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Knife Capital starts with the exit
Visa, Uber Eats and Ticketmaster have bought businesses backed by Knife Capital. The South African investor is building its next chapter around a $50 million fund and a blunt question: who will want to own this company?
Moderne Ventures Wants to Bring the Customer, Too
The Chicago investor pairs venture capital with a six-month introduction to the people who buy technology. Its wager: a route into real estate, finance and insurance can be worth as much as a clever product.
Sanabil Investments Has $3 Billion a Year to Put to Work. It Also Has Homework.
The PIF-owned investor connects global private capital with Saudi company building. Its expanding roster of accelerators and venture studios reveals why writing the check is only part of the job.
A91 Partners is buying into India’s everyday ambitions
Coffee, ceiling fans, insurance and software: A91 Partners backs the businesses a growing India buys and uses. Its $665 million third fund puts a larger price on a patient, hands-on approach.
Polaris Partners Gets to Work Before There’s a Company
The Boston venture firm helps turn academic science into businesses. Its record shows why finding the money can be easier than finding a market.
STV wants founders to keep more of what they build
The Riyadh investor built its name backing regional tech companies. Now, callable equity and a Google-backed AI fund are widening its answer to a stubborn question: how should a startup pay for growth?
GreyLion’s Quiet Bet: Fix the Company Before You Financial-Engineer It
GreyLion courts companies at an awkward threshold: too established to improvise forever, too promising to sell the future for a spreadsheet. Its answer is patient capital, operating discipline and a four-part playbook built for founders who still want a hand on the wheel.
The Family Office That Treats Capital Like a Contact Sport
Wasson Enterprise is a 16-person family office with an operator's reflex: write the check, open the network, then help with the awkward work of growing. Its portfolio stretches from pharmacy automation to recycled plastic, but the common product is practical leverage.
Sway Capital Wants to Be More Than a VC Firm - It Wants to Build the Whole Capital Stack
The firm that backed early technology companies is assembling venture, credit, impact and media under one roof. Its wager is that the useful edge is not a single fund, but the ability to meet an idea at several points in its life.
Percheron’s $8 Billion Bet on the People Who Keep America Running
Percheron Capital is turning fragmented, hands-on trades into scaled service platforms. Its unusual tool kit pairs high-velocity M&A with engineers who build AI alongside the frontline.
The $90 Billion Software Machine That Starts With a Cold Call
Insight Partners built one of technology’s largest investment platforms by staying narrow on software and going wide on stage. Behind the capital is a less glamorous engine: analysts making calls, operators carrying playbooks, and a network designed to turn introductions into growth.
Spark Capital Bet on Products Before They Became Markets
The venture firm behind Twitter, Tumblr, Oculus and Anthropic built its reputation by treating taste as diligence and patience as a product. Twenty-one years in, its dog logo still says more about the strategy than a spreadsheet does.
Greater Sum Ventures Built a Private Equity Machine With No Fund Clock
The Knoxville firm turned one church-software roll-up into a repeatable playbook for buying, combining and operating unglamorous but essential software - without the forced exit date of a conventional fund.
Battery Ventures Plays Every Stage of the Technology Stack
The 43-year-old investor combines venture capital, growth equity and buyouts under one technology thesis. Its newest $3.25 billion fund is a test of whether stage flexibility matters more than category fashion.
The Venture Firm That Put All Its Chips on Cybersecurity
Ten Eleven Ventures made a concentrated bet before cybersecurity became a boardroom obsession. More than a decade later, its edge is not simply capital - it is knowing how security products get built, bought and scaled.
The Climate Investor With an Unfair Advantage: Its Customers Are Already in the Room
Energy Impact Partners built a venture firm around a stubborn fact: energy startups do not scale on capital alone. Its coalition model puts the utilities and industrial companies that might buy, test and deploy new technology inside the investment platform.
The Quiet Firm That Learned to Buy the Awkward Deal
Alta Communications made its name backing media and telecom businesses. As Alta Equity Partners, the same investing lineage now hunts a less glamorous prize: small, cash-generating companies and complicated deals that larger funds often pass by.
The $3.1 Billion Software Investor You Rarely Hear About
JMI Equity spent three decades becoming a software specialist while staying mostly out of the spotlight. Its pitch is simple: flexible capital, operating help, and enough pattern recognition to turn a proven product into a durable company.
The Sports Fund Buying Everything Except the Scoreboard
Bluestone Equity Partners is making a focused bet on the businesses around the game - the software, services, venues and experiences that turn attention into durable revenue.
The Investors Who Stay for the Whole Story
For more than three decades, Baird Capital has backed founder-led B2B technology and services companies from an early venture check to a late-stage buyout - one global team, one employee-owned firm, and a preference for the sectors most people scroll past.
The Healthcare Buyout Firm That Counts Minutes in the Waiting Room
Regal Healthcare Capital Partners has raised nearly $1.3 billion by treating healthcare’s unglamorous details - staffing, scheduling, dashboards and provider incentives - as the machinery of growth.
The Firm That Turned One Man's Duty-Free Fortune Into a $118 Billion Growth Machine
It began as one billionaire's quiet family office. Today General Atlantic writes some of the biggest checks in private markets - and it still calls itself a partner, not a boss.
The Doctor Who Traded the Exam Room for the Cap Table
A physician-turned-financier is buying up the unglamorous engine room of American healthcare - the home aides, clinical trial sites and hospice teams that most funds overlook.
The Atlanta firm quietly building a private-markets operating system for your financial advisor
For years, private markets belonged to endowments and the ultra-wealthy. BIP Capital is betting the next chapter belongs to the advisor down the street - and it built the plumbing to prove it.
The Firm That Bet on Boring and Made $41 Billion
Founded in 1984, Kayne Anderson built a $41 billion alternatives platform by specializing in the unglamorous middle market - oil wells, storage units, and student housing - where cash flow, not hype, does the talking.
The Growth Investor With a Four-Number Test for Software
Arsenal Growth Equity does not hunt for the loudest software company in the room. It looks for the one already doing $5 million-plus in revenue, growing 25% a year and keeping 90% of its customers - then writes a check designed to preserve control.
The Private Equity Firm That Treats Payments Like Product
Blue Star Innovation Partners does not sell founders a distant board seat. It sells them a working session - then brings a payments playbook, an operator bench, and capital to the table.
The Quiet Firm Turning Bootstrapped Software Into a $7 Billion Bet
Serent Capital has spent 18 years backing founder-led software companies that never chased venture capital. Now it manages more than $7 billion and just closed the largest fund in its history.
The Fund That Invests in the Cracks Between Food, Oceans and Energy
S2G Investments manages about $2.8 billion across food, oceans and energy - and its whole thesis is that the money should go where those systems meet.
The Firm That Turned a Dead Brewery Into a Business Model
Kit Goldsbury sold a hot-sauce company to Campbell Soup, then spent two decades proving that a good meal can rebuild a piece of a city. In 2024, for the first time, Silver Ventures is letting outsiders buy in.