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How Oxane Partners Put $1.5 Trillion of Private Credit on One Screen
Private credit grew faster than its plumbing. Oxane Partners built the control room - software, analysts and all - for the documents, covenants and awkward loan data that spreadsheets can no longer contain.
The $1 Billion Machine Behind the Machines
36th Street Capital turns forklifts, servers and factory floors into financial flexibility. Its quiet advantage is a hybrid funding engine built for deals that do not fit neatly inside a bank's credit box.
The $671 Billion Machine Built on Private Credit
Ares grew from a Los Angeles credit shop into a sprawling private-markets platform by learning to lend where banks pulled back - then carrying that playbook into property, infrastructure, secondaries and insurance.
Altin Kadareja
After years inside European finance, the Cardo AI founder turned an everyday frustration - fragmented data and manual loan workflows - into a company spanning New York, London, Milan and a Balkan tech hub.
Cardo AI
Cardo AI is a fintech company building the operating system for asset-based finance and private credit. Its platform unifies deals, collateral data, workflows, cash-flow modeling, and reporting into a single system purpose-built for the operational demands of structured credit - replacing spreadsheets and fragmented tools used by asset managers, bank lenders, credit originators, and fund administrators. Founded in 2018 by Altin Kadareja and Euron Metaliaj, the company runs technology across more than $100B in asset volume and raised a $15M Series A in November 2024 co-led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, FINTOP Capital, and JAM FINTOP.
Andrew Curtis
Andrew Curtis is the CEO of Clearco, the Toronto-based fintech that fronts cash to ecommerce brands without taking their equity. A two-decade Wall Street veteran of leveraged credit and restructurings - with stops at Merrill Lynch and Lazard Freres - he arrived as an advisor in 2022, took the top job in early 2023, and steered the once-troubled company through a recapitalization and a ground-up rebuild. Under him, Clearco has deployed billions across thousands of brands, tripled funding in 2024, and relaunched a platform he pitches as 'capital that thinks like a founder.'