The Diligence Advantage: what the top firms figured out.
The largest PE firms have been running dedicated in-house research and diligence teams for years. Most middle-market funds have no idea it's possible at their scale, or how much they're leaving on the table.
This is not a panel. There are no slides. Twelve senior investors, one room, one question, and an honest conversation about the diligence capacity gap that most PE firms acknowledge privately, and almost none have solved.
General Atlantic. KKR. Warburg Pincus. These firms built embedded research infrastructure years ago: dedicated analysts, in their time zone, exclusively allocated to their mandates. The model exists. The question is why it has taken this long to reach the middle market.
May 15, 2026
New York City
Roundtable
Formerly consultant to a top-10 global PE firm by AUM via CRISIL, where he built and ran embedded research teams for global PE firms across consumer, technology, and financial services diligence. Co-founded 150 Diligence to bring that model to mid-market PE firms, at a fraction of the cost.