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The Ferrante Group

1333 3rd Ave S, Suite 503, Naples, FL, 34102-6426, United States

Overview

TFG has significant expertise and exposure in information technology, consumer, media, manufacturing, aerospace, business services, financial services, and real estate.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
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Active investors
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Investment portfolio

  • Radar

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2023

    RADAR provides a vertically integrated system of overhead RFID sensors, software, and analytics that captures a full inventory snapshot every eight seconds and delivers roughly 99% item-level inventory accuracy. Its platform converts continuous location signals into operational actions such as automated replenishment alerts, omnichannel fulfillment routing, loss-prevention triggers, and merchandising intelligence. The company is deployed across more than 1,400 stores with major U.S. retailers including American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy and processes more than 100 billion item-level events per day. RADAR positions its dataset as a foundation for forecasting demand, optimizing assortments, and understanding in-store customer interactions. The company plans to advance sensor hardware, expand AI capabilities, pursue autonomous checkout, and grow internationally while scaling operations under new CFO Abi Viswanathan.

  • Persefoni AI

    Participated · Series B · Oct 2021

    Persefoni is a Sustainability Management SaaS and AI platform serving companies and financial institutions. Its product lineup includes Persefoni Pro, a free self-guided offering for SMBs and supply-chain participants launched in March 2024 that has seen more than 6,000 organic sign-ups. The company is expanding its AI suite—PersefoniGPT and smart emission factor matching—and reports model breakthroughs in energy and utility bill management and physical risk modeling, with commercial products expected in 2025. Planned 2025 product releases include a dedicated Product Carbon Footprint/LCA capability, enhanced audit and controls, and a self-serve analytics builder. Persefoni has broadened from a pure enterprise model to include successful self-service offerings and has expanded Persefoni Pro to offer free multi-framework sustainability reporting in addition to carbon accounting. Management expects the recent progress and financing to carry the business toward profitability as early as the second half of 2025. Persefoni offers a Climate Management & Accounting Platform that helps businesses, financial institutions, and governmental agencies manage climate-related data, disclosures, and performance. Its software simplifies carbon footprint calculations, identifies decarbonization strategies, and performs climate trajectory modeling aligned to Paris Agreement temperature scenarios. The platform also enables benchmarking by region, sector, and peer group. The company has launched PersefoniGPT, an AI co-pilot product for carbon accounting and management, expanding its AI capabilities. Persefoni serves enterprise and financial-institution customers and emphasizes regulatory and disclosure workflows. Financially, the company has raised over $150 million to date, reflecting investor interest in its product and market opportunity. Persefoni offers an "ERP for Carbon Data" that automates carbon accounting and helps organizations comply with standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and PCAF. Its platform targets asset managers, banks, insurers, pensions/endowments and corporates across manufacturing, agriculture, energy, apparel, retail, software and business services. The company emphasizes avoiding proprietary methodologies to ensure auditability and claims automated accounting without consulting services. Persefoni has strategic partnerships with Bain & Co., EDF and SMBC, has expanded into the Japanese market, launched a free-tier for SMBs and introduced a Temperature Scoring Model for 1.5C/2C implied temperature scenarios. It also integrates with the Patch offsetting platform on a commission-free, pass-through basis. Financially, the company recently completed a Series B and has raised a total of $114.2 million to date. Persefoni builds a carbon accounting and management platform that assembles, calculates, manages and reports organizational carbon footprints with real-time reporting on scope 1 through 3 emissions. The company was founded only last January and launched its product in August alongside an initial $3.5M raise. Persefoni has attracted corporate customers, with private equity firms like TPG signing on to its service. The startup recently added Robert G. Eccles, founding chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, to its board of advisors. It plans to use new funding to support international expansion, product development, and recruitment. Persefoni develops an AI-powered carbon footprint management platform that generates business-centric sustainability reports and automates organizational emissions accounting. The company was founded in January by Jason Offerman, Kentaro Kawamori and Kim Stroh and is based in Tempe, Arizona. Persefoni plans to use its seed funding to continue product development, add features for large customers, expand its team beyond an 18-employee base, and pursue a Series A. The company said full availability of the platform will come in the fourth quarter and that it anticipates several million in sales by the end of the year. Persefoni positions itself against consumer and enterprise alternatives such as Klima, Salesforce Sustainability Cloud and SAP’s Climate 21 products, viewing some as competitors and others as potential partners. The platform emphasizes serving clients that are already serious about sustainability and meeting institutional investor demand for annual sustainability reports.

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