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    Piper Sandler Merchant Banking

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

    Piper Sandler Merchant Banking (PSMB) is the growth equity investment arm of Piper Sandler Companies, seeking investments in private, commercial-stage businesses with strong growth prospects. The group focuses on equity and equity-linked securities, recapitalizations, secondary stock purchases, and change of control transactions across healthcare, technology, consumer, and tech-enabled business services sectors.

    They made 1 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $67.7M (across 8 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    7

    Fund Size

    $130M

    Top Stage

    Series C

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    RR

    Robert Rinek

    Managing Director and Partner

    SH

    Seth Harward

    Managing Director

    TC

    Ted Christianson

    Managing Director

    TA

    Toby AuWerter

    Managing Director

    SL

    Scott LaRue

    Investment Committee Member

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    8 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    CCereVasc, Inc.Series C$85MJun 2026
    CCereVasc, Inc.Series C$85MJan 2026
    IIntegrity Orthopaedics, Inc.Series B$20.6MApr 2024
    Apkudo logoApkudoSeries C$37.5MFeb 2023
    Elligo Health Research logoElligo Health ResearchSeries E$135MSep 2021
    Elligo logoElligoSeries E$135MSep 2021
    Infinicept logoInfiniceptGrowth$23MJan 2020
    IIntegrity OrthopaedicsSeries B$20.6M

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    Last updated: 9 September 2026