Strategies Venture Capital & Growth Equity Investments

Gain access to premier venture and growth equity opportunities through a focused strategy of fund investments, direct deals and secondaries. We partner with top-tier managers and high-growth companies to deliver differentiated exposure across the private market landscape. 

$128B

Assets Under Management & Supervision1,2

260+

General Partners With Whom We Actively Invest3

30

Years Investing Experience4

As of 3/31/2026

What We Do


Strategic access to high-growth opportunities

We leverage our deep, long-standing relationships to access what we believe are the most compelling venture and growth equity opportunities at optimal stages and through efficient structures. Our strategy aims to deliver asymmetric returns by limiting downside while capturing the attractive upside that venture and growth equity investments can provide. 

Balancing disruption with opportunity

With low correlation to traditional strategies, our approach is driven by sensitivity to innovation cycles rather than market movements. By targeting long-term, compounding growth, we seek to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns and take advantage of market disruption. 

Technology platform and access to data provide competitive advantage

Our continued investment in private markets technology solutions provides unparalleled access to information, including a database with over 24,000+ funds, 17,000+ unique managers, and 178,000+ companies. Further, each year the firm participates in 1,300+ meetings with general partners on average, and reviews 1,100+ PPMs. Together, these insights help enable us to be a more informed investor and a valuable strategic partner to managers, thereby providing access to unique opportunities. 


As of 9/30/2025

Leadership Team

Miguel Luiña
Managing Director, Co-Head of Venture Capital & Growth Equity
Matthew Pellini
Managing Director, Secondaries, Co-Head of Venture Capital & Growth Equity
Nathan Ritsko
Managing Director, Venture Capital & Growth Equity
Andrew Rich
Principal, Venture Capital & Growth Equity
Brent Westbrook
Principal, Venture Capital & Growth Equity

Deal Spotlights

Wonderful

The HL advantage

An AI-native enterprise software company deploying voice, messaging and back-office agents across dozens of markets and expanding into a broader enterprise AI platform. 

Why it matters

The company provides access to a rapidly growing, early-stage enterprise AI platform through a GP with strong access, further deepening a broad partnership.

The HL Approach

We were invited into the round as a preferred co-investor, leveraging a relationship initially established through a prior secondary transaction and fund commitment. Having previously diligenced the company during an earlier financing round and maintained close engagement thereafter, we were able to move quickly to secure our allocation in the highly competitive round.

The bottom line

Our prior diligence and longstanding relationship with the sponsor enabled us to evaluate the opportunity efficiently and participate in the transaction.

Project Select

The HL advantage

An LP-interest secondary transaction that provides exposure to a diversified portfolio of 29 late-stage and growth equity assets. 

Why it matters

Project Select provides access to well-established and category-defining technology companies, including notable holdings such as Whatnot, xAI, Safe Superintelligence, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks and Cursor. Since our initial investment, xAI and Cursor have been acquired by SpaceX, and SpaceX's IPO valued the company at ~$2 trillion, the largest IPO in history.

The HL Approach

We leveraged prior secondaries and co-investment diligence across the portfolio’s key assets to quickly build conviction and prevail in a competitive bidding process. This approach provided attractive access to highly valued private companies at compelling entry valuations relative to the market.

The bottom line

We leveraged our proprietary data and prior diligence to gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of access-constrained, market-leading technology businesses across AI and software. Acquiring these positions through a secondary transaction ahead of the potential IPO result may create the potential for future value appreciation for LPs across our portfolios. Project Select demonstrates how we use the secondary market to access leading companies in a diversified manner at attractive entry points. 

Steno

Who they are

A scaled, tech-enabled litigation services provider that offers staffing, logistics and financing services to plaintiff law firms across the U.S.

Why it matters

The company provides access to a market‑leading legal services platform with a strong financial profile and notable cohort expansion dynamics. The company is positioned to compound value while benefiting from digitization and AI tailwinds across legal services.

The HL advantage

This transaction builds on a long-standing relationship we have with Savano Capital Partners, an existing investor in Steno that led the Series C financing. Due to this, we were invited to co-invest in the latest round consisting of both primary and secondary shares. Through our connection to the GP and other earlier investors in the company, we gained deep company knowledge and high conviction in the opportunity.

The bottom line

We leveraged our relationship with the lead investor to secure access to a high-growth, category-leading opportunity in an under-penetrated market with strong product differentiation, attractive economics and a clear path to continued scale.

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1Discretionary Assets Under Management ("AUM") includes all investments managed by Hamilton Lane for which Hamilton Lane retains a level of discretion for the investment decisions. AUM equals assets under management for active accounts. AUM is equal to market value plus unfunded. AUM calculation does not include authorized to invest amounts (ANI). ANI can only be attributed to commingled fund-of-funds and separate accounts and cannot be attributed to underlying investments.            

2Non-discretionary Assets Under Supervision ("AUS") comprise assets from clients for which Hamilton Lane does not have full discretion to make investments in the account. AUS includes all investments for which Hamilton Lane provides services including asset allocation, strategic planning, development of investment policies and guidelines, screening and recommending investments, legal negotiations, monitoring and reporting on investments and investment manager review and due diligence.  AUS equals assets under supervision for active accounts. AUS is equal to market value plus unfunded. AUS calculation does not include authorized to invest amounts (ANI). ANI can only be attributed to commingled fund-of-funds and separate accounts and cannot be attributed to underlying investments.

3Number of Active GPs includes only active GP relationships for Hamilton Lane discretionary or advisory investments. This number excludes GPs with investments for which Hamilton Lane provides Monitoring & Reporting only services as well as Legacy accounts.

4Number of years investing is based on the closing date of the first discretionary venture capital/growth equity investment made.

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