Aries Lending Fund I

Aries Capital Partners does more than just provide capital. We build businesses through investment and deep expertise in strategy, finance, marketing, IT, and management.

Andrew Dent

Co-Founder & Partner

Richard Durham

Founder/Chairman

Jason Reading

Co-Founder & Partner

Jake Sant

Associate

15 past transactions

Clientbook

Venture Round in 2021
Clientbook is a mobile app created by Giftry to facilitate communication between retailers and their clients. By using Clientbook, retailers gain visibility and control over the customer experience, resulting in more store visits, better sales conversion rates, and higher average dollar sales. To learn more about how Clientbook can help your brick and mortar store, request a demo today.

Great Salt Lake Artemia

Venture Round in 2008
Great Salt Lake Artemia is the premier producer of high quality artemia in the world. Its products are delivered via a worldwide distribution network, providing the very best on-demand, live feed for shrimp and fish larvae.

Aervivo

Venture Round in 2022
Aervivo's connectivity platform empowers our partners to deploy fiber grade, gigabit connectivity to serve SMB and residences across large parts of urban, suburban metro areas as well as and rural towns at a fraction of the cost of deploying fiber to the home or premise.

Nav

Series C in 2019
Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

Carputty

Seed Round in 2021
Carputty is a consumer automotive startup that provides car loan services to its clients. The company's transparent and easy-to-use line of credit puts the customer in the driver’s seat, while its proprietary, predictive valuation tool knows the perfect time to buy and sell and teaches owners to see their vehicle as an asset. Carputty was founded by Patrick Bayliss and Joshua Tatum in 2020.

Acima

Venture Round in 2015
Acima’s proprietary technology LTO-driven point-of-sale solution is designed to be a fast and easy solution for both merchants and consumers while its online decision engine provides merchant partners and retail customers with an automatic approval decision within a matter of seconds.

Ambre Industries LLC

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Ambre Industries LLC manufactures and markets jewelry from waste material. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Nav

Private Placement in 2018
Nav is a free site and app that gives business owners the fastest, easiest and most trusted path to financing. The leading Business Financial Management app, Nav gives free access to personal and business credit reports from major consumer and commercial credit bureaus including Experian, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax and TransUnion, and hosts a robust marketplace with more than 100 business financing products including loans and credit cards. The marketplace uses a unique, lender-neutral approach to help business owners find the best financing options for their needs. Nav's solution is also leveraged by other business service providers to enhance their customer experience.

TaskEasy

Series A in 2014
TaskEasy, Inc. makes exterior maintenance as easy as shopping online. With the click of a button, TaskEasy delivers services to customers like lawn mowing, and snow removal. As the first company to apply the services fulfillment model nationwide for home exterior maintenance and multi-site property management, TaskEasy’s proprietary platform establishes a fair market price and supports guaranteed, quality service for homeowners, property managers, and contractors.

Orthopedic Financial Services Group

Acquisition in 2013
OFSG is a financial services company that operates in the medical lien space.

Aervivo

Seed Round in 2021
Aervivo's connectivity platform empowers our partners to deploy fiber grade, gigabit connectivity to serve SMB and residences across large parts of urban, suburban metro areas as well as and rural towns at a fraction of the cost of deploying fiber to the home or premise.

Chatbooks

Series B in 2017
Each year, we collectively take 3 trillion photos on our phone—and most of those memories get lost in a digital abyss, never to see the light of day. Chatbooks is on a mission to make creating a photo book as easy as taking a picture. The $8 photo books, which automatically pull photos from your Instagram, Facebook, and Camera Roll via 5-Star iPhone and Android apps, are designed to tell the ongoing story of your life with zero effort: Over 100,000 users are actively subscribed to get new Chatbooks with every 60 photos they take, and will buy over 1 million books by the end of 2015. Today, our experiences and memories are more valuable than ever—and Chatbooks helps you hold on to what matters.

Banyan

Venture Round in 2018
Banyan is a digital marketing and patient engagement platform helping healthcare professionals humanize healthcare. It humanizes healthcare by connecting doctors with patients online through automated social media marketing, reviews, websites, and practice listings. Banyan’s HIPAA-compliant media consent app instantly posts patient photos to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Banyan’s review request tool streamlines the review invitation and tracking process. Personalized websites establish the credibility and caring culture of a practice. And Banyan’s listing service corrects Name, Address, and Phone information across 70+ web directories. In addition, Banyan provides success coaching that helps clients build strong brands, attract talent, strengthen SEO, and increase web traffic, new patient acquisition, and retention.

Aervivo

Venture Round in 2023
Aervivo's connectivity platform empowers our partners to deploy fiber grade, gigabit connectivity to serve SMB and residences across large parts of urban, suburban metro areas as well as and rural towns at a fraction of the cost of deploying fiber to the home or premise.