Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Growthworks: Not Just a VC

You have to hand it to Growthworks - when management fees fall across the industry, they find ways to diversify.

Last week Growthworks anounced its intent to acquire Mutual Fund Manager Mavrix. To do so, it is likely GW rolled over some of their own management fees received for managing GW assets into buying, effectively, more management fees (i.e., the one Mavrix earns for managing its own assets).

What does Mavrix have to do with venture capital? Nothing, as far as I can tell. But if they provide one VC which a creative source of operating capital, I'm on board.