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Runway Growth Capital (Runway), a provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, has hired Jeff Goldrich as managing director, Technology.
Operating out of the Chicago office and reporting directly to Founder, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer, David Spreng, Goldrich will employ his sector expertise to originate top tier growth and late-stage investment opportunities. Goldrich’s goal is to support entrepreneurs and investors while expanding Runway’s footprint.
Goldrich’s experience covers dozens of relationships across a range of company sizes, stages, industry verticals, ownership structures, and transaction types.
Previously, Goldrich was
Monomoy Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm focused on operational value creation, has sold its portfolio company, Construction Resources Holdings (CR) to International Designs Group (IDG), a portfolio company of Mill Point Capital.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Construction Resources is a distributor of value-added building products in the Southeast, including surfaces, appliances and architectural specialty products. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with showrooms, surface galleries and design centres located regionally.
Monomoy initially acquired Constructions Resources and Builder Specialties to create the CR platform. Merging two family-owned and operated businesses that strategically fit together,
Meow, a compliant crypto yield offering for corporate treasuries, has closed a $22 million Series A financing led by Tiger Global, with participation from QED Investors, cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and others.
The funds will be used to support the company’s rapid growth with new hires and enhanced product features.
Meow provides institutional and corporate investors with a compliant-first approach to participating in emerging cryptocurrency investment opportunities. Since launching in early 2022 following seed financing from cryptocurrency industry leaders and investors, including Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund and Lux Capital, Meow’s offering has quickly been embraced by corporate treasury departments. In
Hogan Lovells has expanded its M&A year based in Boston with the appointments of Joe Basile and Zohar Nevo. Both join from Foley Hoag, where Basile, who joins as a senior advisor, was a partner and co-chair of that firm’s M&A practice group.
At Hogan Lovells, they reunite with their former Foley Hoag colleagues Alex Aber and Adrienne Ellman. Aber joined Hogan Lovells as an M&A partner in Boston in June, while Ellman joined the New York office of Hogan Lovells as an M&A partner in February. Both previously co-chaired the M&A practice at Foley Hoag with Basile.
Basile
Excellere Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm specialising in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams through recapitalisations and management buyouts, has promoted Matt Halverson to principal and Ryan Revolinski to senior associate.
Halverson joined Excellere in 2014 and has been a key deal team member on AIS Healthcare, SCA Pharma, and Mentis Neuro Health prior to its sale. In addition, he has helped lead Excellere’s origination efforts in the medical products sector as well as made significant contributions to the firm’s value creation tools and processes.
Revolinski joined Excellere in 2020 and is an active team member on portfolio companies
An affiliate of funds advised by SK Capital Partners (SK Capital) is to sell NuCera Solutions (NuCera) to Chase Corporation, a manufacturer of protective materials for high reliability applications for $250 million.
Formed through the carve-out of Baker Hughes’ specialty polymer business, NuCera is a specialist in the production and development of high-end polymer technologies and polymerisation methods serving demanding applications. NuCera differentiates itself with a broad portfolio of approximately 120 functional polyethylene and specialty polymers that serve as mission critical performance additives to customers worldwide. The Company operates globally with headquarters in Houston, Texas, a primary production facility in
Ceros Financial Services’ investment banking division, Ceros Capital Markets, has completed an approximately $15 million Series A round for GT Metabolic Solutions, which has developed minimally-invasive incisionless bypass technology for bariatric, metabolic and digestive surgery.
The company will use the funding to complete initial clinical trials for its incisionless Duodenal Ilial Bypass anastomosis for bariatric and metabolic surgery.
GT Metabolic’s technology enables incisionless bariatric surgery and involves no cutting, no suturing and no permanent implant, enabling these procedures to move to the outpatient surgical setting. The platform works by creating a delayed anastamosis, a technique that involves the use
Affiliates of Cantor Fitzgerald have launched the Cantor Fitzgerald Sustainable Infrastructure Fund, a closed-end interval fund seeking to strategically invest in a portfolio of private institutional infrastructure investment funds and public infrastructure securities focused on three infrastructure megatrends including digital transformation, decarbonisation and the improvement and modernisation of ageing infrastructure.
A primary focus for the fund will be to invest in issuers that are helping to address certain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through their products and services.
Interval funds can provide exposure to private investment opportunities typically available only to institutional investors. As a result, individual investors may gain
Vida Capital (Vida), a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners, has appointed David Shapiro as a managing director. He will be based in New York and report to David Gussmann, senior managing director.
In this role, Shapiro will be responsible for continuing to grow Vida’s alternative asset strategies across the capital spectrum and asset types.
Shapiro joins Vida from Monarch Alternative Capital, a special situations hedge fund, where he was a vice president focused on investments in financials, structured credit, and real estate across the capital structure in both the United States and Europe. At
American Elm Distribution Partners (American Elm), a managing broker dealer offering retail distribution and compliance services to alternative funds, has partnered with Phoenix American Financial Services (Phoenix American), a fund administrator offering outsourced back office, fund accounting and investor services, to offer a turnkey solution for alternative investment managers looking to enter the retail investor marketplace.
American Elm is a relationship-driven investment management firm doing business as a managing broker dealer to enhance outcomes for client funds. Leveraging strategic partnerships, seasoned distribution professionals and a unique approach, the company has developed a fundraising and investment model exclusive to the firm.
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