Alpine Capital Advisors

What Alpine Capital Advisors does

Alpine Capital Advisors is a privately held placement agent and advisory firm that raises capital for investment managers and connects them with institutional and qualified investors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the firm operates across five offices — New York, Santiago, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Dubai — with a team of approximately 13 professionals including founders, senior advisors, associates, analysts, and a project manager. Its service menu covers the full fundraising and secondary-market lifecycle: primary fund placement across private equity buyout, private credit, venture capital and growth equity, public markets, and real estate (both fund and single-asset), plus secondaries for LPs and sponsors, direct and co-investments, GP stake and JV transactions, and late-stage VC directs and SPVs. The New York office focuses on global institutional investors including secondaries, co-investments, and fund financings, while the Santiago, Mexico City, and São Paulo offices serve Latin American institutional and qualified private investors under local regulations, led by former allocators with established regional relationships.

The firm monetizes through placement and advisory fees charged to international fund managers and investment funds; per its Chilean regulatory disclosure, compensation is derived exclusively from those managers and funds, with no fees received from Chilean qualified or institutional investors. Broker/dealer services in the US are provided through Hollister Associates, LLC (FINRA/SIPC), and UK activities are conducted via Stoneware Capital LLP under FCA authorization; the Chilean entity Alpine Capital Advisors SpA is supervised by the CMF. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, and contracts are multi-year. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales, supported by a thought-leadership funnel that includes the Alpine Investment Review (AIR) newsletter, virtual and in-person events and town halls, market mappings, surveys, and an LP-only ecosystems subscription tier. The firm is founder/management-owned — Les Baquiran as Founder and Daniel Mueller as Co-Founder — with no disclosed external institutional or private-equity backing, and operates through separate legal entities in the US, UK, and Chile.

Name

Alpine Capital Advisors

Legal name

Alpine Capital Advisors LLC

Website

https://alpineca.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Alpine Capital Advisors is a privately held placement agent and advisory firm that raises capital for investment managers across private equity, credit, venture, public markets, and real estate, connecting them to global and Latin American institutional investors through offices in New York, Santiago, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Dubai.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Investment Placement and Advisory Services

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399)

SIC

Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies (6211), Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Capital Raising Advisory (Debt/Equity/Private Capital) (BPAHADAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Finance & Capital Advisory (BPAHADAB), Capital Raising Advisory (Equity & Equity-Linked) (FSAEAGAC)

Keywords

• Fund placement services
• Private capital advisory
• Alternative investment placement
• Secondary market advisory
• Co-investment sourcing

Headquarters

HQ city

Alpine

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Placement and Advisory Fees: The firm generates revenue through fees from investment managers for placement agent and advisory services. According to the Chile regulatory disclosure, the compensation model is based exclusively on fees from international fund managers and investment funds, with no fees received from Chilean qualified and institutional investors.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Alpine Capital Advisors is an independent placement agent and advisory firm that raises institutional capital for alternative investment managers. It connects general partners (fund managers) with limited partners (pensions, endowments, family offices, sovereign wealth funds) across primary fundraises, secondary transactions, direct/co-investments, GP-stake and JV deals, and late-stage venture SPVs. Broker-dealer execution is provided through its FINRA/SIPC affiliate Hollister Associates, LLC.

Product overview

Alpine Capital Advisors operates as a placement agent and advisory firm offering a unified platform of capital-raising services for fund managers. The core offering comprises Primary Fund Placement (covering private equity, private credit, venture capital, public markets, and real estate) alongside complementary services including Secondaries for LPs & Sponsors, Direct/Co-investments, GP Stake & JV Transactions, and Late-Stage VC Directs/SPVs. These are supported by advisory and thought leadership sub-brands: the Alpine Investment Review (AIR) newsletter, Events & Conferences (virtual and in-person town halls), Market Mappings, and Surveys & Polls. The portfolio spans the full fundraising lifecycle from primary fund placement through secondary transactions and ongoing market intelligence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Alpine Investment Review (AIR): Newsletter providing market intelligence and investment insights

Products and services

• Primary Fund Placement

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Hollister Associates, LLCcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHollister Associates, LLC provides broker/dealer services for Alpine Capital Advisors, including FINRA member and SIPC coverage. This is a core regulatory partnership enabling Alpine to conduct securities-related placement activities in the US market.
• Stoneware Capital LLPcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAlpine Capital Advisors Ltd is an Appointed Representative of Stoneware Capital LLP, which is authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This partnership enables Alpine to operate in the UK market under FCA regulation.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Eaton Partners: Eaton Partners is a pure-play private fund placement agent that raises capital for alternative investment managers across private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure. It is the closest direct comparable to Alpine in terms of service scope (primary placement, secondaries, co-investments), though it operates at much larger scale globally.
• Park Hill (Blackstone): Park Hill is the alternative asset placement arm of Blackstone, providing primary fund placement, secondaries, GP-led solutions, and co-investment sourcing. It is the largest dedicated placement agent globally and a primary competitor in the placement mandates Alpine targets.
• Monument Group: Monument Group is a global independent placement agent that raises capital for alternative investment managers, with strong institutional reach in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Comparable to Alpine in being an independent placement specialist, though with broader geographic coverage and a deeper senior team.
• Luma Financial Partners: Luma Financial Partners is an independent placement and advisory firm focused on raising capital for alternative investment managers across asset classes. Comparable to Alpine's core primary placement and secondaries offerings, with focused coverage across the US institutional market.
• K2 Advisors: K2 Advisors is a placement agent and investment advisory firm specializing in capital raising for alternative investment managers. Comparable peer offering primary fund placement and capital introduction services, particularly in the US institutional and family office segments.

Broad incumbents

• Houlihan Lokey (Capital Markets): Houlihan Lokey operates a Capital Markets Group that includes private fund placement services alongside its broader investment banking franchise. While far larger and more diversified than Alpine, it competes for the same GP placement mandates across asset classes including PE, credit, and real estate.
• Evercore (Private Funds Group): Evercore's Private Funds Group is a leading global placement agent serving PE, credit, and infrastructure managers. While part of a much larger investment banking platform, the group competes head-to-head with Alpine for placement mandates and provides similar primary and secondary placement services.

Emerging players

• CAIS: CAIS operates an alternative investment marketplace connecting independent advisors and wealth managers with hedge funds, private equity, and private credit funds. While more technology-platform-driven, it increasingly intersects with placement agents by streamlining capital flows to alternative managers.
• iCapital Network: iCapital is a fintech platform providing access to alternative investments (private equity, private credit, hedge funds) for wealth managers and their clients. While more technology/fintech-led than relationship-led, it represents an emerging distribution channel that competes for the same GP capital and LP demand Alpine serves.

Regional players

• Linear Capital Partners: Linear Capital is a Latin America-focused investment placement and advisory firm with presence in markets including Brazil and Mexico. Directly comparable to Alpine's LatAm-led positioning, with overlapping mandates in raising capital from Brazilian and Mexican institutional investors for international fund managers.

Market position

Strengths6 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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