Why Capital Prism exists.

Private capital still moves on who you happen to know. We built a better way to find the right counterparty, and to look in confidence.

The problem

The right counterparty is often not the obvious one.

Private markets run on relationships. That has always meant the field you can reach is the field you already know. The best buyer, the right investor, the partner who changes the outcome, is frequently someone you were never going to find through your own contacts. And because these conversations are sensitive, most people stay quiet and settle for the names in front of them. Value is won or lost in that gap.

What is different

An ontology, not a directory.

Capital Prism is built on three ideas.

The ontology

A living map of companies, counterparties, advisers, mandates, relationships, signals and intent. It surfaces the counterparties who genuinely fit, including the ones no one would have thought to look for.

Confidential by default

Your space on the platform is yours alone. You decide what is shared, with whom, and when. You can stay anonymous until you choose to reveal, one step at a time.

A personal Adviser

An intelligent Adviser that works only for you, firewalled from everyone else. It helps you decide what to put into the Prism, and makes sense of what comes back. Your Adviser prepares. You decide.

Who is behind it

Built by people who have sat on every side of the table.

Capital Prism was founded by David Lewis, who spent more than twenty-five years in M&A: in investment banking at UBS and Goldman Sachs, in corporate M&A inside large organisations, and running his own mid-market advisory. The platform comes from that experience, and from a simple conviction: that good data and AI can make sense of what someone actually needs, and match it in ways the old ways of banking never could.

David Lewis · Founder · 25 years in M&A across UBS, Goldman Sachs and beyond

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Where it is going

Being built with a founding cohort.

Capital Prism is in private beta. A small group of founding members is helping shape it. Founding members keep founding terms.

Better counterparties. Better positioning. Better outcomes.

Private beta · open by invitation

Look in confidence.

The deal-discovery layer underneath your network. Free to join, confidential by default, approved one member at a time while we build with you.