East West Bank

East West Bank is a subsidiary of East West Bancorp, a publicly owned company with $22 billion in assets. As one of the largest independent commercial banks headquartered in California, East West Bank operates over 130 locations worldwide, including key U.S. markets such as California, New York, Georgia, Massachusetts, Texas, and Washington. In addition to its strong presence in the U.S., East West Bank has established itself in Greater China with a full-service branch in Hong Kong and representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Taipei. Through a subsidiary bank, East West Bank also operates full-service branches in Shanghai and Shantou, along with representative offices in Beijing and Guangzhou.

Catherine Zhou

EVP and Head of Consumer Banking

36 past transactions

Spearmint Energy

Debt Financing in 2025
Spearmint Energy is a merchant trading company focused on developing, owning, and operating Battery Energy Storage, Solar, and Wind projects. Its core business involves trading these renewable energy sources to stabilize the power grid, enhance its resilience, and decrease carbon emissions efficiently and responsibly.

Granite Comfort

Debt Financing in 2024
Granite Comfort, founded in 2018 by Alex Black in partnership with Tiger Infrastructure Partners, focuses on investing in and collaborating with established HVAC contractors throughout the United States. The company aims to enhance the business models of its partner contractors by introducing a rental offering to their existing home comfort solutions. This strategic addition creates a distinctive selling proposition that has demonstrated the ability to drive accelerated and more predictable growth for the businesses involved. Granite Comfort actively seeks to acquire and consolidate regional providers of residential heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, thereby strengthening its position in the HVAC market.

Drip Capital

Debt Financing in 2024
Drip Capital Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in cross-border trade, particularly in developing markets. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Mumbai, India, Drip Capital offers a range of trade finance products, including invoice factoring, export finance, and receivables factoring. The company utilizes an automated risk assessment model to facilitate quick and hassle-free access to financing, thus streamlining the borrowing process for its clients. Drip Capital's platform leverages multiple data sources for underwriting transactions, enabling SMEs to obtain collateral-free loans and lines of credit to support their working capital needs. The team comprises experienced professionals from prestigious institutions, and the company is supported by notable investors from Silicon Valley.

iLearningEngines

Post in 2024
iLearningEngines is a Learning as a Service platform designed for enterprises to enhance mission-critical behaviors through innovative training solutions. The company offers a credits-based Learning Management System (LMS) and a Collaborative Engine that reshapes how organizations manage compliance and training initiatives. iLearningEngines empowers clients to transform their institutional knowledge into actionable intellectual property, facilitating improved outcomes for employees and stakeholders. By creating intelligent Knowledge Clouds that integrate structured and unstructured information from various systems, the platform automates processes that boost organizational performance. Clients utilizing iLearningEngines' technology have successfully highlighted their training advancements as a competitive advantage, demonstrating the company's commitment to driving measurable results in learning and development.

Cineverse

Post in 2024
Cineverse is a technology company specializing in streaming platforms. It offers delivery for various formats like fast, vod, podcasts, theatrical, and physical media. Cineverse creates and captures VR experiences, films, and content for diverse industries such as entertainment, marketing, education, and training.

Anaergia

Post in 2023
Anaergia Inc. is a Canadian company specializing in the generation of renewable energy through advanced anaerobic digestion of organic waste from municipal, agricultural, and industrial sources. It manufactures sustainable solutions that convert waste into renewable energy, fertilizers, and recycled water. The company provides a range of services, including municipal wastewater solutions, waste diversion strategies, and agri-food applications focused on nutrient management and water reuse. Anaergia operates through multiple segments, including Capital Sales, Services, and Build, Own, and Operate Projects, with the Capital Sales division being the primary revenue generator through the sale of proprietary technologies and services to municipalities, private entities, and project developers. The company serves a global market, with a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia, and its solutions are utilized in resource recovery facilities around the world.

Pegasus Legal Capital

Debt Financing in 2023
Pegasus Legal Capital provides plaintiffs with pre-settlement funding for personal injury cases for 14 years.

Rayliant Global Advisors

Corporate Round in 2023
Rayliant Global Advisors is an investment management firm established in 2012, overseeing over $25 billion in assets as of December 2017. With offices in Beijing, Taipei, London, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles, the firm specializes in global smart beta strategies and asset allocation. Rayliant's investment approaches are grounded in rigorous research, incorporating behavioral finance, statistics, data science, and insights from local markets. The firm primarily serves institutional investors worldwide, both directly and through collaborations with major asset managers. Additionally, Rayliant supports select advisors, wealth managers, and private banks in developing high-quality research and asset allocation solutions tailored to their clients' needs.

BayaniPay

Seed Round in 2022
BayaniPay is a financial technology company that operates not as a bank but provides access to banking products and services through East West Bank. It develops software to simplify remittances and enables a global payments service for overseas Filipino workers to send funds to families and communities back home, supporting financial care across borders.

Fundamental Partners

Debt Financing in 2022
Fundamental Partners is an alternative asset management firm based in New York, specializing in municipal and public purpose investing. The firm focuses on distressed and special situation opportunities within municipal markets, aiming for long-term capital appreciation and current income through control-oriented investments, often secured by underlying assets or businesses. In addition to its core investment strategies, Fundamental has a dedicated clean energy investment arm, Fundamental Renewables, which provides specialized financing solutions for the development, construction, and operation of renewable energy projects. The firm operates at the intersection of municipal finance and community assets, emphasizing investments in sectors such as housing, senior care, and infrastructure.

Kami Vision

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2017, Kami Vision specializes in making vision artificial intelligence affordable and accessible. They offer edge-AI enabled camera devices and cloud platforms for building custom AI applications across industries like retail, healthcare, food inspection, and manufacturing to automate workflows and enhance operational efficiency.

Cypress Creek Renewables

Debt Financing in 2022
Cypress Creek Renewables is a leading American company specializing in the development and operation of solar energy projects. It employs a data-driven approach to identify and acquire underutilized land for the construction of solar farms, typically ranging from 2 to 20 megawatts in capacity. The company is recognized for owning the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi River. Cypress Creek partners with landowners, utility companies, and local vendors to finance and operate its solar and storage assets, ensuring that local communities receive affordable access to clean energy. Through this model, Cypress Creek not only contributes to the renewable energy landscape but also helps to lower energy costs for consumers compared to traditional fossil fuels.

Drip Capital

Debt Financing in 2021
Drip Capital Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in cross-border trade, particularly in developing markets. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Mumbai, India, Drip Capital offers a range of trade finance products, including invoice factoring, export finance, and receivables factoring. The company utilizes an automated risk assessment model to facilitate quick and hassle-free access to financing, thus streamlining the borrowing process for its clients. Drip Capital's platform leverages multiple data sources for underwriting transactions, enabling SMEs to obtain collateral-free loans and lines of credit to support their working capital needs. The team comprises experienced professionals from prestigious institutions, and the company is supported by notable investors from Silicon Valley.

SageSure

Debt Financing in 2021
Founded in 2009, SageSure is a tech-driven managing general underwriter specializing in coastal residential and commercial property insurance. It offers over 50 competitively priced products across 14 states, serving approximately 415,000 policyholders with $850 million in-force premium. SageSure pioneers property insurance through its online quoting platform and advanced risk modeling technology, distributing products via a network of over 11,400 producers and brokers.

TTI Sports International

Debt Financing in 2021
TTI Sports International specializes in manufacturing performance felts for the global tennis industry. The company collaborates with customers to design felts tailored to specific performance criteria and offers engineered felt solutions for diverse court surfaces.

FST Technical Services

Debt Financing in 2021
Founded in 1984, FST Technical Services specializes in technical quality control and assessment consulting for semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, high-performance facilities, healthcare, education, and infrastructure industries. The company offers testing, inspection, certification, and engineering services throughout the lifecycle of mission-critical facilities.

Drip Capital

Debt Financing in 2021
Drip Capital Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in providing credit solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) engaged in cross-border trade, particularly in developing markets. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Mumbai, India, Drip Capital offers a range of trade finance products, including invoice factoring, export finance, and receivables factoring. The company utilizes an automated risk assessment model to facilitate quick and hassle-free access to financing, thus streamlining the borrowing process for its clients. Drip Capital's platform leverages multiple data sources for underwriting transactions, enabling SMEs to obtain collateral-free loans and lines of credit to support their working capital needs. The team comprises experienced professionals from prestigious institutions, and the company is supported by notable investors from Silicon Valley.

ConforMIS

Post in 2019
ConforMIS is a United States-based medical technology company that specializes in developing, manufacturing, and selling joint replacement implants and instruments tailored to each patient's unique anatomy. Utilizing its proprietary iFit Image-to-Implant technology platform, ConforMIS creates personalized knee and hip implants, as well as single-use surgical instruments. The company's offerings include various partial and total knee replacement implants, such as the iTotal CR, iTotal PS, iDuo, and iUni. These products are delivered directly to hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, ensuring that each implant is individually sized and shaped for optimal fit.

Citcon

Series B in 2019
Citcon is a payment technology company founded in 2015 that provides a global mobile wallet payments platform for merchants. The company offers a scalable, secure, and open system with a single API that enables merchants to accept domestic and international mobile wallets across web, mobile, and in-store channels. Its platform provides end-to-end payments including processing, gateway services, reporting, and fund settlement, connecting merchants with a network of digital wallets to reach billions of wallet users. Citcon serves tens of thousands of merchants and millions of mobile wallet users worldwide. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, it maintains regional offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Medsphere Systems

Venture Round in 2018
Medsphere Systems provides healthcare information technology solutions. It offers an open-source electronic health record platform, OpenVista, supporting various clinical aspects and facilitating workflow automation across acute care hospitals, behavioral health centers, physician practices, and integrated delivery networks.

Goodnight Midstream

Debt Financing in 2016
Goodnight Midstream, LLC is a leading provider of fluids management services to oil and gas producers in North Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, and New Mexico. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company specializes in the gathering and disposal of produced saltwater through an extensive network of over 150 miles of saltwater gathering pipelines and 16 saltwater disposal facilities, primarily in the Bakken region. Goodnight Midstream's operations focus on minimizing environmental impact and enhancing health and safety for its clients while also helping to lower their lease operating expenses.

Omeros

Post in 2016
Omeros discovers, develops, and commercializes small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market and orphan indications targeting inflammation, complement-mediated diseases, disorders of the central nervous system, immunologic disorders, cancers, and addictive/compulsive disorders.

The Trade Desk

Debt Financing in 2016
The Trade Desk, Inc. is a technology company that operates a self-service cloud-based platform designed for advertisers and advertising agencies. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Ventura, California, the company enables users to create, manage, and optimize data-driven digital advertising campaigns across a variety of formats, including display, video, audio, native, and social. Its platform supports multiple devices, such as computers, mobile devices, and connected TVs. By leveraging data analytics, The Trade Desk helps clients enhance the effectiveness of their advertising efforts. The company generates revenue through fees that are based on a percentage of its clients' advertising expenditures.

DigitalOcean

Debt Financing in 2016
Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure for software developers. It offers compute, storage, networking products, databases, developer tools, and management tools to deploy and scale applications. Key products include Droplets (Linux-based VMs), Kubernetes, Databases, and Spaces (S3-compatible object storage). The company is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bengaluru, India.

Omeros

Post in 2016
Omeros discovers, develops, and commercializes small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market and orphan indications targeting inflammation, complement-mediated diseases, disorders of the central nervous system, immunologic disorders, cancers, and addictive/compulsive disorders.

Drobo

Debt Financing in 2015
Drobo is a developer of innovative data storage products tailored for small and medium businesses as well as individual professionals. The company focuses on delivering a unique blend of data protection, expandability, and user-friendliness. Drobo's offerings address critical storage challenges through patented technologies such as BeyondRAID, Thin Provisioning, and Automated Data-Aware Tiering. These advancements enable customers to manage data protection, adjust storage capacity, and optimize application service levels effectively. Notably, Drobo allows users to hot-swap drives and mix various drive types and capacities, facilitating seamless upgrades without the risk of data loss or downtime. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Drobo has garnered over 50 industry awards and serves hundreds of thousands of customers globally, reinforcing its position in the data storage market.

Maxwell Technologies

Post in 2015
Maxwell Technologies develops, manufactures, and markets energy storage and power delivery solutions. Their products cater to diverse industries such as automotive, heavy transportation, renewable energy, backup power, wireless communications, and industrial electronics.

NephroGenex

Post in 2014
NephroGenex is a drug-development company focusing on kidney disease. The Company is developing Pyridorinâ„¢ (pyridoxamine dihydrochloride) as a treatment to slow the progression of diabetic kidney disease.

Black Lotus Communications

Debt Financing in 2014
Black Lotus Communications is a leader in availability security, specializing in innovative solutions for distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection. The company has developed the first commercially viable DDoS mitigation technologies, enabling service providers and enterprises to safeguard their networks against DDoS attacks. Their offerings include DDoS protected cloud services, network and website protection, and bare metal cloud servers, which aggregate data flows from their DDoS mitigation infrastructure. Black Lotus Communications has made significant advancements in the field, including the creation of the world's first DDoS protected hosting network and the first effective mitigation strategies for application layer attacks. Their clientele primarily consists of data centers, telecommunications carriers, and web hosting providers, all benefiting from their cutting-edge protection solutions.

STX Entertainment

Venture Round in 2014
STX Entertainment is a global media company that develops, finances, produces, markets, and distributes film, TV, VR, music, and live entertainment content. Led by Robert Simonds, the company leverages strategic partnerships to maximize worldwide content impact.

Lennar

Post in 2014
Founded in 1954, Lennar is a leading U.S. homebuilder, headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company constructs affordable, move-up, and retirement homes across various lifestyles, including urban, golf course, Active Adult, and suburban communities.

Apollo Endosurgery

Debt Financing in 2013
Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. is a medical technology company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in the design, development, and commercialization of innovative medical devices for gastrointestinal health. Founded in 2005, the company focuses on advancing therapeutic endoscopy as a less invasive alternative to traditional surgical procedures, thereby reducing complication rates and overall healthcare costs. Its product portfolio includes the OverStitch and OverStitch Sx Endoscopic Suturing Systems, which enable physicians to place full-thickness sutures and secure tissue approximation through flexible endoscopy. Additionally, Apollo offers the X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System and the Orbera Intragastric Balloon, which aids in weight management by reducing stomach capacity. The company's devices cater to gastroenterologists and bariatric surgeons, addressing various gastrointestinal conditions such as acute perforations and chronic fistulas. Apollo Endosurgery's commitment to innovation is rooted in the collaborative efforts of a distinguished group of gastroenterologists and surgeons who aimed to enhance the field of therapeutic endoscopy.

MetroCorp Bancshares

Acquisition in 2013
In 1987, a small minority-owned business opened its doors to the public with the vision of becoming Houston’s premier multi-cultural bank. MetroBank’s early years were marked by an uncommon sensitivity towards minority and other underserved markets. With genuine commitment to these customers, “Your Community Bank” became the ideal motto for MetroBank. Their philosophy was instrumental to the rapid growth of their establishment, which paralleled the growth and evolution of their diverse clientele. Their community banking philosophy remained a top priority as they continued to meet their customers’ needs through the opening of additional branches and the development of new products and services.

SoFi

Debt Financing in 2013
SoFi is a San Francisco–based financial services company offering lending, banking, and wealth management products designed to help individuals borrow, save, spend, and invest. Its offerings include personal loans, MBA and student loan refinancing, mortgages, checking and savings accounts, and credit cards, as well as investment and retirement planning services. The company also provides small business financing as part of its product suite. By combining digital tools with traditional financial services, SoFi targets early-stage professionals seeking to manage debt, build savings, and pursue long-term financial goals.

MRC

Debt Financing in 2011
MRC (Formerly Valance, Media Rights Capital), is comprised of Businesses in Film, Television, Media, and Data; Brands Include The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Vibe and dick clark productions.

Sunrise Realty Trust

Sunrise Realty Trust is an institutional commercial real estate lender that offers flexible financing solutions to commercial real estate sponsors in the Southern United States. The Company focuses on transitional commercial real estate business strategies with near-term value creation opportunities, which are supported by top-tier real property assets in established Southern cities as well as Southern cities with great growth prospects.
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