Edgewater Private Equity Fund

Edgewater Private Equity Fund, known on its site as the Edgewater Funds, is a private equity group that invests in middle-market companies. Through Edgewater Growth Capital Partners it works with management teams to speed up growth. It looks for established businesses where its capital, experience and contacts can add value.

What Edgewater Private Equity Fund does

• Growth capital: funding for mid-sized companies, provided through its Growth Capital Partners funds.
• Partnership with management: working alongside existing leadership rather than replacing it.
• Executive advisory input: experience from an advisory board of former chief executives and business leaders.
• Add-on acquisitions: supporting portfolio companies as they buy other firms, such as the purchases of heating, plumbing and cooling businesses announced on its news pages.
• Exits: selling its ownership stakes, as with Evriholder and Deerfield Group.

Clients

Middle-market businesses with management teams open to a financial partner. Recent announcements name Parker Manufacturing Group and AFT Industries among its investments.

Key facts

• Fund series: Edgewater Growth Capital Partners IV and V
• Focus: middle-market companies
• Advisers: Partners plus an Executive Advisory Board