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#1 Blackstone

Blackstone is a global alternative asset manager investing across private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, multi-asset, secondaries, tactical opportunities, infrastructure, life sciences, growth and energy transition strategies.

#2 KKR

KKR is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit and hedge funds. The firm is a recognised global leader in private equity, with a long history of successful investments dating back to its founding in 1976. Although originally specialising in leveraged buy-out (control) transactions, KKR today participates in almost every asset class.

#3 The Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity and alternative asset manager headquartered in Washington DC, USA. Carlyle was founded in 1987 and has grown to become one of the largest, most well known and most respected private equity managers globally. Carlyle operates across four principal strategies: Corporate Private Equity ($75bn AUM), Real Estate and Infrastructure ($44bn AUM), Global Credit ($34bn) and Fund of Funds / Investment Solutions ($34bn AUM). Carlyle was founded in 1987, originally as an investment banking boutique, by five founders: William Conway, Stephen Norris, David Rubenstein, Daniel D'Aniello and Greg Rosenbaum. Carlyle went public through a NASDAQ listing in May 2012.

#4 GIC

GIC is a sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. GIC manages most of the Singapore Government's assets, with a mandate to invest for the long term across all asset classes in order to generate sustainable returns. GIC invests both directly and through other fund managers, and invests globally. Our portfolio is spread across six core asset classes: developed market equities, emerging market equities, bonds and cash, real estate and private equity.

#5 EQT Partners

EQT Partners is a global alternative investment firm with strategies across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and public value.

#6 Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a diversified financial institution. Its Asset Management business provides investment and advisory services across public and private markets, including alternatives; in 2026, it acquired venture-capital platform Industry Ventures.

#7 Oaktree Capital

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

#8 Advent International

Advent International is a global private equity firm focusing on buyouts and growth equity investments across five core sectors: business and financial services, healthcare, industrial, technology, and retail/consumer.

#9 Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus is a global investment manager with private equity, real estate and capital solutions strategies. Its technology investments have included early-stage financings, growth equity and management buyouts.

#10 Ardian

Ardian is one of Europe's largest private investment houses. We manage five separate strategies: Fund of Funds, where we invest in other funds (US$49bn under management), Direct Private Equity (US$15bn), Infrastructure (US$10bn), Private Debt (US$7bn) and Real Estats ($1bn). We invest globally, generally in developed markets, although each strategy differs in terms of geography. We have more than 550 employees based in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan, Madrid, Zurich, New York, San Francisco, Santiago, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo, Jersey and Luxembourg. Ardian was founded under AXA, the insurance company, in 1996, and was spun off as a an independent company in 2013.

#11 PAG

PAG is a Hong Kong-headquartered alternative/private asset manager focused on APAC, investing for institutional investors across three core strategies: Credit & Markets, Private Equity and Real Assets.

#12 Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a private-markets investment manager with primary and secondary fund investing, buyout and growth-equity co-investments, private credit, and direct venture growth.

#13 General Atlantic

General Atlantic is a global investment manager with growth equity, credit, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure strategies.

#14 Hillhouse Capital Group

Hillhouse is a global investment firm that began investing in public equities, later added a private-equity strategy, and now invests across all stages of company life cycles.

#15 CDH Investments

CDH Investments is a diversified alternative asset manager with private-equity, venture-and-growth, private-credit, public-equity, and real-asset activities; VGC is its venture-and-growth unit.

#16 Bain Capital

Bain Capital is a private investment manager with private equity, growth and venture, credit, and real-assets businesses.

#17 Granite Asia

Granite Asia is a multi-asset investment platform investing in equity from founders’ first rounds through public listings, alongside private credit and public capital.

#18 TPG Capital

TPG Capital is a global multi-strategy asset manager headquartered in California that invests in private equity, credit, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. TPG begun as a private equity investor before expanding into other strategies, and that remains the largest part of the business with more than $60bn under management, representing about 60% of total capital. TPG Sixth Street Partners (the Credit and Special Situations fund) manages $30bn of investments. TPG Real Estate manages $11bn in equity and debt investments. TPG Public Equity Partners manages $2bn of assets. hello ;) TPG was founded as the Texas Pacific Group in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price.

#19 Actis

Actis is a leading private equity investor in high growth markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invest in private equity buyouts and grwoth capital, energy, infrastructure and real estate. We have >120 investment professionals across 16 global offices. In every market we invest in, we nurture close local relationships, providing us with excellent competitive intelligence and access to opportunities. We match this local insight with a global sector approach, which helps us deliver great results. A particular strength lies in helping families and founders of local businesses to institutionalise. We take successful local brands and help them to grow; to attract the best talent; to compete with multinational corporations and to prepare for IPOs. Consequently many business founders seek to work with Actis, resulting in unique proprietary deal flow.

#20 Affinity Equity Partners

Affinity Equity Partners is a leading Asia-Pacific private equity firm focused on buyout and control-oriented investments.

#21 Terra Firma

Terra Firma is one of the leading private equity investors in Europe. We invest in asset-rich businesses in essential industries (energy and utilities, infrastructure, affordable housing, leisure/hospitality, agriculture, healthcare and asset leasing) that require fundamental change. We have a long-term investment approach and specialize in five areas - Transformational Private Equity, Support Capital, Operational Secondaries, Operational Real Estate and Infrastructure Plus.

#22 FountainVest Partners

FountainVest Partners is a Chinese-focused private and growth equity fund established in 1990. Fountainvest invests across a variety of sectors, with particular expertise in healthcare, consumer retail, media & entertainment and lifestyle. A key theme of ours is companies that benefit the most from the expanding Chinese middle class. We invest in listed and unlisted companies, and in both control and significant minority transactions. We have a long term mindset and bring substantial value through strategic resources, operational support and capital markets expertise.

#23 Matrix Partners

Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early stage technology companies building B2B, infrastructure and consumer technology. We have been investing since 1977 and have invested in some of the most iconic technology companies. We invest globally, are headquartered in California, and have offices in Boston, Mumbai (Matrix Partners India) and China (Matrix Partners China). Matrix Partners was founded in 1977 by Paul Ferri and Warren Hellman.

#24 Vertex Holdings

Vertex Holdings is a global network of venture capital funds, comprising Vertex Ventures, Vertex Ventures HC and Vertex Growth. Vertex Holdings is an anchor investor in each of these funds. Vertex Holdings is owned by Temasek, a Singapore sovereign wealth fund. Vertex Ventures is based in California and invests in early stage technology companies. Vertex Ventures looks for founders tackling fundamental challenges. We look for people who want to make a dent in the wold while growing a multi-billion dollar business. Vertex HC invests in healthcare opportunities. We invest in and work with high-growth medical device, biotech, and digital health companies, at all stages, worldwide. Our portfolio includes companies at all stages of development, from early-stage companies testing transformative technologies to commercial-stage companies seeking additional growth. The Vertex Growth Fund provides later stage expansion capital to companies on the cusp of creating a category champion that is enduring and transformational.

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