General Description of Brown Advisory 
Brown Advisory Investment Solutions Group  LLC  (“BAISG”  and,  together with its relying 
adviser, NextGen Venture Partners, LLC (“NGVP”), the “firm” or “we”) is an investment adviser 
specializing in alternative investments. BAISG  was founded in 2002 and is a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC (“BAM”). BAM is a wholly-owned subsidiary 
of Brown Advisory Group Holdings, LLC (“BAGH”). The managing member of BAM is Brown 
Advisory Incorporated, a Maryland corporation (“BAI”).  
Advisory Services  
BAISG offers the following advisory services: 1) discretionary or non-discretionary investment 
advisory services  to  BAISG-sponsored  private funds, and 2) non-discretionary  investment 
advisory services to individuals and institutions. BAISG’s advisory services are generally limited 
to alternative investments. However, from time to time, the firm also provides non-discretionary 
asset allocation recommendations  to clients seeking recommendations on both alternative and 
traditional investment portfolios. 
Private Funds 
The firm offers investment advice to  a variety of single-strategy, multi-strategy and direct 
investment private funds sponsored by BAISG. The firm provides discretionary advice to broad 
multi-strategy funds covering many asset classes and investment approaches, and focused multi-
strategy funds based on specific investment approaches (private equity, venture capital, private 
credit, real estate, global macro strategies, event-driven strategies, etc.). It offers non-discretionary 
investment advice to single-strategy funds that invest in a portfolio company or with a specific 
private equity or hedge fund manager.  
The firm’s principals leverage their expertise in alternative investments to build funds, including 
fund-of-funds, focused on managers and portfolio companies within the private equity, private 
credit, private real estate, venture capital and hedge fund universes.   
In its fund-of-funds business, BAISG focuses on investing with established managers and firms. 
Most  multi-strategy  funds  are relatively concentrated  and invest in what BAISG views  as top 
investment managers and ideas. The firm also offers venture capital funds that provide direct 
investments in early-stage companies. For certain of these investments, we leverage a network of 
relationships to help us develop insight into industry sectors and companies in which we invest. 
Individual and Institutional Clients 
The firm also offers investment advice to individual and institutional clients in the form of asset 
allocation and portfolio construction recommendations as well as recommendations regarding 
specific investment managers. From time to time, the firm also provides certain clients with non-
advisory services, such as reporting on private equity holdings, providing administrative services 
to certain fund clients, such as accounting and tax reporting, and providing due diligence reports 
and other information with respect to underlying funds and unaffiliated advisers. Engagements 
with clients are characterized by attention to individual client returns, volatility and downside 
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protection targets; portfolios focused on what the firm views as reputable managers in the industry; 
and  in-depth communication with clients about the strategies of those  managers, how those 
managers are performing and whether those managers’ ongoing portfolio decisions are consistent 
with their stated strategies. The firm strives to achieve efficient diversification of portfolios – for 
example, we seek to construct portfolios that are relatively concentrated among top-tier managers, 
but that include managers with relatively
                                        
                                        
                                             low performance correlation to each other, subject to the 
client’s objectives and available investment opportunities. We believe that this approach offers the 
potential for meaningful outperformance while maintaining moderate volatility and downside 
protection. 
 
Interests in BAISG’s private funds are privately offered only to eligible investors pursuant to 
exemptions available under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the 
regulations promulgated thereunder. Such investment vehicles are not registered with the SEC as 
investment companies based on specific exclusions from the Investment Company Act of 1940, as 
amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Therefore, investors in such funds are not subject to 
the protections afforded by regulation under  the Investment Company Act. Typically, interests in 
such investment vehicles are offered primarily to high net worth individuals  as well as to 
institutional investors. Employees of BAISG and its affiliates may invest alongside other investors 
and advisory clients. Other qualified individuals who may not be employees or advisory clients of 
BAISG or another Brown Advisory entity, but who have pre-existing business relationships with 
the firm or its affiliates or industry expertise in the sector in which a fund may be investing, also 
may participate alongside other investors.  
Tailored Advice and Client-Imposed Restrictions 
Each  private fund sponsored by the firm has its own investment objectives, strategies  and 
restrictions.  Certain funds focus on a narrow investment strategy while others pursue a broad 
investment strategy.  BAISG prepares offering materials with respect to each fund that contain 
more detailed information, typically  including a description of the investment objective and 
strategy or strategies employed and any related restrictions.   
These offering materials serve as a limitation on the scope of BAISG’s investment management 
of the fund. Separate account clients can also impose restrictions on the firm’s management of 
individual accounts through documents that set forth the investment program for the client. While 
separate accounts may be reasonably tailored based on the individual needs of a client, as agreed 
to with BAISG, none of the funds are tailored to meet the individualized investment needs of any 
particular investor. Furthermore, an investment in a fund does not create a client-adviser 
relationship between BAISG and an investor. Further discussion of the strategies, investments and 
risks associated with a fund or separate account management is included in the relevant materials 
for each type of client. 
Clients and investors must consider whether an investment in a particular fund or establishing an 
advisory relationship with BAISG is appropriate to their own circumstances based on all relevant 
factors including, but not limited to, the client’s or investor’s own investment objectives, liquidity 
requirements, tax situation and risk tolerance. Prospective clients and investors are strongly 
encouraged to undertake appropriate due diligence, including but not limited to a review of 
relevant offering materials for the funds or the documents relating to the proposed investment 
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program for the separate account and the additional details about the firm’s investment strategies, 
methods of analysis and related risks in Item 8 of this Brochure, before making an investment 
decision.  
Assets Under Management 
As of December 31, 2023 the firm had approximately $7.3 billion in assets under management. Of 
that total, approximately $3.5 billion represented discretionary assets and $3.8 billion represented 
non-discretionary assets.