DLA Piper advises investment analytics platform Aumni in $50m Series B financing

DLA Piper represented Aumni, an investment analytics platform that provides the data infrastructure for private capital markets, in a $50 million Series B funding round led by J.P. Morgan.

Aumni unlocks, structures and analyzes untapped data in private portfolios to track critical provisions such as key investment rights, portfolio performance and emerging investment patterns, providing previously inaccessible insights to customers throughout the private capital markets. DLA Piper also previously advised Aumni on its Series A financing.

Michael Brown, Partner, DLA Piper: "This is a significant milestone for the Aumni team, and we were thrilled to have the opportunity to support our client through this transformative transaction. Having worked with this high-performing, ambitious management team for the past several years, including with Kelsey Chase at DLA Piper before he co-founded Aumni, we have seen the company's impressive growth first-hand, and we very much value our work with Aumni and its team. We look forward to continuing our efforts to help Aumni transform the private equity markets and scale what is already a fantastic company." 

Kelsey Chase, President and Co-founder, Aumni: "DLA Piper has been indispensable as Aumni's outside counsel from the earliest moments of our company formation. Their strategic guidance and years of experience have allowed us to achieve our impressive fundraising velocity without any compromise to quality. It's deeply reassuring to have them in our corner, as investors and advisors."

Tony Lewis, CEO and Co-founder, Aumni: "Both Kelsey and I are former VC attorneys from top-tier firms, and we can leverage the full power of Aumni's private capital market analytics platform for benchmarking data. Even in light of those factors, the team at DLA Piper has consistently driven value and impressed us across all aspects of our commercial and financial transactions."

In addition to Brown, the DLA Piper team representing Aumni included Andrew Booth and Kathryn Fortin (all of San Diego).

DLA Piper's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice includes more than 200 lawyers in the US who provide strategic counsel to emerging companies in high-growth industries, including healthcare, insurance, biotech, manufacturing, communications, software and semiconductors. Over the last three years, DLA Piper has completed more than 2,100 financings totaling over $31 billion.

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