ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS

Aaron Dancel, co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures LLC, the Chicago-based private equity firm, has announced a move to acquire a majority controlling stake in the firm through leveraged financing. The announcement follows a landmark year for Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures — the firm successfully raised $5 million in 2025 and achieved an initial valuation of $15 million. The transaction is expected to be supported by institutional financing partners.

Aaron Dancel, a Florida resident based in Palm Beach County, is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures LLC and has been instrumental in building the firm since its inception. Through the pending leveraged financing transaction, Dancel is seeking to consolidate a 52% controlling interest in the firm — a move that would formalize his position as the majority stakeholder of a business he has helped build from the ground up.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and has built its reputation around a hands-on, operationally-driven approach to private equity. The firm identifies growth-stage businesses with strong fundamentals and partners with management teams to unlock value over the long term. The $5 million capital raise earlier this year has already set the stage for internal restructuring, as Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures realigns its organizational structure to support a more aggressive investment mandate going forward.

The leveraged financing structure reflects Dancel's long-term conviction in the firm he helped build and his confidence in its trajectory. By moving to a 52% controlling interest through leverage rather than a straight acquisition, Dancel is deploying a capital-efficient strategy that preserves liquidity while securing a clear leadership mandate for the firm's next phase of growth.

The leveraged financing transaction has attracted institutional-level interest, signaling strong confidence in both Dancel's vision and the long-term platform value of Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures. All parties are working toward a formal close, with further announcements expected as the transaction progresses.

"Look, I believe in what we want to do, and I think our financing partners believe in it too. If we push through with the deal we can make significant impact in proptech," Dancel said.

Alongside the financing announcement, Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures has revealed that its fund is actively evaluating opportunities in the proptech sector — specifically online rental platforms, corporate real estate solutions, and technology-driven tools serving individual landlords. Aaron Dancel believes this focus positions Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures at the forefront of one of the most underserved market segments in modern finance.

"The landlords. We are sitting on a market segment that has not changed for centuries. A lot of people have attempted it because obviously people see the opportunity, but a lot gave up. We believe the timing is right and we are confident we can pull it off," Dancel stated.

The $15 million initial valuation of Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures has drawn attention precisely because the firm is still in its early stages. Industry observers have noted that the figure reflects strong market confidence in the firm's strategy, leadership under Aaron Dancel, and the strength of its emerging deal pipeline — particularly in proptech, a sector that Dancel views as presenting a generational investment opportunity.

Further details regarding the timeline of the leveraged financing transaction and the firm's proptech pipeline will be announced through Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures' official channels.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures LLC today announced that its technology implementation for portfolio company Tiva Properties will be built on Ripple's infrastructure, with the firm implementing Ripple's APIs as the technical foundation for the rollout. The decision follows the firm's recent equity partnership with Tiva Properties, a commercial and residential real estate operator, and represents the first technical deployment under Atlantis Trident's expanded investment mandate.

The arrangement reflects the division of responsibility at the center of the Tiva partnership. Tiva Properties brings operating experience across commercial leasing, assembly space, and day-to-day property management. Atlantis Trident brings the technology side. Rather than building settlement and transaction infrastructure from the ground up, the firm elected to implement against Ripple's existing APIs — a decision that shortens the path to a working product considerably.

"We looked seriously at building this ourselves and decided against it," said Aaron Dancel, co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures. "Building on established infrastructure means inheriting someone else's roadmap and constraints, and that is a real trade-off. But the alternative was spending eighteen months rebuilding something that already exists and works well. For a firm our size, moving quickly on a proven foundation is the better use of capital, and it gets a working product in front of actual users far sooner."

The implementation supports the broader technology roadmap Atlantis Trident is developing across its real estate holdings. Aaron Dancel has been vocal about the firm's view that property management and the landlord market represent a significantly underserved segment, and that the constraint has historically been execution rather than opportunity. The Tiva rollout is intended as the first working demonstration of that thesis rather than a standalone project.

The technical work arrives during an active period for the firm. Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures raised $5 million in 2025, achieved an initial valuation of $15 million, and is currently undergoing internal restructuring to support a more aggressive investment approach. Under Aaron Dancel's direction, the firm is continuing to evaluate opportunities across real estate and property technology, with additional announcements expected as that pipeline develops.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on operational value creation across growth-stage companies, partnering with management teams to identify, acquire, and scale businesses with strong fundamentals and significant upside potential. The firm was co-founded by Aaron Dancel, who serves as Managing Partner. Further details regarding the Tiva Properties implementation will be announced through the firm's official channels.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures LLC is pleased to announce the appointment of David Gershwin to its board, where he will lead the firm's legal and mergers and acquisitions function. The appointment comes as Atlantis Trident enters a more active phase of deal activity following its $5 million capital raise and ongoing internal restructuring.

David is a practicing attorney and a Long Island, New York native who spent more than ten years in mergers and acquisitions at JP Morgan Chase. That work put him across complex deal structures, diligence processes, and the regulatory and contractual frameworks that determine whether a transaction holds up long after closing — the unglamorous part of dealmaking where outcomes are actually decided. Alongside his institutional career, he has advised across banking and digital finance, including engagements with Open Bank, Revolut, and Coinbase, spanning advisory support and transactional guidance for M&A teams. That exposure covers traditional banking, challenger banking, and digital assets — three sectors with very different regulatory postures and very different risk profiles.

"There is a version of private equity where legal is something you call at the end, once the interesting decisions have already been made," said Aaron Dancel, co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures. "That is not how we want to operate. David has spent his career on the side of transactions where the details actually determine the outcome, and having that judgment in the room from the beginning changes the quality of every decision we make. We are fortunate to have him."

In his role on the board, David will advise on deal structure and documentation, oversee transactional diligence, and work closely with Aaron Dancel and the investment team on acquisition strategy. The appointment reflects the firm's view that legal and transactional rigor is not a compliance function but a source of competitive advantage — particularly for a firm pursuing an operationally intensive investment approach across growth-stage companies.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on operational value creation across growth-stage companies, partnering with management teams to identify, acquire, and scale businesses with strong fundamentals and significant upside potential. The firm raised $5 million in 2025 and is actively evaluating opportunities across real estate and property technology.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures LLC is pleased to announce an equity partnership with Tiva Properties, a property technology company building tools for the modern real estate market. The partnership was finalized in Paris, France, during VivaTech, where Aaron Dancel, co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantis Trident, met with representatives from Tiva Properties over the course of the event. What began as an introduction became, over several days of conversation, a shared conviction that the two organizations were looking at the same opportunity from different angles — and that they would be considerably stronger approaching it together.

The partnership represents Atlantis Trident's first formal proptech investment and marks a meaningful step forward in an investment thesis Aaron Dancel has been developing for the better part of a year. Under his direction, the firm spent months evaluating opportunities across the property technology landscape, including online rental platforms, corporate real estate solutions, and technology built for individual landlords. Tiva Properties emerged from that process as the firm's conviction pick — not because it was the flashiest company in the pipeline, but because its team demonstrated an unusually clear-eyed understanding of the actual problem rather than the theoretical version of it.

Under the terms of the partnership, Atlantis Trident will take an equity position in Tiva Properties and provide operational support across growth strategy, market expansion, and organizational development. The arrangement reflects the hands-on investment philosophy Aaron Dancel has built the firm around, which prioritizes operational value creation over passive capital deployment. As part of the partnership, Tiva Properties will pursue a technology roadmap built on blockchain implementation, with Atlantis Trident supporting that direction through capital and strategic guidance.

The investment arrives at an active moment for Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures. The firm raised $5 million in 2025, achieved an initial valuation of $15 million, and is currently undergoing internal restructuring to support a more aggressive investment mandate. The Tiva Properties partnership is the first deployment of capital under that expanded mandate, and Aaron Dancel views it as the beginning of a broader push into the sector rather than an isolated transaction.

Atlantis Trident Equity Ventures is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on operational value creation across growth-stage companies, partnering with management teams to identify, acquire, and scale businesses with strong fundamentals and significant upside potential. The firm was co-founded by Aaron Dancel, who serves as Managing Partner. Tiva Properties is a property technology company developing solutions for the modern real estate market. Further details regarding the partnership and Atlantis Trident's proptech pipeline will be announced through the firm's official channels.