The next generation of great private equity firms is being built right now. We don't just back them. We help them build.
Seneca Street is a London-based private equity firm providing hybrid capital and operational support to emerging private equity managers raising their first, second or third institutional fund.
Seneca is a spinoff from Coller Capital and Ares Management.
What we do →Global private capital AUM by 2029
LP commitments are to mega funds
Of the time over 24 years, emerging managers outperformed established funds.
Sources: Preqin, BurgissStructured capital designed around the specific needs of each manager - from seed arrangements and preferred equity to co-investment facilities and secondaries solutions.
We sit alongside our managers on finance, compliance, investor relations and fundraising - the infrastructure that lets them focus on investing.
Investing in private equity and structuring hybrid capital since 1995. First equity secondaries in 2001. First credit secondaries in 2015. We have seen most cycles and built through most of them.
Private credit: built from $0 now $4B and from $0 now $70B AUM. Private equity: advisor from $200M to $2B AUM. Venture capital: supported from $1B now $90B AUM. Four hybrid capital investments completed with Ares in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Two decades of global GP and LP relationships - built at the highest levels of the industry.
Hybrid capital solutions market by 2030, up from $15B today
Of LP capital goes to emerging managers despite consistent outperformance
J-curve as current income offsets fees from day one
We work with a small number of managers at any one time - depth over breadth, always.
We believe in doing business in a first-class way with first-class people - in how we invest, how we operate, and how we treat everyone we work with.
We have been in the founder's shoes - co-founding two private equity funds now managing billions in AUM. The same commitment that got one of our co-founders to the summit of Everest and all Seven Summits drives everything we do.
We lead with values and behaviours. Ask us about them. As Peter Drucker puts it: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
If you're an emerging manager looking for a true partner, or an LP seeking differentiated access - we'd like to hear from you.
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