2024 Dealmakers of the Year Honorees
Presented By: Insperity
Pavel Chernyshov
Co-Founder
Arkview Capital
A private equity investment firm that seeks to invest in financial services, transportation, logistics, information technology services, engineering & construction, manufacturing, auto, media & telecom, and industrial sectors
- This Minority Certified PE Fund turned this company into a Minority Business Enterprise
- Overcame legal issues with landlords that arose under prior ownership during COVID, challenges with some of NYC’s garage structures and new city inspections of all garages to reduce safety issues.
- In addition to dealing with several legacy issues at the garages and turning the company into a Minority Business Enterprise, they successfully implemented a new digital strategy to connect better with customers, which was ground-breaking for the industry.
John Smith
Chairman & CEO
Icon Parking Holdings
Provider of off-street car parking management and mobility services intended to serve commercial office buildings and real estate, food and beverage, municipalities, sports and entertainment.
- The company, a subsidiary of Citizens Parking Holding, was acquired by Arkview Capital, The Cambria Group, and Mr. John Smith through an LBO on April 4, 2023 for an undisclosed amount.
- The new owners hope to deploy largest EV charging infrastructure in NYC, expand the company nationally and evolve its breadth of services to a fully integrated facilities service provider.
- Chasella also Participated in this round.
Palladium Equity Partners
Alex Funk
Partner, Head of Services
Ben Halpin
Sr. Associate
Daniel Ilundain
Partner, Co-Head of Flagship Funds
Rafael Ortiz
Partner, Head of Healthcare
A private equity investment firm that seeks to invest in the lower middle-market companies operating in the consumer, services, industrials, and healthcare sectors.
- EverDriven Technologies, an alternative student transportation platform, was acquired by Charlesbank Capital Partners, a middle-market private investment firm with offices in Boston and New York.
- The Company had been owned by affiliates of Palladium Equity Partners, LLC
- Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
David Lane
CEO
Sports Illustrated Tickets
A fan-first, primary and secondary ticketing marketplace, with more than $2.5 billion in inventory and 50 million sports, concerts and theater tickets to events around the world. An officially licensed channel partner of the NFL Ticket Network, features a transparent pricing model with zero ($0) transaction fees.
- In the process of raising a follow-on of up to $20 million of Series A2 venture funding on May 1, 2024.
- Previously, the company raised $15 million of Series A1 venture funding from investors including Drew Brees, Ava Labs, and Annaganuke Family Office on February 1, 2024, putting the company's post-money valuation at $30 million.
Teamshares
Brian Gaebe
Chief Financial Officer
Sam Peterson
Director of Capital Markets
Acquires small businesses from retiring owners and provides them with services including the administration of an employee-ownership program, education, financial products, software, and various others.
- Completed a cumulative $225 million in debt financing, including a recently closed $75 million debt facility with Sound Point Capital and $150 million debt facility with i80 Group.
- The new financing will enable Teamshares to expand from 90 to 150+ businesses, while continuing to build financial and employee ownership products to support its growing network of employee-owned companies and the people who power them.
The Fragrance Group
Alex Shalbaf
Co-Founder & CEO
David Shalbaf
Co-Founder
A house of brands, a boutique luxury company that is specialized in design, development and distribution of fine fragrances and has expertise in both domestic and international distribution.
- Sold minority ownership in the company to TZP Group for an undisclosed amount in Jan 2023
The Riverside Company
A private equity investment firm based in New York, New York. The firm prefers to invest in growth-stage companies through buyouts.
Acquired Australia's Energy Exemplar, a provider of energy market software, from private equity firm Riverside Company in a deal that sources noted was worth more than $1 billion.
Tillman Global Holdings
Nick Brown
Managing Director
Jeffrey Wu
Vice President
Matthew Kasanoff
Associate
A U.S.-based holding company that builds leading businesses in digital, communications and next-generation infrastructure across developed and emerging geographies.
Successfully completed a financing package at Tillman Infrastructure, a leading developer, owner, and operator of connectivity infrastructure in the United States, totaling $1 billion used to refinancing existing loans and provide additional growth capital to support wireless carrier and wireless infrastructure service provider customers’ infrastructure needs
Vytalize Health
Amer Alnajar
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer
Faris Ghawi
Co-Founder & CEO
Matt Buder Shapiro
Chief Marketing Officer
A risk-bearing provider enablement platform addressing the healthcare industry's biggest challenges with its cutting-edge value-based care delivery system.
- Closed a $100M Series C less than a year after completing their $50M Series B, further accelerating their mission to accelerate the transition to value-based care for patients by taking care of the doctors who take care of us.
- Vytalize also acquired Independent Physician Association of New York (IPA NY), one of the largest multi-specialty IPAs in the country with more than 3,000 providers.
SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
Simeon Iheagwam
Founder & Managing Partner
NOEMIS Ventures
A venture capital firm investing in and advising pre-seed and seed-stage startups in Fintech, AI/ML, and Marketplaces.
- Support amazing founders who make a strong impact in the world
- Invested in companies such as Squire, Petal, Pivt, and EMTECH.