Reverence Capital Partners
Reverence Capital focuses on a broad spectrum of middle-market financial services companies, in both private and public securities. We target control and influence-oriented minority investments, but remain flexible on the form and structure of the ultimate investment. Founded in 2013 by Milton Berlinski, Peter Aberg and Alexander Chulack, Reverence Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on the middle-market of the financial services industry. Over the course of their careers, our founders have been active advisors and investors in the financial services space, have advised on hundreds of transactions across financial services and, collectively, have invested billions of dollars on behalf of institutional and high net worth investors.
Private Equity Round in 2022
CAIS is a financial technology platform, providing independent financial advisors with access to top-tier managers of specialized investment products in the multi-trillion-dollar independent wealth channel. The company offers streamlined execution for an expanding list of alternative investment funds and products. Financial advisors use the platform to access funds and products, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, structured notes, and digital assets. CAIS complements its fund offerings with independent due diligence provided by Mercer. CAIS is an NFA member with securities offered through CAIS Capital LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. Jeremy Norton and Matt Brown co-founded CAIS in New York, New York in 2009.
Obra Capital is a financial company that provides credit, insurance, consulting, wealth, and asset management services.
Advisor Group is among the largest independent broker-dealer networks in the United States. Advisor Group is among the largest networks of independent broker-dealers in the United States. The four broker-dealers that comprise Advisor Group – FSC Securities Corporation, Royal Alliance Associates, SagePoint Financial, and Woodbury Financial Services – foster the spirit of entrepreneurship and independence that is exemplified by our over 5,000 affiliated advisors. Our structure allows us to invest significant resources across our broker-dealer network — resources that any single firm would have difficulty duplicating. The result? Our advisors enjoy access to state-of-the-art technologies, personalized service, and broad-based operational support. The advisors we serve enjoy the best of both worlds – big-firm resources with a small-firm feel. Our strengths, combined with the collective strengths of our advisors, provide powerful momentum to meet our industry’s next generation of challenges and opportunities.
Voya Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of retirement, investments, and insurance. It helps companies, individuals, and organizations to secure their assets.
Private Equity Round in 2017
CardWorks is a consumer finance lender and servicer, and a people-centric, compliance-focused organization enabled by data and technology.
Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waiting weeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000. Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle. The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014. In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones. Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available. Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers. In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain. In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a row In August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015. In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.
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