Posted on 09 June, 2020
Zephyr Peacock invests in small and medium sized enterprises
operating across financial services, food and agriculture, and infrastructure
ancillaries sectors. The Fund identified education finance as a high growth
sector and invested in MPOWER Financing, a provider of education loans to
international students pursuing higher education in North America. MPOWER has
raised US$ 9 million from a consortium of investors including Zephyr Peacock, Breega,
Potencia Ventures, AI8, Cometa, 1776, Fresco Capital, 1994 LLC, and Goal
Structured Solutions.
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Newswire on 9 June 2020:
MPOWER Financing, an innovative fintech platform for
educational loans to high-promise international and DACA students, recently
raised $9M from a consortium of investors including Breega, Potencia Ventures,
AI8, Cometa, Zephyr-Peacock, 1776, Fresco Capital, 1994 LLC, and Goal
Structured Solutions.
"I am inspired by MPOWER's mission and its commitment
to economic mobility," said Joe Sanberg, one of the United States' leaders
in the movement to end poverty, co-founder of Aspiration Bank, and investor in
MPOWER.
"The pandemic has shown that education is a rapidly
changing industry and more important than ever. MPOWER has what it takes to
thrive in this new environment," added Meng Xiong Kuok, Managing Partner
of K3 Ventures.
The funds will fuel MPOWER's continued growth and its
expansion into new value-added products and services for high-skilled
immigrants in North America, including an international student loan
refinancing solution.
Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity funds
Since its inception in 1994, Zephyr has sponsored and/or managed 26 investment funds in both public and private securities markets representing approximately $1.2 billion in combined commitments and assets under management
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The firm has initiated several private equity funds investing in several African countries, South Korea, Mexico, India, and Sri Lanka since its founding. Zephyr's funds serve medium size enterprises that are often ignored by larger private equity players. Zephyr funds provide growth capital to established companies with proven business models and sustainable competitive advantages.
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