Designing the Future for Emerging Fund Managers

​Join us at SXSW 2026, as we bring together a select group of emerging fund managers, LPs, and investment ecosystem builders for a hands-on design session focused on one core question:

​How might we reimagine the supports and pathways to success for emerging managers?

​In this interactive design sprint, we invite you to share your experiences and identify gaps in capital access, back-end operations, community engagement, and ecosystem coordination. Your insights will help to define the future of emerging manager support systems.

​This is a working session, not a panel.

​Together, we will:

• ​Identify pain points in the current support systems

• ​Explore how LPs and ecosystem leaders can better align resources and incentives

• ​Generate ideas for more responsive and catalytic programs

​If you are an emerging manager, LP, or investment ecosystem leader committed to building more equitable and effective capital landscape, we’d love to have you at the table. (Sorry, this event is not for startup founders!)

​The session is co-hosted by Retro Futurism Consulting and the Stanford d.School. Space is limited to ensure depth of conversation.