Lightyear Capital

Boston-based growth equity firm partnering with founders to accelerate business growth and scale innovative, high-potential companies.

Reverence Capital Partners is a US-headquartered private investment firm focused on: a) thematic investing in leading global, middle-market financial services businesses through control and influence-oriented investments, and b) opportunistic, structured credit and credit-related investments.

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused exclusively on mid-market growth businesses valued at up to $400 million. Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has invested in more than 520 transactions. We bring strong operational and financial resources and pride ourselves on being a good partner. We prefer to partner with sellers seeking to remain involved in the company as we work together to enhance processes, expand product offerings and attract new customers. We move quickly for compelling opportunities, and can close transactions within 30 to 90 days.

Accel-KKR is a leading mid-market software and technology investor, established in 2000 as a joint venture between leading venture investor Accel Partners and leading private equity firm KKR. Accel-KKR brings capital, expertise and a network of relationships to our portfolio companies, enabling them to grow faster and more profitably. Throughout the years, the firm has taken a collaborative approach to working with our management teams so that, together, we can help our companies reach their full potential. Accel-KKR focuses primarily on three types of transactions: buyouts of divisions, subsidiaries and business units from public companies; acquisitions and recapitalizations of closely-held private companies; and going-private transactions of small public companies.

Battery Ventures is a US-based investor that invests in global technology opportunities, either in venture capital or private/growth equity. Battery Venture's venture capital practice invests in seed and growth-stage technology companies, and looks for potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure and consumer Internet/mobile. In private equity, Battery provides highly flexible capital that can participate in buyouts of family or founder-owned companies, public to privates, and divisional carve-outs of business units. Our deep technology expertise differentiates us from other investors. In private equity we look for companies with revenue between $5m and $200m who can become global technology leaders. Battery Ventures has offices in Boston, San Francisco, Tel Aviv and London.

Ally Bridge Group (ABG) is a Hong Kong based healthcare investment group that invests across venture capital, growth equity/buyout and hedge fund strategies. Aside from our HK headquarters, we have investment teams in Washington, Boston, New York and Los Angeles. In our venture strategy, Ally Bridge focuses primarily on US based companies at later stages of development of innovative drugs and (to a lesser extent) medical devices. We like opportunities with near-term exits or liquidity events. In our growth equity/private equity/buyout strategy, we look for US, European and China-based healthcare companies. These companies must have a strong presence or potential both within China and globally. We have unique strengths in global cross-border healthcare investing, deal-making, execution, and enabling of cross-border business development & partnerships. In our hedge fund strategy we employ fundamental and bottom-up research-driven, with a proactive value-add approach to invest in public equities in both Asia and the US.