General partners

GPs have struggled with a mounting volume of bespoke ESG data requests from their LPs, while their underlying portfolio companies navigate an increasingly complex set of ESG frameworks. Also, in GPs’ interaction with current or prospective portfolio companies, they have been unable to draw on meaningful private market data to develop an understanding of their own relative performance on key dimensions.

The EDCI helps GPs address these challenges. It simplifies their process of reporting to LPs by using standard definitions and templated methods, and provides them with benchmark-derived insights into how their portfolio companies compare relative to their peers.

What does it mean for GPs to be part of this collaboration? To participate, GPs agree to:

  • Determine the funds/strategies that will be part of the project (while we recognize GPs may start with a subset of their investment strategies, the expectation is this will increase over time, as feasible).
  • Change their internal data collection system to track the six categories of KPIs and associated segmentation/normalization KPIs.
  • Abide by the ESG Metrics for Investor Reporting Handbook to the extent possible, and explain instances of deviation.
  • As requested, supply the EDCI KPIs to LPs invested in a particular strategy, preferably using the standard template (available here).
  • As soon as feasible, but by April 30 each year, provide to central aggregator the above data for the prior calendar year, anonymized by company.
  • Agree to be publicly associated with the effort.
  • Encourage LPs to align with this effort.
    Voluntarily serve on working groups or self-nominate to join the steering committee.
Limited partners

GPs have struggled with a mounting volume of bespoke ESG data requests from their LPs, while their underlying portfolio companies navigate an increasingly complex set of ESG frameworks. Also, in GPs’ interaction with current or prospective portfolio companies, they have been unable to draw on meaningful private market data to develop an understanding of their own relative performance on key dimensions.

The EDCI helps GPs address these challenges. It simplifies their process of reporting to LPs by using standard definitions and templated methods, and provides them with benchmark-derived insights into how their portfolio companies compare relative to their peers.

What does it mean for GPs to be part of this collaboration? To participate, GPs agree to:

  • Determine the funds/strategies that will be part of the project (while we recognize GPs may start with a subset of their investment strategies, the expectation is this will increase over time, as feasible).
  • Change their internal data collection system to track the six categories of KPIs and associated segmentation/normalization KPIs.
  • Abide by the ESG Metrics for Investor Reporting Handbook to the extent possible, and explain instances of deviation.
  • As requested, supply the EDCI KPIs to LPs invested in a particular strategy, preferably using the standard template (available here).
  • As soon as feasible, but by April 30 each year, provide to central aggregator the above data for the prior calendar year, anonymized by company.
  • Agree to be publicly associated with the effort.
  • Encourage LPs to align with this effort.
    Voluntarily serve on working groups or self-nominate to join the steering committee.

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Our history

Our history

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, when travel stopped and time constraints shifted, CalPERS and Carlyle got a small group of GPs and LPs together on videoconference to discuss the ongoing challenges they were facing with ESG data.

Despite the proliferation of Sustainability frameworks and ratings providers, there was still no standardized, meaningful, and performance-based data from private markets. The effect has been paralytic:

  • LPs have not been able to see standardized, comparable ESG data across their portfolios.
  • GPs have struggled with a mounting volume of bespoke ESG data requests, and have been unable to know if they are making meaningful progress on the ESG topics that really matter.
  • Portfolio companies have had to navigate an increasingly complex set of ESG frameworks.
  • Broad-based data about ESG performance in the private investment markets has been nonexistent.

For ESG executives across the industry, this was deeply frustrating. How could they put so much time and effort into ESG topics, but still not understand whether progress was being made? There had to be a way to drive convergence around a standardized set of ESG metrics and a mechanism for comparative reporting to benefit all stakeholders in the private markets.

Taking action

The group’s conversation advanced from sharing concerns to developing a plan of action. The GPs and LPs that would become the founding members of the Initiative spent many hours on videoconferences together as they brainstormed ideas for a Sustainability initiative designed specifically to meet the needs of private market firms and their investors.

They agreed that it needed to be simple enough that the system could be enacted quickly, broad enough that it could be applicable across all of private equity, and substantial enough to provide meaningful data. The metrics would need to be consistent enough to quickly establish benchmarks but flexible enough to allow room for continuous improvement.

In September 2021, the founding members led by CalPERS and Carlyle, who became the inaugural Co-Chairs, announced the launch of the initiative. The EDCI has since experienced tremendous growth, with more than 450 GPs and LPs now part of the initiative.

Based on input from its members through working groups, the initiative has evolved significantly since its founding, with membership options now available for Infrastructure investors, Private Credit firms, and ESG Data Platforms, and a new net zero metric added in 2024. Going forward, the EDCI will continue to serve the private markets, supporting its stakeholders on their Sustainabiity journey.

The partnership is open to any eligible members that wish to join and agree to support the principles of the work. We hope you’ll join us in the EDCI’s mission of generating meaningful, performance-based, and comparable ESG data for the private markets!

 

 

 

 

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Participating General Partners

General partners (GPs) need to know how their portfolio companies perform on ESG metrics, and they need to be able to share this with the limited partners (LPs) that invest with them. The ESG Data Convergence Initiative allows GPs to do this in a greatly simplified manner, using standard definitions and templated methods of sharing data with LPs. Additionally, it allows them and their portfolio companies to benchmark their own performance against the industry. We launched with X GPs among our members, and within a few short months XX more joined. Today our member GPs include some of the largest firms in the world.
  • Adagia Partners
  • Three Hills
  • One Equity Partners
  • Tikehau Capital
  • THL Partners
  • Argos Wityu
  • Revelstoke Capital Partners
  • Purpose Capital
  • Glisco Partners
  • Asper Investment Management
  • Altamont Capital Partners
  • Cogenuity Partners
  • Agathos
  • GroundForce Capital
  • MBK Partners
  • Load more
  • Ceder Capital
  • Volpi Capital
  • EMERAM Business Partners GmbH
  • Providence Equity Partners
  • Pemba Capital Partners
  • Hillhouse Investment
  • OTIB, JA
  • Elysian Capital
  • DAA Capital Partners
  • Growth Capital Partners
  • Hellman & Friedman
  • Sandbrook Capital
  • Leapfrog Investments
  • HitecVision
  • Primavera Capital
  • EMH Partners
  • Waterman Capital
  • Sovereign Capital
  • TPG
  • idiCo
  • WindRose Health Investors
  • KYIP Capital SGR
  • Centre Lane Partners
  • SER Capital Partners
  • CBC Group
  • TSG Consumer Partners
  • Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • Adelis Equity Partners
  • Allegro Funds
  • Lightyear Capital
  • Princeville Capital
  • Aliment Capital
  • Bansk Group
  • Activate Capital
  • Lighthouse
  • Quadrant Private Equity
  • Quilvest Capital Partners
  • Energize Capital
  • Great Hill Partners
  • Aksìa Sgr
  • Ridgemont Equity Partners
  • Silver Lake
  • ChrysCapital
  • Trivest
  • Columna Capital
  • MKB
  • Adamantem Capital
  • Marlin Equity Partners
  • Greenlight Group
  • ACON Investments
  • Instar Asset Management
  • Bridge Investment Group
  • Vidia GmbH
  • Scottish Equity Partners
  • SIIF Impact Capital, Inc.
  • Centre Partners
  • Dextra Partners
  • Strategic Value Partners, LLC
  • AnaCap
  • e2p
  • Trustbridge Partners
  • Lombard Odier
  • Nordian Capital
  • Northleaf Capital Partners
  • Littlejohn & Co., LLC
  • Siris
  • Ankur Capital
  • J-Star Co. Ltd.
  • Castik Capital
  • LBO France
  • Sandbrook Capital
  • Heligan Investments LLP
  • Berkshire Partners
  • Centurium Capital
  • Boscalt
  • Excelsior Capital Asia
  • Bluegem Capital Partners
  • HPE Growth
  • Palistar Capital LP
  • Passion Capital
  • Energy Capital Group
  • GHO Capital
  • HPS Investment Partners, LLC
  • Butterfly Equity
  • Arbor Investments Management, LLC
  • FSN Capital
  • Lovell Minnick Partners
  • FountainVest Partners
  • Monterro
  • Climate Investment
  • Monk's Hill Ventures
  • Development Partners International
  • SK Capital Partners
  • Navigate Ventures
  • FTV Capital
  • True North
  • MML Capital Partners
  • Affirma Capital
  • TDR Capital
  • Direct Capital
  • Clearlake Capital Group
  • CGE Partners
  • NPM Capital
  • ABC Impact
  • Creador Sdn Bhd
  • Tower Capital Asia
  • Cresta Fund Management
  • BayPine Capital
  • Arsenal Capital Partners
  • Stirling Square Capital Partners
  • Assured Healthcare Partners
  • LDC
  • Lone Star Funds
  • Stanley Capital Partners
  • Apheon
  • Egeria
  • Elvaston Capital Management GmbH
  • J.F. Lehman & Company
  • Z Capital Group, LLC
  • Archipelago Capital Partners
  • PAI Partners
  • Polaris
  • Vance Street Capital
  • Tailwater Capital
  • Bonaccord Capital Partners
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
  • Wynnchurch Capital
  • HGGC, LLC
  • American Securities
  • Amulet Capital Partners
  • Enhanced Capital
  • GI Partners
  • Leonard Green Partners
  • MidEuropa
  • Linden Capital Partners
  • Paine Schwartz
  • Vestar Capital Partners
  • Presidio Investors
  • Ysios Capital
  • Impilo AB
  • Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS)
  • Manna Tree Partners
  • Blume Equity
  • Renewal Funds
  • IP Group
  • Capvis
  • Montefiore Investments
  • Inverness Graham
  • New Mountain Capital
  • Synova
  • Actis
  • Bain Capital
  • Piper PE
  • Resource Capital Funds
  • Suma Capital
  • Investcorp Holdings
  • Vespa Capital
  • Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP
  • Endless LLP
  • Tenex Capital Management
  • Navis Capital
  • Corsair Capital
  • Kinzie Capital Partners LP
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners
  • Altor Equity Partners
  • Ferd AS
  • Huron Capital
  • Triton Partners
  • Future of Work Partners
  • Five Arrows
  • Mundi Ventures
  • NGP Energy Capital Management
  • Livingbridge
  • Wind Point Partners
  • Keensight Capital
  • Lime Rock New Energy
  • GK Ventures
  • Samara Capital
  • Blue Earth Capital
  • Graphite Capital
  • Affinity Equity Partners
  • PAG
  • TA Associates
  • Oakley Capital Ltd
  • Court Square Capital Management
  • Capital Mazapil
  • AEA Investors LP
  • Roc Partners
  • Palatine Private Equity
  • Mesirow Private Equity
  • Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
  • Summa Equity
  • Tailwind Capital
  • The Jordan Company
  • The Lightsmith Group
  • The Riverside Company
  • The Rohatyn Group
  • The Westly Group
  • Tishman Speyer Properties
  • TowerBrook
  • Trill Impact
  • TZP Group
  • Unison Capital
  • Veritas Capital
  • Vista Equity Partners
  • Vitruvian Partners
  • Wellington Management
  • Norvestor
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • Onex
  • Orion Resource Partners
  • Palladium Equity Partners
  • Paragon Partners
  • Parcom Capital Management
  • Permira
  • Pioneer Point Partners
  • Pollen Street Capital
  • Portobello Capital
  • Quadriga Capital
  • Quantum Energy Partners
  • Rivean Capital BV
  • Searchlight Capital Partners
  • SkyKnight Capital
  • STG
  • Investindustrial
  • Kinderhook Industries
  • KLAR Partners
  • L Catterton
  • Lindsay Goldberg
  • Linzor Capital
  • LongRange Capital
  • Madison Dearborn Partners
  • Manulife Investment Management
  • Mayfair Equity Partners
  • McRock Capital
  • Meanings Capital Partners
  • Montagu Private Equity
  • NAZCA CAPITAL
  • NB Renaissance
  • Next World LLC
  • Nordic Capital
  • NorthEdge
  • Freshstream
  • FullCycle Climate Partners
  • Gallant Capital Partners, LLC
  • GENUI
  • Georgian
  • Global Infrastructure Partners
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • Grain Management LLC
  • GREENPEAK Partners
  • GTCR
  • Hg
  • Iberis Capital
  • IK Partners
  • Inflexion
  • Insight Partners
  • Cerberus Capital Management
  • Cinven
  • Crestview Partners
  • CVC
  • Cycle Capital
  • Denham Sustainable Infrastructure
  • DPE Deutsche Private Equity
  • EIG
  • EMK Capital
  • Energy Impact Partners LP
  • EQT AB
  • Equistone
  • Everstone Group
  • Exponent
  • FCDE
  • Fifth Wall
  • Firmament
  • Forgepoint Capital
  • Frazier Healthcare Partners
  • Astorg
  • Audax Private Equity
  • Australis Partners Advisers
  • Avista Capital Partners
  • Axcel Management
  • Baring Private Equity Asia
  • Base10 Partners
  • BC Partners
  • Birch Hill Equity Partners
  • Blackstone
  • Blue Horizon Corporation AG
  • Blue Wolf Capital Partners
  • Bregal Investments
  • Bridgepoint Group Plc
  • CapMan
  • Carlyle (Co-Chair)
  • Centerbridge Partners
  • CenterOak Partners
  • Accel-KKR
  • Advent Partners
  • AE Industrial Partners
  • Alantra Private Equity
  • Ambienta Sgr
  • American Industrial Partners
  • Apollo Global Management
  • Appian Capital Advisory LLP
  • Ara Partners
  • ARDIAN
  • Ares Management
  • LS Power

Aligned Investment advisors & consultants

General partners (GPs) need to know how their portfolio companies perform on ESG metrics, and they need to be able to share this with the limited partners (LPs) that invest with them. The ESG Data Convergence Initiative allows GPs to do this in a greatly simplified manner, using standard definitions and templated methods of sharing data with LPs. Additionally, it allows them and their portfolio companies to benchmark their own performance against the industry. We launched with X GPs among our members, and within a few short months XX more joined. Today our member GPs include some of the largest firms in the world.
  • Albourne
  • Wallbrook
  • Sustinvest Co. Ltd.
  • Silver Regulatory Associates
  • Shoreline Asset and Wealth Consulting Inc.
  • Red Links
  • Ocorian
  • EPOCH Pi
  • Creative Investment Research
  • Rizoma Ventures
  • Segal Marco Advisors
  • Cambridge Associates
  • Prime Buchholz
  • Phenix Capital Group
  • Meketa
  • Load more
  • Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group - US
  • Callan LLC
  • Wilshire
  • WTW
  • StepStone Group
  • Mercer

Participating Limited Partners & Investment Managers

General partners (GPs) need to know how their portfolio companies perform on ESG metrics, and they need to be able to share this with the limited partners (LPs) that invest with them. The ESG Data Convergence Initiative allows GPs to do this in a greatly simplified manner, using standard definitions and templated methods of sharing data with LPs. Additionally, it allows them and their portfolio companies to benchmark their own performance against the industry. We launched with X GPs among our members, and within a few short months XX more joined. Today our member GPs include some of the largest firms in the world.
  • Albourne Partners
  • Citi Global Wealth Investments
  • LifeArc
  • Lars Larsen Group
  • Yarpa Investimenti
  • Jasper Ridge Partners
  • Pensionskasse der Credit Suisse Group (Schweiz)
  • Nova Scotia Pension Services Corporation
  • CF Private Equity
  • Sampension
  • Brunel Pension Partnership
  • Lægernes Pension
  • Tesi
  • AustralianSuper
  • MN
  • Load more
  • Pension Protection Fund
  • Times 3 Capital
  • Siguler Guff
  • Aegon Investment Management B.V.
  • CAAT Pension Plan
  • Federated Hermes
  • Metlife Investment Management
  • Stafford Capital Partners
  • CDPQ
  • Desjardins Group Pension Plan
  • VidaCaixa
  • Bayerische Versorgungskammer (BVK)
  • Curo Capital
  • Permodalan Nasional Berhad
  • Proteccion
  • HRM Pension Plan
  • Trans-Canada Capital, Inc.
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments
  • Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation
  • Afore Sura
  • AltamarCAM Partners
  • Man FRM
  • Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan
  • KLP
  • AIMCo
  • Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
  • Hamilton Lane
  • Caledonia Investments PLC
  • Meketa Investment Group
  • University of Pennsylvania, Office of Investments
  • Fondaco SGR
  • AP2
  • Nordea Bank
  • United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
  • Abrdn
  • Makena Capital Management
  • Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
  • Bregal Private Equity Partners
  • Washington State Investment Board
  • Church Commissioners for England
  • Glendower Capital
  • Church of England Pensions Board
  • IH International Advisors
  • Canada Post Pension Plan
  • Enhanced Capital
  • Cubera Private Equity
  • YIELCO Investments AG
  • AP3
  • The Guardian Life Insurance Company
  • Performance Equity Management
  • Japan Investment Corporation
  • GroFin
  • Cambridge Associates
  • Mercer
  • StepStone Group
  • WTW
  • Wilshire
  • Northleaf Capital Partners
  • UBC Investment Management
  • Unigestion
  • Universities Superannuation Scheme
  • University Pension Plan Ontario
  • Wellcome Trust
  • New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF)
  • Nippon Life Insurance Company
  • Nomura Asset Management
  • Norinchukin Bank
  • Norinchukin Zenkyoren Asset Management (NZAM)
  • OPTrust
  • Pantheon Ventures
  • Pathway Capital Management
  • Pensioenfonds PGB
  • PGGM
  • PSP Investments
  • Rabo Investments
  • San Francisco Employees' Retirement System (SFERS)
  • Schroders Capital
  • SEB Private Equity
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
  • SwanCap Investment Management S.A.
  • The Pictet Group
  • Third Swedish National Pension Fund
  • GCM Grosvenor
  • Golding Capital Partners
  • HarbourVest Partners
  • Harvard Management Company
  • HSBC
  • Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)
  • Jada
  • Japan Post Bank
  • Japan Post Insurance
  • Kinneret Group
  • KIRKBI A/S
  • LGPS Central Limited
  • LGT Capital Partners
  • Local Pensions Partnership
  • Menora Mivtachim
  • Mizuho Bank
  • Moonfare
  • Neuberger Berman
  • Adams Street Partners
  • AlpInvest Partners
  • AP6
  • APG
  • Arcano Partners
  • Argentum Asset Management
  • Azalea Investment Management Pte. Ltd.
  • Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
  • British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)
  • California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
  • Cambridge University Endowment Fund
  • Capital Innovations
  • Citibanamex Afore
  • COMMITTED ADVISORS
  • CPP Investments (Co-Chair)
  • Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited
  • Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island
  • Esses Capital Partners
  • AP4 (Fjärde AP-fonden)

Lorem IPsum

Our Yearly Cycle

May - June

The metrics sprint

    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project

 

September

New metrics confirmed and included

    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project

 

July

Benchmark creation and publication

    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project

 

September - April

Data collection and validation

    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project
    • ICSWG-US Votes to Support the ESG Data Convergence Project

 

Guiding Principles for determining our metrics

The ESG Data Convergence Initiative aligned on a set of guiding principles to inform the selection of the core metrics:

01
Globally accepted:

Selected from the most accepted and widely regarded framework; including GRI/WEF, SASB, and TCFD (and EU SFDR as formalized)

02
Meaningful:

From a financial or societal impact perspective; may be specific to a given industry

Future Vision

100+ LPs are now part of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative

The EDCI’s mission is to drive convergence around meaningful environmental, social, and governance metrics for the private markets. It generates actionable, performance-based insights based on comparable ESG data from more than 4,000 private companies – with participating firms from all over the world and across all sectors.

Join Us

Participating General Partners

260 Partners
  • Carlyle (Co-Chair)
  • ABC Impact
  • Accel-KKR
  • ACON Investments
  • Actis
  • Activate Capital
  • Adagia Partners
  • Adamantem Capital
  • Adelis Equity Partners
  • Advent Partners
  • AE Industrial Partners
  • AEA Investors LP
  • Affinity Equity Partners
  • Affirma Capital
  • Agathos
  • Aksìa Sgr
  • Alantra Private Equity
  • Aliment Capital
  • Allegro Funds
  • Altamont Capital Partners
  • Altor Equity Partners
  • Ambienta Sgr
  • American Industrial Partners
  • American Securities
  • Amulet Capital Partners
  • AnaCap
  • Ankur Capital
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners
  • Apheon
  • Apollo Global Management
  • Appian Capital Advisory LLP
  • Ara Partners
  • Arbor Investments Management, LLC
  • Archipelago Capital Partners
  • ARDIAN
  • Ares Management
  • Argos Wityu
  • Arsenal Capital Partners
  • Asper Investment Management
  • Assured Healthcare Partners
  • Astorg
  • Audax Private Equity
  • Australis Partners Advisers
  • Avista Capital Partners
  • Axcel Management
  • Bain Capital
  • Bansk Group
  • Baring Private Equity Asia
  • Base10 Partners
  • BayPine Capital
  • BC Partners
  • Berkshire Partners
  • Birch Hill Equity Partners
  • Blackstone
  • Blue Earth Capital
  • Blue Horizon Corporation AG
  • Blue Wolf Capital Partners
  • Bluegem Capital Partners
  • Blume Equity
  • Bonaccord Capital Partners
  • Boscalt
  • Bregal Investments
  • Bridge Investment Group
  • Bridgepoint Group Plc
  • Butterfly Equity
  • Capital Mazapil
  • CapMan
  • Capvis
  • Castik Capital
  • CBC Group
  • Ceder Capital
  • Centerbridge Partners
  • CenterOak Partners
  • Centre Lane Partners
  • Centre Partners
  • Centurium Capital
  • Cerberus Capital Management
  • CGE Partners
  • Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP
  • ChrysCapital
  • Cinven
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
  • Clearlake Capital Group
  • Climate Investment
  • Cogenuity Partners
  • Columna Capital
  • Corsair Capital
  • Court Square Capital Management
  • Creador Sdn Bhd
  • Cresta Fund Management
  • Crestview Partners
  • CVC
  • Cycle Capital
  • DAA Capital Partners
  • Denham Sustainable Infrastructure
  • Development Partners International
  • Dextra Partners
  • Direct Capital
  • DPE Deutsche Private Equity
  • e2p
  • Egeria
  • EIG
  • Elvaston Capital Management GmbH
  • Elysian Capital
  • EMERAM Business Partners GmbH
  • EMH Partners
  • EMK Capital
  • Endless LLP
  • Energize Capital
  • Energy Capital Group
  • Energy Impact Partners LP
  • Enhanced Capital
  • EQT AB
  • Equistone
  • Everstone Group
  • Excelsior Capital Asia
  • Exponent
  • FCDE
  • Ferd AS
  • Fifth Wall
  • Firmament
  • Five Arrows
  • Forgepoint Capital
  • FountainVest Partners
  • Frazier Healthcare Partners
  • Freshstream
  • FSN Capital
  • FTV Capital
  • FullCycle Climate Partners
  • Future of Work Partners
  • Gallant Capital Partners, LLC
  • GENUI
  • Georgian
  • GHO Capital
  • GI Partners
  • GK Ventures
  • Glisco Partners
  • Global Infrastructure Partners
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • Grain Management LLC
  • Graphite Capital
  • Great Hill Partners
  • Greenlight Group
  • GREENPEAK Partners
  • GroundForce Capital
  • Growth Capital Partners
  • GTCR
  • Heligan Investments LLP
  • Hellman & Friedman
  • Hg
  • HGGC, LLC
  • Hillhouse Investment
  • HitecVision
  • HPE Growth
  • HPS Investment Partners, LLC
  • Huron Capital
  • Iberis Capital
  • idiCo
  • IK Partners
  • Impilo AB
  • Inflexion
  • Insight Partners
  • Instar Asset Management
  • Inverness Graham
  • Investcorp Holdings
  • Investindustrial
  • IP Group
  • J-Star Co. Ltd.
  • J.F. Lehman & Company
  • Keensight Capital
  • Kinderhook Industries
  • Kinzie Capital Partners LP
  • KLAR Partners
  • KYIP Capital SGR
  • L Catterton
  • LBO France
  • LDC
  • Leapfrog Investments
  • Leonard Green Partners
  • Lighthouse
  • Lightyear Capital
  • Lime Rock New Energy
  • Linden Capital Partners
  • Lindsay Goldberg
  • Linzor Capital
  • Littlejohn & Co., LLC
  • Livingbridge
  • Lombard Odier
  • Lone Star Funds
  • LongRange Capital
  • Lovell Minnick Partners
  • LS Power
  • Madison Dearborn Partners
  • Manna Tree Partners
  • Manulife Investment Management
  • Marlin Equity Partners
  • Mayfair Equity Partners
  • MBK Partners
  • McRock Capital
  • Meanings Capital Partners
  • Mesirow Private Equity
  • MidEuropa
  • MKB
  • MML Capital Partners
  • Monk's Hill Ventures
  • Montagu Private Equity
  • Montefiore Investments
  • Monterro
  • Mundi Ventures
  • Navigate Ventures
  • Navis Capital
  • NAZCA CAPITAL
  • NB Renaissance
  • New Mountain Capital
  • Next World LLC
  • NGP Energy Capital Management
  • Nordian Capital
  • Nordic Capital
  • NorthEdge
  • Northleaf Capital Partners
  • Norvestor
  • NPM Capital
  • Oakley Capital Ltd
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • One Equity Partners
  • Onex
  • Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS)
  • Orion Resource Partners
  • OTIB, JA
  • PAG
  • PAI Partners
  • Paine Schwartz
  • Palatine Private Equity
  • Palistar Capital LP
  • Palladium Equity Partners
  • Paragon Partners
  • Parcom Capital Management
  • Passion Capital
  • Pemba Capital Partners
  • Permira
  • Pioneer Point Partners
  • Piper PE
  • Polaris
  • Pollen Street Capital
  • Portobello Capital
  • Presidio Investors
  • Primavera Capital
  • Princeville Capital
  • Providence Equity Partners
  • Purpose Capital
  • Quadrant Private Equity
  • Quadriga Capital
  • Quantum Energy Partners
  • Quilvest Capital Partners
  • Renewal Funds
  • Resource Capital Funds
  • Revelstoke Capital Partners
  • Ridgemont Equity Partners
  • Rivean Capital BV
  • Roc Partners
  • Samara Capital
  • Sandbrook Capital
  • Sandbrook Capital
  • Scottish Equity Partners
  • Searchlight Capital Partners
  • SER Capital Partners
  • SIIF Impact Capital, Inc.
  • Silver Lake
  • Siris
  • SK Capital Partners
  • SkyKnight Capital
  • Sovereign Capital
  • Stanley Capital Partners
  • STG
  • Stirling Square Capital Partners
  • Strategic Value Partners, LLC
  • Suma Capital
  • Summa Equity
  • Synova
  • TA Associates
  • Tailwater Capital
  • Tailwind Capital
  • TDR Capital
  • Tenex Capital Management
  • The Jordan Company
  • The Lightsmith Group
  • The Riverside Company
  • The Rohatyn Group
  • The Westly Group
  • THL Partners
  • Three Hills
  • Tikehau Capital
  • Tishman Speyer Properties
  • Tower Capital Asia
  • TowerBrook
  • TPG
  • Trill Impact
  • Triton Partners
  • Trivest
  • True North
  • Trustbridge Partners
  • TSG Consumer Partners
  • TZP Group
  • Unison Capital
  • Vance Street Capital
  • Veritas Capital
  • Vespa Capital
  • Vestar Capital Partners
  • Vidia GmbH
  • Vista Equity Partners
  • Vitruvian Partners
  • Volpi Capital
  • Waterman Capital
  • Wellington Management
  • Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
  • Wind Point Partners
  • WindRose Health Investors
  • Wynnchurch Capital
  • Ysios Capital
  • Z Capital Group, LLC