California Private Equity Firms

BERTRAM CAPITAL is a private equity firm that partners with management teams to fuel the expansion of lower middle market companies. In addition to supplying flexible investment capital, we are committed to providing meaningful operational and strategic resources to facilitate rapid growth in revenue and profitability. We work with companies to unlock the full potential of previously resource-constrained businesses. Bertram Capital’s core objective is to propel management teams in their quest to build more capable, faster growing, and highly profitable enterprises. BERTRAM CAPITAL strives to bring traditional venture capital - [Read more]

The Carlyle Group is one of the worlds largest private equity firms, with more than $18.9 billion under management. With 26 funds across four investment disciplines (management-led buyouts, real estate, leveraged finance, and venture capital), Carlyle combines global vision with local insight, relying on a top-flight team of nearly 300 investment professionals operating out of offices in 14 countries to uncover superior opportunities in North America, Europe, and Asia. While open to opportunities wherever they can be found, Carlyle focuses on sectors in which it has demonstrated expertise: aerospace & defense, automotive & - [Read more]

Established in 1993, Crimson is an international private equity firm with offices in the U.S. and Asia. Capitalizing on the accelerating globalization trend, Crimson partners with management to build industry leading global companies that leverage cross-border capabilities in the manufacturing and services sectors. Crimson's cross-border footprint, focused investment strategy, and over a decade of experience helping middle market companies establish world-class sourcing, manufacturing, service, engineering and sales capabilities in Asia provide the firm with a differentiated investment platform to help well-positioned middle market - [Read more]

Genstar Capital LLC is a private equity investment firm that makes leveraged investments in quality companies. We work in partnership with management to create value over the long term. With $3 billion of committed capital under management and significant experience operating and investing in businesses, Genstar Capital delivers the advantages of expertise, experience and patient capital to portfolio companies. Genstar Capital looks to invest in or acquire companies with $50 million to $1 billion in revenues. Genstar commits $25 to $300 million of equity to investments in a variety of growth, buyout, recapitalization and consolidation - [Read more]

Hellman & Friedman LLC, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm well respected for its distinctive investment philosophy and approach. Our offices are located in San Francisco, London, and New York. We raised our first institutional private equity fund in 1987. During our 22-year investing history, we have raised and managed over $16 billion of committed capital and have invested in over 50 companies. We are currently investing our sixth fund, Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners VI, L.P. (HFCP VI), with over $8 billion of committed capital, which was activated in October 2006. Our objective is to invest long-term - [Read more]

Hercules is the premier specialty finance company providing venture debt and equity to venture capital and private equity backed technology and life science companies at all stages of development. We created this Web site to provide a comprehensive introduction to our company, our financing solutions and our investment focus— each of which vividly demonstrates our clear differentiation within the industry. Our goal at Hercules is simple but vital. We partner with entrepreneurial companies to help them reach essential milestones. Our mission is to support the entrepreneurs of today with the capital resources, experience and expertise - [Read more]

Since its founding in 1999, HRJ Capital's mission has been to create unique, high-quality private equity fund-of-funds investments, with our first funds focusing exclusively on top-tier venture capital funds. We have built upon that foundation and evolved into a diversified institutional investment management firm. We now have an expanded team of investment professionals and a range of fund-of-funds offerings covering top-tier buyout, real estate and hedge fund investments in addition to our core offerings in venture capital. - [Read more]

JMI Equity is a multi-stage private equity firm focused on investing in growing software and business services companies. Since our founding in 1992, we have partnered with over 90 leading software and business services companies. We manage approximately $1.3 billion of committed capital and are currently investing our sixth fund, JMI VI, with $600 million of committed capital. We are experienced and active investors and look to partner with exceptional management teams. Our vision when we were founded was to put together a group of highly skilled professionals who would partner with management teams in the software and business services - [Read more]

Kline Hawkes & Co., manages through its funds, Kline Hawkes California, Kline Hawkes California SBIC, L.P. and Kline Hawkes Pacific, L.P., approximately $300 million of capital. Kline Hawkes' first investment was made in 1996 and since that time has invested in more than 35 companies. In our most recent Fund, Kline Hawkes Pacific, L.P., the investment range is $5 - $10 million per company with a focus on expansion-stage investment opportunities and change of control transactions. - [Read more]

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is one of the nation's preeminent private equity firms with approximately $9 billion in equity capital under management. Our firm, founded in 1989, has invested in 45 companies with aggregate value of $34 billion. We are currently investing our fifth fund, Green Equity Investors V, L.P., a $5.3 billion private equity fund. Located in Los Angeles, California, we invest in established companies that are leaders in their markets. We have repeatedly demonstrated our ability to successfully originate, negotiate, consummate and realize investments in a variety of different industries and economic - [Read more]

Oak Hill's philosophy of aligning economic interests has been a core ingredient of our success since the mid 1980s. From inception, the firm's personnel and general partners have invested significant personal capital in each transaction. As a recent example, the general partner and associated persons of Oak Hill Capital Partners II, L.P. committed $500 million of the $2.5 billion fund. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs, management teams, and corporations who share a common vision for maximizing value creation. We structure each investment to align the economic interests of all constituencies: the co-owners and management - [Read more]

Oaktree’s mission is to provide highly professional management with a primary emphasis on risk control in a limited number of sophisticated investment specialties. Oaktree is involved in less efficient markets and alternative investments, and has extensive experience, an enviable track record, broad product range and substantial assets under management. We are dedicated to the achievement of consistent and superior performance without high risk. Our ultimate objective is investment success, the fruits of which are shared by Oaktree’s clients and personnel. Our goal is excellence in investing. To us, this means achieving attractive - [Read more]

PGP Capital Advisors, LLC is a boutique investment bank that provides high-impact, tailored services in connection with mergers and acquisitions, private placements and corporate finance. We assist our clients first by identifying financial objectives that complement their corporate operating goals and strategy and, second, by executing customized transactions that are designed to achieve those objectives. We have extensive experience in completing complex investment banking engagements for both publicly-traded and privately-held companies. We pay particular attention to: * Emerging companies in the middle market * Ethnic or - [Read more]

Plantagenet is a private equity firm focused on early stage and turnaround investments. We strive to identify opportunities in which Plantagenet can play an active role in ensuring maximum returns. With offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Plantagenet is at the center of the greatest concentration of global venture capital. Plantagenet was formed in 1991 by C. Derek Anderson. Since then, Plantagenet has invested in 20 companies in equity and equity-related transactions ranging from early stage to late stage recapitalizations and turnarounds. Plantagenet has shown its skill at identifying companies that have become undervalued in - [Read more]

WPlatinum Equity focuses on structuring acquisitions that meet the unique requirements of each strategic seller, navigating all degrees of deal complexities. From public-to-private transactions to corporate divestitures of non-core assets, we're skilled at mitigating all degrees of risk when extracting a non-core division from its parent, maintaining business momentum, and ensuring business continuity. STRATEGIC SELLERS A divestiture can be driven by many factors. We typically work with strategic sellers that, when considering a divestiture, weigh the value of benefits such as: -a swift transaction -increased shareholder value - [Read more]

Founded in 1999, Silver Lake is a global private investment firm with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. With offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco and Hong Kong, Silver Lake employs over 75 investment professionals across its strategies. The firm's investing strategies derive from specialization in three primary areas: Silver Lake Partners is the leader in private investments in technology, technology-enabled, and related growth industries. Its funds' portfolio companies include or have included technology industry leaders such as Ameritrade, Avago, Avaya, Business Objects, Flextronics, - [Read more]

Symphony Technology Group LLC is a strategic private equity firm with the mission of investing in and being a partner in building great software and services companies. In addition to capital, STG provides trans formative expertise to enable portfolio companies to deliver more value to clients to retain and attract the best talent and to achieve best-in-class business performance. All STG companies are expected to grow through innovation. STG's current portfolio consists of nine global companies with a combine revenue of $2.5 billion and 15,000 employees spread across North America, Europe and Asia. - [Read more]

TowerBrook is an investment management firm with a differentiated strategy and a track record of creating value for investors. The firm is based in Europe and the USA and focuses on making investments in European and North American companies. TowerBrook pursues control-oriented investments in large and middle market companies, partnering with highly capable management teams and seeking situations characterised by complexity. TowerBrook has approximately $5 billion under management. We invest first to transform and then to build businesses. To this end, we have developed an investment strategy based on the twin principles of superior - [Read more]