Vestar Capital Partners

Vestar Capital Partners

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Overview

Vestar Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, recapitalization, and growth equity investments.

Headquartered in New York, with offices in Denver and Boston, we invest in companies with valuations from $100 million to $1 billion. Our target equity investment is $50 million to $150 million.

Since our founding in 1988, Vestar has maintained a prudent, long-term approach to investing that has served us well throughout numerous business and economic cycles. We have completed 78 investments, in companies with a total value of more than $40 billion.

We credit much of our success to a strong culture of partnership both within the firm and with our portfolio company management teams. We value transparency and collaborative decision-making. And with four founders continuing to manage the firm, we know first-hand the entrepreneurial spirit that drives our management teams to want to run a business as their own.

Supporting that spirit has been the business of Vestar for over 25 years.

Highlights

Founded

1988

Industry

Financial Services

Employees

1001-5000

Investment

15

Lead Investment

13

Exits

4

Stages

Early Stage Venture, Private Equity

Investor Type

Private Equity Firm

Location

New York, New York, United States, North America

Contact Information

Social

Profile Resume

Vestar Capital Partners, established in 1988 and headquartered in New York, New York, United States, North America., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Private Equity investments across Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Venture Capital, Health Care, Fitness, Hospital, Medical, Financial Services, Finance, Risk Management. The organization boasts a portfolio of 15 investments, with an average round size of $296.7M and 4 successful exits. Their recent investments include Bhakti, The Colorado Impact Fund, Veritas Collaborative, Essent Healthcare, Thoma Cressey Equity Partners. The highest investment round they participated in was $39.5B. Among their most notable exits are Bhakti and The Colorado Impact Fund. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

imagePlace Daniel S. O'Connell

Daniel S. O'Connell

Founder

imagePlace Robert L. Rosner

Robert L. Rosner

Founding Partner and Chairman

imagePlace James P. Kelley

James P. Kelley

Co-President and Managing Director

imagePlace Norman W. Alpert

Norman W. Alpert

Co-Founder

imagePlace John Stephens

John Stephens

Managing Director, Business Services & Industrial Products Co-Head

imagePlace Kevin A. Mundt

Kevin A. Mundt

Managing Director

Investment portfolio

Vestar Capital Partners has made 15 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 23, 2024, when Circana raised $1200.0M.

Vestar Capital Partners has made 3 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Mar 02, 2015, when Bhakti raised $4.0M.

investments

15

Diversity investments

3

Lead investments

13

Number of exits

4

Investments

15

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Nov 30, 2022
Nox Health Nox Health
Health Carenull
Jan 05, 2023
Titan Frozen Fruit Titan Frozen Fruit
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Oct 05, 2023--null
Apr 23, 2024
Circana Circana
Market Research1200.0M

Exits

4

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

15

Investors

2

Funds

3

Funding Rounds

15

Vestar Capital Partners has raised 15 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 23, 2024 from a Funding Round - Circana round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Nov 30, 2022
Private Equity Round - Nox Health Private Equity Round - Nox Health
-0-
Jan 05, 2023
Private Equity Round - Titan Frozen Fruit Private Equity Round - Titan Frozen Fruit
-0-
Oct 05, 2023
Private Equity Round - Tech-24 Private Equity Round - Tech-24
-0-
Apr 23, 2024
Funding Round - Circana Funding Round - Circana
-1200.0M-

Investors

2

Vestar Capital Partners is funded by 2 investor(s). HarbourVest Partners and Antares Capital Kantor are the most recent investors.

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
fund image OTPPLESS
1.0M
May 11, 2013
fund image OTPPLESS
1.0M

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