Founder of Barenberg Capital and architect of DEALITHIC — the merchant banking platform for companies traditional banks ignore.
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.
LBO underwriting, sell-side advisory, capital raises, and deal structuring across the lower and middle market — not observed from the outside.
Deal Intelligence for underwriting. IR Suite for investor relations. Private Issuer for Reg D capital formation. One platform across the 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 decade-plus career in investment banking and M&A advisory — 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's a full merchant banking platform, rebuilt from first principles with software-native infrastructure at every layer.
Deal Intelligence underwrites any transaction in minutes. IR Suite gives public companies the investor relations infrastructure that's been locked behind $20K/month retainers. Private Issuer makes Reg D capital formation — PPMs, subscription agreements, tokenized securities — accessible to the operating companies that need it most.
If you've spent a decade in IB and a decade writing code, building this wasn't optional. It was inevitable.
First line of code written
Compulsive early start — two decades before this became a trend.
Entered investment banking
M&A advisory, LBO underwriting, capital markets. Real transactions, real pressure.
Decade of deal flow across LMM + growth
Sell-side mandates, buy-side underwriting, debt advisory. Built a precise mental model of where the infrastructure breaks down.
Founded Barenberg Capital
Boutique merchant banking and advisory. Continued advising on capital raises, M&A, and deal structuring.
Began building the DEALITHIC platform
Started with the deal engine — AI underwriting infrastructure. Expanded to IR Suite, Private Issuer, and capital formation tooling.
DEALITHIC — live across all three product lines
Deal Intelligence, IR Suite, and Private Issuer (Reg D) — the full merchant banking platform, operational.
Underwrite a deal. Run investor relations. Tokenize your round. Explore the platform.