Barclays
1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP, United Kingdom
Overview
Barclays is a transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank with global reach, offering products, and services. The company's businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full-service, global corporate, and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations, and functional services across the Group. It was founded in 1690 and is based in London.
- Total investments
- 107
- Lead investments
- 29
- Investments · 12mo
- 10
- Active investors
- 9
Sector focus
- Banking
- Consumer
- Financial Services
- Wholesale
Investment portfolio
- DataBank
Participated · Debt Financing · Jun 2026
DataBank operates large data center campuses and is expanding its roughly 300-acre Red Oak campus south of Dallas. At full buildout the Red Oak site is planned to include eight two-story data centers, each offering about 200,000 square feet of data center space; the fourth building will add approximately 60 megawatts of IT capacity. The company serves hyperscale, cloud and enterprise customers and is pursuing growth through both development and acquisitions. DataBank has secured significant project financing for Red Oak, including $2 billion in April and an additional $650 million announced in this financing round, bringing total loan commitments for the campus to $2.65 billion. The firm also added an $800 million revolver to support capital expenditures and corporate needs, strengthening its capital structure for continued expansion. Dallas remains a leading data center market, supporting demand for DataBank’s capacity growth.
- Versana
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Versana provides a centralized platform that digitally captures agents' loan data on a real-time basis from golden-source ledgers to deliver loan-level transparency and lender portfolio visibility. The company serves the broadly syndicated loan (BSL) and private credit markets and positions itself as a standard source of credible deal information across the asset class. In 2025 it introduced a Versana Reconciliation Module and a cashless roll solution linking amended facilities to original facilities. Versana reports active facility coverage exceeding $4.1 trillion in notional value. With over $125 million raised across multiple funding rounds, the company is pursuing international expansion, product innovation and data analytics enhancements to modernize the $9 trillion loan market.
- Cerebras Systems
Led · Debt Financing · Apr 2026
Cerebras Systems designs and sells what it describes as the fastest AI infrastructure in the world, centered on its Wafer-Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) processor. The company states the WSE-3 is the largest commercialized AI processor, 58 times larger than the largest GPU, delivering inference and training up to 15 times faster while using a fraction of the power per unit compute. Cerebras offers solutions both on premises and in the cloud and reports deployments with leading corporations, research institutes, and governments across four continents. Financially, the company completed a $1 billion Series G in September 2025 and a $1 billion Series H in January 2026, and has now secured an $850 million revolving credit facility, bringing total capital raised to $2.85 billion in the last eight months. The company intends to use the new credit facility to expand data center capacity and support its growth plans.
- Fervo Energy
Led · Debt Financing · Mar 2026
Fervo Energy develops next-generation geothermal power using innovations in horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing and advanced reservoir engineering to make geothermal scalable and competitive. Its flagship Cape Station project in Beaver County, Utah is slated to deliver first power to the grid in 2026, reach about 100 MW of operating capacity by early 2027 and has plans to scale to 500 MW. Cape Station is fully contracted through power purchase agreements with Southern California Edison, Shell Energy and community choice aggregators. The company secured long-term non-recourse project financing for the first phase of Cape Station to fund remaining construction costs and meet counterparty credit support requirements. Fervo positions its technology and commercial contracts as enabling Enhanced Geothermal Systems to be treated as a bankable, utility-scale infrastructure asset.
- Databricks
Participated · Debt Financing · Feb 2026
Databricks operates a cloud data platform and AI products, with its core cloud data warehouse generating $1.5 billion of its annualized run-rate revenue and growing 100% year-over-year. The company reported a $7 billion annualized run-rate revenue figure while growing at roughly 80% and being cash-flow positive. Databricks launched Lakebase in June 2025, which has reached a $100 million revenue run-rate, and its AI chatbot tool Genie is described as highly popular. The company maintains a roughly 100-person AI research team and faces multi-billion-dollar cloud commitments with major hyperscalers. Databricks has been active on the M&A front, acquiring companies including Electric (PGlite) and AI cybersecurity firm Panther, and it says it plans to continue investing in AI and acquisitions while remaining open to a future IPO.