Allen Partners

Name

Allen Partners

Website

https://Allen-Partners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Allen Partners is a private firm that, in partnership with FIRSTavenue, operates a secondary market platform providing liquidity and portfolio rebalancing services to institutional and high-net-worth investors in Australia and New Zealand.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Private Investment Secondary Markets / Liquidity Services

NAICS

Miscellaneous Intermediation (523910), Miscellaneous Intermediation (52391), Investment Banking and Securities Intermediation (523150)

SIC

Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies (6211)

akta.pro primary industry

Tender Offers & Liquidity Solutions (LP & GP-led) (FSANAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Secondaries Fundraising & Liquidity Intermediation (LP Stakes/GP-led) (FSAEALAG), Secondaries — Preferred Equity / Structured Secondary Solutions (FSAHALAL)

Keywords

• Secondary market platform
• Private investment liquidity
• Portfolio rebalancing services
• Institutional investment solutions
• Alternative asset liquidity

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Secondary Market Platform Services: Allen Partners generates revenue through a secondary market platform that enables liquidity and portfolio rebalancing for investors. The platform likely charges transaction fees or takes a commission on secondary market trades executed through the platform.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Allen Partners offers a secondary market platform — co-developed with FIRSTavenue — that enables Australian and New Zealand investors to address liquidity needs and execute portfolio rebalancing for illiquid or semi-liquid private investment holdings. The offering is targeted at investment firms and institutional investors in the ANZ region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Secondary Market Platform A secondary market platform — co-developed with FIRSTavenue — that enables Australian and New Zealand investment firms and institutional investors to access liquidity for illiquid or semi-liquid private investment holdings and to rebalance their portfolios.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FIRSTavenuecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 February 2026Allen Partners has partnered with FIRSTavenue to co-launch a secondary market platform targeting Australian and New Zealand investors. The platform aims to address growing liquidity needs and portfolio rebalancing requirements in the region. This is a co-development partnership where both firms contribute expertise to serve the ANZ investment community's liquidity needs.

Broad incumbents

• StepStone Group: Large global alternative investments platform with dedicated secondaries advisory and fund-of-funds capabilities. Highly relevant as an established incumbent that ANZ-focused secondary platforms must compete against for cross-border LP secondary mandates.
• Coller Capital: One of the largest dedicated secondary buyers of LP stakes globally, with multi-billion-dollar funds. Directly comparable as a global LP-secondaries specialist whose presence sets the competitive benchmark for ANZ-focused entrants.
• Hamilton Lane: Private markets investment manager with significant secondary, co-invest, and fund-of-fund capabilities globally. Comparable because it serves institutional LPs seeking liquidity and rebalancing solutions, overlapping with Allen Partners' customer segment.
• Lexington Partners: One of the largest dedicated secondary private equity firms, active across LP and GP-led transactions globally. Comparable as a dominant secondaries specialist whose pricing power and counterparty trust set the standard for new entrants like Allen Partners.
• Park Hill (Blackstone): Blackstone's secondary advisory business providing GP-led and LP-led secondary solutions. Comparable as a scaled secondaries advisory competitor for cross-border mandates involving ANZ GPs or LPs.
• Lazard Secondary Advisory: Global advisory firm with a dedicated secondaries practice serving GPs and LPs. Comparable as a scaled advisor competing for the same ANZ secondary advisory and intermediation mandates.
• Jefferies Secondaries Advisory: Investment bank with an active secondary advisory practice covering LP and GP-led transactions. Comparable because it competes for the same intermediation mandate when ANZ LPs/GPs seek execution support.
• Evercore Secondaries: Independent advisory firm with a dedicated secondaries advisory group covering LP and GP-led transactions. Comparable as an established secondaries intermediary that ANZ-focused platforms must benchmark against.
• HarbourVest Partners: Large global private markets investor with active secondary fund-of-funds and direct secondary purchases. Comparable as a scaled buyer whose APAC/ANZ activity competes with Allen Partners' target investor base.

Regional players

• Greenstone Equity Partners: Middle East-headquartered private equity secondary advisory and placement agent with regional focus. Comparable as a regionally-specialized secondaries intermediary whose model of bundling regional liquidity demand parallels Allen Partners' ANZ strategy.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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