Aldaron, a pioneer in transformation equity, today announced its official launch, defining a new investment category that combines world-class AI engineering with control-oriented investing. The firm also announced a majority investment in Oak Point Partners, the leading institutional purchaser of remnant assets.

Aldaron exists to unlock the human potential in leading American businesses through frontier technology. Its Deployment Team, a hybrid group of engineers and investment professionals, works alongside management at each partner company to reimagine how the business operates and build the systems that drive equity value creation through applied AI.

Transformation Equity

AI is a generational technology that will impact every industry. Aldaron believes the companies that endure will be the ones that put technology in the hands of their people and transform how the work gets done – amplifying, not replacing, the experience and know-how built over decades.

This transformation, if done well, is hard. It requires a different kind of capital partner: one with deep technology expertise, operational fluency, full-time dedication, and a structure that creates genuine alignment with management. Transformation equity delivers all four – an approach in which the team that underwrites an investment is the same one that builds the technology, drives the change, and is measured on whether it succeeds.

Aldaron is purpose-built for this strategy, with its unique culture that attracts top-tier investment and engineering talent and its economic model that creates strong alignment with its investments. The firm seeks to partner with leading companies across industries with strong management teams, loyal customers, and expertise built over years – whose leaders see the technology opportunity in front of them and want a partner equipped to help capture it. Aldaron works to amplify the people and institutional knowledge already inside these businesses, accelerate growth, strengthen the customer experience, and compound the advantages that set these companies apart.

Aldaron Team

Aldaron’s team brings together deep expertise in private markets investing and forward-deployed engineering. Collectively, the Aldaron team has more than 25 years of experience at Palantir and deep experience in private markets investing, business strategy, and change management.

The firm’s Co-Founders, Will Oberndorf, Evan Mendez and Jay Grewal, said, “We have set out to build a firm that does more than just provide capital: one that partners deeply with our portfolio companies to help them adapt to a fundamentally transformative technology. Through Aldaron’s differentiated operating model, we enable the businesses we partner with to go on offense – embracing frontier technology to unlock their full potential and drive long-term value for all stakeholders.”

Grewal co-founded Palantir’s commercial business, where he pioneered the forward deployed engineering model in commercial markets, scaled and led a team of more than 600 forward-deployed engineers, and co-created Foundry, Palantir’s enterprise data management platform. Mendez was previously on the investment team at Carlyle, working in the technology group across their U.S. buyout strategy and serving as an early member of the firm’s AI team. Oberndorf spent the past decade building and scaling the private markets investment practice at Oberndorf Enterprises, investing across early- and growth-stage technology businesses serving traditional industries.

Investment in Oak Point Partners

In March 2026, Aldaron completed its first transaction – a majority equity investment in Oak Point Partners, the leading institutional purchaser of remnant assets. Since pioneering the remnant asset category in 2006, Oak Point has completed more than 2,000 transactions – purchasing intangible assets and payment rights from Fortune 500 companies, private equity-backed businesses, and distressed entities. In doing so, Oak Point has built industry-leading monetization capabilities on the back of proprietary data and technology, processes refined over decades, and a dedicated team of specialists spanning legal research, recovery operations, and technology.

Aldaron’s Deployment Team is working alongside Oak Point’s team to layer AI and machine learning capabilities on top of that foundation – accelerating the discovery of remnant assets across Oak Point’s 1,000+ asset channels and increasing operational capacity to maximize the value of its remnant asset portfolio.

Evan Mendez, Co-Founder of Aldaron, said, “Oak Point is exactly the kind of business with which Aldaron was built to partner. They have spent 20 years creating the leading platform in their category, with proprietary data, deep domain expertise, and a team whose process knowledge cannot be replicated but can be significantly amplified with technology applied in the right way. We couldn’t be more excited to work with founder and CEO Eric Linn and his team, and to build on an exceptionally strong foundation by implementing frontier technology that enables Oak Point to operate faster, at greater scale, and with even better outcomes for their deal partners.”

Eric Linn, CEO of Oak Point Partners, said, “This is an inflection point for Oak Point. We spent two decades perfecting our process, and now we have the opportunity to work with the talented team at Aldaron to unlock capabilities we could not have built on our own. What makes Aldaron the right partner is not just the capital and technology they bring to the table, but also their unique approach to collaboration. Their team is embedded in our business, operating alongside our people, and learning our workflows from the inside out. I couldn’t be more excited about Oak Point’s next phase of growth alongside Aldaron, and I greatly appreciate our existing investors, who’ve been invaluable in our journey to this point and remain invested in our success.”

About Aldaron

Aldaron is a first-of-its-kind transformation equity firm, working to unlock human potential with frontier technology. Aldaron deploys a unified team of engineers and investors directly into American businesses to transform how companies operate: understanding their business, identifying the highest-value problems, and building and applying frontier technology against those problems to drive value. The firm is co-headquartered in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit www.aldaron.com.

About Oak Point Partners

Oak Point Partners is the leading purchaser of remnant assets. Oak Point has purchased remnant assets from over 2,000 companies including Fortune 500 publicly traded companies, portfolio companies of many of the largest private equity firms and privately held businesses. Headquartered outside of Chicago, Illinois, Oak Point has a highly experienced team, spanning legal research, recovery operations, and technology. For more information, please visit https://www.oakpointpartners.com/

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