BlackRock

BlackRock, established in 1988, is a global investment management corporation headquartered in New York City. It offers a wide range of services, including investment management, financial technology, and advisory services, catering to diverse clients such as institutions, intermediaries, and individual investors. BlackRock's investment focus spans multiple asset classes, strategies, sectors, and regions. Its private equity arm, BlackRock Private Equity Partners, founded in 1999, specializes in direct investments and fund of fund investments across various stages and sectors, with a global investment scope.

Joseph Acevedo

Managing Director

Joseph Auriemma

Managing Director, Private Equity

Cailey Barker

Portfolio Manager and Director, Natural Resources and Thematic

James Berner

Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners

Paul Braude

Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer and Head, Direct Private Opportunities

Joseph Chalom

Managing Director and Head of Strategic Ecosystem Partnerships

Al DeFurianni

Vice President

Antonio DeSpirito

Managing Director and Global Co-Chief Investment Officer, US Fundamental Equities

Audrey Delorenzo

Vice President

Michael Dennis

Managing Director and Head of Alternatives Strategy and Capital Markets

Sean Dunne

Managing Director

Tim Fenwick

Director

David Giordano

Managing Director and Global Head of Climate Infrastructure

Raja Hussain

Director

Robert S. Kapito

President and Director

Tony Kim

Managing Director and Head of the Global Technology Team

Michael Leitner

Managing Director, Co-head of US Direct Lending and Special Situations

Courtney Lynfield

Vice President, Long Term Private Capital Product Strategy

Keith Mangan

Managing Director, Renewable Power

Nathalie von Niederhausern

Managing Director and Head of EMEA for Private Equity Partners

Persefoni Noulika

Director

Charlie Reid

Managing Director

Jean-Christophe Rey

Managing Director and Head of Private Credit, Alternative Specialists (EMEA)

Spencer Rhodes

Managing Director, Private Markets at BlackRock

Ladell Robbins

Managing Director, Alternative Investors

Jeffrey Rosenberg

Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, Systematic Fixed Income

Neeraj Seth

Chief Investment Officer and Head of Asia pacific Fundamental Fixed Income

Scott Snell

Co-head of the US CLO business and Director

Aarthi Sowrirajan

Managing Director and Co-Head of Portfolio Management for BlackRock Impact Opportunities

Paul Taylor

Venture Partner

Martin Torres

Managing Director and Head of the Americas for the Renewable Power Group

Marten Vading

Managing Director

Guillaume Vandewalle

Director Infrastructure Debt EMEA

Zachary Viders

Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Global Credit Opportunities

Celia Yan

Managing Director and Head of APAC Private Credit

Yan Yang

Managing Director

Past deals in Telecommunications

Flō Networks

Debt Financing in 2025
Flō Networks offers business connectivity, cloud, security, and encryption solutions. They also provide secure cloud connectivity, enterprise WAN, private network, voice for business, and managed firewall solutions. They communicated through their solutions and customer service.

Flō Networks

Private Equity Round in 2025
Flō Networks offers business connectivity, cloud, security, and encryption solutions. They also provide secure cloud connectivity, enterprise WAN, private network, voice for business, and managed firewall solutions. They communicated through their solutions and customer service.

Phoenix Tower International

Private Equity Round in 2024
Phoenix Tower International LLC is a telecommunications company based in Boca Raton, Florida, specializing in the ownership and operation of wireless infrastructure sites. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on expanding its presence in Central and South America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe. It operates a network of towers and related wireless infrastructure, providing essential services to a diverse range of clients, including tower and real estate owners, developers, landlords, and communities. Phoenix Tower International is dedicated to facilitating the growth and enhancement of wireless networks by offering efficient and cost-effective solutions to its partners and customers.

HawkEye 360

Series D in 2023
HawkEye 360, Inc. is a data analytics company specializing in radio frequency (RF) mapping through its commercial satellite constellation. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, the company focuses on identifying, processing, and geolocating a wide range of RF signals. Its offerings include maritime domain awareness and spectrum mapping and monitoring, which are crucial for tracking global transportation networks and supporting emergency response efforts. By leveraging satellite tracking technology, HawkEye 360 provides clients in sectors such as maritime, intelligence, and telecommunications with analytical products designed to address complex challenges. The company has established a strategic partnership with Ursa to enhance its capabilities in RF data analytics.

Gogo

Post in 2022
Gogo is an inflight internet company that provides broadband connectivity products and services for aviation. It gives air travelers the freedom to be entertained or work more productively, connect aircrews in new ways for better service and safer operations, and employ innovative technologies to talk to the airplanes themselves to deliver higher performance and cost savings. It was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

IDnow

Debt Financing in 2022
IDnow is a Munich-based company that specializes in identity verification technologies through its Identity-as-a-Service platform. Founded in 2014, IDnow employs advanced machine-learning techniques to offer real-time identity verification and electronic signing solutions, ensuring legal security and high data protection standards across Europe. Its services are tailored for business clients, including banks, telecommunications companies, and fintech firms, facilitating online customer identification and contract conclusion without the need for additional hardware. The platform allows users to verify their identities conveniently using smartphones, tablets, or webcams. IDnow's client roster features prominent organizations such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26, highlighting its role as a key player in the identity verification sector.

KORE Wireless Group

Post in 2021
KORE Wireless Group specializes in providing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and machine-to-machine (M2M) network services, enabling global connectivity through various technologies, including GSM, CDMA, and satellite. The company supports application solution providers and enterprises with a comprehensive business management platform that integrates multiple network services into a single interface. KORE offers a range of services, including connectivity, location-based services, device solutions, and managed and professional services, facilitating the deployment and scaling of IoT applications. The majority of its revenue is generated from IoT connectivity services and solutions, with a significant portion coming from the United States and additional revenue from international markets.

Airtel

Post in 2021
Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the "airtel" brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore.

Access TeleCare

Post in 2020
Access TeleCare is a provider of acute care telemedicine services designed for hospitals, health systems, post-acute providers, and physician networks. The company specializes in a range of telehealth services, including telecardiology, teleneurology, telepsychiatry, telepulmonology, telehospitalists, teleinfectious disease, and telematernal fetal medicine. By leveraging advanced technology, Access TeleCare facilitates virtual patient care, allowing healthcare organizations to develop and sustain telemedicine programs across various clinical specialties. The company's model supports healthcare providers in enhancing patient access to specialized care while maintaining quality and efficiency in service delivery.

Credo Semiconductor

Series D in 2020
Credo Semiconductor, Inc. specializes in mixed-signal semiconductor solutions targeting data centers, enterprise networking, and high-performance computing markets. The company offers Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) intellectual property and interconnect solutions designed to scale bandwidth and ensure signal integrity for next-generation platforms, supporting connectivity rates of 25G, 50G, and 100G. Additionally, Credo provides line card solutions, including retimers and gearboxes, as well as optical DSP solutions for high-capacity optical interconnects in cloud-scale and hyperscale data center expansions, with a focus on 50G to 400G PAM4 optical modules. The company also develops HiWire active electrical cables for data center applications and SerDes IP and chiplets suitable for custom switch fabric, artificial intelligence, or high-performance computing ASIC applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Credo has expanded its presence with offices in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Japan.

SmartSky Networks

Debt Financing in 2019
SmartSky Networks, LLC is a provider of air-to-ground broadband connectivity solutions for business and commercial aviation. The company develops innovative communication systems that utilize a 4G LTE network, combined with elements of 5G technology, to deliver high-performance connectivity for aircraft. With 60 MHz of spectrum, SmartSky's network offers real-time, low-latency, bidirectional data transmission, enabling an in-flight experience comparable to ground-based connectivity. This capability supports a wide range of applications and services for passengers and crew. Founded in 2011 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, SmartSky Networks was previously known as Jetpool Ventures, LLC, and has established a strategic partnership with Avidyne Corporation to enhance its offerings in the aviation sector.
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