Opportunistic

Encore Alternative Income Fund, LP

Offering Details

  • Location

    Various U.S.
  • Target Return

    12% preferred
  • Target Hold

    3 yrs
  • Offering Size

    $20.0M
  • Minimum Investment

    $200,000

Offering Overview

Encore Alternative Income Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of merchant cash advances, providing short-term funding to established U.S. small- and mid-sized businesses, secured by future receivables. This fund offers investors the potential for steady distributions with reduced correlation to traditional markets.

Encore Private Equity

Private equity investments focus on acquiring or investing in privately held companies across various industries. These investments typically involve active ownership and strategic oversight, with outcomes dependent on business performance and market conditions.

  • 15+ Months

    Operating History

  • $54M+

    Total Principal

  • 6-12 Months

    Average Contract Duration

  • 650+

    Deals Funded

  • 0.1%

    Cash Loss1

  • Alternative Credit

    Asset Type

    Alternative credit investments involve privately originated loans or structured credit instruments outside traditional public markets. These strategies provide exposure to contractual cash flows, subject to borrower credit risk and liquidity considerations.

  • Opportunistic

    Investment Strategy

    Opportunistic strategies focus on assets requiring ground-up development, significant redevelopment, repositioning, or restructuring. These investments generally involve higher levels of risk and are more sensitive to execution, timing, and market conditions.

  • Regulation D

    Investment Type

    Regulation D offerings give accredited investors access to private investments not available on public exchanges. These opportunities can provide diversification and attractive return potential, though they may involve higher risk and reduced liquidity compared to traditional publicly traded investments.

Why Invest?

  • Encore Co-Invest

    Prior to opening the strategy to accredited investors, Encore committed approximately $15M from its own balance sheet, creating alignment and validating framework under live-market conditions.2

  • 650+ Transactions Executed

    With more than 650 deals funded, Encore has built a robust and diversified portfolio across essential sectors like logistics, healthcare, construction, and marketing.

  • Broker Relationships and Funding Platform Partnership

    Encore has cultivated a broad network of consultants, brokers and funding platforms, creating scalable distribution channels and strong inbound deal flow.

  • Refined Underwriting Criteria

    Encore has stress-tested its models and identified key merchant-level indicators (e.g., revenue volatility, cash buffers, industry seasonality) that correlate with performance outcomes.

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Milestones

  • Offering Launch

    The offering opened in May 2025 to participate in Encore’s alternative income strategy.

  • 500+ Contracts

    By November 2025, Encore’s alternative income strategy had funded more than 500 contracts.

  • First Distribution

    In January 2026, the Fund issued its first distribution and is expected to continue distributions biannually.

As of February 2026, unless otherwise noted. The stated 12% preferred return is a target and not assured. Actual returns may vary depending on asset performance and other risk factors. This statistic is not a guarantee or indication of Fund performance. Distributions are not guaranteed and depend on the availability of distributable cash, among other factors described in the Offering Documents.

1. Cash loss represents non-recoverable cash loss due to defaulted payments. 2. As of November 2025.

Past performance is not indicative of future performance. The information contained in this document is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities. Securities will only be offered through confidential offering materials delivered to suitable, accredited investors and will be offered and sold pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act only to persons who are accredited investors within Rule 501(a) promulgated under the Securities Act. Private security transactions involve a high degree of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Securities transactions conducted through Umergence, LLC. Member FINRA and SIPC.

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Brenda Grogan

Executive Director

Brenda Grogan is responsible for developing and maintaining investor relationships for Ignite Investments. Brenda has more than 25 years of commercial real estate development, investments, and brokerage experience and has raised more than $195 million dollars in equity through Encore-sponsored products. Previously, Brenda was director of commercial real estate for Hudson & Marshall, exceeding $2 billion in transactions through sales and auctions.

Prior to that, she was vice president of investments at Henry S. Miller. Brenda earned a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Louisiana State University. She holds a Real Estate Commissioners Broker’s License as well as the Series 22 and Series 63 registrations.

Brenda is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC.

Daisy Chen, CFA

Executive Director

Daisy Chen, CFA, is Executive Director, responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with Ignite Investments’ high net worth and international clients. Daisy has more than 15 years of experience in the securities, financial advising, and private equity industry. Since joining the firm in 2012, she has managed relationships with high-net-worth individuals representing more than $155 million in equity on behalf of Ignite and its sponsors.

Prior to joining Ignite, Daisy was a financial analyst at Trinity Private Equity Group. Before that, she worked at NY Life Securities as a financial advisor managing portfolios of retail investors. Daisy earned a Master of Science in management information systems from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Science from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Daisy holds her Series 22 and Series 63 securities licenses and has earned a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. In her spare time, she is an instructor of a Level 3 CFA review course.

Daisy is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC.

Nami Nafissi

Senior Associate, Investor Relations

Nami is responsible for maintaining investor relationships and providing client support for Ignite Investments. He has more than six years of experience in real estate law. Previously, Nami was a case clerk at Clark Hill Strasburger (formerly Strasburger & Price LLP), working within the industry litigation practice group. Prior to that, Nami served in the AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) working in business development for Habitat for Humanity. Nami earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Louisiana State University’s E.J. Ourso College of Business.
 
Nami Nafissi is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC.

Nili Sangani

Managing Principal

Nili Sangani serves as a Senior Vice President at Encore Enterprises where she plays an integral role in the management of several investment partnerships, the management of select shared service functions within the firm, and strategic oversight of the firm’s high net worth capital raising activities via Encore’s capital raising subsidiary, Ignite. Nili is also an active member of the Board of Directors of Encore Enterprises and Encore Properties, Ltd. Over the course of her career, she has overseen and managed relationships with investors representing nearly $1.5 billion in equity. Prior to joining Encore in 2014, Nili worked as an investment banker in the Real Estate Group of Raymond James & Associates in New York and Florida, where she was responsible for executing a variety of public and private M&A and capital market transactions for clients across the hospitality, multifamily, student housing, industrial, single-tenant net lease, and GSA sectors, with a particular emphasis on listed REITs. Nili earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business, where she graduated with honors. Nili holds the Securities Industry Essentials License as well as the Series 7 and Series 63 registrations. Nili is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC. testttttttttttt