Finding Fundraising Product Market Fit with Andy Lee of Parallaxes Capital

On this episode of Fund Flow, McGuireWoods’ Jon Finger sits down with Andy Lee, founder and chief investment officer of Parallaxes Capital, the first firm to focus exclusively on monetizing tax receivable agreements as an investment strategy. Andy wanted to establish a firm that wasn’t afraid to think differently and take a long-term view on investments.

“We're not going to capture your run-of-the-mill investor. We're very focused on finding early adopters and demonstrating, and ultimately achieving, results for them,” Andy says. “We've not tried to raise scaled funds, not because we can’t. It's more so for us [that] each fund has given us the avenue through which we are able to solve a different problem set each time.”

Jon and Andy discuss how tax receivable agreements work, why they’re valuable, and how Andy built a fund focused on them. They also discuss what general partners need to consider when choosing to partner with limited partners, based on Parallaxes Capital’s approach to investments, and how finding LPs has changed from fund to fund.

 

💡 Featured Guest 💡

Name: Andy Lee

What he does: Andy is the founder of Parallaxes Capital. Previously, he was with Lone Star Funds, focused on investing in the Americas. He began his career at Citigroup. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor’s in Finance and Accountancy and a Master’s in Accountancy. Andy has been featured in publications including Capital Allocators, Institutional Investor, NBC, Forbes (as part of the 2020 Class of 30 under 30), ReOrg Radio, and Fitch’s LevFin Insights.

Organization: Parallaxes Capital

Connect: LinkedIn

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