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Wafra volunteers embraced a spirit of gratitude and community by partnering with City Harvest for their “Repack to Give Back” initiative. Together, we sorted and packaged over 20,000 pounds of fresh produce into smaller portions, ensuring distribution to more than 4,200 households across New York City. We are incredibly thankful for the dedication of our volunteers and the impactful work of City Harvest. Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season!

Since 2018, we’ve honored employees celebrating major work anniversaries by giving them the opportunity to select a charity for Wafra to support. This year, we are proud to celebrate the dedication and service of our colleagues who reached incredible milestones: 🎉 Fergus Healy, Chief Operating Officer 🎉 Edward Tsai, Head of Real Assets 🎉 Richard Tateossian, Managing Director, 🎉Adam Vigh, Director 🎉 Nareesa Itwaru, Vice President. Giving back is core to who we are as a firm, and we are grateful for the decades of commitment and leadership these individuals represent. Please join us in congratulating this year’s milestone anniversaries! #WafraGivesBack #CSR #Milestones 

Wafra is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Aquila Air Capital, a specialty finance platform focused on providing aviation asset financing, from Warburg Pincus LLC.   Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eApANC-N

Each year, in partnership with New York Cares, Wafra participates in the Winter Wishes gift-giving program, spreading holiday cheer to children and teens from underserved families. This year, our team granted 135 wishes, with over 80 employees contributing and celebrating together with a festive gift-wrapping party, hot cocoa, cookies, and an ugly holiday sweater contest! It’s a favorite Wafra tradition and a small way to gift back to our community during the holiday season. Thank you to everyone who helped make the season brighter for our community! #NewYorkCares #WafraGivesBack #CSR #WinterWishes 

Wafra is proud to sponsor the 11th Annual Markets Group Real Estate Global Forum in New York City. This year, Managing Director Pratik Patel was a featured panelist on the Data Centers, Life Sciences, and Other Alternative Strategies discussion. He spoke alongside Dmitri Blumin, Ermias Nessibu, Kevin White and Shariar Mohajer. Moderated by Alex Cabe, CFA, the conversation explored which alternative asset classes are forecasted to outperform in 2025. We are honored to be featured alongside other thought leaders within this space!

Wafra Managing Director Steve Moseley sat down with PEI’s Madeleine Farman, to share his perspectives on the advantages of pursuing a GP stakes strategy. Steve described how it provides predictable, reliable cashflows, upside via carry participation, and diversified access to multiple strategies and vintages. Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/3AYvrGI   #GPStakes #PrivateEquity #Wafra

📢 More exciting news from our portfolio: Constrafor raises $14 million 🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Constrafor, a Motive Ventures portfolio company, has reached an exciting milestone by raising $14 million in Series A funding led by NFX, alongside a $250 million credit facility from Wafra and Crestline Investors, Inc.. Constrafor is revolutionizing the construction industry with a software suite designed for general contractors to manage their end-to-end procurement relationships with subcontractors. Through its platform, Constrafor offers an embedded “Early Pay” solution—a reverse factoring product enabling subcontractors to access payments faster. This marks just the beginning, as they continue building innovative financial products to serve the construction ecosystem. We’re proud to support Constrafor on their journey and excited to see the impact they’re driving in construction tech. Congratulations to the entire team on this achievement! 🚀 #Fintech #ConstructionTech #MotiveVentures #StartupSuccess #VentureCapital

Wafra is excited to announce that Pratik Patel, head of our Alternative Real Estate Strategy will be speaking today at the 2024 iREOC Annual Membership meeting in Austin, Texas. He will be speaking alongside Kenny Moon of Sagebrook Capital Partners, Andrew M Silberstein of Almanac Realty Investors, and Prashant Tewari of Townsend Group. Moderated by Heather Fernstrom Border of Alliance Global Advisors, the conversation will cover what is driving the shift and growth of entity-level investing. We look forward to an engaging discussion!

Wafra partners with GPs as a lifecycle investor, helping both existing and new managers by understanding what they need to grow their business. Managing Director Gustavo Cardenas recently joined Giovanni Amodeo on ION's Influencer Fireside Chat to discuss the evolution of GP stakes, Wafra’s role in anchoring and seeding new strategies through its Capital Constellation platform and the firm’s experience collaborating with investor-entrepreneurs. Listen to the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eN8nkdMy

Ahead of her upcoming appearance at the Impact & Transition Investor Summit, Wafra Managing Director Avantika Saisekar sat down with Toby Mitchenall of New Private Markets to discuss Wafra's approach to portfolio climate resilience. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eyz6DYR8