Pickwick Capital Partners
Ari Raskas has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries. Ari is currently serving as an Advisory Board Member at FundOnion. Prior to that, they founded Birch Hill Recovery Center in 2020, a facility dedicated to evidence-based and scientifically validated care for drug and alcohol addiction. Ari also worked as a Managing Director at Pickwick Capital Partners, a FINRA-registered Broker/Dealer. Additionally, Ari Raskas served as a Partner at The RK Equity Group, a boutique investment bank, where they raised institutional capital for various companies. Ari previously held the position of Director - Capital Markets at Broadband Capital Management and Director - Sales at FreshSpace Media.
Ari Raskas pursued their Bachelor of Arts degree in European History from Yeshiva University, where they studied from 1997 to 2001.
Pickwick Capital Partners
Pickwick Capital Partners, LLC assists middle-market companies and alternative investment firms achieve their strategic, financing and M&A objectives. We do this through a focused and collaborative process driven by the talent of our advisors, who bring a wealth of experience from leading investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Jefferies & Company, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and others. Our team is comprised of energetic, hands-on solution providers. We focus on quality, and each and every transaction is important to us. Pickwick clients can be assured their advisors are true partners with the capabilities, motivation and experience necessary for success. Our advisors have collectively completed capital raising and M&A transactions worth billions of dollars. Pickwick’s primary services are investment banking, focused on M&A and debt/equity, and third-party-marketing placements, in which we raise capital for alternative asset funds including hedge funds, private equity groups and venture capital funds. We offer our clients the advantage of a well-established and broad network of institutional investors, family offices, qualified purchasers, private equity and buy-out groups, strategic buyers, growth capital providers, senior, junior and mezzanine lenders and debt providers, and emerging and middle-market companies. We also provide our clients strategic insights into a diverse range of industries, including: cyber/physical security, banks/financial institutions and financial technology (Fin-Tech), real estate, Big Data, aerospace/defense, alternative energy/clean tech/green tech, entertainment, industrial, health IT/medical devices/biotech/pharmaceuticals, e-learning and tech-enabled business services. An SEC-registered Broker/Dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC, Pickwick is located in Westchester, New York, with advisors across the country, including in the metro DC-area, Boston, Los Angeles, Richmond, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin and Houston.