Participated · Equity · Aug 2025

Flexential offers customizable IT and data center solutions for high-density computing needs, delivering services including colocation, cloud, interconnection, data protection, and professional services through its FlexAnywhere® platform. The company operates 40 data centers across 18 highly connected markets on a scalable 100+ Gbps private network backbone. Flexential positions its offerings to meet stringent security, compliance, and resiliency requirements for complex enterprise customers. The company is expanding capacity to meet growing enterprise and AI-driven demand and is investing ahead of customer needs. Its recent $800 million credit facility, supported by an 11-bank syndicate and equity sponsors GI Partners and MSIP, will fund more than 130 MW of new capacity across four key markets. Ongoing projects named in the financing include facilities in Atlanta-Douglasville, Portland-Hillsboro, Denver-Parker, and an expansion near Atlanta-Norcross.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2025

Zest Equity builds digital infrastructure and a proprietary transactional stack to streamline private market transactions end-to-end. Its first product enables clients to group stakeholders into a single legal vehicle (SPV), digitizing execution processes and improving efficiency across the GCC. The platform targets private market workflows by combining legal structuring with digital execution tools. Founded in 2021 by Zuhair Shamma and Rawan Baddour, the company is headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Zest Equity plans to use new funding to expand operations and accelerate product development. The company’s current financial update is the $4.3M Pre-Series A close led by Prosus Ventures with participation from Morgan Stanley Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures. Zest Equity offers a tech-first platform that digitizes private market transactions, enabling founders and investors to invite participants, share pitch decks and cap tables, and track deal processes online. The platform also provides legal infrastructure to form syndicates or special purpose vehicles, keeping cap tables clean and reducing administrative costs. Zest is building tools to standardize and accelerate secondary share trades, including setting liquidity windows, controlling liquidation, and approving information sharing to improve transparency and speed. The company says its tools save time for VCs and angels and make it easier for investors to access liquidity. The startup plans to use new funding to build additional tools to further streamline and automate deal workflows. Zest has raised a $3.8M seed in this round, bringing total funding to $5.7M.