Liquidity Capital MC Ltd.

Liquidity Group has announced the launch of a new $200 million debt fund called Liquidity7. Harel Group has committed $30 million as the fund's anchor investor. The new fund will provide credit facilities of $2-20m to growth technology companies in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Liquidity's technological system will carry out the underwriting.

Liquidity Group will establish an R&D center in Abu Dhabi and become the first Israeli company to join the $545 million program of The Abu Dhabi Investment Office’s (ADIO) Innovation Programme.

In addition to the Bridge investment, Apollo will provide Liquidity with a renewable credit line of up to $425m for 5 years.

Liquidity Group announced that it has entered into agreements with respect to approximately $775 million in capital commitments year-to-date 2022, led by funds and entities managed by affiliates of Apollo (NYSE: APO). The commitments, which are subject to satisfaction of certain conditions, will include $425 million from Apollo Funds for a credit facility to help Liquidity scale its lending activity for late-stage technology companies, $300 million from MUFG Bank (NYSE: MUFG), for a debt fund JV named Mars Growth Capital, investing in future unicorn companies, as well as a $50 million SAFE note investment by Apollo Funds, MUFG Innovation Partners and Spark Capital.

The AI technology, which received a US patent in 2021, is the foundation for two joint venture funds with MUFG, the world’s largest non-state owned bank. One of the funds is targeted to early-stage tech startups. The other focuses on unicorns and pre-unicorns

MUFG Bank and Liquidity Capital will establish a joint venture named Mars Growth Capital Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Mars Growth Capital will establish a debt fund based on a Limited Partnership Agreement entered between Mars Growth Capital, as a general partner, and MUFG Bank, as a limited partner. The Fund has an initial capital commitment of USD 80 million that will used to provide financing to startups mainly in Asia-Pacific.