Investor Directory
Growth equity sits between venture capital and control buyouts: minority or shared-control investments in companies that already have proven products and paying customers, deployed to accelerate expansion rather than to finance an idea or to buy a mature cash flow. This directory profiles dedicated growth equity firms, from global platforms investing across sectors to specialists in bootstrapped software, financial technology and founder-led consumer brands. Every figure shown is taken from the firm's SEC Form ADV filing, and firms whose advisers are exempt from reporting are listed without a figure rather than with an estimate.
Data last verified: August 2026
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17 of 20 disclose AUM
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Counts exceed the firm total because a firm may carry more than one sector
20 firms
AUM
$2.5B
as of 2026-03-31
Growth equity firm investing in growth-stage technology companies in financial technology, healthcare IT and enterprise software, historically concentrated outside the coastal venture hubs.
Focus
Growth-stage fintech, healthcare IT and enterprise software
Sectors
AUM
$11.8B
as of 2026-01-02
Growth equity investor backing enterprise technology, payments, financial services and tech-enabled services companies alongside a global partner network of industry executives.
Focus
Growth equity in enterprise technology, fintech and payments
Sectors
AUM
$125.2B
as of 2026-08-12
Global growth investor backing category-leading companies in technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer sectors, with growth equity the first-named strategy on a platform that also runs credit, climate and infrastructure arms.
Focus
Global growth equity across technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer
Sectors
AUM
$1.7B
as of 2026-03-27
Growth equity firm partnering with entrepreneur-led, growth-stage technology companies, bringing operating and functional experience to bootstrapped and lightly capitalized businesses.
Focus
Entrepreneur-led technology growth equity
Sectors
AUM
$13.5B
as of 2026-06-04
Growth equity investor in software and AI-driven companies, providing growth capital and shareholder liquidity to founder-led and bootstrapped businesses.
Focus
Software growth equity
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AUM
$6.7B
as of 2026-04-09
Growth equity firm investing in software, internet and tech-enabled businesses, backed by a network of several hundred strategic individual investors who open doors for portfolio companies.
Focus
Software, internet and tech-enabled growth equity
Sectors
AUM
$6.4B
as of 2026-03-31
Middle-market growth capital firm providing long-term capital to rapidly growing software and technology-enabled businesses through growth equity and structured capital lines.
Focus
Software growth equity and structured capital
Sectors
AUM
$2B
as of 2026-03-27
Specialized growth equity firm backing financial and business technology companies, combining sector focus with hands-on operating support.
Focus
Financial and business technology growth equity
Sectors
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AUM
$3.9B
as of 2026-04-06
Growth equity firm investing exclusively in bootstrapped business-to-business software companies, pairing capital with an in-house operations team for founders scaling without prior institutional money.
Focus
Bootstrapped business-to-business software growth equity
Sectors
AUM
$30.1B
as of 2026-03-30
Growth investor partnering with growth-stage software companies and the founders and management teams that drive them, investing across North America, Europe and Israel.
Focus
Growth-stage software
Sectors
AUM
$2.3B
as of 2026-03-13
Growth equity investor providing growth capital and operational support to lower middle-market technology-enabled businesses as an active minority or control partner.
Focus
Lower middle-market tech-enabled growth capital
Sectors
AUM
$7.1B
as of 2026-03-31
Growth equity firm partnering with founder-led SaaS, information services and healthcare IT companies at the growth stage.
Focus
SaaS, information services and healthcare IT growth equity
Sectors
AUM
$7.3B
as of 2026-03-30
Growth equity firm investing in internet-enabled software and information services companies, taking minority and majority positions in profitable, founder-led businesses.
Focus
Internet-enabled software and information services growth equity
Sectors
AUM
$8.1B
as of 2026-03-30
Global growth investor backing consumer and software companies with beloved products, partnering with founders to scale brands and platforms.
Focus
Global consumer and software growth investing
Sectors
AUM
$42B
as of 2026-08-20
Growth-focused private equity investor providing capital and resources to category-leading growth companies in technology, healthcare and life sciences, as a minority or majority partner.
Focus
Growth equity in technology, healthcare and life sciences
Sectors
Growth equity investor backed by entrepreneurs rather than institutional limited partners, taking a patient approach to software, payments and internet companies.
Focus
Software, payments and internet growth equity
Sectors
AUM
$55B
as of 2026-05-26
Global growth private equity firm investing in profitable, growing companies across technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and business services from offices on several continents.
Focus
Growth private equity in technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, business services
Sectors
AUM
$22.5B
as of 2026-03-27
Crossover growth equity investor partnering with category-defining technology companies from the expansion stage through the public markets.
Focus
Growth equity in technology
Sectors
Business-to-business software growth equity investor partnering with capital-efficient companies located outside the major coastal technology hubs.
Focus
Business-to-business software growth equity
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Growth equity firm investing in founder-owned, capital-efficient software, internet and consumer companies that aspire to lead their markets.
Focus
Founder-owned software, internet and consumer growth equity
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CAPITAL LANDSCAPE
The dedicated growth equity universe divides into tiers. At the top sit global platforms whose growth funds invest across technology, healthcare, financial services and consumer worldwide. Below them, a broad middle tier of specialist firms concentrates on software and technology-enabled businesses, often with a stated preference for bootstrapped, founder-owned companies. A further group of sector specialists focuses exclusively on financial technology, business technology or healthcare IT.
Boston and New York anchor the strategy geographically, a legacy of the firms that built modern growth investing, but the model has spread: firms on this list are headquartered from the West Coast through the Southeast and Texas, and several deliberately target companies located outside the major coastal technology hubs, where founder-owned software businesses are plentiful and competition among investors is thinner.
For founders and fund managers alike, the practical distinction among these firms is how they engage before a deal. Most run permanent sourcing teams that track companies for years, and several are funded by entrepreneurs or individual investors rather than traditional institutional limited partners, which changes both their holding periods and their appetite for structured, founder-friendly terms.
LOCAL MARKET
Growth equity firms back companies that already work: proven products, real revenue and fast growth, with capital used to expand sales, enter new markets and fund acquisitions rather than to cover early losses
The strategy spans minority partnerships with bootstrapped founders through majority recapitalizations, so companies can choose how much control to share
Dedicated growth firms concentrate in software, technology-enabled services, financial technology, healthcare and consumer, the sectors where capital-efficient scaling is most repeatable
Every firm on this list names growth equity, growth capital or growth investing as its defining strategy on its own website, and figures come from SEC Form ADV filings where the adviser reports them
Growth equity is capital invested in companies that have moved beyond the startup phase: the product works, customers pay for it and revenue is growing quickly, but the business needs outside capital to expand faster than its own cash flow allows. Investments are usually minority or shared-control stakes, and the money typically funds sales expansion, new markets, product build-out or acquisitions.
Venture capital funds unproven companies where failure is common and returns depend on a few outsized winners. Buyout firms acquire control of mature businesses, often using debt, and drive returns through operational change and leverage. Growth equity sits between the two: it backs proven, growing companies, takes less risk of total loss than venture, uses little or no leverage and usually leaves founders in operational control.
Most growth investors screen for the same fundamentals: strong revenue growth, an efficient business model that does not depend on burning heavy capital, a large addressable market, recurring or repeatable revenue and a founder or management team that wants a partner rather than an acquirer. Several firms on this list focus specifically on bootstrapped companies that have never raised institutional money.
Dedicated sourcing programs are a defining feature of the strategy. Growth firms run large outbound teams that call and track founder-owned companies for years before investing, monitor product and hiring signals, and build sector coverage maps so they know every company in a niche. Bankers and placement intermediaries also introduce opportunities, but the strongest firms treat proprietary outbound coverage as their core edge.
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