The Team

Two founders.
One builds it, one has raised into it for thirty years.

DEALITHIC exists because the two halves of a capital raise — the software that produces the documents and the relationships that place the round — have never sat inside the same company. They do here.

Founders

Who built it.

01 — Co-founder

Anthony Licausi

  • Founder, Barenberg Capital
  • 20 years investment banking & M&A
  • Product, engineering, go-to-market

Investment banker since 2006. Writing code since he was ten. DEALITHIC is what happens when the same person does both.

Two decades of LBO underwriting, sell-side advisory, capital raises and deal structuring across the lower and middle market — the work was done, not observed from the outside.

The underwriting logic inside the engine is the work he used to do by hand. He leads product, engineering and go-to-market, and writes most of the platform himself.

02 — Co-founder

D. Rafael Toledano

  • Galileo Capital Advisors SA since 2004
  • 30+ years investment banking
  • BA History & Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

More than three decades in investment banking, raising capital and building business development for start-ups and emerging growth companies.

His networks were built on Wall Street, in Zurich and in Israel. He has practised investment banking at Galileo Capital Advisors SA since 2004.

He runs live client mandates through the platform today — which is why the institutional relationships behind DEALITHIC are native to the team rather than assembled through an advisory board.

Advisory

Who we listen to.

A small bench, named only where the work is real. We would rather list one advisor who actually shapes decisions than a page of logos.

01 — Advisor — Behavioural Finance

Benjamin Kelly, PhD

  • 17 years institutional investing
  • BlackRock · Columbia Threadneedle · CastleCliff
  • PhD Economics, University of St Andrews
  • Lectures at St Andrews, LSE and Warwick

Nearly two decades on one question: why capable people make bad decisions under pressure, and what can be done about it.

His PhD in Economics at the University of St Andrews examined sunk-cost entrapment in corporate acquisitions and financial markets — why individuals and businesses stay committed to failing decisions long after the evidence has turned. That question has shaped everything since.

He spent 17 years in institutional investing. At BlackRock he worked in the Nordic institutional business, helped senior leaders build a behavioural finance team within the Risk and Quantitative Analysis group, and joined the BlackRock Investment Institute as a strategist and economist. At Columbia Threadneedle he was a behavioural economist, Director of Impact Investing, and an investment grade credit fund manager. In between, as Managing Director at CastleCliff, he helped asset managers, hedge funds and banks reduce bias in their investment processes.

He is now co-founder of PrepUp, an education venture in behavioural finance, and advises asset managers, hedge funds, Premier League clubs, NBA teams and professional golfers on decision-making in high-stakes environments. He lectures on behavioural finance at St Andrews, the London School of Economics and Warwick Business School.

He writes on the behavioural patterns he sees in markets, including the Precedent Trap: the false confidence of matching today's situation to yesterday's template.

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