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Atlas Merchant Invests in Edge Focus

August 12, 2026Featured in Bloomberg

Bob Diamond, Founding Partner and CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital, and Elliott Lorenz, co-founder and CEO of Edge Focus, joined Bloomberg to discuss Atlas Merchant’s minority growth equity investment in Edge Focus and the role of private credit in consumer lending.

The investment supports Edge Focus’s hiring, the continued development of its proprietary credit underwriting technology and the growth of its capital markets platform alongside lending and institutional partners. Edge Focus is a private credit firm focused on consumer credit, and its Origin underwriting platform helps lending partners evaluate more than one million loan applications each month.

Read the press release: Edge Focus Closes Growth Equity Raise Led by Atlas Merchant Capital

  • Private credit
  • Private credit firm
  • Credit underwriting

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