfolio of publicly traded stocks and bonds. Our sustainability programs are designed to seek standalone private equity investment returns, while also intending to report unmeasurable environmental benefits. We focus on companies, operating platforms, and other investments across a diversified set of sustainable themes, including renewable energy, food, agriculture, and water, and resource efficiency. For more than thirty five years, we've built high conviction venture capital portfolios around a single discipline, gaining access to the firms and opportunities that capacity constraints and manager selectivity put out of reach for most institutional investors. We commit to early stage venture firms globally and invest directly in select mid stage technology companies alongside our venture managers, each chosen through the same rigorous diligence we apply across the platform. CF Private Equity works with VCs who bring demonstrated performance records and proven strategies across technology, including artificial intelligence, consumer, frontier tech, and healthcare ecosystems. Our secondary programs provide liquidity solutions to global private market investors through both limited partner led and general partner led transactions. Our programs are designed to provide investors with diversified portfolio of private investments across managers, strategies, regions, industries, vintages, and portfolio companies. Based on a bottoms up analysis, we seek to identify high quality assets and take an opportunistic approach to finding investments that may be purchased at discounts to intrinsic value. We also capitalize on CF Private Equity's advisory board seats, an extensive network of manager and secondary industry relationships to gain an access and knowledge advantage.
Published October 2026. See important notes at the end of the video.
We manage a diverse range of solutions that span global private markets, including buyouts and growth equity, venture capital, real assets and sustainability, and secondaries. Each program is managed by an experienced team of investment professionals.
CF Private Equity seeks new and innovative ways to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. These solutions are carefully tailored to each client’s unique situation.
Our customized solutions are built around each client's specific portfolio needs, ranging from comprehensive mandates spanning multiple illiquid strategies to completion portfolios targeting a particular style, geography, or strategy. We draw on direct primary manager relationships, co-investments, and secondaries to build the right mix for each client.
For investors seeking a single, comprehensive private equity solution, we combine buyouts and growth equity, venture capital, and real assets, including natural resources and sustainable investments, into one integrated program. For investors seeking global exposure, we also build dedicated buyouts and growth equity programs with pre-set allocations across the U.S., Europe, and other developed markets.
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