Avanto Partners
Avanto Partners LP (“Avanto”) is a Dallas-Fort Worth-based investment manager that launched on January 3, 2023. Avanto’s objective is to generate attractive absolute returns for its investors while holding an uncompromising focus on capital preservation. Avanto uses creative idea generation, extensive fundamental and primary research, and a long-term investment horizon to construct a concentrated portfolio of ~10-25 high-conviction, long and short equity positions. Avanto searches for investment opportunities globally and across sectors, focusing on businesses that are i) small- and mid-cap, ii) underfollowed by the market, iii) undergoing internal structural or strategic changes, and/or iv) impacted by extraneous themes that may have a lasting impact on the business’s growth prospects or unit economics.
Tom Cosper
Founder & Managing Partner
Tom Cosper is the Founder and Managing Partner of Avanto Partners. Most recently, Tom spent four years as Partner and Managing Director at Bayberry Capital Partners LP, a concentrated, global long/short equity fund manager with $500mm in AUM. Tom played a key role in Bayberry’s launch, the formation and development of its research process, and the buildout of the investment team and portfolio.
Prior to Bayberry, Tom worked as a Senior Analyst with Sonoma Capital, a single-family office hedge fund firm, where he led the firm’s value-oriented public equities team. Prior to Sonoma, Tom was an Analyst with Seawall Capital, a concentrated absolute return high-yield manager. Tom began his career in the investment banking division of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and subsequently became an Analyst for Moelis & Company’s homebuilding M&A and restructuring advisory team.
Tom holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Finance from Michigan State University.
