Why this show exists
I'm Jennifer Bruno. For 25+ years I've sat across the capital-raising table from allocators, as an asset raiser, internal marketer, and someone who has viewed all stages of the founder-allocator relationship trajectory. That vantage point taught me a simple truth: raising capital is all about building relationships.
Capital follows connection. These are the stories behind the connections that build great firms.
Capital Firsthand is where those relationships get talked about in the open: managers on how they got funded, allocators on what makes them say yes, advisors on how trust gets built client by client, and the specialists who keep standout firms running. The stories behind standout firms, told by the people who lived them.
Jennifer is the founder of Catalyst Hedge Fund Marketing, where she works directly with firms, and CapitalFormation.ai, where founders build their own investor materials in minutes. On this show, the guest’s story is the whole point.