IVYFON has convened more than 500 information shares in the community via more than 350 forums and more than 150 dinner parties and assorted luncheons, breakfasts and coffee chats over our history. Our forums cover topics of relevance to the family office and institutional investor space.
IVYFON Programs, range from full day forums to podcasts. In the last 20 years our programs have covered a variety of topics ranging from hedge funds to cryptocurrency. Typical subject matter is current and addresses a topic of great interest to the investment community. In any one program such as a two day forum we can cover up to 20 different topics.
When in different locales, such as Silicon Valley where we focus on venture capital and private equity or New York City where we focus on financial products and fintech we are able to introduce leading subject matter experts in the respective spaces. Because our audiences are online as well as in person, we can broadcast highly localized information to a global audience of interested investors and practitioners.
Our programs are highly publicized on social media and to our substantial mailing list built over 20 years of gathering an interested viewership.
IVYFON provides a variety of services to the Family Office, Deal Sponsor, Fund Sponsor and Institutional Investor community. We have convened more than 500 information shares in the community via more than 350 forums and more than 150 dinner parties and assorted luncheons, breakfasts and coffee chats over our history.
Users of our services range from family offices, institutional investors and institutional consultancies to fund and deal sponsors. All looking to highlight and publicize their work as well as establish their expertise to our elite audience of participants.
We provide full lifecycle concierge service to our presenters and sponsors as many have originated with us as emerging managers or service providers and later participate with us as public companies or family offices themselves.
We initiate individual meetings with parties of interest. We have initiated hundreds of individual meetings in the fund and deal sponsor space and those looking to fund such deals.
We offer a data and information portal to participants who are unable to afford participation in our forums or in the greater marketing channels for fund and deal sponsors. The data portal offers a rich experience for those seeking better and more narrow information on their capital sponsorship needs.
IVYFON partners with holding company, High Plains Capital, to assist family offices and high growth firms going through rapid expansion. We assist fast growth firms in their planning and capital-raising. Our clients occupy leading positions in financial services in money centers and centers of financial entrepreneurial growth such as New York, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Dallas, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore and Panama City. Capital raising and business development rapidly changes every year. With multiplying channels for outreach, capital raising firms and those looking to develop partnerships must focus on best ways to approach the market. Traditional environments for new managers has declined greatly due to changes in LP practices as well as general reduction in services by third party marketers, placement agents and former seeders while the environment for those using alternative sourcing has kept pace with market demands. For More Information click
IvyFON sponsors have unparalleled access for promotions, campaigns and programs to an elite group of business and social leaders. We have leading tools for reaching groups who have high sponsor value.
Our circulation of emails is more than one million a year. More than 50,000 people have attended our events and more than 6,000 family offices have participated. Leading funds and deal sponsors and leading emerging funds have presented with more than 5,000 presenting and 30,000 inquiring about access to our network.
We have broad access via social media to our groups via social media and email campaigns with more than 150,000 Social Media contacts and our YouTube channel which has more than 1 million views.
Sponsors can reach our audience via any method and likewise provide our audience with marketing collateral, leave behinds and other well known brand building devices.
Our portal is a leading platform for family offices, institutional investors, deal and fund sponsors and allows sponsors to engage over longer durations with our audience.
IVYFON Membership is the gateway to success in meeting those important people who can assist your firm with growth, strategy and capital. Based on the IVY League Club Model, participation allows you to build or complement your existing relationships with persons who can move the needle for your endeavors. There are a multitude of ways to interact with the group via business events, social events, dinners, online networks, not for profit committees, etc, all meant to help you build a cohort of business allies who can help you today and in the future. For more information, please contact us directly
Evolving into what is now known as IVYFON, the Ivy Family Office Network has sustained its prominence over the years. IVYFON stands out for its: Diverse roster of leading subject matter experts who provide comprehensive insights on a wide array of economic and investment topics. Pioneering role in initiating discussions on a variety of groundbreaking themes, including Hedge Funds, Peer-to-Peer Lending, Single Family Home Ownership Funds, Cryptocurrency, Gaming and Media Investments, Sports Franchise Investments, and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Investment and Factoring. Robust participation from hundreds of alumni across most Ivy League and comparable institutions, who not only contribute but also present at our events. Continued engagement with local family offices, spanning a network of over 35 cities. The Premier Destination for Elite Talent Showcasing Investment Opportunities Beyond Initial Funding Stages A Crucial Connector to Institutional Investors Guided by IVYFON's Expertise in Post-Family-Office Investment Strategies For more info click
Marty Secada is the founder of High Plains Capital and the IvyFamily Office Network (IVYFON). He has a more than 30 year history of advisory or consulting relationships with firms such as UBS, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and numerous alternative investment funds. BWA are advisors to Institutional Investors, Alternative Funds and Deal Sponsors assisting them with strategy, networking, global deal-sourcing, business development, fund-raising initiatives and investor relations outreach and strategies. Mr. Secada and his team have reviewed and/or made recommendations on more than thirty thousand deal and fund sponsor offerings since 2000. They cover diverse areas from alternative investments, private equity, private credit, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate strategies, distressed, secondaries and many other parts of the investment stack. Mr. Secada is the founder of multiple networks including what was one of the largest hedge fund networks in the world prior to 2008 and is an expert in the family office and institutional investor world for financial product dissemination among peer to peer investor networks. These networks create cooperative work situations for different investment themes where there may be arbitrage opportunities. That includes the Ivy Family Office Network (IVYFON) which over more than 15 years has had more than 50,000 participants ranging over the gamut of investment strategies and opportunities. For more information click
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