# Barings

> Barings is a VC fund in Charlotte backing Real Estate and Financial Services. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Charlotte, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 68%
- Fund size: $680M
- Last fund: Apr 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11645
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Barings
- Website: https://www.barings.com

Barings is a $299+ billion* global financial services firm dedicated to meeting the evolving investment and capital needs of their clients. They build lasting partnerships that leverage their distinctive expertise across traditional and alternative asset classes to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional service.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 6 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 14% |
| Insurance | 4 | 9% |
| Automotive | 4 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 26 | 59% |
| Private Equity | 8 | 18% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 5 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 59% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 9% |
| Australia | 2 | 5% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caroline Mandeville | Chief Human Resources Officer | 0 | — |
| Christopher DeFrancis | Global Head of Compliance | 0 | — |
| Colin Moar | Director - Global Equities - Investment Manager - Global Technology | 0 | — |
| Elizabeth Weindruch | Managing Director, Private Investments | 0 | — |
| Jonathan Rotolo | Managing Director, Alternative Investments | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Armstrong Transport Group | Armstrong Transport Group provides logistics solutions. They have a multi-modal carrier network, logistics experts, and reliable customer service. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Hg | Hg is a private equity firm that invests in software and services, focused on backing businesses. Hg is a sector expert investor, committed to helping build ambitious businesses across the technology, services, and industrial technology space, primarily in Europe. Deeply resourced sector teams focus on specific sub-sectors and investment themes toidentify companies occupying an established position within a niche, and which have the potential to grow faster than their market, create employment and become the leader in their industry. Hg’s dedicated operations innovation team provides practical support to management teams to help them realize their growth ambitions. Based in London and Munich, Hg has funds under management of close to £10 billion serving some of the world’s leading institutional and private investors. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 13, 2026 |  |
| SageSure | SageSure Insurance Managers is a real estate firm that offers property insurance services. | $460M | Secondary Market | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Nationwide Legal LLC | The Nationwide Legal, LLC team provides a broad spectrum of comprehensive legal support services at an unparalleled level of quality. NWL utilizes state-of-the-art technology to deliver practical and cost-effective solutions for all of your legal support service needs. |  | Debt Financing | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Naftali Group and Access industries joint venture | Naftali Group and Access industrie joint venture between Naftali Group and Access industries. | $374M | Debt Financing | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Pinion Insurance |  | $180M | Private Equity | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Ameresco | Ameresco, Inc. provides energy efficiency solutions for facilities in North America. The company engages in the development, design, engineering, and installation of projects that reduce the energy, as well as operation and maintenance costs of governmental, educational, utility, healthcare, and other institutional, commercial, and industrialentities facilities. Its set of services includes upgrades to a facility's energy infrastructure. Ameresco provides renewable energy products and services that include the construction of small-scale plants that produce electricity, gas, heat, or cooling from renewable sources of energy; the sale of such electricity, processed landfill gas, heat, or cooling from plants that it owns; and the sale and installation of solar energy products and systems for both on-grid and off-grid applications. It distributes solar energy products and systems, such as PV panels, solar regulators, solar charge controllers, inverters, solar-powered lighting systems, solar-powered water pumps, solar panel mounting hardware, and other system components. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. |  | Post-IPO Debt | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Credit Key | Credit Key is a patented pay-over-time financing solution for B2B e-commerce merchants. | $90M | Private Equity | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| ACWA Power | ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants. |  | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 22, 2025 |  |
| Pearl Properties | Pearl Properties is a premier full-service real estate investment and development firm. | $173M | Debt Financing | Nov 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- Cigna — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kkr) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Allianz Life Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Barings invest in?

Barings invests primarily in Real Estate, Financial Services and Insurance startups, most often at Debt Financing and Private Equity stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Barings?

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### Who are the partners at Barings?

The team at Barings includes Caroline Mandeville (Chief Human Resources Officer), Christopher DeFrancis (Global Head of Compliance) and Colin Moar (Director - Global Equities - Investment Manager - Global Technology), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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