Velo Capital
Lesley Lanefelt has a diverse background in finance and real estate, with experience at companies such as Velo Capital, NREP, BentallGreenOak, Lumia Education, AREIM AB, Lehman Brothers, and Credit Suisse. As the Head of Nordic Investments at Velo Capital and a Co-Founder of Lumia Education, Lesley has shown expertise in real estate financing and education initiatives. With a BA in International Relations & Spanish from Wellesley College and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, Lesley brings strong academic qualifications to their professional endeavors.
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Velo Capital
Velo Capital advises on flexible real estate credit solutions, with the purpose to enable ideas and deploy capital to advance the transition to sustainable communities. With 10 years of alternative real estate credit track record, Velo Capital exclusively advises three active funds with approximately €1bn AUM. Our most recent mandate relates to the fund ‘VMC’, which held a first closing in June 2023. The fund expands Velo Capital's sustainability focused credit strategies further into Northern Europe, including Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. We have offices in four countries and employs 30 employees, part of which through its local German sub-advisory subsidiary Flins Capital Partners GmbH. Velo Capital is part of Urban Partners, a platform of vision-aligned, differentiated, investment strategies shaped around urban problem solving. In addition to Velo Capital, the remaining three strategies are: Nrep - ESG focused real estate investor 2150 - urban sustainability tech focused venture capital firm Luma Equity - impact focused private equity investor www.velocap.com www.urban.partners