Investment Summary

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Invests In CellTrust

On December 11, 2014, asset manager Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors invested in communications company CellTrust

Investment Highlights
  • This is Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ 110th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ 1st transaction in Arizona.

Investment Summary

Date 2014-12-11
Target CellTrust
Sector Communications
Investor(s) Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

CellTrust

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
CellTrust is a global mobile marketing platform through its SMS Gateway, which provides connections to more than 800 mobile operators across 200+ countries, as well as turnkey short code provisioning, and campaign reporting. CellTrust was founded in 2006 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Category Asset Manager
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 36.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is an alternative investment management firm focused on hedge funds, public funds, energy private equity, growth private equity, real estate private equity, and mezzanine finance opportunities. Kayne's energy private equity group focuses on $20 to $100 million investments in high-growth exploration and production, midstream and oilfield service companies. The energy group considers both majority or minority stakes in public and private businesses. Kayne's growth private equity practice involves structured investments in public and private companies looking for capital to finance expansion. This group will also consider middle-market leveraged transactions and management buyouts. Kayne's real estate private equity group invests in established, cash-flow generating projects. Areas of interest include student housing and campus-oriented retail properties, amongst other opportunistic investments. The Group looks for acquisitions of $25 to $100 million. Kayne's mezzanine team looks to provide $20 to $35 million of capital for mid-market businesses with $100 to $500 million of sales and $10 to $50 million of EBITDA. Kayne Capital Advisors was formed in 1984 and is based in Los Angeles with additional offices in Armonk, New York; New York City, and Houston.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 120 of 176
Sector (Communications) 1 of 1
Type (Growth Capital) 18 of 51
State (Arizona) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 110 of 159
Year (2014) 11 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-12-09 West Valley Energy

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

West Valley Energy Corp. is an oil and gas company focused on capturing and developing scalable resource plays in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It focuses on identifying new or emerging oil projects with the potential for value creation through field extension and improved recovery.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-01-01 Cloudbreak

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Cloudbreak is a video-focused language interpretation service provider that helps patients with limited English proficiency communicate with caregivers in healthcare settings. The Company's core offering is Martti (My Accessible Real-Time Trusted Interpreter), a HIPAA-compliant Video Remote Interpretation ("VRI") solution that connects patients with interpreters in over 250 languages across its network of more than 1,000 interpreters. Cloudbreak was founded in 2003 and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

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