Overview
A. Description of the Advisory Firm
Pier 88 Investment Partners, LLC, with its affiliated relying advisers, Pier 88 Growth Management,
LLC (“Pier 88 Growth Management”), Pier 88 Ventures Enterprise Software Fund GP LLC (“Pier
88 Ventures GP”) and AP Innovation Fund GP, LLC (“AP Innovation GP”), are the investment
managers (“Pier 88” or the “Firm”) to the Clients, as defined below. Pier 88 commenced providing
services in October 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Firm’s principal
owner is Francis Thomas Timons. References to Pier 88 in this Brochure are generally intended to
encompass the relying advisers, except where otherwise noted.
B. Types of Advisory Services
Pier 88 provides discretionary investment advice and management to private investment funds and
separately managed accounts offered on a direct basis or through sub-advisory arrangements with
other financial services firms that sponsor registered investment companies (the “Separate
Accounts”). For the Lake Geneva Fund LP and the Lake Geneva Offshore Fund LTD, (together
the funds will be known as the “Lake Geneva Fund”), Lake Geneva Long-Only Fund, L.P. (the
“Long Only Fund”), Pier 88’s investment strategy focuses on identifying strategic growth
companies and disruptive innovators, primarily in Technology with small- and medium-sized
capitalization. The strategy seeks to identify innovative assets which may be deemed strategic to
larger industry players. For the Pier 88 Growth Equity Fund I LP (the “Growth Equity Fund I”),
the Pier 88 Growth Equity Fund II LP (the “Growth Equity Fund II”), and the Pier 88 Growth
Equity Fund III LLC (the “Growth Equity Fund III”)
(together the funds will be known as the
“Growth Equity Funds”), the Pier 88 Ventures Enterprise Software Fund LP (the “Enterprise
Software Fund”), and the Andina-Pier 88 Innovation Fund LP (the “Andina Fund”), Pier 88
focuses on identifying venture capital investments. The Andina Fund has a sub-adviser, an
unaffiliated investment adviser, that provides Pier 88 with periodic consultative strategic support
to Pier 88 with respect to the management of the Fund’s portfolio and operations, and will have
primary responsibility for certain investor services functions and back-office matters with respect
to the fund. Jointly the funds are referred herein as the “Funds”. The Funds and Separate Accounts
will be known together as “Clients”.
Pier 88 also provides proprietary research data to a third-party company in exchange for a fixed
annual fee with a possibility of a discretionary bonus.
Please see Item 8 in this brochure for a more detailed description of the investment strategies
pursued by the Clients.
C. Client Tailored Services and Client Imposed Restrictions
Advisory services are tailored to achieve the Clients’ investment objectives. Advisory services are
not tailored to the individual needs of investors in the Funds. Generally, with respect to the Funds,
Pier 88 has the authority to select which and how many securities and other instruments to buy or
sell without consultation with the investors.
D. Wrap Fee Programs
Pier 88 does not participate in wrap-fee programs.
E. Amounts under Management
As of December 31, 2023, Pier 88 managed approximately $581,285,266 in regulatory assets
under management on a discretionary basis.