Private Equity Firm Directory

ABN AMRO Private Equity - Investment focus: business services, communications, information technology and healthcare services companies with new products and services that address large existing markets.

Advent International - Investment focus: companies at all stages of development, including early-stage, and in virtually any industry.

Bain Capital - Focus: venture and expansion capital for private companies and growth capital for public companies in a wide range of industries.

BancBoston Capital - Investment focus: early-stage venture capital to equity sponsorship, co-investment and mezzanine capital for buyouts, recapitalizations and expansion of mid-size companies

Code Hennessy & Simmons LLC - Invests in middle-market companies that manufacture and distribute a broad array of consumer and industrial products.

General Atlantic Partners - Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies.

GTCR - Focus: capital for companies in consolidating of fragmented industries and high-growth industries.

Freeman Spogli - Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies.

Frontenac Company - Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses.

Hellman & Friedman - Focus: investing in management buyouts in media, telecommunications, financial services, technology and marketing.

Housatonic Partners - Investment focus: later stage companies in the business services, media and communications industries.

JP Morgan Partners - Investment focus: private equity for a global investment opportunities including management buy-outs and recapitalizations, venture capital, growth equity and equity to reduce excessive debt burdens.

Madison Dearborn Partners - Focus: management buy-outs, growth equity financing, recapitalization and acquisition-oriented financing.

Nautic Partners - Focus: private equity firm specializing in the business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and information, and telecommunications services industries.

Pinnacle Equity Capital - Focus exclusively on investments in management buyouts of business services companies.

Silver Lake Partners - Focus: private equity buy-out and recapitalization investments in technology businesses.

Sprout Group - Investment focus: startups, expansion financing and management buyouts involving business to business services, communications, distribution, education, health care services, information technologies, life science products, or retail.

Summit Partners - Focus: profitable companies which are poised for continued growth in the fields of software, technology, information services, healthcare, and financial services

Svoboda, Collins L.L.C. - Focus: investing in and building value-added service and distribution companies with fundamentally sound operating models.

TA Associates - Investment focus: profitable private growth companies in software, technology, healthcare, financial services, media and consumer products

William Blair Capital Partners - Focus: early-stage venture capital, growth equity, and leveraged equity recapitalizations and management buyouts across a broad range of industries

Wind Point Partners - Investment focus: all stages of development, from expansion capital for emerging growth companies to sponsoring acquisitions or recapitalizations