Crossroads Impact Corp Announces $180 Million Equity Investment from Funds Managed by P10 and Conversant Capital and Expanded Relationship with Enhanced Capital Group to Accelerate Growth
Crossroads Impact Corp (OTCQX: CRSS) has announced a strategic partnership with Enhanced Capital Group and Conversant Capital, securing $180 million in equity capital at $10.76 per share, with an additional potential of $310 million. The company is finalizing a $150 million debt facility with Texas Capital Bank, enhancing its capital for impact investments focused on underserved communities. This collaboration aims to boost Crossroads' lending capacity in climate finance, real estate, and small business sectors, while positioning it for a possible up-listing to a national exchange.
- Secured $180 million equity investment at $10.76 per share, with potential for an additional $310 million.
- Finalizing a $150 million debt facility with Texas Capital Bank.
- Expanded capital deployment focused on climate finance and small business lending to underserved communities.
- Potential up-listing to a national exchange indicated.
- No assurances on ECG Impact loans implementation or performance consistency.
- Risk of not obtaining asset leverage financing on anticipated terms.
Company also finalizing new
Enhanced Capital Group and Crossroads to focus relationship on credit investments in Climate Finance, Impact Real Estate, and Small Business Lending to Underserved Communities
Increased scale sets stage to evaluate eventual up-listing
DALLAS, July 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crossroads Impact Corp (OTCQX: CRSS), the parent company of leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Certified B Corp, Capital Plus Financial, has announced the expansion of its strategic relationship with Enhanced Capital Group LLC (“ECG”), the Impact investment solution of P10, Inc. (NYSE: PX), and a new strategic investment from Conversant Capital LLC (“Conversant”).
Investment funds managed by P10 and managed by Conversant are investing a combined
Crossroads is finalizing a new
Thanks to the combination of fresh equity and attractively priced debt capital, Crossroads believes it is well positioned to pursue its ample pipeline of ECG impact loans, which is already approaching
“Prioritizing underserved communities and disadvantaged populations is core to what we do,” said Eric Donnelly, CEO of Crossroads Impact Corp. “Crossroads is grateful to have incredible partners like P10, Enhanced, and Conversant who have brought transformative capital, and a proven track record of impact to a platform that will positively affect the lives of thousands of people.”
“We are thrilled to grow our partnership with Crossroads to provide access to much needed capital for underserved communities to catalyze growth and positive impact,” said Michael Korengold, President, and CEO of Enhanced Capital Group. “Our shared mission to inspire community development is the core driver of this program and has been foundational to Enhanced Capital since our inception. Enhanced Capital looks forward to creating additional economic vitality and strengthening community development across the country with Crossroads at an even larger scale."
Michael Simanovsky, founder and managing partner of Conversant, said, “In the current market environment, impact-focused specialty finance companies with deep experience in the sector, proven business models and scalability, such as Crossroads, have an incredible opportunity ahead of them to deploy capital into large, underserved markets with attractive financial and credit characteristics. We’re proud to partner with Crossroads and Enhanced to seize that opportunity and build the leading impact-focused specialty finance company in the U.S., which we are confident will deliver value for our investors, Crossroads and P10 stockholders, and underserved communities across the country.”
“This partnership offers compelling benefits to all stakeholders by providing additional capital for Crossroads to deploy into socially beneficial, financially attractive investments and accelerate its growth into a fully scaled impact-focused specialty finance platform,” said Clark Webb, co-CEO of P10. “Importantly, this also represents a new permanent capital vehicle for P10, and we are grateful investors have entrusted us to deploy capital on behalf of a unique, socially and environmentally beneficial firm.”
About P10:
P10 is a leading multi-asset class private markets solutions provider in the alternative asset management industry. P10’s mission is to provide its investors differentiated access to a broad set of investment solutions that address their diverse investment needs within private markets. As of March 31, 2022, P10 has a global investor base of over 2,500 investors across 49 states, 53 countries, and six continents, which includes some of the world’s largest pension funds, endowments, foundations, corporate pensions, and financial institutions. For more information on P10, please visit www.p10alts.com
About Crossroads Impact Corp:
Crossroads Impact Corp (OTCQX: CRSS), Crossroads Impact Corp’s mission is to promote economic vitality through community development and equitable access to capital; harnessing the power for good to tackle systemic issues within underserved communities. Building on our history of serving minority individuals and small businesses through environmental and responsible social lending, we look to be the leader in providing innovative and sustainable lending solutions.
For more information on Crossroads Impact Corp, please visit www.crossroads.com
About Enhanced Capital Group, LLC:
Enhanced Capital Group, LLC is a leading impact investing firm with over 20 years of experience investing in Small Business Lending, Impact Real Estate, and Climate Finance.
From inception in 1999 through December 31st, 2021, inclusive of proprietary assets and assets managed by affiliates, Enhanced Capital has raised a total of
For more information on Enhanced Capital, please visit www.enhancedcapital.com
About Conversant Capital
Conversant Capital LLC is a private investment adviser founded in 2020. The firm pursues credit and equity investments in the real estate, digital infrastructure and hospitality sectors in both the public and private markets. Further information is available at www.conversantcap.com.
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There is no assurance the ECG Impact loans will be implemented on the terms anticipated, or at all, or if implemented, if their performance will be consistent with prior performance levels. There is also no assurance of the ability of Crossroads to obtain asset leverage financing on terms it believes are reasonable, or at all. Any failure on any portion of this investment program by Crossroads could have a material adverse impact on the ability of Crossroads to generate its anticipated pre-tax incremental return on common equity.
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