ABOUT THE FARM PROGRAM
What is the Farm Program?
We will accelerate your career by eight to ten years in only three to four years. We provide young professionals with the opportunity for 7-figures in fees and equity based on performance, rather than adhering to arbitrary timelines. We empower young professionals with responsibility, experience across multiple verticals, and direct mentorship.
About de Anda Capital
de Anda Capital is an independent sponsor and family office with over 140 deals and over 3 billion USD in investor value creation. We are based in Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York. Our main office is located in New York City.
We acquire, operate and consolidate businesses in property management and real estate services. We work across several verticals, including property management, payroll and payments, decarbonization, manufacturing, and lending and financing.
- Property management
- Payroll and payments
- Decarbonization
- Manufacturing
- Lending and financing
Why choose de Anda Capital?
de Anda Capital offers candidates early professional experiences that large, bureaucratic institutions are simply not structured to provide. We carefully consider the ways we can help you expand your professional breadth and value through certifications in meaningful skills, plenty of one-on-one support, and opportunities to work across different fields.
Leadership
- 25+ years
- in investing
- 140+
- transactions completed
- Stanford GSB
- MBA
Michael de Anda is the founder and Managing Partner of de Anda Capital.
He has over twenty-five years of experience in investing, standing at the forefront of the search fund model.
Michael graduated from DePaul University before earning his MBA at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Michael is part owner of the Golden State Warriors and Leeds United. Over the course of his career, he has completed over 140 transactions. His deal experience spans a range of industries, with a specific focus in the purchase and growth of traditional assets that creates increased liquidity for small business owners.
Through the Farm Program, you work your way to Partner eight years earlier than at traditional firms
On the traditional private equity path, most professionals reach partner in 10–12+ years. Through the Farm Program, you can become a Junior Venture Partner in about two to three.
Traditional path
10–12+ years
Banking
PE associate
VP
Principal
Partner
We can get you there 8 years sooner.
Farm Program
Approximately 3 years to Junior Venture Partner
Analyst track
Junior Venture Partner
What the first two to three years look like
(01)
Extended interview period
Unpaid
2–4 weeks (for MBA Candidates)
(02)
Junior analyst
$3K/month
6–9 months
(03)
Analyst
$8K/month
6 months
(04)
Senior analyst
Six figures
12–18 months
(05)
Junior venture partner
Seven figures (target)
2–3 years
Please note, the above timelines are not set, and candidates have progressed more quickly than above.
The modern independent sponsor
We fund our search for traditional businesses by consulting in those industries, then acquire and operate a platform company to consolidate. We repeat this cycle across multiple theses at once through the disciplined and flexible use of talent. These consulting motions create lower-stakes work that serves as a pipeline into our higher-stakes work. This is how we train you while empowering you to learn, creating space for mistakes, and propelling your growth.
We choose a traditional industry as one of our points of focus, run a search, and then acquire a platform to consolidate.
What you get
The Farm Program is built to compress one decade of private equity work into a much shorter timeline. Here is how we will support you
Apply to the Farm ProgramA faster path to partner
You can reach junior venture partner in about three years, instead of the ten to twelve it takes on the traditional private equity path. Your title and pay rise at every stage along the way.
~3 yrsto junior venture partnerLearning at velocity
You work on live deals from your first weeks. Our lower-stakes consulting work gives you more reps at a faster rate than a traditional firm.
8 WeeksYou will recieve several certifications during your first weeks with de Anda CapitalOne-on-one attention from our team
Our analysts spend hours teaching you the models, tools, and diligence work they use every day. We invest approximately $25,000 of labor in every single Farm Program candidate.
~$25Kof our own labour invested in every hireClose work with our partners
You work directly with our partners. You get hands on experience throughout the entire process.
140+deals of partner experience to learn from
The FP&A Roadmap
What you will be certified in by our FP&A team at each stage of the Farm Program
- Week 2
Foundations of FP&A
- Master your understanding of P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements and how they connect.
- Gain a deep understanding into the mechanisms determining how property management companies earn money.
- Work keyboard-first in Excel.
- Week 4
Building excellent models
- Build a driver-based model from a raw ledger export.
- Normalize EBITDA and test every seller adjustment.
- Run a sensitivity without breaking the file.
- Build your own checks, explain variance to plan, and carry your part of the monthly close.
- Week 8
Owning a workbook
- Own a workbook end-to-end.
- Produce the monthly pack unprompted.
- Build a valuation that absorbs changed assumptions and defend your reasoning thoroughly.
- 6-9 months (MBA candidates work as Junior Analysts until graduation)
Junior Analyst
- Own ledger maintenance and the monthly close against plan.
- Pull and clean a property management system or accounting export unsupervised.
- Build first-pass models and schedules under review.
- Learn when and how to challenge the assumptions set by your coworkers.
- 6 months
Analyst
Owning a deal from end-to-end- Own a deal model end-to-end; this includes everything between the seller financials to the returns page.
- Run a quality of earnings assessment.
- Own a diligence workstream.
- Train new Junior Analysts and Interns.
- Communicate efficiently and effectively across our key stakeholders.
- 2-3 years
Senior Analyst
- Run multiple models and set assumptions.
- Produce investor-facing material that holds true under intense scrutiny.
- Review models for concealed errors.
- Train analysts in higher-level FP&A work.
The Sales Roadmap
What you will be certified in by our Sales team at each stage of the Farm Program.
- Week 2
Foundations of sales
- Gain a deep understanding of our ideal customer profile (ICP) and how to approach prospects.
- Learn what makes an effective cold call through intensive, hands-on experience.
- Run enrichment sequences with Clay and Apify.
- Learning how to effectively report sales metrics.
- Close one deal within the first two weeks.
- Week 4
Running your first campaigns
- Best practices to most effectively retarget and retouch prospects.
- Run enrichment into Instantly and launch a level-one email and cold-outreach campaign on your own, or with little support.
- Practice optimizing through a unit-economics framework.
- Week 8
Owning outbound
- Run a full level-two campaign independently across emails and qualified leads.
- Cold call and run outbound, with minimal support and guidance.
- Best practices to lead a meeting and speaking with clients.
- Career path
Junior Analyst
Full-stack demand generation- Scrape, enrich, and run the full stack across HeyReach, Instantly, Close, Clay, Apify, and ScaledMail.
- Generate revenue, with the amount depending on the motion.
- Close your first deal, providing guidance while you gain end-to-end experience.
- Career path
Analyst
Automating and teaching- Learn the nuances of retargeting and retouching automation.
- Coordinate multi-touch outreach.
- Train Interns and Junior Analysts in demand generation and sales.
- Career path
Senior Analyst
Running the motion- Proficiently run multiple funnels, take meetings and close them independently, and train analysts.
- Own motion-specific KPIs.
- Work closely with clients throughout deals.
Who are you?
We emphasize the power of potential through these five qualities:
Adaptability
You reorient quickly when structures, operators, or problem types change.
Learnability
You can pick up new frameworks and skills fast.
Trainability
You carry skills across domains and apply instruction.
Information retention
The information that you are told sticks with you across projects and time.
Motivation
You set your own benchmarks and own difficult thinking. You want to grow.
What our current Farm Program class has already accomplished
We trained and mentored our analysts so they could accomplish the following:
Student housing operator diligenced across college markets.
10 leads → 2 LOIs
Internal origination funnel built from scratch.
A roll-up
First acquisition of a property management roll-up.
Sales strategy
Consulting projects across proptech, healthtech, and fintech.
Quality of earnings
Financial diligence and operational analysis on active targets.
"I started in September, 2025 as an FP&A Intern. I started off building financial models for our property management thesis, and was also trained through consulting for our clients. One year later, with de Anda's support, I've learned to own the entire FP&A function. Now, my work ranges from building valuation models to doing financial diligence for our deals."