Clear Haven Capital Management

Managing Partner and CIO Mark Simmer leads investment decisions. Alex Bashan, Partner and Head of Public Credit, oversees the public structured-product portfolio. The deliberate bifurcation between the private credit and public securities strategies allows each to benefit from dedicated leadership while sharing the same underlying specialty-finance domain expertise.

Clear Haven originates private transactions directly with specialty-finance founders and management teams, providing balance-sheet solutions across growth stages. The firm's public-side trading desk independently screens structured-product markets for mispriced ABS, RMBS, and CLO exposures. This dual-channel model means origination does not depend on a single intermediary or banking relationship.

Clear Haven primarily structures direct transactions — senior secured term loans, credit facilities, forward-flow agreements, and portfolio purchases — rather than committing to third-party managed funds. On the public side, it invests directly across the capital structure of securitizations. The firm does not present itself as a fund-of-funds allocator.

The firm describes itself as a full-lifecycle capital provider, engaging with specialty-finance platforms from seed-stage origination through securitization. Portfolio companies such as Rain (earned-wage access) and Finally (accounting automation) suggest an appetite for growth-stage fintechs that generate recurring receivable-based cash flows suitable for structured financing.