Aurora Investment Managers

Roxanne Martino, the founder, serves as CEO and CIO and leads the investment committee. Scott Schweighauser is President and also serves on the committee. Operational due diligence and investment sourcing are conducted by a team of approximately 50 professionals.

Aurora is a registered investment adviser operating as a traditional institutional asset manager, not a family office. The firm is owned by its senior partners and manages capital exclusively for external institutional clients such as public pensions, endowments, and foundations.

Aurora manages both. The firm's core offering is fund-of-funds across private equity and venture capital, but it has a material co-investment program that writes direct equity checks alongside the general partners it backs. The firm also manages separate accounts for large clients.

Aurora invests across four broad alternative asset classes: private equity (including buyout, growth equity, and venture capital), private credit (including mezzanine and direct lending), real estate (core-plus and value-add), and select special-situations strategies. The firm's primary geography is the United States, with selective developed-market international exposure.

Aurora sources fund investments through the deep relationships its investment team has built with general partners over three decades of operation. The firm typically receives allocations in oversubscribed funds because it has historically been a reliable, long-term limited partner. Its mid-sized institutional client base often gains access to funds that would be closed to individual institutions of their size without Aurora's aggregation model.