DuneForge Capital sources opportunities for a private network of family offices, high-net-worth investors and firms, funds the first round of diligence at its own risk, and delivers the facts. Where conviction holds, we invest our own capital alongside a private group of long-standing partners.
Curated each week by our team: sovereign and private-equity deal flow across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Latin America and the United States, with a focus on AI, data centers, medtech, software and fintech, plus the forums where these deals get made.
The Deal Desk is a news digest. Headlines and summaries are written by DuneForge in its own words from the third-party reporting linked on each story; reported deals may be unconfirmed or subject to change, and the "Live Wire" panel shows automated headlines DuneForge has not reviewed. Nothing here describes a DuneForge transaction, is a recommendation about any company or security, or is an offer or solicitation of any kind.
DuneForge Capital LLC is an independent sponsor and due diligence firm. Family offices, high-net-worth investors and firms come to us looking for specific kinds of opportunities. We source and screen them, fund the first round of diligence ourselves, and tell the inquirer what we found. We are not an agent for either side of a transaction.
We put our own money at risk before anyone else's. Initial commercial, financial, operational and legal diligence is paid for by DuneForge. When the record does not hold up, we absorb the cost and walk away. When it does, the inquiring party can acquire our diligence as a starting point, and any party to the transaction can engage us for deeper work.
Our private equity focus is control and structured transactions in established businesses, including AI and data-center infrastructure, medtech, software, fintech and essential-economy companies. Our venture work runs from pre-seed through growth in space technology, AI large quantitative models and AI-enabled defense. Each investment is made through its own special-purpose vehicle with its own manager.
“DuneForge invests its own capital alongside a private group of long-standing partners. We do not offer investments to the public, and nothing on this site is an offer or solicitation.”
Experience our principals and specialist team, full-time and contracted, bring from current engagements and from prior firms. It is not a measure of capital managed or raised. See Note 1.
We state our position plainly so that no counterparty, investor or regulator has to infer it. DuneForge is a diligence provider and, on its own deals, a principal investor. It is not a financial intermediary.
Every engagement is scoped and priced in a written engagement letter before work begins. Choose the description that fits you to see where most clients in your position start.
Acquire the diligence DuneForge has already funded and completed on an opportunity, as your starting point.
Scoped deep-dive work commissioned by any party to a transaction, from quality-of-earnings support to data-room management and counterparty verification.
A first look at opportunities we screen against your stated criteria, plus reserved diligence capacity when you want to go deeper.
Where DuneForge sponsors a transaction and commits its own capital, it earns customary sponsor economics for its services and its risk, never for bringing in capital.
A success-based fee is available only for the sale of a privately held company to a buyer who will control and actively run it, within the limits of the federal M&A broker exemption.
We will recommend a structure, scope the work and confirm the fee in writing before anything begins.
Our reports present verified facts: the financials as they stand, how the operation actually runs, the legal position and the red flags we found. They give you a stronger starting point for your own decision. They do not tell you whether to invest.
A family office, investor or firm tells us what it is looking for.
We source and screen opportunities against those criteria.
DuneForge pays for the initial diligence. Our capital, our risk.
We share what we found, for a fixed fee. The decision is yours.
Any party can engage us for scoped, confirmatory diligence.
On our own deals, we co-invest and serve as sponsor after closing.
When the record does not hold up, we absorb the cost and walk away.
We have applied this model across closed transactions, continuing portfolio relationships and deals we stopped in diligence. The companies involved are private, and so are the details. These are the kinds of situations where our work has made the difference.
Early-stage platforms automating how data centers are run, taken from concept through funding and into recognized products.
AI applied to lending and financial workflows, from pilot programs with institutions to production deployment.
Founder transitions and recapitalizations in established software and services firms, structured to keep sellers aligned.
Processes where our self-funded diligence surfaced issues that changed the picture, before our clients committed a dollar.
References and engagement detail are available privately. Qualified counterparties can request representative engagements, outcomes and references under a mutual non-disclosure agreement.
Request under NDAMajority acquisitions of established, cash-flowing businesses where professional management, systems and capital unlock the next stage of growth.
Minority and structured positions in high-growth companies, made through deal-specific vehicles alongside our private partner group.
Diligence and capital-stack design for owners, investors and management teams executing acquisitions, recapitalizations and seller-financed transitions.
DuneForge and its partner group support companies from pre-seed through later rounds where deep technology meets durable, mission-driven demand. DuneForge invests its own capital alongside a private group of long-standing partners. We do not offer investments to the public, and nothing on this site is an offer or solicitation.
Satellite platforms and constellations, in-orbit servicing, ground infrastructure, and the software that makes orbital assets commercially productive.
Platforms applying AI to physics, chemistry, materials and financial systems: simulation engines that compress years of R&D into computable form.
AI-enabled autonomy, sensing, decision support and secure data infrastructure for the United States and allied governments, with dual-use commercial demand.
From first institutional capital through later rounds.
Each investment held in its own vehicle with its own manager.
Board or observer participation alongside established deep-tech and defense syndicates.
A limited-partner investor and co-investor that has participated alongside DuneForge in deal-specific vehicles. Aetherix Nexus acts independently and is not an agent or employee of DuneForge.
Our partner group includes registered firms that participate as independent co-investors. They operate under their own regulatory obligations and do not act on DuneForge's behalf.
Business colleagues and long-standing relationships, all accredited investors, who co-invest privately through each deal's own vehicle. Participation is by relationship only, never by public offering.
US Navy Special Operations Veteran and Columbia Business School Executive MBA, with a career spanning enterprise technology leadership, transaction diligence and board governance. Leads investment strategy, diligence standards and portfolio oversight across the firm.
cwalker@duneforgecap.netDirects capital-stack design across the firm's own transactions, including senior and mezzanine debt discussions with lending institutions, and the sourcing and development of high-conviction opportunities.
watson@duneforgecap.netLeads diligence across commercial, financial, operational and legal workstreams. Manages the firm's data-room infrastructure and tracking programs so every engagement meets an institutional evidentiary standard.
sbush@duneforgecap.netOur leadership is supported by full-time professionals and contracted specialists, including operating partners, industry advisors and national counsel engaged on a mandate-by-mandate basis.
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Investors, family offices and firms looking at a specific opportunity or a standing mandate.
Owners, founders and the attorneys, accountants and brokers who represent them.
Buyers, sellers, companies and lenders who need scoped confirmatory diligence.
Inquiries are typically answered within two business days. DuneForge invests its own capital alongside a private group of long-standing partners. We do not offer investments to the public, and nothing on this site is an offer or solicitation.