Peritus Capital is a minority-owned and operated boutique investment firm that invests in, supports, and finances the global development of 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.
We support our clients holistically and make ourselves available to help however possible.
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.
Land-based aquaculture, particularly through Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, has become the "it" investment in the seafood space. Its rise hasn't exactly been meteoric, but a confluence of factors has finally convinced the greater institutional investor base to get off the sidelines and start taking the area seriously.
To say that new money has been flooding into land-based aquaculture recently would be an understatement. In a 2019 study on land-based initiatives, Rabobank estimated that new production reared from Recirculating Aquaculture Systems would add over 700,000 metric tonnes per year. Most of this investment is for Atlantic salmon.
Led by a former managing partner at Norwegian asset finance firm Lighthouse Finance, New York City, U.S.A.-based Peritus Capital hopes to provide financing to aquaculture operations with a sustainability focus.
Peritus Capital CEO Howard Tang, CFA moderated an ESG panel entitled "ESG Creates Value, Not Just Investment Returns" on behalf of CFA Society New York. Howard was joined by Aniket Shah, PhD, Mariela Vargova, Ph.D., Lisa Hayles, and Kate Ahern to discuss how an effective #ESG proposition links to higher value creation.
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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, and 63 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 develops and executes Peritus' strategic and operational initiatives, in addition to managing its legal, accounting, and compliance teams through the deal structuring process.
Before forming Peritus, Ed co-founded Simpler Funding and was instrumental in developing its proprietary small business lending algorithm. He also launched a successful real estate investment development venture after the housing crisis.
As a partner of Lighthouse Finance, Ed navigated a myriad of international laws and regulations to craft and implement the operational blueprint for its core global off-balance sheet capex financing program, which provided complex tax advantageous structures to vertically integrated seafood companies.
In the past, Ed contributed to the community by providing pro bono legal services to residents of low income housing. Ed has participated as a judge for Fish 2.0 providing guidance to startup ventures supporting ESG principles.
Ed is an active member of the New York State Bar.
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.