Cool Capital was founded in London by Matthew Dwyer and Sebastian Foux. The firm is small by design and works with a group of partners and advisers who have built, run and sold businesses: hotels, property, healthcare, entertainment, finance and more. Everyone here has sat on the other side of the table.
The firm
We find the transaction and bring the right people to it: companies, sponsors, producers and founders on one side; investors, lenders, buyers and partners on the other. We work across the whole capital structure, from a first round to an exit, in infrastructure, real estate, hospitality, film and music, luxury assets and startups, and wherever else a serious asset or business needs the right people in the room.
We work together with the banks, brokers and advisers already on a deal, and we take on few mandates, choosing the people on both sides of them.
The partners
Matthew Dwyer
Co-founder
Founder and chief executive of Opndoor, the insurance-backed guarantor for residential lettings. Previously an investment director at Rosemont Group Capital Partners, with a background in building early-stage companies and in capital markets.
Sebastian Foux
Co-founder
Develops and packages film and television projects and brings the finance to them, and originates investments across real estate, technology and special situations. He began by managing artists, producers and songwriters for major and independent labels, then moved into video production and film and television development. That background shapes his work with talent and intellectual property, on projects with both commercial and cultural value.
Advisers and consultants
Mark Cutler
Hospitality and leisure real estate MRICS
Founder of The Leisure Partnership; formerly Head of Leisure at Knight Frank, with three decades in UK leisure and hospitality property. A chartered surveyor.
Henri Poudensan
Hospitality
Co-founder of Numad Hospitality. Twenty-three years with Four Seasons, latterly as Regional Director of Marketing with responsibility for hotels from Lisbon and Geneva to Marrakech and St Petersburg; earlier at the George V in Paris.
Marc Roman
Finance and real estate
Formerly Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Credit Suisse's Alternative Investments Division, where he led the operational strategy of the business and its global initiatives. Now an adviser on commercial leasing and investment sales.
Mallika Parlikar
Healthcare, technology and policy
An operator and strategist. As co-owner and chief operating officer of a homecare company she built it to a workforce of 1,500 and a sale within two years. Earlier, seven years in corporate intelligence and national security, at Aon, the US Department of State and the Council on Foreign Relations. New York University and Cambridge.
Behind the firm is a network built over years: major investment banks and brokers, family offices and private investors, lenders across the capital structure, hotel operators and brands, developers, producers, labels and talent, and the operators and founders who run the businesses we work with. In London, and in the markets our partners know.