Inter Private Equity

Inter Private Equity

Inter Private Equity operates as a corporate investor with a structure uncommon among family offices: it is registered offshore in the British Virgin Islands and Jersey, yet anchors its US presence in Greenbrae, California. Ahmed Mohamed Fattouh founded the firm and serves as CEO, building a platform that blurs the lines between a traditional investment company and a repeat SPAC sponsor. The entity sits alongside a family of InterPrivate-branded vehicles — including InterPrivate LLC and multiple InterPrivate SPACs — that have collectively taken companies public in sectors ranging from automotive AI to aviation aftermarket services. The firm pursues a dual strategy that spans buyout transactions and early-stage venture, including seed and start-up rounds. Its most visible deals have come through the SPAC structure: InterPrivate Acquisition Corp. took Cerence, the automotive voice-assistant spinout from Nuance, public in 2019, and InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp. merged with Getaround in 2022. Beyond SPACs, the firm has indicated interests across industrial tech and enterprise software, though its private portfolio remains largely undisclosed. The Nokeng Fluorspar Project in South Africa and a Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV, International SIF SICAV SA, appear among its other assets, suggesting a geographic reach that includes Africa and Europe. Brian Q. Pham and Alan Pinto serve as Executive Vice Presidents, with Sunil Kappagoda as Vice Chairman of InterPrivate III Financial Partners and Brandon Bentley as General Counsel and COO. The team has executed multiple SPAC IPOs, most recently with InterPrivate III Financial Partners targeting fintech infrastructure. The firm does not disclose total assets under management or aggregate deployment, and its operating structure as an offshore-registered entity with US-based executives adds a layer of opacity uncommon among domestic investment offices. The structural differentiator is the deliberate layering of a corporate-investor identity atop a repeat-SPAC engine. Rather than raising blind-pool capital from external LPs each time, the InterPrivate network reuses its sponsor entity, accumulating operational knowledge across de-SPAC processes while maintaining the flexibility to do direct private investments. This architecture gives portfolio companies a path to public markets without the firm needing to raise successive institutionally-sized funds.