On the heels of FLYR’s Series D capital raise today, WestCap’s Adi Hemrajani shares how FLYR is ushering in a brighter future for travelers by helping airlines and other travel companies upgrade their legacy commercial technologies with modern, AI-based offerings. 🛫 Read more on the WestCap blog: https://lnkd.in/gxfh58DP
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Financial Services
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About us
WestCap is a strategic operating and investing firm led by a team that has founded, invested in, and operated tech-enabled marketplaces for over 20 years. Our investment partners are leading families and institutions from around the world, who have placed their trust in us, with flexible capital for whom we can compound returns over the long term with our lifecycle investing approach. We've built a reputation as value-add, operationally-focused investors to our partner companies, which welcome our involvement and aligned capital. In addition to private investing, we provide our investment partners with a full suite of solutions including private / public equity advisory as well as cash management solutions. WestCap was founded by Laurence Tosi, a passionate entrepreneur, investor, operator, and philanthropist. Tosi currently serves as Managing Partner of WestCap, bringing with him both his passion and track record for entrepreneurship and building leading disruptive businesses. His previous roles include serving as the Chief Financial Officer of Airbnb and The Blackstone Group, as well as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Partner at Merrill Lynch. Today, WestCap primarily operates out of two main offices - on the West Coast office in San Francisco and on the East Coast in New York City. In addition to its main offices, it also has a presence in Hong Kong and London.
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- 51-200 employees
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- San Francisco , California
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Congratulations to the FLYR team on their $295 million Series D round! While much of the travel industry has been technologically stagnant for years, FLYR delivers the open and dynamic platform the industry needs to better serve travelers today. WestCap Managing Partner and Founder Laurence A. Tosi will join FLYR’s board of directors, lending his expertise in building and scaling industry leading companies as FLYR embarks on global expansion. We look forward to working with Alex Mans 🛫 and the FLYR team to reimagine the commercial infrastructure of travel. ✈️ Read more about today’s news on Bloomberg: https://lnkd.in/g4c2S6hj ✈️ Press release: https://lnkd.in/g64K-ZRH
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Big news from our portfolio company Ledger, the leading marketplace connecting insurance risk to capital. Today, Ledger announced an expansion of its capabilities with the launch of two subsidiaries, as well as a new agreement with Fermat Capital Management, LLC to manage the casualty ILS funds Ledger had created. Ledger’s CEO Samir Shah says: “These milestones are a pivotal moment in the growth of the casualty ILS market. Our creation of Ledger Re SPC as a conduit to the ILS markets and the entry of Fermat mark major steps toward realizing the massive, trillion-dollar potential in casualty ILS, which remains a largely untapped asset class consistently delivering attractive and uncorrelated risk-adjusted yield.” Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gdc3gYsj
Ledger Investing Expands Capabilities to Further Advance the Casualty ILS Market - Ledger Newsroom
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WestCap’s Managing Director and Head of Talent, Nathan Fabian, was a guest on The Tech Trek podcast this week to discuss the essential qualities of great leaders and the five key attributes that predict leadership success. He also talked about the importance of leveraging networks and how to build and retain a diverse, high-performing leadership team. Thank you for hosting us Amir Bormand! Listen to the full episode: https://eleva.no/nathan #execsearch #vc #startups #ceo #tech
Key Attributes of Great Leadership by The Tech Trek
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We are very thankful for being included in CNBC’s Worlds Top Fintech Company list! Huge thank you to the hardworking and dedicated team at iCapital for their unwavering commitment to serving our clients, and to all of our Clients for trusting us to help them achieve their goals! We are totally dedicated to their success and deeply appreciative of their trust! Thank you very much!
We’re proud to share iCapital been named to CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024 list. We are grateful for the recognition of our focus to be at the forefront of the digital transformation in alternative investing. https://lnkd.in/gS3UiqcW
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Allen Mask, WestCap Partner and Head of our internal creative studio CōLab, recently spoke at a Private Equity International event to share how creative services are not just nice-to-haves — they're about helping companies build better products, design better brands, tell better stories and make better decisions. Read our latest blog post for his POV on tapping creativity as a force for growth: https://lnkd.in/dMP-UcDN
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Congratulations to our portfolio companies Addepar, iCapital, Klarna and Paxos for being recognized as CNBC's Top 250 Global Fintech Companies of 2024! The annual list celebrates the companies that are shaping the future of financial services - fueled by technological advancements, expanding global markets and collaborative leadership. #fintech #innovation
The world's top 250 fintech companies: 2024
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Bermuda’s daily newspaper The Royal Gazette Limited profiled WestCap’s Ryan Benevides and his commitment to building WestCap into the growth platform of choice for cybersecurity founders. When his home island of Bermuda was hit by a crippling cybersecurity attack last year, Ryan became more passionate than ever about helping enterprises and governments better protect themselves from cyber attackers. Thanks to the Royal Gazette for the great interview.
Cyberattacks to increase as technology aids criminals
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Just announced: HUMAN is Named a Leader, Earning Top Scores Possible in Nine Criteria in The Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024. Read the full report now! https://bit.ly/3xBLfNP #KnowWhosReal
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As management teams think about mid-year reforecasting and the 2025 cycle, WestCap's Ryan E. Brown shares his thoughts on the importance of scenario modeling as part of a robust approach to planning and budgeting. Check out his best practices in our latest blog post.
Looking Ahead & Around the Corner with Scenario Modeling
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