Peritus Capital is a minority-owned and operated boutique investment firm that invests in, supports, and finances the global development of ROI-generating, early-stage and established companies that integrate Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) principles into their business models. We are a global team with an extensive network of international investors able to invest across multiple geographies.
Peritus Capital LLC is a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of FINRA.
We aren’t constrained by one-size-fits-all thinking and, instead, take an entrepreneurial mindset and nimble approach to problem solving.
Performance based incentives align our interests with the long term goals of our clients, ensuring that we share in the risk as well as the reward.
Business challenges are solved by money and original concepts; capital will always follow expertise, creativity, and a strong network.
Financial rewards are achievable alongside socially conscious goals--protecting the environment, responsible corporate citizenship, and sustainable economic development.
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We have executed nearly USD 100m in transactions across the “egg-to-plate” value chain working with innovative greenfield projects and industry leaders... more
We have executed nearly USD 100m in transactions across the “egg-to-plate” value chain working with innovative greenfield projects and industry leaders... more
We spent a year in collaboration with a hydro-electric utility designing a low-cost solution for a complex multi-stage hydro-turbine construction project in Canada... more
We spent a year in collaboration with a hydro-electric utility designing a low-cost solution for a complex multi-stage hydro-turbine construction project in Canada... more
We are creating a circular economy using a single cell protein to transform organic seafood waste into fresh water and high value protein to supply local aquaculture operations... more
We are creating a circular economy using a single cell protein to transform organic seafood waste into fresh water and high value protein to supply local aquaculture operations... more
Unlike traditional investment banks, we possess specialized knowledge within niche markets and have an ability to offer wholly unique debt and/or equity solutions based on a client’s specific needs.
Net-pen aquaculture is facing ever-growing climate headwinds. 2023 was the hottest year on record, and warming waters have become a direct catalyst for the proliferation of parasites, algae blooms, and diminished oxygen levels. Each presents significant stand-alone challenges for farmers, let alone when coupled together.
"Imagine walking out of a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and not bothering to pick it up. That's essentially what we're doing," says one food scientist at the National Resources Defense Council.
Earlier in November, Butterfly Equity, Equilibrium Capital and a US public pension fund agreed to provide project financing for Pacifico Aquaculture.
Peritus Capital is pleased to announce its role as Lead Arranger and Financial Advisor to Pacifico Aquaculture SAPI de CV (Pacifico) concerning its project financing agreement with Equilibrium Capital. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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Bridge Executive Group is focused on designing, developing, and delivering innovative energy solutions to the North American and European markets. Bridge offers strategy and business development, engineering, financing and project management solutions to its clients. The company offers technologies in solar, wind, and hydro power generation as well as electrical energy storage.
Peritus Group provided a multi-stage term loan to finance Bridge Executive's replacement of three hydroelectric turbines at New Brunswick Power. NB Power is a Canadian crown company with over CAD 1.5bn in revenues and is the primary electric utility to the province of New Brunswick.
Butterfly Equity is a Los Angeles, California-based private equity firm specializing in the food sector. Their investments span the entire food value chain from “seed to fork” via four key segments: upstream & processing, industry enablers, multi-site and branded goods. Butterfly has over $4 billion of assets under management.
Cooke Aquaculture's humble beginning was in 1985 with one farm and 5,000 salmon. Over three decades later, the Cooke family still owns and operates the business but has grown it into one of the largest innovative, fully integrated, diversified global seafood companies in the world. Its operations span North America, Europe, and Latin America, comprised of a deep value chain in Atlantic salmon, sea bass, sea bream, shrimp, and wild-caught fish.
Peritus Capital supports Cooke Aquaculture's global efforts with unique local and cross-border asset finance strategies. We help provide the capital that allows Cooke to acquire major industrial assets across the value chain and including feed mills, feed barges, processing equipment, and Recirculating Aquaculture Systems.
GIS Ventures is pioneering the application of aqueous concentrated dissolved oxygen solutions into medical and critical animal fields. The company’s base IP is a mass gas transfer system that can exchange nitrogen for oxygen in an aquatic environment increasing oxygen levels by 4 times and with zero change in total pressure.
GIS Ventures has identified dozens of potential applications that could benefit from super saturated oxygen solutions including areas such as wound care, organ transplants, and equine wounds. Peritus Group invested in and financed the R&D capital for the development of these new applications.
Gas Infusion Systems Inc. (GIS) is a St. Andrews, New Brunswick-based innovator of unique aquaculture and transportation applications for fish health and welfare. GIS has partnered with a top aquaculture and pharmaceutical company in the commercialization of its solutions.
The company’s key technology is an aqueous gas exchange system that can extract nitrogen and replace it with oxygen in a 1-for-1 molecule exchange. The solution is bubble-less, super saturating fluids with oxygen while maintaining a constant total gas pressure. This creates an ideal environment for rearing and transporting fish.
Peritus Group has directly invested in and financed the development of GIS. We continue to support the founders in the expansion of their innovative solutions across the seafood sector.
Pacifico Aquaculture is the world’s first and only producer of ocean-raised striped bass. Pacifico True Striped Bass® has earned a spot on the menus of numerous Michelin star restaurants across the U.S. and Mexico. The company, based in Baja California, Mexico, operates a vertically integrated, ocean net pen farm raising striped bass from egg-to-plate.
Rype Office returns high quality used furniture to as-new condition and makes innovative furniture from waste materials. They also offer award-winning sustainable office design assistance.
Furniture is the biggest source of carbon emissions in a commercial building. Rype Office reduces this by 80% while saving clients money and creating jobs for those with disabilities.
Peritus Capital supported the growth of Rype Office by financing its working capital with an equity private placement.
Topolytics is a data aggregation and analytics business that makes the world’s waste visible, verifiable, and valuable. The company provides mapping and machine learning tools for private, government, and non-profit organizations that generate waste through their operations and products, allowing for greater resource recovery.
Peritus Capital made a seed investment into Topolytics to support the company's data science hires and working capital needs as it begins to scale a significant pipeline of opportunities.
TruCelium is a pioneering B2B specialty alternative protein ingredients company that produces full-fungi water soluble mushroom powders and a proprietary, fermented mushroom "dough" called Mycolyte.
Peritus Capital invested in the company, which is set to build its initial ~50,000 sq ft production facility to serve the needs of the supplement, functional food, beverages, and the pet and human food sectors.
Prior to Peritus, the Founders launched a small business lender using proprietary software to source lending opportunities, later exiting its loan portfolio at a profit and producing attractive returns for investors. This was followed by an investment in Lighthouse Finance, an aquaculture focused asset finance firm headquartered in Norway. The Founders were instrumental in rebranding the business, expanding it into North America, Europe, and Asia, significantly growing its portfolio, and resulting in a 8x return to the Founders in less than three years.
While Peritus expands its investment mandate to other sectors and financial instruments, it continues to guide and support the development of Lighthouse.
The Founders have held key executive roles and contributed to the transformation of a venture capital-backed start-up to a billion-dollar business. The business continues to be a critical provider of business intelligence and research to a broad audience of hedge funds, financial advisors, and institutional investors.
Howard executes the vision of Peritus through extensive relationships in the capital markets and multiple ESG industries.
Most recently, Howard launched a small business lending company called Simpler Funding that preceded an equity investment into Nordic markets-focused aquaculture focused advisory firm, Lighthouse Finance. Howard eventually joined the latter full time as Managing Director and Head of Global Capital Markets; in this role he helped scale the firm into a global, multimillion dollar business, structuring complex financial solutions for some of the top seafood companies in the world.
Previously, Howard spent more than a decade with the Acuris Group. As its Global Head of Research he launched multiple lucrative institutional research and media products, taking a small financial media start-up to a multibillion dollar entity that eventually sold to private equity investors. At the Acuris Group, Howard built and led a team of 40 analysts spread across four global offices in New York, London, Mumbai, and Hong Kong.
Howard was also instrumental in launching Fulcrum Financial Data in North America, which was sold to the Fitch Group.
Howard holds a CFA designation and Series 7, 24, 27, 63, and 79 licenses.
Ching is responsible for developing and implementing the commercial strategy at Peritus Capital.
Prior to Peritus, Ching focused on global business development at Lighthouse Finance. Her main responsibility was capital market origination and deal sourcing. Ching also co-founded a financing start-up, Simpler Funding, where she played a crucial role in developing and building the SME lending platform.
Ching was previously with the Acuris Group, a global financial media & analytics firm. At Acuris, she launched a middle market M&A origination platform. She has also been an institutional sales lead for several financial service companies including a Moody's owned Chinese data and analytics platform.
Utilizing her years of business and relationship development experience across the financial service sector, Ching will continue to cultivate and maintain Peritus’ network of institutional investors, commercial banks, private capital groups, hedge funds and family offices.
Ed manages Peritus' day-to-day operations and develops its strategic initiatives.
Using his deep knowledge of complex commercial transactions and regulatory frameworks, Ed draws upon his legal background to ensure that the firm maintains compliance with FINRA and SEC protocols.
Ed also develops Peritus' various strategic projects across its legal, accounting, and compliance teams, while working closely with our global partners to implement its international collaborations.
Prior to Peritus, Ed managed the asset portfolio at Lighthouse Finance. There, he helped launch its Global CAPEX program, which provides off-balance sheet financing to a multi-billion vertically integrated seafood conglomerate.
Courtney oversees all of Peritus’ communications and marketing efforts in addition to assisting with investor development.
In her role, Courtney is responsible for growing the firm’s B2B print/online, social media, and speaking engagement presence.
Courtney previously owned her own consulting firm focused on business development, investment research and external capital introductions for clients including the City of Chicago, a university-led tech startup incubator, financial services providers and nonprofit entities.
With a formal background in Journalism, Courtney also spent eight years at financial news and analytics firm Acuris where she held reporting, editing, and sales positions for proprietary debt and equities capital markets intelligence and infrastructure platforms for North America, South America, and Asia-Pacific.
Ketur is responsible for the Firm’s technology strategy. He coordinates and manages all aspects of the company’s internal tools, website data, infrastructure, and security.
Ketur has over a decade’s worth of experience working on data and analysis software for financial media, analytics, and investing firms and held previous positions at Fulcrum Financial Data and Fitch before joining the Peritus team.
With a focus on using data and software to make impactful operational improvements, he’s comfortable melding vendor solutions with custom software to achieve internal organizational goals. Be it governance, production, or social improvements, Ketur believes that there are many problems simply awaiting creative solutions.
