HARKNESS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

Overview

Harkness Capital Management LLC is an SEC‑registered investment adviser organized as a limited liability company and classified as a private equity manager. The firm’s business centers on advising and managing pooled investment vehicles, acting in sponsor and general partner roles for those vehicles. Its client base is institutional, and its fee arrangements combine asset‑based charges with performance‑linked fees and other negotiated terms, consistent with active, manager‑led strategies. Investment activity is concentrated on private markets and real assets. Harkness favors private equity and private placement strategies and sponsors vehicles that pursue control or significant minority positions in private companies. The firm also allocates to real estate and commodity‑linked opportunities, including oil and gas, and uses both in‑house and third‑party managers where appropriate. Harkness does not position itself as an active ESG investor and is set up primarily to manage pooled funds rather than direct retail advisory mandates. Harkness is affiliated with investment sponsor and GP roles—serving as adviser, sponsor, and managing member of the pooled vehicles it runs. That structural setup typically implies hands‑on portfolio management, operational involvement in portfolio companies, and alignment between the adviser and fund investors through carried interest and performance fees.

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