Semaphore takes over troubled venture capital and private equity funds at the invitation of limited partners, while also providing technology, operations, market due diligence and business advisory services to funds, corporations and institutions for their investments. Current clients of Sempahore include Bank of America, Citicorp, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, numerous public pension funds; dozens of Private Equity and Venture Capital partnerships; hundreds of corporate and academic institutional clients, government entities such as the London Metropolitan Police Service, the National Security Agency, and the UK intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6; as well as many national and international law firms.
Semaphore is committed to assisting limited partners and general partners to rapidly develop solutions that meet their dynamic market and special business situations. The tested Semaphore Solution provides general partners and limited partners independent assessment of current fund and portfolios through a defined due diligence process and tailored performance based operational metrics. These are coupled with active participation in the implementation process to achieve investment goals with multiple exit strategies.
Semaphore’s real-world practitioner resources work with private equity clients to define, develop and deploy operational strategies in performance based portfolio management, triage and liquidity event assistance in support of distressed funds. Through deployment of defined operating and portfolio management and implementation services, Semaphore affords visibility and insight into judgments regarding investment, operations, fund governance and management, use of proceeds and M&A.