Capital Z Partners

Capital Z Partners

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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

Founded

1990

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

11-50

Investment

29

Lead Investment

17

Exits

16

Stages

Seed, Private Equity, Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture

Investor Type

Private Equity Firm

Location

New York, New York, United States, North America

Contact Information

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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.

Employees

imagePlace Robert Spass

Robert Spass

Managing Partner

imagePlace ROLAND V. BERNARDON

ROLAND V. BERNARDON

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

imagePlace Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper

Partner

Investment portfolio

Capital Z Partners has made 29 investments. Their most recent investment was on Nov 08, 2014, when Centrue Financial raised $75.0M.

investments

29

Diversity investments

0

Lead investments

17

Number of exits

16

Investments

29

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Nov 08, 2014
Centrue Financial Centrue Financial
Financial Services75.0M
Jun 09, 2015--1500.0M
Jun 11, 2020--500.0M
Jan 01, 2022
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Exits

16

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

29

Investors

0

Funds

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 DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Nov 08, 2014
Post-IPO Equity - Centrue Financial Post-IPO Equity - Centrue Financial
-75.0M-
Jun 09, 2015
Private Equity Round - Fidelis Insurance Private Equity Round - Fidelis Insurance
-1500.0M-
Jun 11, 2020
Private Equity Round - Fidelis Insurance Private Equity Round - Fidelis Insurance
-500.0M-
Jan 01, 2022
Venture Round - Partners& Venture Round - Partners&
-0-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

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 DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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