Ligo Partners Family Office

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate COVU – a leader in AI-native services for insurance agencies – and their fantastic CEO Ali Safavi on their $12.5mm Series A funding raise.   Our family office are proud to have committed capital to this funding round with strategic investors including Allianz, John Hancock, Benhamou Global Ventures. We are very excited to see Covu continuing to prove out disruptive potential of AI in transforming the insurance industry. https://lnkd.in/eKPv2nmN

Ligo Partners would like to congratulate Ligo Family Office Webinar Finalist Lightmatter – a market leader in photonic tech within datacenter networking chips - and their phenomenal CEO Nicholas Harris - on their $400 million Series D funding round at a valuation of $4.4 billion. New investor T. Rowe Price led the funding round, with participation from existing backers including Fidelity and Alphabet's GV. https://lnkd.in/efsTraBa

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate SoloSuit – a legal tech startup that streamlines the debt resolution process for consumers– and their fantastic CEO George Simons on their $2mm funding raise. Our family office are proud to have committed capital to this funding round with strategic investors including Harald McPike’s Global Family Office; Lobster Capital and Mana Ventures. With over 230,000 consumers bringing more than $1.5 billion in debt onto the platform with the intention of settling, SoloSuit is poised to disrupt the debt collection industry by making the settlement process faster, fairer, and more accessible for both consumers and debt collectors. https://lnkd.in/e__d2pMs

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate PrivacyHawk – a consumer data protection firm – and their fantastic CEO Aaron Mendes on their $3mm funding raise. Our family offices are proud to have committed capital to this funding round with strategic investors including US News & World Report and K Street Capital, as well as ffVC, Cadron Capital, Alliance Catalyst Fund, Array, Liebenthal Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Duro, and Gaingels. Surpassing 1mm users after just 2 years in operation, PrivacyHawk’s innovative privacy app helps reduce users’ digital footprints by identifying and removing their personal data from numerous databases and data brokers. https://lnkd.in/eNjQ8MPY

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate FLYR - the technology company that unlocks freedom to innovate for the travel industry – and their fantastic CEO Alexandre MARS Mans on their $295mm Series D raise. Our family office are proud to be advisors and previous capital investors, with this funding round led by WestCap and included investments from BlackRock, Streamlined Ventures, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). We are super excited for what the future holds, as with over $500M raised to-date, FLYR has become one of the best-funded travel technology companies in history to address the archaic technology constraints that plague the multi-trillion dollar travel industry. https://lnkd.in/eXSc2VD4

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate H3X Technologies - a startup that aims to accelerate that future with a reimagined, completely integrated electric motor - and their phenomenal CEO Jason Sylvestre on their $20mm raise.   Our family offices are proud to have committed capital to this round led by Infinite Capital, with participation from Hanwha AM, Cubit Capital, Origin Ventures, Industrious Ventures, Venn10 Capital, as well as existing investors Lockheed Martin Ventures, Metaplanet, Liquid 2 Ventures and TechNexus. The new round will enable the team to complete development of their megawatt-scale motors - a complete game-changer, especially in industries where every inch and pound counts, like drones and small aircraft. https://lnkd.in/e6wFFen4

Ligo Partners would like to congratulate Ligo Family Office Webinar Finalist RetiSpec – an AI-driven eye diagnostics for brain health - and RetiSpec’s phenomenal CEO Eliav Shaked 🇮🇱 Shaked - on their $10mm financing round led by iGan Partners and included new strategic investors, Eli Lilly and Company and Topcon Healthcare, Inc., along with existing investors, Gentex Corporation, the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator, Verge HealthTech Fund, University of Minnesota’s Discovery Capital, Ontario Brain Institute, Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation. https://lnkd.in/e367Qbus

Ligo Partners Family Office would like to congratulate Legacy - North America's #1 digital fertility clinic for men - and their phenomenal CEO Khaled Kteily on a $7.5mm raise.   Our family offices are proud to have committed capital to this round led by Trac.VC. Other investors include Bain Capital Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and celebrities like Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Orlando Bloom, and DJ Khaled. We are proud to continue our tradition of supporting our military, as Legacy now makes male fertility services available to 9mm+ veterans. https://lnkd.in/gWkAcr28

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