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Top Tier Capital Partners

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Top Tier Capital Partners is a venture capital specialist managing niche-focused funds of funds, secondaries, and co-investment strategies.

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01.01.1999

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Private

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Based in San Francisco, California, Top Tier Capital Partners was founded in 1999 and manages primary and secondary investments in venture capital funds, as well as co-investments in select portfolio companies. Their team has extensive experience in deal sourcing, due diligence, performance analysis, legal terms negotiation, investment monitoring, and reporting. They work collaboratively with investors to help them build their private equity investment programs and partner closely with managers to offer hands-on counsel. Top Tier Capital Partners creates diverse portfolios that are built to spot emerging trends early and deliver optimal venture returns, using their experience, deep networks, industry insights, and superior client service.
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Philip Paul
Philip Paul

Philip Paul

Philip Paul founded Paul Capital in 1991. Mr. Paul has more than 25 years of private equity experience, having served on more than 30 VC-based boards of directors. He was previously (1983–1990) Chairman and CEO of Hillman Ventures, Inc., one of the most active private equity investors in the 70’s and 80’s. During his tenure at Hillman Ventures, Mr. Paul was a founding investor in several venture capital funds including those raised by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers; TA Associates; U.S. Venture Partners; Mohr, Davidow Ventures; and New Enterprise Associates. He was active with many of these private equity managers before they actually formed the funds for which they are so well known today. Mr. Paul was also involved with direct investments in life science and technology companies such as Genentech, Hybritech, Pyxis, Tandem Computers, Teradata, Symantec, and Read-Rite. Mr. Paul has a B.A. from Stanford University, a J.D. from Southwestern University, as well as a certificate in International Law from the Parker School at Columbia University.

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Top Tier Capital Partners
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David York
David York

David York

David is the chief executive and a managing director of Top Tier responsible for the management, development and growth of the firm’s fund of funds and co-investment offerings. Beginning in 2000, he led the fund of funds team at Paul Capital, developing an extensive network of relationships with private equity fund managers. He serves on the fund advisory committees of 10 venture capital firms and has extensive operational experience, having founded and managed four different trading desks on Wall Street. David’s Wall Street career spans two decades, including posts at Chase H&Q, Volpe Welty & Co. and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He began his career as an executive consultant at Paine Webber. Mr. York received his B.S.E. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California.

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Top Tier Capital Partners
Top Tier Capital Partners

David York

Lisa Edgar
Lisa Edgar

Lisa Edgar

Lisa is a Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee at Top Tier Capital Partners. She leads the fund Investment Team focusing on manager selection, due diligence and investment monitoring of Top Tier’s primary investments. Leveraging her 25 years of experiences, Lisa is particularly interested in helping up-and-coming micro funds structure themselves for success in the future, including strategic fundraising, thoughtful portfolio construction, effective capital deployment and management succession. When she is not advising our GPs and LPs, Lisa is supporting diversity within private equity with the intent that the profile of venture firms mirrors those who are benefiting from the capital deployed by those firms. Lisa joined Top Tier’s predecessor firm Paul Capital in 2003. Prior to Top Tier, Lisa was part of the asset management team at WR Hambrecht + Co focusing on new and emerging private equity funds. Before that, she spent ten years at Horsley Bridge Partners. Lisa began her career as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Lisa graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.S. in applied economics and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business.

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Employee Profiles
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Michael Gorman

Manager, corporate development

Sean Engel

Sean Engel

Principal

Andrew Jitratanajinda

Andrew Jitratanajinda

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Katherine Rodota

Senior Associate

Eric T. Fitzgerald

Eric T. Fitzgerald

Managing Director

Adar Puterman

Adar Puterman

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Sean Semeniuk

Fund accountant

Bonnie Propst

Executive assistant

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