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Overview
Capital Z has developed a reputation for executing creative and innovative transactions, and for partnering with high-quality management teams. As a result, Capital Z has produced a successful long-term track record investing across the full spectrum of the financial services industry, including insurance, reinsurance, life and health insurance, banking, specialty finance, asset management and related services businesses.
Capital Z team is one of the most experienced and longest tenured private equity investors in the financial services industry. Since 1990, Capital Z and its predecessors have invested approximately $3 billion in over 40 transactions.
Capital Z was a pioneer in the financial services private equity industry, executing the first ever leveraged buyout in the sector - the acquisition of National Re in 1990.
Since then, its creativity and industry knowledge of the industry have allowed the Capital Z team to complete many other first-of-a-kind transactions, including:
First provision of corporate capital to Lloyds First insurance industry sponsored spin-off First sponsored demutualization of UK-based insurer First simultaneous startup and IPO on the NASDAQ First simultaneous startup and IPO of a financial services company on the AIM exchange
Highlights
1990
Financial Services
11-50
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Seed, Private Equity, Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture
Private Equity Firm
Location
New York, New York, United States, North America
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Capital Z Partners, established in 1990 and headquartered in New York, New York, United States, North America., specializes in Seed, Private Equity, Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture investments across Enterprise Software, Software, Digital Media, Video Streaming, Predictive Analytics, Business Intelligence, Video on Demand, Marketing Automation, Finance, Banking. The organization boasts a portfolio of 29 investments, with an average round size of $160.6M and 16 successful exits. Their recent investments include Sherpa Digital Media, Hamilton Insurance Group, IA Capital Group, Minova Insurance, mPower.com. The highest investment round they participated in was $211.0B. Among their most notable exits are Sherpa Digital Media and Hamilton Insurance Group. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.
Investment portfolio
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Investments
29
Annouced Date | Organization Name | Industry | Money Raised |
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Nov 08, 2014 | Centrue Financial | Financial Services | 75.0M |
Jun 09, 2015 | - | - | 1500.0M |
Jun 11, 2020 | - | - | 500.0M |
Jan 01, 2022 | Partners& | Service Industry | null |
Exits
16
Funding Timeline
29
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2
Funding Rounds
29
Capital Z Partners has raised 29 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 01, 2022 from a Venture Round - Partners& round.
Annouced Date | Transaction Name | Number of Investors | Money Raised | Lead Investor |
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Nov 08, 2014 | Post-IPO Equity - Centrue Financial | - | 75.0M | - |
Jun 09, 2015 | Private Equity Round - Fidelis Insurance | - | 1500.0M | - |
Jun 11, 2020 | Private Equity Round - Fidelis Insurance | - | 500.0M | - |
Jan 01, 2022 | Venture Round - Partners& | - | 0 | - |
Investors
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Fund raised
2
Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.
Annouced Date | Fund Name | Money Raised |
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May 10, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
May 11, 2013 | OTPPLESS | 1.0M |
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