How InterAlpen Growth Equity Investors Use Model ML to Win Deals

How InterAlpen Growth Equity Investors Use Model ML to Win Deals

Overview

• Location: United States, Malaysia, Switzerland

• Team Size: 12 + Advisors

• Partnered Since: 2024

• Primary Use Cases: due diligence, legal review, leadgen and marketing

Key Challenges

• Interalpen is a Small team very involved with portfolio company operations. The junior team had hands full in operations, fundraising and layering in new deals was at times challenging given the unexpectedness of commitments.

• In the early stages of growth-expansion investing of proprietary, unbanked deals, you get a wide variety of completeness. Some opportunities are well-packed and others require a lot more diligence.

• They have an internally developed basic CRM. Back-filling details of their network has been at times challenging. ChatGPT is broadly unreliable and it’s a lot of work to figure out what you can trust.

Model ML Product Analysis

• InterAlpen spoke with at least 5 leading technologies prior to selecting Model ML. The leading differentiator for the firm is Model ML’s approach to customization. Their tool allows complete and simple customization to the firms unique and specific processes.

• At the time of speaking, Grid was still in beta and has since become the firm’s most valuable use of Model ML. The rate of innovation is impressive as Model ML continually improves performance and expands use cases.

How Model ML Helps Today

• Model ML evolves the role of our Analysts and Associates more into editors than drafters of our multi-stage memo process. This allows them to spend more time thinking critically about the opportunity than recreating content.

• As global investors, Model ML helps expand our access and understanding of global markets and key participants in them. We recently made a significant, timely investment into Italy, aided greatly by the language agnostic platform.

• Data projects that constantly get pushed to the someday pile are moving along with greater speed. Model ML is updating our investor CRM to help us better understand our contacts and the right deals to share with them.

How Model ML Will Help In the Future

• Model ML will be a key tool to support Interalpen's full investment process. It will aid in their screening through funding with customized firm templates for each step of their due diligence process including screening, due diligence, memo creation and legal review.

• Support their marketing team and investor relations will CRM management and quarterly investor updates.

"Powered by Model ML, InterAlpen has recently had its busiest and most successful phase in our Private Equity Firm’s history.  Model ML empowers us to efficiently and smartly analyze a wide range of investment opportunities, allowing us to decide more intelligently where to allocate our resources and capital.   Model ML has become “like oxygen” to our investment process and we’re excited to be an early adopter in this extraordinary technology that Model ML built" 

– Stephen George, Founding Partner – Growth Equity Investor