Dark Ice Global · The shared platform
Everything behind the investing.
Dark Ice Management employs the people, holds the offices and runs the finance, compliance, legal, technology and investor services of every Dark Ice company.
The company
Dark Ice Management LLC, a Delaware company owned by Dark Ice Global LLC.
One back office for every Dark Ice company.
We exist so the investment teams never have to build a back office. Each function is built once, staffed once and held to one standard, then provided to Dark Ice Ventures and Dark Ice Capital under services agreements.
Parent
Dark Ice Global LLCServes
Dark Ice Ventures and Dark Ice CapitalHeadquarters
Dallas, TexasWhat we run
Every function, one team, one standard.
The functions.
People
Every Dark Ice employee is employed here: payroll, benefits, the handbook and the plans that go with it.
All companies
Offices
Six leases, held and run by us. Each vertical team sits in its vertical’s home office.
Six cities
Finance
The platform budget, the close, administrator oversight and the written cost-allocation method.
Monthly close
Compliance
One program and one Chief Compliance Officer for the platform, to a registered adviser’s standard.
One CCO
Legal and governance
Entities and records, services agreements, contracts, insurance and the committee charters.
Every entity
Technology
One technology standard: the tenant, devices, security and the business continuity plan.
One standard
Investor services
The investor database, onboarding and reporting behind every fund.
Every fund
Vendors
One set of providers for the platform, each with a named backup.
Primary and backup
Who we serve
Three companies, one parent.
Built for the Dark Ice companies.
Dark Ice Ventures
Venture capital: 44 specialist verticals, two funds each, from six offices. We employ its teams, run its offices and keep its compliance program.
darkiceventures.com
IIDark Ice Capital
Private capital, with eight platform companies under it. The same shared services under its own services agreement.
darkicecapital.com
IIIDark Ice Global
The parent: owns the operating companies, every fund general partner, and the Dark Ice names, marks and domains.
darkiceglobal.com
6
Offices
Dallas headquarters, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Salt Lake City and San Francisco.
2
Companies served
Dark Ice Ventures and Dark Ice Capital, each under its own services agreement.
44
Verticals housed
Every Dark Ice Ventures vertical team, employed and housed by the platform.
1
Standard
One compliance program, one cost-allocation method, one set of numbers.
How it works
Clear lines between the companies and their funds.
Every cost has a home.
Services agreements
Dark Ice Ventures and Dark Ice Capital each contract with us for people, offices and shared services.
Cost allocation
A written method allocates shared costs between the companies; each carries its own.
Fund expenses
No fund pays another fund’s costs. Each follows its own documents.
One CCO
One Chief Compliance Officer, employed here, with authority across every company.
Hiring
Paced by management fees: each hiring phase starts only when fees cover it.