Financial services

‘Payments infrastructure often sits outside the traditional operating-partner toolkit. It's neither a classic commercial lever nor a pure cost lever, so it can fall between the cracks,’ partner Ronny Wittig tells PE Hub.

Most recently, Flannery served as managing director and head of product marketing platform at Neuberger Berman.

Kalon Capital is a Stamford, Connecticut-based mid-ticket equipment finance platform that provides tailored financing to businesses in manufacturing, industrial services, construction and other essential industries.

Akrapoint Commercial Capital is a Denver-based mid-ticket equipment finance company focused on financing vocational assets, specialty trailers and industrial equipment for small and middle-market businesses.

Qbees, founded in 2020 and based in Ohlstadt, Germany, provides managed IT and software services to banks, exchanges and FinTechs operating in regulated financial environments.

Brinkley joined Amulet in 2020 as a vice president and was promoted to principal in 2024, playing a leading role in the firm's fertility and reproductive health investments.

From Frankfurt, Andera Partners will primarily drive market penetration in Germany with Andera' Acto's 'sponsorless mezzanine' strategy.

The Los Angeles-based middle-market firm adds two vice presidents and two associates while elevating two associates to senior associate as it continues building out its investment team.

Upcoming companies-for-sale activity, including insights from Justin Abelow, a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s financial sponsors group, and Effram Kaplan, co-CEO of investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang; Vector Capital Management taps Kiran Rao as managing director and head of value creation; Sheridan Capital Partners completes an investment in PtEverywhere.