Creating a More Efficient Middle-Market Deal Landscape

Why we Exist

CapHub’s mission is to streamline the
highly fragmented middle-market deal landscape.

CapHub is developing a technology-enabled platform that creates communities
of middle-market deal professionals and addresses many of their pain points.

Helping Transaction Sponsors

Leveraging our industry expertise, robust relationships, and proprietary technology platform to help Transaction Sponsors efficiently manage the capital raising process and access the right human capital to build great companies

Helping Capital Providers

Giving Capital Providers access to actionable and curated investment opportunities matching their investment preferences

Helping Service Providers

Helping Service Providers get involved in transactions where their specific expertise is relevant and valuable to the various stakeholders

WhoM we help

Our Services

We work with Transaction Sponsors, including independent sponsors, private-equity firms, junior-capital investment firms, family offices, and family- and entrepreneur-owned businesses. We help them:

Raise debt and equity capital for their investee companies,

Find the right human capital (in the role of operating partners, independent directors, advisors, and consultants) that can drive strategic change and operational improvements in their companies, and

Reduce many of their pain points in pursuing transactions and operating their organizations

For each capital-advisory mandate, CapHub curates the right categories of investors to target based on the circumstances of that specific situation. Our relationships with Capital Providers span the middle market, and we deploy a systematic, technology-enabled process to deliver capital solutions. CapHub connects Transaction Sponsors with various types of Capital Providers, each with their own types of capital solutions. Examples include:

Family offices

Endowments, pension funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors

Private-equity firms

Mezzanine, structured-equity, and junior-capital investors

Bank and non-bank lenders

SBIC funds

The middle-market is highly dynamic and is a major growth driver of the U.S. economy, yet it is a highly fragmented ecosystem comprising tens of thousands of companies. CapHub gives Capital Providers access to actionable and curated investment opportunities matching their investment preferences. Our platform helps organize due diligence and streamline how information and documents are stored and shared.

Given the large number of companies, Transaction Sponsors, and intermediaries, many service providers find it a challenging ecosystem to cover. CapHub helps Service Providers get involved when their specific expertise is relevant and valuable to the various stakeholders.

HOW we help

Engagement Types

Sample capital-advisory engagements

Helping independent sponsors raise equity and debt capital to fund a platform transaction

Helping private-equity firms and family-office business owners attract co-invest equity capital to complete a large transaction

Helping private-equity firms and entrepreneur- and family-owned businesses find, structure, and negotiate debt capital from banks and/or non-bank lenders to effect refinancings, recapitalizations, acquisitions, or growth

Sample human-capital engagements

Helping Transaction Sponsors find industry executives who can can act as operating partners, helping with targeted due diligence and driving operational improvements

Selectively helping Transaction Sponsors find industry executives and service providers whose expertise aligns with the needs of the given situation

TEAM

Meet Our Leadership Team

CapHub’s founders have personally felt the impact of inefficiencies in the middle-market deal ecosystem and founded CapHub to address these pain points.

We are creating a more efficient middle market by helping participants raise the capital necessary to complete their transactions, attract the right human capital to a given situation to help improve the investee company, and reduce many of the pain points of doing so. And our goal is to do all this while also bringing to bear a technology perspective that helps create efficiencies for everyone involved.

Eric Rogoff

Eric is a co-founder of CapHub. He has 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to companies. Previously, Eric was a founding partner of Falcon Investment Advisors, a private-credit and structed-equity investment firm. He helped lead the firm from its founding to its sale to a public company 20+ years later. During this time, Falcon grew from six employees to 50+ and invested over $5 billion across multiple niche private-capital investment strategies. Eric was a member of the investment committee for all the firm’s investment strategies, including direct lending, mezzanine capital, and structured equity; Portfolio Manager of the firm’s direct-lending strategy; and Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Onex Falcon BDC Fund. Prior to Falcon, Eric was a private-equity investor and investment banker.

Kyun Park

Kyun is a co-founder of CapHub. He has 25 years of experience as an independent sponsor, entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to companies. Kyun is the founder and Managing Partner of Aperion Management, an independent sponsor firm, which has executed more than ten platform investments and numerous add-on acquisitions. Prior to Aperion, he was a Vice President at Caxton-Iseman Capital, a private-equity firm. Earlier in his career, Kyun was a Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at UBS where he was involved in structuring and executing bank, high-yield, bridge, and mezzanine financing for financial sponsor clients. He began his career at Deutsche Bank Securities.

Whit Williams

Whit is a co-founder of CapHub. He has 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to companies. Whit is also the Managing Member of Argel Capital. Previously, he was a Co-Managing Partner of Atlantic Street Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, where he was a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Prior to Atlantic Street Capital, he was a founding partner at PennantPark, a private-credit firm that deployed over $11 billion of capital during his tenure. Earlier in his career, he was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank.

Caleb Hsieh

Caleb has over two decades of experience in credit investing and investment banking. Most recently, Caleb served as Managing Director for Lafayette Square, a private-credit investment firm. Before Lafayette Square, Caleb spent nearly a decade with Macquarie Group, where he was a Managing Director in the firm’s credit-investing Credit Markets Division and a Managing Director in the firm’s Leveraged Finance Group and Financial Sponsors Group. Caleb started his career at JP Morgan and has also worked at UBS and Banc of America. Throughout his career, Caleb has completed over 80 lead transactions, representing over $55 billion in capital across several industry verticals and spanning the entire middle market.

Filip Kowalewski

Filip has spent his career in the middle-market and lower-middle-market deal landscape in various investment-banking, business-development and operational roles. Prior to CapHub, he was a Vice President at Equiteq (and its spin-off firm, Artemis Origination), a boutique investment bank focused on buy-side and sell-side M&A in the IT Services and Management Consulting sectors. Prior to Equiteq, Filip worked at Third Bridge, a subscription research and expert-network firm where he led a business unit dedicated to serving private-equity and venture-capital clients.
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Streamlining The Middle-Market Deal Landscape