Modern Capital: The Private Markets Podcast

Modern Capital: The Private Markets Podcast

By: Marc Andrew

Language: en

Categories: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

Conversations with leaders building the infrastructure of private markets.

Episodes

Private Credit Meets the Valley, with John Markell and Matt Schwartz
Dec 15, 2025

350+ lenders now finance cash-flow negative businesses. Five years ago, maybe a handful would.

This shift is creating new opportunities - and new risks - that most founders and fund managers don't fully understand.

John Markell of Armentum Partners and Matt Schwartz, Head of U.S. Finance at DLA Piper, join me to unpack growth credit: the segment of private credit quietly reshaping how technology companies scale.

We cover:

What growth credit actually is - and why it's different from the private credit you read about in the papersThe gap between bank capital...

Duration: 00:31:41
Modern Capital | trailer
Dec 02, 2025

Introducing: Modern Capital, The Private Markets Podcast. 

Conversations with the leaders building the infrastructure of modern private markets. 

Duration: 00:01:22
The Plumber of Private Markets: A conversation with Rob Heyvaert
Nov 27, 2025

What happens when the man who engineered the clearing system for the euro at age 25 turns his full attention on private markets?

Rob Heyvaert has spent three decades building the plumbing of finance: founding companies acquired by IBM and FIS, scaling Capco to 7,000 people across 21 offices, and now orchestrating a portfolio at Motive Partners that includes InvestCloud, FNZ, Daphne, CAIS, and others shaping how capital flows.

In this inaugural episode of Modern Capital, Rob makes a striking claim: private markets are approaching their "Bezos moment" - the point where customer obsession finally becomes possible, and...

Duration: 00:41:41