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Our Funds by StrategyTraverse Growth FundSavory Restaurant FundPrelude Venture FundAlpha Secondary FundResourcesGrowth HandbookNews and EventsThe Mercato AdvantageWho We AreLP PortalContact Us [email protected] MERCATO PARTNERSNavigating a sea of opportunities to fund extraordinary companies. TraverseFund SavoryFund PreludeFund AlphaFund Breaking News Data-Fintech Innovator Klover Joins Traverse Fund IV On August 12, Klover officially announced its $25 million Series A round. Mercato Partners Traverse Fund led the round with participation from new and existing investors including Lightbank, Core Innovation Capital and Starting Line. With this financing, Klover will expand the sales, marketing, engineering, and product teams aggressively, grow their 1.5 million user base, and broaden the services and value to their consumers. Read More News Mercato Partners Traverse Fund Leads $64M Series A for Prime Trust Innovative financial infrastructure company, Prime Trust, announced the successful close of their $64M Series A funding.  Lead by Mercato Partners Traverse Fund, Prime Trust’s suite of customizable APIs helps fintech businesses build, launch and scale quickly, under security and compliance requirements. The company will use the funding to pursue market share in cryptocurrencies and digital asset exchanges, tokenized assets, digital wallets, and crowdfunding. Prime Trust will also build its presence in new markets such as wealth tech, neobanks, registered investment advisers, and alternative trading systems. Read more News Traverse Fund III Portfolio Company Cloud Elements Acquired by UiPath Cloud Elements acquisition by UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software provider, marks an early exit for Traverse Growth Fund III. Mercato Partners recognized early on in 2018, during the time of investing, that Cloud Elements was onto something special with its API-centric technology. Read More News Mercato Partners' Venture Practice, Prelude, Leads $3M Investment In GloveBox “We’re excited to partner with GloveBox because of their ability to solve a complicated problem in the insurance industry,” said Zach Sivertson, managing director at Prelude. “The GloveBox team understood the challenges facing this market and, from their experience, built a platform that elegantly solves the problems facing the 36,000 independent agencies and their clients.” Read More News Mercato Leads Beam Dental's $80M Series E Traverse, the Mercato Partners growth fund, led Columbus, Ohio-based Beam Dental’s $80M series E. Beam simplifies the antiquated $75 billion dental insurance industry for members, brokers, and employers. Also participating in this round were Drive Capital, Georgian, Nationwide Ventures, Ainge Advisors, and Breakout Capital. Read More News Mercato Partners Completes Inaugural Growth Fund Producing Industry Leading Returns Mercato Partners has completed the final distribution of its inaugural Travers Growth Fund, delivering a net multiple of 3.7x and a net IRR of 51%. The return metrics places Mercato Partners Fund I in the top 3% of its peer group. A select few of the companies in Fund I included: Control 4, MediConnect Global, Stance, and Fusion-io. Mercato Partners has since expanded by adding multiple practices which include Savory, a dedicated food and beverage fund; Alpha, a direct secondaries fund; and Prelude, an early-stage venture fund. All practices are off to the races with top tier track records. Read More News Director Joe Kaiser Speaks With Crunchbase About Utah's Thriving Tech Scene Sophia Kunthara of Crunchbase discusses the IPO of Qualtrics, Mercato Partners success, and Utah’s thriving tech scene with director Joe Kaiser. The article reflects on Utah’s track record of being home to highly successful companies and its ability to attract and cradle top tier talent in the tech space. Read More News Lendio Continues To Serve Small Businesses Through PPP Lendio will continue to provide small businesses access to PPP capital in the next round of loans. Lendio’s previous average PPP loan size was $56,000, and they will continue to serve small businesses moving forward. Watch the CNBC interview with Kate Rogers. Read More News Joe Kaiser talks about High IPO Valuations in a COVID Economy Why are IPOs values so high despite COVID? Simple. It’s because investors are looking into the long-term growth potential of the companies it favors says Traverse director Joe Kaiser.  Check out the article by Axios markets reporter Courtenay Brown. Read more Breaking News Thoma Bravo Announces Strategic Majority Investment in Venafi On December 10, 2020, Venafi, a Mercato Traverse Fund II portfolio company, announced a strategic majority investment from leading private equity firm, Thoma Bravo.  The investment sets the value of Venafi at $1.15B and marks the successful close of Mercato’s investment in the Salt Lake City-based firm. Read more Breaking News Joe Kaiser and Dan Primack Talk About Investing and COVID On December 9, 2020, Dan Primack, business editor for Axios, caught up with Traverse Director Joe Kaiser to talk about investing in overlooked and underserved markets in the time of COVID.  Find out more and check out the video. Read more News Mercato Partners Shauna Smith of Savory Fund Is Promoted to CEO Mercato Partners Shauna Smith of Savory Fund has recently been promoted to CEO. She previously served as President and will continue to grow Savory’s portfolio of delicious restaurant brands. Shauna brings more than a decade of executive management experience in the food and beverage industry and has been a driving force behind the successful expansion of several restaurants. Congratulations to our very own Shauna Smith! Read More News Mercato Partners Saima Ahmed Discusses The Future of Private Equity With Preqin Mercato Partner’s Principal Saima Ahmed discusses the future of alternatives on a panel hosted by Preqin. She is joined by other private equity investment professionals, sharing thoughts on the direction alternatives are heading. The panel explores different sectors of private equity which include: buyout, infrastructure, natural resources, real estate, and debt. Geographic considerations are also discussed concerning the growth of alternatives. Follow the link to view the presentation and listen to the discussion Future of Alternatives. Read More News GREG WARNOCK SPEAKS WITH VENTURE CAPITAL JOURNAL ON EXITS DURING A PANDEMIC Co- founder and managing director Greg Warnock discusses challenges and opportunities for Mercato Partner’s Traverse Fund during the pandemic with Alistair Goldfisher from Venture Capital Journal.  The pandemic has made some things harder, some things more uncertain, but some things clearer.  It creates opportunities in a way that is different in the specifics but still resonates with the Traverse investment strategy.  He also highlights the four exits in 2020 — two in excess of $1B each.   Check it out using the link below.. Read More News Joe Kaiser Discusses Healthcare Investing With Medical Alley Traverse Fund Director Joe Kaiser talks to Medical Alley about investing in healthcare companies throughout the Midwest and how COVID – 19 has impacted the industry. Joe also shares some of his insights on being a successful investor. Read More News Traverse Fund Director Joe Kaiser featured in PitchBook Article on COVID's Impact on Initial Funding Traverse Director Joe Kaiser offered his perspective on the impact COVID has had on first-round funding to PitchBook’s Priyamvada Mathur.  Read more of Joe’s thoughts here or click the link to find the PitchBook article. Read More News Mercato's Saima Ahmed talks to Preqin about Socially-Conscious, High-Performance Investing Alpha Fund Principal Saima Ahmed talks with Prequin about the emerging realization by alternatives managers that investing for performance can go hand-in-hand with investing with a social conscience.  More and more managers are seeing the value in both financial and non-financial outcomes.Read more about the changes we are seeing and the changes we are driving at Mercato Partners.Check it out at Preqin. Read more WHO WE ARE Accelerating Your Growth Mercato Partners is a trusted investor for growth stage companies seeking capital and assistance to accelerate and scale their businesses. We understand that true growth requires more than just capital, so we help companies bring new products to new customers through new channels, find and retain the best possible talent, and increase brand awareness to gain market share. Choosing the perfect investor for your business is about competency and compatibility. We offer both. But don’t just take our word for it—slide right to discover why CEOs choose Mercato. Contact Us Let's Get ConnectedContact Us TodayTell us why you’d like to connect and we’ll reach out to you as soon as [email protected] E Cottonwood Parkway, Ste. 500Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84121 1557 W Innovation Way, #150 Lehi, UT 84043 × Let's Get ConnectedContact Us TodayTell us why you’d like to connect and we’ll reach out to you as soon as [email protected] E Cottonwood Parkway, Ste. 500Cottonwood Heights, Utah 84121 1557 W Innovation Way, #150 Lehi, UT 84043