This week on Swimming with Allocators, Alexa and I welcome Apurva Mehta, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Summit Peak Investments, to talk about what LPs really value in the fundraising process.
This episode is useful because it gets underneath the surface-level fundraising advice. LPs are not just evaluating a deck. They are evaluating clarity, judgment, trust, pacing, and whether the GP understands what kind of business they are actually building.
For emerging managers, this is a reminder that fundraising is not just persuasion. It is evidence. The best pitch is a strategy, a story, and a set of behaviors that all point in the same direction.