Alternative Wealth Partners

Alternative Wealth Partners

Alternative Wealth Partners was founded by Kelly Ann Winget, an operator who cut her teeth in an entrepreneurial oil-and-gas family and went on to help raise nearly $1 billion in private capital across more than 250 deals. She shaped the firm for investors who built their own wealth or inherited it without the institutional relationships that traditionally gate private markets — a constituency she believes has been structurally underserved. AWP structures its funds to span buyout, growth equity, venture, and co-investment opportunities, reserving capacity for complex situations and succession-driven transactions. The firm targets essential-business verticals — industrials, energy and infrastructure assets, and select technology companies — rather than chasing headline venture rounds. Its geographic reach concentrates on the US, with an operating footprint that reflects Winget's background in construction, energy, and capital-raising for venture-backed companies. Specific portfolio names are not disclosed publicly, but the firm's materials emphasize diversified exposure across privately held companies powering the real economy. The firm lists eight professionals on its website, including a core leadership layer of COO Nicole Greene, CFO Webb Stickney, CTO Drew Winget, and Chief Growth Officer Addie Gundry, all bearing strategic-advisor titles alongside functional roles. AWP does not publish an AUM figure or aggregate deployment number, and it does not disclose a separate affiliated foundation or wealth-management vehicle. Its investor base is explicitly wired toward accredited individuals starting at $250,000 allocations rather than institutional LPs — a posture that narrows its perceived peer set to a small number of access-oriented private-equity managers. What distinguishes AWP structurally is its deliberate bundling of investor education with fund access. The firm runs a public newsletter and explicitly markets itself to next-generation and self-made accredited investors who may lack the private-market fluency of multi-generational wealth holders — a parallel to the membership-model education layers used by a handful of direct-investing platforms, but embedded within a GP-led fund structure rather than a club or marketplace.