Los Angeles
ncummings@kaynecapital.com
Nishita Cummings is a managing partner and co-head of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ growth private capital strategies, where she is responsible for identifying and analyzing investment opportunities, monitoring of portfolio companies, and deal execution.
Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2007, Cummings worked at Boston Avenue Capital, a value oriented activist hedge fund focused on micro-cap and small-cap public companies, where she focused on investments in retail/apparel, medical technology, and software companies. Additionally, Cummings has held positions at LEK Consulting and the Wharton Small Business Development Center.
Cummings earned a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School and a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences from the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Founded in 2007, Circle Cardiovascular Imaging enables cardiologists to view and analyze cardiac images. With Circle’s software, physicians read images more accurately and efficiently, improving patient outcomes and physician productivity.
Founded in 2013, CreatorIQ is the proven software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing. Powerful enough for the world’s biggest enterprises and nimble enough for its most innovative, CreatorIQ’s Intelligence Cloud enables data science-enabled creator discovery, streamlines end-to-end workflow, ensures brand safety, and drives meaningful measurement.
Founded in 2003, Intelligent Imagine Systems (“IIS”) provides roadside safety and tracking technology to state law enforecement agencies for commercial vehicle enforcement. Its subsidiary, Drivewyze, provides software to the commercial trucking industry, allowing trucks to bypass participating highway weigh stations.
Founded in 2017, FaceFirst provides facial recogntion software solutions that can analyze 1 million facial comparisons per second. FaceFirst works with large retailers, security organizations and state and local municipalities to prevent crime and apprehend wanted fugitives.
Founded in 2017, Freightwaves is a market intelligence and data company serving the freight and logistics market through its SONAR SaaS platform that provides real-time data and analytics, its award winning digital media arm that distributes market research insights, and its community business unit that is the industry’s leading freight events platform. Freightwaves serves customers primarily in the North American logistics industry made up of carriers, shippers, brokers, and other parties facilitating the transportation of goods.
Founded in 2010, GeoWealth provides an end-to-end asset management platform for registered investment advisors. The company provides a proprietary technology platform and advisory services for trading and rebalancing of the RIA’s model portfolios, a white-labeled client portal with reporting functionalities and back-office services, billing and account management.
Founded in 2001, Ideas United is a content creation agency that leverages a crowd-sourced filmmaker network to serve top-tier brands in both branded and original content. Ideas United helps solve the shortage of diverse video content that exists today by leveraging a mix of internal resources and crowd-sourced creators for brands, media companies, and non-profits. The company provides a unique value proposition to its customers by giving them access to content from a wide array of content creators due to their age and experience with help from a small in-house professional team.
Founded in 2017, KlearNow provides a customs clearance and cross-border logistics platform that combines proprietary software and tech-enabled services to address key pain points in the importing and exporting of goods. KlearNow drives a clear improvement for importers through better data accuracy, faster clearance times, lower prices, and reductions in penalty fees.
Founded in 2008, Panzura addresses pain points of on-premise and multi/hybrid-cloud data management by offering cloud infrastructure software for businesses to provide employees in dispersed locations with faster and secure file synching on large, sophisticated file types.
Founded in 2006, Think Research offers software-enabled knowledge-based tools and clinical content for physicians and nurses at the point of care. Think provides digital evidence-based structured documents that incorporate the latest medical evidence into the patient treatment process (“Patient Order Sets”). Patient Order Sets are accessible at the point of care with Think’s platform, and allows clinicians to migrate from handwritten patient orders to an “intelligent document” platform, allowing for more accurate orders, reducing risk and in creating patient safety.
Founded in 2016, Treez is a point-of-sale “POS” and retail software provider that serves as the master system of record for dispensary owners and operators in the cannabis industry.
Founded in 2007. Zafin is a provider of pricing and product lifecycle management and predictive analytics software for financial institutions. The Company’s integrated suite of tools increases transparency and control for product managers and relationship managers at financial institutions, enabling for deeper and more profitable client relationships. Zafin’s target customers are global financial institutions, Tier-1 Banks, regional banks, community banks and other niche financial services providers.
Founded in 2007, Atlas RFID provides materials management software solutions (“Jovix”) for industrial construction projects. Jovix allows customers to better track materials, which saves money by reducing the time and cost to locate and replace lost materials. Atlas targets projects that are over $1.0 billion in total spend in the oil and gas, nuclear and power sectors.
Founded in 2008, Azalea Health provides tech-enabled revenue cycle management (“RCM”) services and cloud-based electronic health record (“EHR”) software that allows rural healthcare providers to increase revenue and improve clinic workflows.
Founded in 2001, Conservice is a utility and billing management company that provides software and service solutions for the rental housing industry in North America. The company focuses its efforts on properties such as student housing, apartment complexes, military housing, and multi-family dwellings. Conservice’s solutions enable multi-family owners and managers to enhance property values, encourage conservation, and reduce operating costs.
Founded in 2006, Consero provides finance and accounting (“F&A”) outsourced services to small and medium sized businesses, targeting companies with $0.5M-$50.0M in revenue. Consero’s services and integrated third party software applications help customers address complex finance requirements, scale operations, and reduce F&A expenses by up to 30% to 40%.
Founded in 2003, Cryptzone is an enterprise-level cyber-security platform focused on identity access management and encryption. Cryptzone’s product portfolio enables an organization to security connect, collaborate, and comply with today’s digital workplace.
Founded in 2000, DiCentral provides EDI software solutions for buyers and suppliers to collaborate and exchange critical enterprise data. DiCentral’s network of over 6,000 businesses includes some of the world’s leading retailers.
Founded in 2000, Rage Frameworks is a SaaS platform, which provides business process automation and big data analytics solutions to enterprise clients. Rage Frameworks’ products and custom solutions are in use by some of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Founded in 2003, rfxcel provides leading-edge software solutions to help companies manage every aspect of their supply chains, lower costs, and protect their products and brand reputations. Blue-chip organizations in the life sciences (pharmaceuticals and medical devices), food and beverage, worldwide government, and consumer goods industries trust rfxcel’s signature Traceability System (rTS) to power end-to-end supply chain solutions in key areas such as traceability, environmental monitoring, regulatory compliance, serialization, and visibility.
Founded in 2006, Starmount provides mobile point-of-sale solutions for large brick and mortar retailers. Since inception, Starmount has been focused primarily on professional service engagements revolving around the implementation of Oracle POS solutions into brick and mortar retail stores. These engagements have reduced inefficiencies created by the use of disparate back office retail locations.
Wyse is a Canadian-based provider of submetering and utility billing technology offering proprietary hardware, primarily focused on the multifamily real estate market. The company manufactures proprietary IoT devices that can capture electricity usage at the meter level and store that data in a cloud-based system that is accessible to the utility billing service providers than can leverage this data to prepare individualized billing statements.
