Private Capital Markets Advisory | Placement Agent

Capital & Advice for the companies building and defining what's next

Optimal PCA is a senior-led private capital markets advisory firm and placement agent. We connect category-defining private companies with the institutional and strategic capital they need to scale. We raise private capital, execute secondaries, and advise founders and shareholders through their most consequential financing decisions from early growth stage to pre-IPO. Every deal is led by a senior principal with the execution standard and senior relationships of a bulge-bracket desk. The judgment of a senior banker. The agility of a boutique.

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What We Do

We work across all sectors but with particular expertise and senior relationships in consumer, healthcare, frontier technology (energy, defense, industrial, robotics), sports & media. Our founder has closed more than $10 billion in private capital markets transactions over the last 10 years at J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and Citi in addition to executing more than 100 IPO's with the world's biggest investment managers. We benefit from the perspective of our partner firm, Optimal Advisory. Optimal brings that experience to a focused roster of clients, without the conflicts and bureaucracy of a large bank.

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

  • Blake Best

     

    Blake Best

    Managing Partner & Co-Founder

    Blake Best heads Optimal Private Capital Advisory. Blake has more than 15 years of experience across private capital markets, institutional equity sales, and investment banking. Most recently, he served as Managing Director at Citigroup, where he led their efforts in Private Capital Advisory in the Americas. Prior to Citi, he held senior roles at Bank of America and J.P. Morgan.

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  • blake@optimalpca.com