Axcess Granted

Tamara Ralph

A fourth-generation couturier and the founder and creative director of her Paris-based maison, Tamara Ralph is one of the defining figures of modern haute couture. In 2014 she became the first British-based designer in nearly a century invited onto the official Paris Haute Couture Week schedule, one of only three female creative directors in the world on it, and today she dresses royalty and the most recognizable women in the world, from Queen Rania of Jordan to Beyoncé, Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Lopez, with brand collaborations spanning Cartier, Audemars Piguet, and Rolls-Royce.

Now she is extending that couture sensibility into a global luxury lifestyle house, and, with it, into ultra-luxury branded residential and hospitality design.

Axcess is leading the U.S. business development for that expansion. Working hand in hand with Tamara and her team, we’re opening senior developer, owner, and architecture-and-design relationships across the American market to anchor her first U.S. branded residences. (Learn More)

ICON X & ICON Yachts

We’re thrilled to welcome ICON X, a company creating an entirely new category in luxury travel: the yacht expedition company. Founded by Micca Ferrero, owner of ICON Yachts, the Dutch superyacht shipyard, alongside co-founder and CEO Alina Oenning in Monaco, ICON X occupies the white space between the intimacy of a private charter and the reach of a large expedition cruise.

Its purpose-built, polar-capable (PC6) explorer vessels carry just 12–36 guests, with a fully modular cabin layout: interior walls open to create larger suites when the vessel is chartered for fewer than 36 guests, or stay closed as 18 individual cabins for a book-by-the-cabin voyage. Each ship pairs true yacht-level service with genuine expedition capability, a science lab, ice class, submersibles, alternative-fuel propulsion, and access to the very edge of the navigable world, from Arctic fjords to the tropics.

This flexibility lets guests take the whole vessel privately or book by the cabin, positioning ICON X alongside the likes of Aman, Four Seasons, and Orient Express, only at a far more intimate scale. The build is supervised and managed by ICON Yachts, whose engineering team brings rare expertise in polar-capable, yacht-grade vessels, with construction to be delivered through a leading international shipyard.

Axcess is engaged to help bring the flagship 85-metre vessel to life, introducing strategic capital and financing partners and opening the hospitality and affinity relationships that will define the ICON X brand as this new category takes shape. First delivery is targeted for 2029. (Learn More)

SportFX

We’re delighted to welcome back my old friend Joseph Caruso, Founder & CEO of sportFX™, the world’s first-of-its-kind Human Movement Intelligence™ platform. Built on the company’s patented sightFX™ computer-vision technology and a proud member of the NVIDIA Inception Program, sportFX™ turns an ordinary smartphone into a sophisticated biomechanics platform that reconstructs and analyzes human movement in three dimensions, with no wearables, markers, sensors, radar, or expensive laboratory environments. In doing so, it democratizes elite performance analysis once reserved for professional organizations, research laboratories, and Olympic training centers, placing world-class movement intelligence in the hands of the young athletes and families long priced out of these technologies.

More than simply measuring movement, sportFX™ is engineered to understand it, delivering objective biomechanical insight that helps athletes, coaches, and organizations evaluate movement quality, refine mechanics, and inform long-term development and injury-risk decisions. As the first scientifically measured, software-native Human Movement Intelligence™ platform, it replaces specialized hardware with patented computer vision to make elite biomechanics accessible at global scale. More than 10,000 active athletes already use the platform, with scientific validation anchored by the Wake Forest University Pitching Lab and Texas Woman’s University, where internationally recognized golf biomechanist Dr. Young-Hoo Kwon is validating the technology in golf, following its successful deployment in baseball, with additional sports and enterprise applications to come.

Axcess is proud to join sportFX™’s cap table and serve as a strategic advisor alongside an accomplished network of investors, advisors, and operators with deep expertise across professional sports, biomechanics, computer vision, and venture capital. Together, we’re helping accelerate the company’s growth and map its capital raises as this new category takes shape.

Encompass Imports & Exports

Proud to be working with Rich Krawiec, a 30-year beverage veteran who helped build some of the industry’s most recognizable names, taking FIJI Water from its very first case to millions of cases and scaling Justin Wines at a 27% CAGR over a decade, alongside leadership roles with Landmark and Lewis.

His new venture, Encompass Imports & Exports, is a vertically integrated import, export, and distribution platform carrying a premium beverage portfolio across three key geographies, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. By holding its own licenses and self-distributing, Encompass bypasses the traditional distributor layer to move faster and capture more margin for the brands it represents.

The portfolio spans wine (from Napa’s Ellman, Perliss Estate Vineyard, and Mom’s Juice to Italian Super Tuscans and Brunello), spirits (Mezcal Marqués, Los Osuna, SV Vodka, and Golden Eagle Vodka), and a fast-growing non-alcoholic roster including Coco5, VALR, Riise, VOSS, and Focus Factor RTD. Axcess is helping Rich accelerate distribution and open new channels and accounts, a natural fit alongside our Caribbean and hospitality relationships, while supporting the strategic capital and partnerships that fuel the next stage of growth.

The Rock-It Company Expands to Abu Dhabi

The Rock-It Company (Rock-It), one of the world’s leading providers of specialist logistics for time-critical and high-value sectors across live events and luxury goods, has expanded its footprint in the UAE to Abu Dhabi, in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO).

The expansion in the region brings Rock-It’s portfolio of renowned brands to the UAE capital to support Abu Dhabi’s vision of becoming a world-leading destination for luxury experiences, cultural attractions, and global events, while reinforcing the emirate’s position as a regional re-export hub and advanced logistics base. (Read More)

EmpireCLS Powers the Oscars 

The Hollywood Reporter went behind the scenes on the military-grade choreography EmpireCLS brings to Oscar night, roughly 300 chauffeured vehicles delivering Hollywood’s biggest names to the Dolby safely and on time. (Read More)

Sentient Jet Marks 10 Years at the Kentucky Derby 

Sentient Jet returned as the preferred private aviation partner for the 152nd Kentucky Derby, a decade-long presence, hosting its annual Derby Day Breakfast curated by Chef Bobby Flay, with a special appearance by Rob Gronkowski. (Read More)

Tamara Ralph Fall 2026 Couture: All That Glitters

Tamara Ralph turned her gaze to South Asia, whence her husband hails, finding ample inspiration in the layered jewelry and asymmetric sari silhouettes she found there. “It’s a subtle hint towards a region that holds a place in my heart,” said the Australian designer backstage before her show. She integrated such nods into her lavish lexicon of corseted hourglass shapes in which she channeled archetypes of old-world couture in a manner not to disappoint her many admirers. (Read More).

IPPOLITA Debuts “Hand, Matter, Gold” at NOMAD Hamptons 

IPPOLITA debuted Hand, Matter, Gold, a new high jewelry collection created from rare Yukon gold nuggets, tracing their 150-million-year journey from earth to hand. The collection was presented at NOMAD Hamptons, held at The Watermill Center from June 25–28. Marking NOMAD’s first U.S. presentation, the fair brought together an exceptional curation of collectible design, contemporary art, and fine jewelry in a gallery-like setting.

The collection was highlighted by Observer, which named IPPOLITA among the fair’s “standout discoveries”, writing: “Working with the nuggets’ irregular contours and raw beauty, Ippolita Rostagno and Piotrek Panszczyk transformed them into sculptural jewelry. (Read More)

TMRW Sports and the NFL to Launch a Pro Flag Football League 

TMRW Sports is partnering with the NFL to build a professional flag football league for women and men, timed to the run-up to flag football’s Olympic debut at the LA 2028 Games, with backing from NFL clubs, players, and legends including Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. (Read More)

Hut 8 Prices $3.25 Billion of Investment-Grade Senior Secured Notes 

Hut 8’s subsidiary priced a $3.25 billion offering of 6.192% investment-grade senior secured notes due 2042 (non-recourse to Hut 8), financing a turnkey data center with 245 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its River Bend campus. (Read More)

Brookfield and Bloom Energy Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership to $25 Billion 

Bloom Energy and Brookfield expanded their strategic partnership to finance power projects for AI infrastructure, a fivefold increase from $5 billion to $25 billion since October 2025, advancing a new model for AI factories that integrates power, compute, data-center infrastructure, and capital from the outset. (Read More)

Jake Steinfeld Launches “Body By Jake Radio” with iHeartMedia and Universal Music Enterprises 

Fitness icon Jake Steinfeld launched Body By Jake Radio, the first-ever 24-hour digital radio channel designed to fuel mind, body, and spirit, in partnership with iHeartMedia and UMe, free on the iHeartRadio app. (Read More)

Meet a New Kind of Mobile Service: Members Mobile

After several years of partnership, Creature is excited to celebrate the official launch of Members Mobile, a new kind of wireless service built specifically for credit union members. Members Mobile combines affordable nationwide 4G/5G mobile plans with integrated financial benefits, including Cash ShareBacks™ deposited directly into members’ checking accounts.

By connecting mobile service with trusted financial institutions, Members Mobile gives credit unions a powerful new way to deepen member relationships while helping consumers save on one of their biggest monthly expenses. The launch marks an important milestone for the brand and the beginning of a broader national rollout, with more than a dozen credit unions already committed to bringing Members Mobile to their members. (Check it out)

Coco5 Raises $10M and Names a New CEO

Charles Barkley’s active-hydration brand Coco5, part of the Encompass portfolio, had a banner quarter: $10M in fresh funding, a new CEO, and expanded club-channel distribution timed to the World Cup. (Read More)

Sunflower Network

This quarter, the Sunflower Network opened a new pediatric hospital in Brody, Ukraine. The first newly built hospital in the country since the start of the war. After three years of work, the ribbon was cut on May 24th, and the facility is now open and serving patients.

Built on the campus of Brody Central City Hospital and operated by its team of more than 300 medical professionals, the hospital will serve over 120,000 patients a year across Western Ukraine. Its modular, trauma-informed design. Developed with partners including Hines, Pelli Clarke & Partners, CannonDesign’s Open Hand Studio, Northwell Health, UCLA Health, and Stanford Health Care, and backed by the Clinton Global Initiative. Dramatically cut delivery time and created a replicable blueprint for rebuilding essential infrastructure in crisis zones anywhere in the world.

This is a cause especially close to our own Zach Steinfeld, and one the entire Axcess family is proud to stand behind. As the Sunflower team put it: “There is no greater act of optimism than to build.” (Learn More)