Provide market intelligence on bolt on targets, competitive landscape, and valuation context within your subsector.
Make introductions to founders, family owners, and senior executives in your existing network.
Review confidential information memoranda and management presentations for sector specific operating fit and risk.
Fireclay Partners is a veteran-owned middle market M&A and buy side advisory firm based in Kansas City. Their model pairs investment banking execution with senior operating expertise, bringing in industry advisors with deep domain experience to support deal sourcing, due diligence, and sponsor engagement.
Contribute deal experience to a structured research project.
Improve AI reasoning across investment banking and capital markets.
Evaluate, generate, and refine content reflecting IB professional thought processes.
Mentis AI, headquartered in London and San Francisco, brings real-world expertise from finance into AI model training. They bridge the gap between human and artificial intelligence with ex-Lazard and Partners Group founders.
Develop and iterate realistic prompts to test the relevance of AI-generated insights.
Systematically evaluate divergence between professional banking judgment and AI outputs.
Translate how senior bankers evaluate transactions into problems that push the limits of AI reasoning.
Mentis AI operates at the intersection of institutional finance expertise and frontier AI systems. Their team combines financial services experience with machine learning and applied AI research, collaborating with leading AI labs to improve how models reason and make decisions in financial contexts.
Originate, evaluate, and lead the execution of control and minority equity investments.
Partner with management teams to develop and execute value creation strategies.
Cultivate and expand relationships with intermediaries, company executives, and limited partners.
Star Mountain is a private investment firm focused on the lower middle-market. They have ~$4.5 billion in assets under management and a dynamic team of 120+ full-time people with a long-term training and career development culture.