Ligo Partners Family Office

Ligo Partners would like to congratulate Ligo Family Office Webinar Finalist Carwow - a leading online car changing marketplace – and Carwow’s phenomenal CEO John Veichmanis - on their $52mm financing round led by Bessemer Venture Partners as well as existing Carwow investors including Accel, Balderton, Episode 1 & Vitruvian. We are excited to see this new funding accelerate the company’s growth across the UK, Germany and Spain. 10mm+ customers have used Carwow to help them buy and sell cars - and last year nearly £3bn worth of cars were bought through the platform. https://lnkd.in/e8kVutfr

Ligo Partners wanted to congratulate Basepaws – cats’ healthcare and longevity offering the most comprehensive DNA test on the market – on their acquisition by Zoetis, a $78B world's largest producer of medicine and vaccinations for pets and livestock. Ligo Partners Family Offices are proud to have committed capital to the last round – together with Kevin O’Leary and Nestlé Purina - with early-stage investors exiting at 15x multiple upon the Zoetis acquisition. BasePaws has been led by a phenomenal CEO/founder Anna Skaya who came up with the idea back in summer 2016 at Singularity University - and just announced her transition to a new endeavor. Ligo Partners extend the warmest congratulations to Anna – and are super excited to see what’s in store next! https://lnkd.in/eEm8tSah

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate XTEND – an AI-driven operating system for drones and robots - and their phenomenal CEO Aviv Shapira on a $40mm Series B raise. Our family offices are proud to have committed capital to this round led by Chartered Group and Clal-Tech - as XTEND continues its mission to empower autonomy, coupled with ability to oversee a team of robots performing tasks at various locations simultaneously. With IDF and US Department of Defense contracts, XTEND is unlocking the true potential of robotics in complex scenarios, including first response, search and rescue and critical infrastructure inspection. https://lnkd.in/gYeiaPSe

Excited to be a contributing part of Family Office as an asset class continuing to not only grow 300% since 2019, but also now accounting for a larger share of capital markets than Hedge Funds, Private Equity or VC. One of the interesting trends discussed is Family Offices moving away from publics and into privates - specifically Private Credit, Real Estate and Private Equity - and particulary loving Bio-tech, AI and Healthcare industry sectors https://lnkd.in/erR_aiD5

Ligo Partners are excited to congratulate OROS Labs – an innovative thermal solutions company – on its $22 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures, with participation from REI Co-op Path Ahead Ventures, Platinum Mile Ventures, Culper Ventures, Crumpton Ventures, Iron Gate Capital Advisors, Enlightenment Capital, CTK and the Goldwin Play Earth Fund, among others. Ligo Partners Family Offices are proud to have supported OROS Labs and their phenomenal CEO Michael Markesbery in their funding round – and are excited as OROS continues to lead innovation in leveraging the thermal properties of polymer aerogel, the world’s lowest thermally conductive solid, to revolutionize insulation for a multitude of applications – from structures and packaging to cold weather apparel. https://lnkd.in/emksihXQ

Ligo Partners Family Office is thrilled to announce that our investment PipeDreams – a startup rolling up plumbing and HVAC companies and scaling them using its proprietary software - has received $25.5 million Series A, led by Canvas Ventures and Plural with additional funds from Tony Xu, the founder of DoorDash, and Thomas Layton, the former CEO of OpenTable. Ligo Partners Family Office is proud to have supported PipeDreams and their phenomenal CEO Dan Laufer in their funding round – and are excited as this latest investment is a powerful endorsement of PipeDreams’ interesting twist on the private equity roll-up model with a massive, 100,000+ businesses doing plumbing had HVAC, soon expanding into other areas such as electricians.   #ProudInvestor #ProudAdvisor #RollupsTech https://lnkd.in/gj69MDcY

Ligo Partners would like to congratulate Ligo Family Office Webinar Finalist Argyle - the leading provider of direct-source income and employment data – and Argyle’s phenomenal CEO Shmulik Fishman - on their $30mm financing round led by Rockefeller Asset Management’s Fintech Innovation Fund. We are excited as Argyle continues to disrupt automating income and employment verifications. Bain Capital Ventures, SignalFire and Checkr also participated in this funding round. https://lnkd.in/egM9BC2J

Ligo Partners would like to congratulate our Family Office Webinar finalist Empowerly - an edtech startup that specializes in college counseling and career guidance services - on its $15mm financing round. The new funding will be used to continue expanding Empowerly's college counseling services with a focus on building out its artificial intelligence and machine learning product optimizations. To date, Empowerly has raised $30 million from investors, including Conductive Ventures, Goodwater Capital, FJ Labs, Scrum Ventures, Translink Capital, American Student Assistance, Spero Ventures, and Mentors Fund. https://lnkd.in/dFQenAc5

Ligo Partners would like to congratulate its Family Office Webinar finalist AngeLink - the world's first AI-driven social crowdfunding platform powered by women - and its phenomenal visionary CEO Gerry Poirier on its $7.3mm Seed Round. With over 70% of crowdfunding users being women, the company is uniquely positioned to make a significant impact with its innovative and proprietary female-forward platform, also being the first platform of its kind to integrate the power of AI in promoting fundraising success. https://lnkd.in/gFXnGBmA

Ligo Partners Family Office is thrilled to announce that our investment Mesh has received a $5mm strategic investment from PayPal Ventures. For the first time ever, PayPal Ventures has utilized PayPal’s Ethereum-based stablecoin PYUSD for an investment- and we're honored that Mesh is the recipient. This innovative transaction, conducted in PYUSD and transferred on-chain using the Mesh API, showcases the potential of stablecoins in modern finance. Our family offices are proud to have supported Mesh and their phenomenal CEO Bam Azizi in their earlier funding rounds – and are excited as this latest investment is a powerful endorsement of Mesh’s mission to build an open, connected and secure financial ecosystem! https://lnkd.in/etEd_NWW