Alex Duffy

Senior Associate, Growth Equity

Alex Duffy

Los Angeles (HQ)

Alex Duffy is a senior associate for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ growth private equity strategies, where she is responsible for identifying and analyzing investment opportunities and assisting with the monitoring of portfolio companies and deal execution.

Duffy earned a B.B.A. cum laude in Finance from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

 

Industries Covered

  • Media & Telecom
  • FinTech

Current Investments

  • Circle Cardiovascular

    Circle – Cardiac Imaging Software

    Circle – Cardiac Imaging Software

    Founded in 2007, Circle Cardiovascular Imaging enables cardiologists to view and analyze cardiac images. With Circle’s software, physicians read images more accurately and efficiently, improving patient outcomes and physician productivity.

    Status: Active
    Location: Calgary, AB
    Initial Investment: 2018
    Industry: Healthcare
    Website: https://www.circlecvi.com
    KPF Board Member: Nishita Cummings
    Board Observer: Alex Duffy

  • FaceFirst

    FaceFirst – Facial Recognition Biometrics

    FaceFirst – Facial Recognition Biometrics

    Founded in 2017, FaceFirst provides facial recogntion software solutions that can analyze 1 million facial comparisons per second. FaceFirst works with large retailers, security organizations and state and local municipalities to prevent crime and apprehend wanted fugitives.

    Status: Active
    Location: Encino, CA
    Initial Investment: 2012
    Industry: Security & Compliance
    Website: https://www.facefirst.com/
    KPF Board Member: David Walsh
    Board Observer: Andrew DeYoung

  • Natural Partners Fullscript

    Natural Partners Fullscript – Online Supplement Dispensary Platform

    Natural Partners Fullscript – Online Supplement Dispensary Platform

    Natural Partners is the result of a merger that occurred in June 2018 between a wholesale and distribution network and an online nutraceutical dispensing and prescription management technology platform. The combined company provides online nutraceutical dispensary management, convenient patient fullfillment, and patient adherence tools, and other functionalities. NPFS’ solution provides practitioners with a user-friendly platform that helps streamline the creation of nutraceutical prescriptions, providing access to over 280+ professional-grade brands, decision-support at the point of care, and visibility into and improvement of patient-protocol adherence rates, all while providing an important revenue stream and a unique ability to capture refill revenue. Patients can also receive convenient electronic prescriptions, receive trusted and top-quality products, order practitioner-recommended products at the point of care, receive adherence support, and conveniently refill their prescriptions.

    Status: Active
    Location: Scottsdale, AZ
    Initial Investment: 2019
    Industry: Security & Compliance
    Website: https://naturalpartnersfullscript.com
    KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
    Board Observer: Bryan Boudreaux

  • rfXcel

    Rfxcel – Product Serialisation, Traceability and Compliance Software

    Rfxcel – Product Serialisation, Traceability and Compliance Software

    Founded in 2003, rfxcel provides leading-edge software solutions to help companies manage every aspect of their supply chains, lower costs, and protect their products and brand reputations. Blue-chip organizations in the life sciences (pharmaceuticals and medical devices), food and beverage, worldwide government, and consumer goods industries trust rfxcel’s signature Traceability System (rTS) to power end-to-end supply chain solutions in key areas such as traceability, environmental monitoring, regulatory compliance, serialization, and visibility.

    Status: Active
    Location: Reno, NV
    Initial Investment: 2017
    Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
    Website: https://rfxcel.com
    KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
    Board Observer: Sabrina Chaudhury

  • Spatial Networks

    Spatial Networks – Field Business Intelligence Software and Services

    Spatial Networks – Field Business Intelligence Software and Services

    Founded in 2000, Spatial Networks has developed its offering, Fulcrum to reduce the time, cost, and risk associated with data collection, workflow automation, and analytics by transforming the way its customers perform mobile business processes. Fulcrum’s SaaS platform allows non-developers to rapidly build and deploy apps — in minutes rather than days — without code. The result is rapid time to value for customers, high-fidelity data collection and reporting, and a data-driven approach to process automation and performance optimization for mobile teams. Customers rely on Fulcrum to ensure safety and quality, stay compliant, protect property and secure assets, maintain and enhance existing infrastructure, and keep new infrastructure projects on-time and on-budget.

    Status: Active
    Location: St Petersburg, FL
    Initial Investment: 2019
    Industry: Business Process Automation
    Website: https://spatialnetworks.com
    KPF Board Member: Nate Locke
    Board Observer: Rob Shilton

  • Think Research

    Think Research – Healthcare Clinical Software

    Think Research – Healthcare Clinical Software

    Founded in 2006, Think Research offers software-enabled knowledge-based tools and clinical content for physicians and nurses at the point of care. Think provides digital evidence-based structured documents that incorporate the latest medical evidence into the patient treatment process (“Patient Order Sets”). Patient Order Sets are accessible at the point of care with Think’s platform, and allows clinicians to migrate from handwritten patient orders to an “intelligent document” platform, allowing for more accurate orders, reducing risk and increating patient safety.

    Status: Active
    Location: Toronto, ON
    Initial Investment: 2018
    Industry: Healthcare
    Website: https://www.thinkresearch.com/ca/
    Board Observer: Nishita Cummings

Past Investments

  • 3Cinteractive (exited: IMIMobile)

    3cinteractive – Enterprise Mobile Communications

    3cinteractive – Enterprise Mobile Communications

    Founded in 2015, 3C provides software that allows large companies to communicate with their customers via mobile devices. Leveraging 3C’s expertise connecting mobile to business results and its SwitchbladeTM platforms multichannel capabilities – including SMS and MMS messaging, mobile coupons, mobile wallet, mobile web, location based services and more – marketers can deliver timely, relevant engagement at the consumers’ moment of need.

    Status: Exited
    Location: Boca Raton, FL
    Initial Investment: 2011
    Industry: Media & Telecom

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    Exit Press Release
    KPF Board Member: David Walsh

  • 4C Insights (exited: Mediaocean, Vista Equity)

    4C Insights – TV and Social Media Technology

    4C Insights – TV and Social Media Technology

    Founded in 2013, 4C Insights is a technology platform that enables customers to advertise to consumers, whether the consumer is watching TV, looking at their mobile phone/tablet, or doing both at the same time.

    Status: Exited
    Location: Chicago, IL
    Initial Investment: 2016
    Industry: Media & Telecom

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    Exit Press Release
    KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
    KPF Board Member: Nate Locke

  • You.i (exited: AT&T – WarnerMedia)

    You.i – User Interface Software

    You.i – User Interface Software

    Founded in 2008, You.i is a technology company whose patented engine allows a single universal codebase to run multi-screen video applications across media devices with the same user interface, such as mobile phones, tablets, game consoles, amert TVs, and set-top boxes. You.i targets blue chip media companies looking to launch over-the-top offerings competitive to Netflix.

    Status: Exited
    Location: Ottawa, ON
    Initial Investment: 2015
    Industry: Media & Telecom

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    Exit Press Release
    KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
    Board Observer: Andrew Deyoung

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