F Partners Co-Investment Opportunities - 26 December 2024

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Chad Fox
December 26, 2024

F Partners is a Private Investment Office investing in proprietary deal flow across the Private Markets. Co-invest with Single Family Offices, UHNWI and other Professional Investors. 

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Opportunity: Fifth Star

Deal Type: Holding Company

Asset Class: Private Equity

Fifth Star is an Investment Holding Company led by serial entrepreneur Sam Yagan and a team of executives who have led top technology companies, most notably SparkNotes, OkCupid, Tinder, ShopRunner, Match Group (Nasdaq: MTCH), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), and IAC (Nasdaq: IAC). 

Given the foreseeable environment in the consumer and consumer-adjacent technology landscape, Fifth Star believes a significant opportunity exists to create billions of dollars in value by building, through acquisition, a multi-business technology enterprise (think very loosely“IAC 2.0”).

Fifth Star have raised ~$285M of their $500M goal from individuals and organizations who have invested in previous entities that they have led and have completed 1 acquisition with a pipeline of ~30+ at different stages of due diligence. 

Opportunity: Bloom Equity Partners

Deal Type: Fund and SPV

Asset Class: Private Equity

Bloom Equity is a New York-based private equity strategy specializing in buyouts of B2B technology and service businesses, with a focus on scaling companies both as a capital resource and an operational partner.

Leveraging decades of investing and operating experience in enterprise software and tech-enabled businesses across firms including K1, Vista Equity, BlackStone, McKinsey, and others, Bloom offers a compelling mix of growth, liquidity capital, and tailored operational resources to support technology companies in their next stage of growth. The firm’s unique investment strategy allows them to execute multiple transaction types with varying levels of complexity; including succession exits, management buy-outs, carve-outs, and public-to-private transactions.

Bloom is a co-investment friendly strategy and currently executes transactions utilizing capital from their committed capital Fund I and co-investment from accretive capital partners (including SFO/MFO, strategic technology executives, and institutional groups).

Fund Opportunity:

  • Bloom is approaching their final close on Fund I - a seasoned primary opportunity (3 of the 5 targeted investments already completed), in a portfolio of profitable (or near break-even) enterprise technology companies which are exceeding early growth and performance expectations (the first investment is already marked at 3.6x).

  • The strategy is tax advantaged (QSBS eligible investments), with capital commitments called over the next 24mo. Current base of LPs are UHNW, fund of funds, technology executives and family offices (including the family office of a founder at a Global top 10 PE firm).

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SPV Opportunity - “Project Jaguar”:

FUNDING UPDATE: A major US Family Office recently led a significant investment into this deal. There is now ~$3.5m available (plus future availability through add-ons).

  • Bloom is under exclusivity on “Project Jaguar”, whose CEO has agreed to partner to continue their growth in the US market by leveraging Bloom's enterprise software expertise. The company is a leading enterprise software provider empowering Fortune 5000 organizations like P&G, Toyota, Johnson & Johnson, DHL, and Mercedes to seamlessly access, integrate, govern, and deliver critical data across financial, product & technology, marketing, and supply chain operations.

  • Approaching breakeven EBITDA with EUR 8m in recurring revenue, Bloom is acquiring the business at a highly attractive multiple (1.58x recurring revenue compared to 3-5x at comparable companies).

  • The deal is targeted to close within the next 6 weeks, with attractive co-invest economics.

Opportunity: Thrive Financial

Deal Type: Direct or SPV

Asset Class: Private Credit

Thrive Financial Inc. is a financial technology company focused on helping provide affordable Home Improvement financing to underserved US Consumers. Their direct lending assets will provide attractive, stable returns in a volatile macroeconomic environment and are less correlated with the broader equity market.

Deal Terms:

Thrive is offering Private Credit Investors the opportunity to purchase Home Improvement Direct Lending assets with the following terms:

  • Purchase Commitment: $250k - $25M per month over the Term; with a minimum total commitment of $1M. SPV available for small commitments.

  • Term: 12 - 24 months.

  • Asset Mix: purchaser will have the ability to customize the distribution mix and product mix of the Home Improvement Direct Lending assets to meet desired return.

  • Downside Protection: purchaser will have the option to choose from various forms of downside protection to mitigate credit risk.

Key Highlights:

  • Average Borrower FICO of 710, with home improvement loans yielding annualized net returns ranging from 8% - 17%.

  • Home Improvement has outperformed other asset classes, and is getting more challenging to source given recent consolidation of top Home Improvement lenders.

  • Loans may be secured by a UCC lien on the financed home improvement product reinforcing Investor's claim in the event of default.

  • Investors are given the option to add an insurance wrapper to the direct lending assets providing up to 4.5x downside loss coverage, and locking in 8-12% returns.

  • Management team has helped create over $10B worth of fintech value over the last 10 years.

Opportunity: Bright Security

Deal Type: Direct

Asset Class: Venture Capital

$4mm ARR enterprise security platform for vulnerability detection.

Opportunity: Indiegov

Deal Type: Direct

Asset Class: Venture Capital

Leading GovTech backed by Valor, 8VC and Bradley Tusk.

Opportunity: StyleSeat

Deal Type: Direct

Asset Class: Venture Capital

$1B+ GMV EBITDA break-even SaaS for independent service professionals backed by Chris Sacca and Travis Kalanick.

Opportunity: Pryon

Deal Type: Direct

Asset Class: Venture Capital

$15mm ARR AI BI platform used by Nvidia, Dell and US Gov backed by Greycroft, Goldman Sachs and Stanford.

Network Partners

Ligo Partners is a single family office run by Alec Andronikov (Principal) and Cindy Mihalova (Chief Investment Officer) based in Miami. 

Ligo Partners co-invest with a discrete and invitation-only consortium of like-minded investors into disruptive tech-focused deal flow sourced directly from family offices and top venture capital firms worldwide. 

In parallel, Ligo Partners invests in tech debt financings; tech secondaries; roll-up strategies with a tech component; off-market real estate opportunities and investment funds that have successfully demonstrated at least a 1x DPI metric from prior performance. 

Ligo Partners Live Co-Invest Deals: https://docsend.com/view/9azt98yrvu3zmtay

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Chad Fox is an advisor to entrepreneurs and family offices through his firm F Partners.

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