BRUSSELS, June 3 — Kpler, a leading provider of global physical trade intelligence data and analytics, today announced it has secured a minority strategic growth equity investment of over $1 billion from Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm. As part of the transaction, management will remain majority owners of the business, Insight Partners will remain a shareholder and roll a portion of its original investment, and Five Arrows will exit its position in the company.
Founded in 2014, Kpler collects and analyzes physical asset data from a variety of proprietary and wide-ranging third-party sources to drive market transparency and deliver real-time insights to customers across commodities, maritime, and defense end markets.
Kpler will partner closely with Sixth Street to achieve its strategic goals as the company expands further into adjacent markets, continues to pursue its targeted growth strategy, and accelerates new product development.
“For more than a decade, Kpler has been on a mission to bring greater transparency to global trade and empower customers to make smarter decisions. What sets us apart is our ability to combine proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market expertise to turn complexity into clarity. With Sixth Street’s support, we are accelerating our vision to build a leading global trade intelligence platform, helping customers navigate volatility, uncover opportunities, and trade smarter,” said François Cazor and Jean Maynier, Kpler founders.
“From the foundations laid by François and Jean to the leadership of Mark Cunningham and today’s management team, Kpler has established itself as the industry standard in global physical trade intelligence, with exceptional accuracy and breadth of coverage. Kpler’s ability to aggregate, augment, and fuse data at scale across a fragmented physical asset ecosystem is highly differentiated, which is why customers increasingly see Kpler as the definitive platform for real-time decision making. We are thrilled to partner with the Kpler team and support them as they embark on this exciting next phase of growth,” added Michael McGinn in New York and Henry Davies in London for Sixth Street Growth.
“We are very proud to have partnered with Kpler and its talented founders and team. We are confident that Sixth Street is well placed to support the business in its next phase of growth, and look forward to following Kpler’s continued success in an era where its data is of ever-increasing relevance,” said Jean-Daniel Bertoncini, Partner, Five Arrows.
Evercore acted as sole financial advisor and Goodwin Procter LLP acted as legal advisor to Kpler on the transaction. Moelis acted as sole financial advisor and Milbank LLP acted as legal advisor to Sixth Street in connection with its investment.