GPS Investment Partners

What GPS Investment Partners does

GPS Investment Partners, LLC is a privately-held principal investment partnership based in New York that deploys opportunistic capital across financial services, media & entertainment, and wealth & asset management. The firm operates six strategy sleeves — venture capital, growth equity, private equity, distressed, private credit, and real estate — and structures its activity into two complementary buckets. The Platform Companies sleeve consists of longer-duration, governance-active stakes in firms such as Merchant Investment Management (where Scott Prince and Marc Spilker serve as Executive Chairman), Maxim Capital Group ($1.5 billion real estate lending platform co-founded by Barry Bergman), FS Investments (Enrico Gaglioti as Co-President), CoVenture, Piton Investment Management, CrossBeam, and Cedar Glade Capital. The Direct Investments sleeve encompasses minority positions across venture, growth, and special-situation deals — including Spotter, Wave Sports and Entertainment, Palantir, Bill.com, Uber, Spotify, Luminary, Ola, Big Sky Resort, and Avelo Air — alongside real estate operators such as Lake Success Rentals and Taurus Investment Holdings (over $8 billion deployed across multifamily, logistics, and renewables).

The firm is staffed by 1-10 employees and generates economics primarily through principal equity returns and platform-level governance rather than through traditional limited-partner management fees. Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed and the entity — GPS Investment Partners, LLC, governed by New York law — does not file public financials. Pricing and marketing are not applicable in the conventional sense: the firm does not advertise or compete for external LP capital, instead sourcing deal flow through the institutional networks of its founders, whose prior careers include senior roles at Goldman Sachs, Apollo Global Management, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, and Tudor Investment Corporation.

Distinctive differentiation rests on the team's institutional pedigree (e.g., Marc Spilker's 20-year Goldman tenure ending as co-head of Investment Management and his presidency of Apollo from 2010-2014; Enrico Gaglioti as former Global Head of Equity Sales at Goldman) and on the interlocking board seats and strategic-advisor roles the partners maintain across the portfolio, which function as both governance mechanism and deal-sourcing flywheel. There are no registered products, external customers, or pay-for-service offerings; the customer base in investment-allocation terms consists of GPS's own portfolio companies and co-investors rather than third-party LPs.

Name

GPS Investment Partners

Legal name

GPS Investment Partners, LLC

Website

https://gpsipllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GPS Investment Partners is a privately-held, New York-based principal investment partnership that deploys opportunistic capital across financial services, media & entertainment, and wealth & asset management through venture capital, growth equity, private equity, distressed, private credit, and real estate strategies, sourcing primarily through its founding partners' networks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Private Equity & Venture Capital

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Thematic / Sector-Focused Multi-Manager Platforms (FSANAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Secondary Fund Stakes (GP/Manager Stakes in Secondary GPs) (FSANAFAD)

Keywords

• Principal investment partnership
• Venture capital
• Growth equity
• Private equity
• Asset management

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Investment Management & Advisory: GPS Investment Partners operates as a principal investment partnership generating returns through equity stakes and investment returns from portfolio companies across financial services, media & entertainment, and wealth & asset management sectors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

GPS Investment Partners is a principal investment partnership that deploys capital across venture capital, growth equity, private equity, distressed, private credit, and real estate strategies. The firm focuses on opportunistic investments in three sectors: financial services, media & entertainment, and wealth & asset management. It provides capital, operating advisory, and institutional oversight to a portfolio of investment management partners and direct portfolio companies.

Product overview

GPS Investment Partners is a Principal Investment Partnership that serves as a strategic investment vehicle rather than a product company. The firm focuses on opportunistic investments across financial services, media & entertainment, and wealth & asset management sectors. The investment approach encompasses multiple strategies including Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Private Equity, Distressed, Private Credit, and Real Estate. The firm manages and partners with platform companies including Cedar Glade Capital, Chiron, CoVenture, CrossBeam, Maxim Capital Group, Merchant Investment Management, and Piton Investment Management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Principal Investment Partnership Principal investment partnership deploying capital across venture capital, growth equity, private equity, distressed, private credit, and real estate strategies in three focus sectors (financial services, media & entertainment, and wealth & asset management), supplemented by operating advisory and institutional oversight for portfolio investment management partners.

Quantifiable outcome

• Maxim Capital has grown to a $1.5 billion real estate lending platform
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Eton Park Capital Management: Multi-strategy hedge fund where Scott Prince previously headed global trading and derivatives as Partner. Comparable sector expertise and multi-asset approach, though at much larger AUM.
• Apollo Global Management: Large alternative asset manager where GPS founding member Marc Spilker previously served as President. Broader incumbent with significant financial-services and credit focus — comparable sector specialization but at vastly greater scale.
• FS Investments: Major alternative asset manager with deep GPS team ties (Enrico Gaglioti as Co-President, Marc Spilker as board member). Comparable alternative-investment focus across credit, real estate, and asset management but at institutional scale.

Direct peers

• Bullingham Capital: New York-based private investment firm founded by GPS partner Dmitri Shklovsky, investing across real estate, private equity and venture. Directly comparable principal-led, multi-strategy investment partnership.
• Skybridge Capital: Multi-asset-class alternative investment firm where Scott Prince previously served as Co-Managing Partner. Highly comparable operating model — sector-focused, multi-strategy, principal-led alternatives platform.
• Piton Investment Management: Investment platform where GPS holds a platform stake and Glen Chesir serves as partner. Comparable multi-strategy alternative-investment model with GPS team involvement.
• CoVenture: Venture capital and alternative credit platform where GPS holds a direct platform investment and Glen Chesir serves as board member/strategic advisor. Directly comparable as a GPS-backed alternative investment manager.
• Merchant Investment Management: Multi-affiliate wealth and asset management platform co-founded by GPS principals Scott Prince (Executive Chairman) and Marc Spilker (Executive Chairman). Closest comparable peer — same principal team, same sector focus, same multi-manager model.
• Chiron Investment Management: Multi-affiliate alternative investment platform co-founded by GPS founding member Enrico Gaglioti; acquired by FS Investments in 2020. Closely mirrors GPS's platform-building approach in financial services and asset management.
• Maxim Capital Group: $1.5B real estate lending platform co-founded by GPS partner Barry Bergman. Directly comparable as a GPS-affiliated alternative investment manager operating in real estate credit, with overlapping principal relationships.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gps-investment-partners

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments3 records

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