About Drake Paulson

I started out implementing investment systems at Atlas Venture. At Vitech, I led global professional services and implementation teams across North America, Europe, and Asia, with more than 25 implementations at alternative asset investors and administrators.

While implementing software for a large European private equity fund of funds, I saw that due diligence and quantitative performance analysis were underserved. I co-founded TopQ at the start of 2013 to fill that gap. We signed 15 clients in our first year and served both GPs and LPs. eVestment acquired TopQ in 2015.

At eVestment, I built the private markets operations, sales, and client success teams, and we grew from 15 to more than 200 subscribers with 97% retention. After Nasdaq acquired eVestment in 2017, I served on the private markets leadership team.

At Anduin, as VP of Client Success and Partnerships, I led every client-facing team, tripled onboarding capacity, and built the partner channel into a primary source of new business. Most recently, as COO of Bipsync, I built a bench of team leaders who ran their functions independently and led the company’s use of AI for client self-service, onboarding, and training.

I founded Paulson Advisory to bring that experience to the founders building private markets software, the firms that back them, and the investment offices that use it.