Wafra

Wafra Inc., established in 1985, is a global, privately owned investment manager headquartered in New York, with additional offices in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. The firm specializes in providing investment advisory services to a diverse range of institutional and private clients, including government agencies and corporations. Wafra manages various investment vehicles and strategies, such as structured products, alternative investments, and real estate funds, across global markets. It employs a fundamental, top-down, and bottom-up approach to invest in public equities, fixed income, and alternative assets, with a focus on mid-cap and large-cap growth stocks. Wafra also offers tailored strategies like tactical trading, long/short equities, and event-driven investments. It operates as a subsidiary of Wafra Intervest Corporation.

Adel Alderbas

Chief Investment Officer and Member of Management Committee

Julia Birman

Vice President

Tom Boonyasai

Vice President

Aaron Bothner

Vice President

Gustavo Cardenas

Managing Director

Stephanie Derr

Managing Director

Ian Esterhuysen

Managing Director

Robert Gaffney

Senior Managing Director

James Gillies

Senior Managing Director

David Hamm

Senior Managing Director

Maki Hattori

Managing Director

Catherine Kim

Senior Associate

George Konopsky

Managing Director of Leasing

Chris Leak

Managing Director

Christopher Luboja

Director

Varun Mago

Senior Managing Director

Emilio Mena Jr.

Managing Director

Stephen Moseley

Managing Director

David Pasquale

Managing Director and Portfolio Manager

Pratik Patel

Managing Director

Richard Safranek

Senior Managing Director

Avantika Saisekar

Managing Director

Paul Steinberger

Managing Director

Richard Tateossian

Managing Director

Edward Tsai JD

Managing Director

Mitchell Williams

Senior Managing Director

Tom Rotherham Winqvist

Managing Director

Mohamad Yatim

Managing Director

Jonathan Zanger JD

Managing Director

15 past transactions

Niobrara Capital

Private Equity Round in 2025
Niobrara Capital is a private equity firm headquartered in New York, focusing on investments within the technology sector.

Constrafor

Debt Financing in 2024
Constrafor is a technology company focused on the construction sector, providing a cloud-based platform designed to enhance productivity and financial management for general contractors and subcontractors. The platform simplifies and standardizes essential back-office tasks, such as subcontractor procurement, contract management, invoice processing, and diversity procurement, all within a single interface. For general contractors, Constrafor facilitates efficient interactions with subcontractors by managing bids, deadlines, and communication with suppliers. Subcontractors benefit from features like fast receivables financing through an Early Pay Program, which accelerates payment cycles and improves cash flow, enabling them to take on additional projects. By integrating these functionalities, Constrafor aims to revolutionize the construction industry's procurement processes.

Aquila Air Capital

Acquisition in 2024
Aquila Air Capital is a specialty finance platform that focuses on providing asset financing in collaboration with industry participants. The company specializes in the purchase, financing, and leasing of aircraft, engines, and other aviation equipment. By offering creative and timely financial services, Aquila Air Capital aims to meet the critical business needs of its clients in the aviation sector. The firm is supported by Warburg Pincus, a prominent global private equity firm, and Kepler Hill Capital, which concentrates on special situations and has a history of investing in and developing aviation platforms.

IIG

Private Equity Round in 2023
IIG engages in offering public and private organisations the services required to plan, implement, and maintain telecommunications infrastructure. Their services include route development, network optimization, construction management, optical equipment planning and installation, fiber optic assurance, test and turn up, and route maintenance.

Oak Hill Capital

Secondary Market in 2022
Founded in 1986, Oak Hill Capital is a private equity firm based in New York. It invests across various sectors including services, industrials, media & communications, and consumer.

Thompson Street Capital Partners

Private Equity Round in 2022
Thompson Street Capital Partners is a St. Louis-based private equity firm, established in 2000, that invests in growth capital and buyouts of middle-market companies across North America. The firm partners with management on recapitalizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, take-private transactions, and add-on acquisitions, often taking a controlling or majority stake while considering minority positions in select growth businesses. It targets manufacturing, distribution, services, software and technology, and life sciences and healthcare, among other B2B and consumer sectors, with typical portfolio company revenues of $20 million to $200 million and EBITDA of $1 million to $20 million. Equity investments generally range from $10 million to $40 million, with enterprise values up to about $150 million. Thompson Street looks for founder-led or family businesses in transition and prefers North American opportunities, particularly in the Midwest, while avoiding startups, real estate, and certain food and beverage propositions.

Jiko

Series A in 2020
Jiko is a technology-driven financial institution that offers a unique debit card service, Jiko Solid, which enables users to track and manage their expenses securely, both online and offline. The company provides cashback on every transaction, single-use virtual cards, and allows users to invest their money in safe assets like US Treasury bills, all with no minimum balance requirements. Jiko operates through a user-friendly mobile application and is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York City and Reykjavik. As a vertically integrated financial institution, Jiko combines a nationally chartered bank and a registered broker-dealer to hold cash as T-bills, ensuring safety and yield for its users.

TierPoint

Private Equity Round in 2020
TierPoint, LLC is a national provider of information technology and data center services headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 2010, the company emerged from the strategic combination of several respected data centers and IT solution providers. TierPoint offers a range of services including colocation, cloud computing, and managed IT services, with a focus on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that encompasses public, private, multi-tenant, and hybrid deployments. The company also provides disaster recovery and backup services, as well as managed security and professional services. TierPoint serves various industries such as education, healthcare, finance, and technology, ensuring secure and reliable solutions for hosting critical services. With a broad network of data centers across multiple states, TierPoint is well-equipped to meet diverse customer needs.

Bindable

Private Equity Round in 2018
Bindable is a Boston-based company that specializes in developing solutions for insurance distribution, catering to insurance companies, intermediaries, financial institutions, and affinity groups. Founded in 2018, Bindable offers a comprehensive digital platform that includes technology-enabled services such as custom scripting, insurance quote and rate management, and extensive training. This platform is designed to help partners engage their customers more effectively, facilitating product diversification and market expansion within the insurance sector. By leveraging their tools and expertise, Bindable enables clients to enter the insurance market and enhance their existing operations.

TSG Consumer Partners

Private Equity Round in 2017
TSG Consumer Partners is a private equity firm that concentrates on branded consumer businesses. Founded in 1987, it is headquartered in California. The firm targets consumer-focused companies across sectors including food and beverage, restaurants, beauty and personal care, household products, apparel and accessories, and e-commerce, with additional exposure to consumer technology, health and wellness, and related services. It aims to support growth and value creation in leading branded brands through equity investments.

ArcLight Capital

Private Equity Round in 2017
ArcLight Capital Partners is a private equity firm established in 2001, specializing in energy infrastructure investments. Co-founded by Daniel R. Revers and Robb E. Turner, the firm has developed a strong reputation for its broad and profitable investment strategies across the energy sector while effectively managing downside risks. ArcLight's investment performance is attributed to its conservative investment philosophy, extensive asset-level expertise, and significant market experience. The firm has a proven track record of generating superior returns throughout the energy industry value chain and currently manages over $10 billion across five funds.

TowerBrook Capital Partners

Private Equity Round in 2015
TowerBrook Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, with offices in Frankfurt, Madrid, New York, and Paris. It concentrates on private equity investments across Europe and North America, targeting sectors such as healthcare, commercial products, manufacturing, and information technology. The firm pursues a differentiated strategy designed to create long‑term value for investors and has a track record of generating value through its portfolio companies.

Molecular Imprints

Venture Round in 2008
Molecular Imprints Inc. is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in the manufacture of imprint and lithography systems designed for creating nanometer-scale surface relief structures. Founded in 2001 as a spin-off from the University of Texas, the company has developed a robust portfolio of over 100 patents related to imprint tools, materials, and process technologies. Its core technology, Jet and Flash Imprint Lithography, utilizes an advanced Drop Pattern Generation System to enable precise deposition of photoresist on substrates in extremely small quantities, facilitating the consistent nanoimprinting of features down to 10 nanometers. This innovative approach caters to various high-tech industries, including displays, life sciences, and light-emitting diodes, by providing cost-effective solutions for nanopatterning applications.

Get2Chip

Venture Round in 2000
Get2Chip is a developer of Volare, an architectural platform designed for chip manufacturers and intellectual property (IP) providers. The company focuses on enabling rapid system-level synthesis, facilitating the design and development of complex systems-on-chip (SoC). Get2Chip offers an integrated front-end design environment that streamlines various stages of the design process, encompassing electronic system level (ESL), register transfer level (RTL), and gate-level design. By consolidating tasks that are typically handled by separate synthesis tools, floor planners, and static timing analyzers, Get2Chip enhances efficiency and reduces time-to-market for its clients in the semiconductor industry.

WARP Solutions

Series B in 2000
WARP Solutions is committed to leading the eBusiness revolution by providing the best Internet infrastructure components and architecture on the market. Our pledge is to deliver the best possible quality of experience to all of our customers. The WARP experience is characterized by exceptional reliability, compatibility, scalability and security.
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