Alternative investment distribution platform brings national advisor reach and broker-dealer infrastructure to Capital Q® Business Development Company

MAITLAND, FL, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ —  Capital Q^® Ventures Inc. today announced the engagement of Peak Capital Solutions, an independent multi-product distribution platform specializing in alternative investments, to support the national distribution of Capital Q^® Business Development Company (“CAPQ BDC”).

The relationship significantly expands Capital Q’s distribution capabilities by bringing an experienced national organization focused on the alternative investment marketplace alongside the Capital Q team. Peak will support engagement with financial advisors, registered investment advisers and other investment professionals across its nationwide network.

Peak specializes in working with asset managers throughout the capital-raising process, providing distribution strategy, advisor engagement, training, research and ongoing consultation.

“For us, this is about putting the right infrastructure around the fund as we continue to grow,” said Michael “Q” Quatrini, Chairman and CEO of Capital Q^® Ventures. “We have spent years building the investment strategy, the portfolio and the track record behind CAPQ BDC. Bringing Peak alongside our internal team gives us a much broader ability to engage with financial professionals, educate advisors about our approach, support the diligence process and build relationships across the wealth management community.”

CAPQ BDC is a non-traded Business Development Company managed by Capital Q Management LLC. Capital Q applies its Full-Stack Venture Capital Fund^® strategy through a combination of venture capital, private credit and private equity investments, providing multiple forms of capital across the lifecycle of private companies. Capital Q’s stated investment objective for CAPQ BDC is to maximize total shareholder return through current-income distributions and realized capital gains across a balance of private-market investments.

The addition of Peak is part of Capital Q’s broader effort to build a more scalable national distribution and advisor-education infrastructure around CAPQ BDC. The relationship is expected to support advisor education, due diligence, research and ongoing communication designed to help investment professionals better understand the BDC structure and Capital Q’s multi-asset approach.

“Alternative investments require more than simply putting a product in front of an advisor,” said Brian L. Conneely, President and Founder of Peak Capital Solutions. “Advisors need to understand the strategy, the structure and how an investment may fit within a broader portfolio. The Business Development Company (BDC) Structure enables Capital Q to execute an investment strategy that is unique and has proved to be successful. We look forward to working with Capital Q to bring that education and support to financial professionals across our network.” Past performance is not indicative of future results.

For Capital Q^® Ventures, the relationship represents an important next step in expanding the institutional and distribution infrastructure supporting CAPQ BDC and broadening the firm’s engagement with advisors and investment professionals across the country.

About Peak Capital Solutions
Founded in 2021, Peak Capital Solutions, LLC specializes in the distribution of Alternative Investments as an Independent Multi-Product Distribution Platform working with asset managers from product design through a successful capital raise. Peak has built out a platform that includes a full range of Alternative Investment Offerings accessible to investors through Financial Advisors across the country.

Securities offered through Orchard Securities, LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. CAF Companies is not affiliated with Orchard Securities, LLC.

About Capital Q^® Ventures
Founded in 2017, Capital Q^® Ventures Inc. is a Florida-based alternative investment manager specializing in venture capital, private equity and private credit. Through its investment platforms, Capital Q provides flexible capital and strategic support to emerging and growth-stage companies, pairing investment capital with hands-on operational support through Capital Q^® Velocity. Capital Q is headquartered in Maitland, Florida.

No Offer or Solicitation
This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any security.

Media Contact
Jessica Belvedere
Director of Marketing
Capital Q^® Ventures
jbelvedere@capitalqventures.com

The BDC structure through Capital Q’s multi-asset investment model

September 2026  |  Educational overview

This guide explains the BDC as a regulated investment structure and then follows Capital Q’s Full-Stack Venture Capital Fund® investment thesis through venture capital, private credit, private equity, and Significant Managerial Assistance. It is written for readers who want to understand how a multi-asset BDC can finance entrepreneurs, how shareholders may earn or lose money, and which legal and practical limits shape the model.

The sections move from the company receiving capital to the shareholder owning BDC shares. General rules apply to BDCs as a class. References to Capital Q describe its investment thesis; they do not replace the current terms of CAPQ BDC’s offering documents.

View Resource: What is a BDC – Educational Overview

Educational material prepared by Capital Q Ventures Inc. This document is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities, investment advice, or a substitute for current offering documents. It does not state the terms of any particular offering.

The Alternatives Question Has Changed: Is Your Portfolio Keeping Up?

For much of the last decade, the conversation around alternative investments and diversified private markets followed a familiar script for financial advisors and their clients.

That script is changing.

According to iCapital’s June 2026 private markets report, private wealth clients are increasingly looking beyond standalone private credit toward diversified exposure across private equity, infrastructure and growth strategies. The shift points to a broader evolution in how advisors and investors are thinking about private market portfolio allocation.

The question is becoming less about whether alternatives belong in a portfolio and more about how different private market strategies can work together.

Why the Alternatives Conversation Is Changing

The shift is being driven by more than market performance alone. It reflects a broader evolution in how advisors and investors approach private markets.

For years, private credit was often an entry point into alternative investments. The appeal was relatively straightforward: income potential, lower correlation to public markets and an understandable investment proposition.

As private markets have become more accessible, however, investors have begun looking beyond individual strategies toward the role a broader private markets allocation can play within a portfolio.

At the same time, concentration in public markets has reinforced the search for diversification. When a relatively small group of companies accounts for a significant share of market returns, advisors may begin asking whether traditional allocations alone provide sufficient exposure to different sources of growth and risk.

Perhaps most importantly, the investor base itself has matured. High-net-worth investors and the RIAs who serve them are increasingly familiar with private markets.

The conversation is no longer simply:

What is private equity or private credit?

It is increasingly:

How do different private market strategies work together, what role does each serve, and how might they fit within a broader portfolio?

From a Single Alternative Strategy to Diversified Private Markets

The shift described by iCapital is more than a flow story.

It is a portfolio construction story.

A diversified private markets allocation can incorporate strategies serving different purposes:

• Private equity for growth and value creation
• Private credit for income generation
• Infrastructure and other private-market strategies for additional sources of diversification and return potential

Rather than treating each as an isolated allocation, advisors can evaluate how different strategies interact within the overall portfolio.

That represents a more sophisticated mandate than many single-strategy alternative investment vehicles were originally designed to fulfill.

Where Capital Q® Ventures Fits Into the Private Markets Conversation

The trend raises an important question for advisors:

What should diversified private markets exposure actually look like?

At Capital Q® Ventures, that question informed the development of CAPQ BDC from the beginning.

Rather than concentrating on a single segment of the private markets landscape, the strategy was designed to provide exposure across venture capital, private equity and private credit within one portfolio.

Each serves a different purpose within Capital Q’s Full-Stack Venture Capital Fund® approach: venture capital provides exposure to emerging and growth-stage companies with equity appreciation potential; private equity provides opportunities for ownership and value creation; and private credit is intended to contribute current income.

Together, the strategies are designed to provide multiple potential sources of return within a single private-markets portfolio.

Whether the broader industry shift continues remains to be seen. However, advisors are increasingly evaluating alternatives not simply as standalone sleeves, but as components of a broader private-markets allocation designed to consider income generation, growth potential and diversification.

What RIAs and Wealth Advisors Should Ask About Alternative Investments

For RIAs and wealth advisors revisiting alternative investment allocations, the right questions extend beyond yield or expected return.

They include structural considerations:

Does the current alternatives allocation provide exposure to multiple private-market strategies—or primarily one?

What role is each strategy intended to serve within the broader portfolio?

Is the investment vehicle designed for patient capital, and how does its liquidity structure operate?

How are portfolio risks distributed across investments and strategies?

How are private investments valued?

What tax reporting and administrative requirements will the investment create for the advisor and client?

These questions can help move the conversation from simply owning alternatives toward understanding why each alternative investment belongs in the portfolio.

The Next Phase of Private Market Investing

The alternative investment landscape continues to evolve as private wealth investors gain greater access to strategies that historically were more heavily utilized by institutional investors.

For advisors, that makes due diligence and portfolio construction increasingly important.

The question is no longer simply:

“Should my clients have exposure to alternatives?”

The more useful question may be:

“What do we own, what role is each strategy intended to serve, and how do those strategies work together?”

That is a very different alternatives conversation.

And it may be the more important one.