Founder of Barenberg Capital and architect of DEALITHIC — three products and three services spanning underwriting, capital formation, investor relations, and distribution to a network of 50,000+ funds.
This page is my half of the story. DEALITHIC has two founders — my co-founder D. Rafael Toledano has spent thirty years raising capital across Wall Street, Zurich and Israel, and he is the reason the relationships behind this platform are real rather than theoretical.
Two decades of compounding technical depth — long before AI became a buzzword. Coding is not a tool here. It is the medium the platform was built in.
Anthony since 2006 — LBO underwriting, sell-side advisory, capital raises and deal structuring across the lower and middle market. Rafael for more than three decades, across Wall Street, Zurich and Israel, at Galileo Capital Advisors SA since 2004. Not observed from the outside.
Products: Deal Intelligence, Alphalithic AI, and the Agents API. Services: Raise Capital, the Investor Network, and DEALITHIC IR. One platform across the whole deal lifecycle.
I started writing code at age 10. Not as a hobby — as a compulsion. The idea that you could define logic once and have a machine execute it perfectly, at any scale, was the most interesting thing in the world.
That ran parallel to a twenty-year career in investment banking and M&A advisory, beginning in 2006 — LBO underwriting, sell-side mandates, debt advisory, capital raises. The full stack of a deal, executed under real pressure, with real capital at stake.
The friction was visible every day. Not in the judgment calls — those are where the value lives. In the infrastructure that surrounds those calls: the IC memo that takes a week to produce, the cap table that takes three rounds of reconciliation, the investor outreach that happens through spreadsheets and cold emails.
DEALITHIC is the answer to that friction — but not a narrow one. It's not a memo generator. It's not an IR dashboard. It's not a token issuance wizard. It is three products and three services covering underwriting, capital formation, investor relations and distribution — rebuilt from first principles with software-native infrastructure at every layer.
Deal Intelligence underwrites any transaction in minutes, Alphalithic AI reads any public company, and the Agents API exposes both to software rather than people. On the services side, Raise Capital handles Reg D formation end to end, the Investor Network puts the deal in front of 50,000+ funds, and DEALITHIC IR gives public companies the investor relations infrastructure that has been locked behind $20K/month retainers.
If you have spent twenty years in investment banking and even longer writing code, building this was not optional. It was inevitable.
Software can produce a flawless offering document and still never reach an investor. The other half of a raise is who picks up the phone — and that half cannot be written.
D. Rafael Toledano has spent more than three decades in investment banking, raising capital and building business development for start-ups and emerging growth companies across networks built on Wall Street, in Zurich and in Israel. He has practised at Galileo Capital Advisors SA since 2004, and he runs live client mandates through this platform today.
That is the difference between a fintech tool and a firm. I build the engine. He has been placing rounds since before most of our competitors existed.
First line of code written
A compulsive early start, long before writing software was a thing people did on purpose in finance.
Entered investment banking
M&A advisory, LBO underwriting, capital markets. Real transactions, real pressure, real capital at stake.
Nine years of deal flow, lower-middle market to growth
Sell-side mandates, buy-side underwriting, debt advisory. Long enough to build a precise mental model of exactly where the infrastructure breaks down.
Founded Barenberg Capital
Boutique merchant banking and advisory — capital raises, M&A, and deal structuring for companies the bulge bracket will not take a meeting with.
Built and shipped DEALITHIC
Started with the deal engine, then Alphalithic AI and the Agents API. Reg D capital formation, the 50,000-fund Investor Network, and DEALITHIC IR followed. Three products and three services, all live.
Underwrite a deal. Run investor relations. Tokenize your round. Explore the platform.