Allen & Company
1401 South Florida Avenue, Lakeland, FL, 33803, United States
Overview
Allen & Company is a family-owned investment and advisory firm. The firm advises on M&A and capital raises, with an emphasis on the technology, media, healthcare, and sports sectors. Allen & Company was established in 1932 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
- Total investments
- 67
- Lead investments
- 6
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 9
Sector focus
- Banking
- Charity
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Life Insurance
- Wealth Management
Investment portfolio
- Neros Technologies
Participated · Series C · Aug 2026
Neros Technologies develops and manufactures a range of small, mass-produced military drones including FPV platforms with autonomy and counter-UAS interceptor systems. The company announced new products Archer AI (an FPV platform augmented with autonomy features) and Bandit (a c‑UAS interceptor) and is building the hardware and compute stack for multi-asset control. Neros plans to scale domestic production capacity and aims to produce one million drones per year across multiple capability classes by 2028. It has major contracts with the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, every component of SOCOM, and several allied nations, and operates a UK subsidiary to partner with European allies. Management reported explosive growth since its prior financing in November and is using fresh capital to accelerate development, production ramps, and deployment into combat theaters by the end of 2026. The company is headquartered in Torrance, Calif.
- Kavak
Participated · Series F · Feb 2026
Kavak operates a tech-enabled marketplace that couples vehicle inspection, reconditioning, logistics, financing and post-sale support to bring trust and liquidity to Latin America’s historically informal used-car market. Its fintech arm has originated more than $1 billion in customer loans since launch and, in Q4 2025, reached an annualized run rate of roughly $600 million with year-on-year growth nearing 100%. During 2025 the company completed nearly 120,000 transactions, a 40% increase over the prior year, and recorded its first full month of consolidated global profitability in December, buoyed by profitable operations in Mexico, Chile and the GCC. AI agents now handle the majority of customer interactions, and further workflow automation is planned for 2026. Beyond direct retail, Kavak’s ecosystem powers over 5,000 industry partners that tap its technology and infrastructure. The company’s mission centers on broadening access to car ownership, reducing fraud and enhancing trust throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
- Blue Current
Participated · Series D · Dec 2025
Blue Current is a battery technology company focused on commercializing silicon solid-state batteries that eliminate flammable liquid electrolytes. Its platform pairs earth-abundant silicon and elastic polymer anodes with fully dry electrolytes, yielding improved energy density, faster charge rates, inherent safety, and operation at low pressures. The design can be manufactured on existing lithium-ion battery equipment, positioning the product for cost-effective, domestic scale-up across electric mobility and stationary storage markets. After more than a decade of research and development, the company operates from a headquarters and pilot line facility in Hayward, California. With safety as a guiding principle, Blue Current’s batteries aim to reduce fire risk while extending cycle life and charging performance. The newly raised capital moves the firm into a full commercialization phase, enabling multiple high-value use cases across energy-reliant industries.
- Nasdaq Private Market
Participated · Series B · Feb 2024
Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) runs a full-service platform that supports structured liquidity programs, trading, settlement, and data services for private-market participants. To date, the company has executed almost $70 billion in transaction volume for more than 200,000 eligible employee shareholders and investors, spanning over 900 company-sponsored liquidity programs. Its technology facilitates secondary transactions and other liquidity events, giving private companies a means to manage equity and provide shareholder liquidity prior to an IPO or exit. Management, led by CEO Tom Callahan and CFO René Paula, plans to scale operations, invest in product innovation around secondary transactions, enhance global distribution, and integrate AI tools. The firm reports that its valuation has quadrupled since its Series B round in 2024, underscoring rapid growth and increasing market demand. With fresh capital, NPM intends to accelerate platform enhancements and expand its international reach, further embedding itself in the private-market ecosystem.
- Harmonya
Participated · Series A · Sep 2023
Harmonya provides an AI-powered platform that enriches and structures product-level information to deliver product data enrichment, attribution, and real-time shopper insights. The platform ingests open-market product data — including titles, descriptions, ingredients, and consumer reviews from millions of listings — and converts static product information into actionable intelligence. Harmonya's tools are aimed at helping CPGs and retailers uncover growth opportunities hidden in legacy systems and improve product data management. The company says it will use the new funding to support international expansion and continue developing its AI-driven platform. Harmonya was founded in 2021 and operates globally with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Harmonya provides an AI-powered platform that enriches product data, generates insights, and supports attribution for consumer packaged goods brands and retailers. Its solutions transform static product information into actionable intelligence to improve decision-making and drive measurable growth. The company reports coverage of over 20 million products across hundreds of categories and more than $500 billion in tracked annual sales, and serves Fortune 500 customers including six of the top 10 global CPG brands. Harmonya plans to use the new investment to accelerate its 2025 product roadmap, enable new use cases, and shorten time-to-value for brands and retailers. The company operates teams in New York and Tel Aviv and counts clients such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Mars Petcare. Harmonya focuses on solving product-attribute inconsistency to make product information meaningful and actionable for retail decision makers. Harmonya uses proprietary generative AI and large language models to synthesize product attributes and create a unified product language from titles, descriptions, ingredients and consumer reviews. The platform performs product data enrichment, categorization and delivers insights tailored to retail and CPG workflows. Since founding in 2021, Harmonya has grown its customer base and counts four of the top 10 global CPG companies and large U.S. retailers among its clients. The company is based in New York and maintains an office in Tel Aviv. Harmonya positions its technology to resolve disparate product categorization across value chains by surfacing granular, molecular-level product attributes. Current plans focus on continuing R&D, refining the product suite for large enterprise customers, and scaling go-to-market and sales and marketing teams.