Mark Kendall
Private Equity Firms play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Texas Private Equity Firms. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Texas Private Equity Firms
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Main Street Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Debt, Non Equity Assistance, Private Equity
Main Street Capital is a principal investment firm that provides long-term debt and private equity capital to lower middle market companies.
CRG
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
CRG is a market pioneer and innovator in healthcare investing that focuses on intellectual property investments in biopharmaceutical assets.
Vista Equity Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Vista Equity Partners is an investment firm that seeks to invest in enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled companies.
Quantum Energy Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Quantum Energy Partners is a provider of private equity capital to the global energy industry which, together with its affiliates.
EnCap Investments
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
EnCap provides venture capital opportunities to independent gas and oil companies.
Trive Capital Holdings
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Trive Capital is a Dallas, TX-based private equity fund focused on acquiring strategically viable but under-resourced middle-market
HM Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
HM Capital Partners is a sector-focused private equity firm that primarily makes control investments in the energy, food and media
Fort Ventures
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Early stage venture fund focused on tech and CPG investments. Owner and operator of Cat Empire venture fund.
Tailwater Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
A Dallas-Based energy-focused middle market private equity firm
Pharos Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Pharos Capital Group is a physician-founded private equity firm focused on growing healthcare companies.
Fraser McCombs Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Fraser McCombs Capital, a Texas based venture capital firm, provides investment capital and advisory services to automotive companies.
Rock Hill Capital Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Rock Hill Capital Group invests and helps in developing objectives, goals, and growth opportunities in SME businesses.
Crestline
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Crestline Investors, Inc. is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles,
CIC Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
CIC Partners has invested in more than 40 companies with revenues of $10 million to $1 billion in industries including energy exploration,
Trinity Private Equity Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Trinity Private Equity Group supports middle-market companies focusing on real estate direct purchases and equity investing.
EIV Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
EIV Capital is a private equity group formed in 2009 to make investments in the energy industry.
BuildGroup
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture
BuildGroup is a software holding company that selectively invests in leadership teams with staying power.
Tritium Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Tritium Partners is an private equity firm focused on marketplace investments with exceptional growth potential.
Bios Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Bios Partners is a private equity firm based in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Renovo Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Renovo Capital makes control equity investments in troubled and underperforming companies
Montrose Lane (fka Cottonwood Venture Partners)
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Montrose Lane is an investment firm partnering with technology companies that make energy affordable, safe, and environmentally friendly.
Capital Southwest Corporation
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Capital Southwest Corporation is a publicly traded business development company that makes private equity investments.
Colt Ventures
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Colt Ventures proving a broad range of investment activities and has the flexibility to invest in a wide variety of asset classes.
Teakwood Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Dallas-based Teakwood Capital provides equity capital, strategic advice and marketing expertise to micro-cap, undercapitalized companies.
Bull & Bear
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Investor Type: Hedge Fund, Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Bull & Bear is a diversified global macro fund that provides strong risk-adjusted returns in a variety of market environments.
NGP Energy Capital Management
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
NGP Energy Capital Management (NGP ECM) has built a premier investment franchise in the natural resources sector.
Gauge Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Gauge Capital partners with owners, managers and equity stakeholders of successful middle-market companies to maximize their potential.
SCF Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Founded in 1989, SCF Partners is headquartered in Houston, Texas with investments administered through Calgary and Aberdeen.
CSL Capital Management
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
CSL Capital Management, LLC (“CSL Capital” or the “Firm”) is an SEC registered private equity firm focused on small to mid-sized energy
Vista Credit Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Vista Credit Partners is a financing partner to enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses.
Scaleworks
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Debt
Investment Stage:
Scaleworks invests in and operates SaaS companies.
CenterGate Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
A private equity firm focused on improving and growing lower middle market companies with revenues of $20 to $250 million
Valedor Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Valedor Partners provides curated private investment opportunities on a deal-by-deal basis to investors.
The CapStreet Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
The CapStreet Group, a private equity firm, funds businesses that were previously owned by entrepreneurs or non-institutional investors.
Strattam Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Strattam Capital is focused exclusively on private equity investments in core enterprise information technology and services.
Plutus21
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Debt, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Venture
Plutus21 is an investment firm focused on alternative assets such as crypto, venture capital, and real estate.
Align Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Align Capital Partners is a growth oriented private equity firm
LKCM Headwater
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
LKCM Headwater Investments is a Texas-based private investment partnership.
Mako Strategies
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Mako Strategies is a investment company.
CenterOak Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
CenterOak Partners is a private equity firm focused on making control-oriented investments in middle market companies.
Kainos Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
A middle market private equity firm focused on the food and consumer sector
Peak Rock Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
We make debt and equity investments in middle market companies. Peak Rock invests in companies where we can support senior management in
Hayman Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Hayman Capital Management is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor that primarily provides its services to pooled investment vehicles.
Energy & Minerals Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
The Texas-based private-equity firm
ESW Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
ESW Capital specifically focuses on buying, transforming, and running mature business software companies.
Blue Star Innovation Partners
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Investor Type: Incubator, Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
BSIP is an investment capital fund run by serial entrepreneurs who co-manage and invest alongside Jerry Jones and the Jones Family.
Keller Capital
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Investor Type: Corporate Venture Capital, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Keller Capital is a corporate venture capital investing in companies in a wide variety of sectors and stages.
Capstar Ventures
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture
Capstar Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in the next generation of innovative consumer companies
Ara Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Ara Partners is an oppertunistic private equity investment platform.
Third Craft
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Third Craft is a private equity firm.
Crosstimbers Capital Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Crosstimbers Capital Group offers direct investments in entrepreneur-owned companies and private investment opportunities.
The Sterling Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
The Sterling Group was founded in 1982 by Frank Hevrdejs and the late Gordon Cain.
Highlander Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Highlander Partners is a private investment firm making direct private equity and mezzanine investments.
Trinity Hunt Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Trinity Hunt Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on partnering with owner-operated businesses to accelerate their growth.
Maxima Investments
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Investor Type: Entrepreneurship Program, Family Investment Office, Fund Of Funds, Hedge Fund, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Initial Coin Offering, Post-Ipo, Private Equity
We’ll teach you how to grow your finance, stocks & cryptocurrency portfolios, provide good forex Signals, financial services & consultation
Altacrest Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Altacrest Capital is a Dallas based private investment firm.
Ridgepeak Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Ridgepeak Partners backs founders building category defining companies.
Civitas Capital Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Civitas Capital Group focuses on Alternative Investments, EB-5 Capital, and Development.
Virtus Real Estate Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Virtus Real Estate Capital is a real estate private equity sponsor that focuses on recession-resilient asset classes.
Riata Capital Group
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Riata Capital Group is a private equity firm focused on partnering with seasoned management teams.
BMC Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
BMC Capital is an investment management firm that offers commercial lending, retail loans, and multi-family housing.
Millennial Energy Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Millennial Energy Partners is an oil and gas investment firm that acquires and develops high-quality non-operated oil and gas assets.
NexPoint Real Estate Strategies Fund
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
NexPoint Real Estate Strategies Fund primarily invests across multiple real estate sectors.
Champion Impact Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture
Champion Impact Capital develops creative, impactful public-private partnerships to sustainably invest.
Lone Star Funds
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Lone Star invests globally in distressed assets. Since the establishment of its first fund in 1995, Lone Star has organized twelve private
Stewart Title
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Stewart Title is a global real estate services company.
Legacy Star Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Legacy Star Capital Partners is a generalist Private Equity firm
Rex
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Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Incubator, Private Equity Firm, Syndicate, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Portfolio of companies (i.e. Teams) that are tech-driven, investment-focused, operationally intensive and or media related.
Diapente Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Diapente Capital is formed to acquire and continue to operate a small to medium business.
Paceline Equity Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Paceline Equity Partners is an investment manager focused on opportunities in real assets, corporate debt, and private equity.
Post Oak Energy Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Post Oak Energy Capital, LP is a private equity firm specializing in mid-market acquisitions, growth capital, mature, mezzanine,
Energy Spectrum Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Venture
Energy Spectrum Capital is a private equity firm investing across a variety of company stages based in the energy sector.
EnCap Flatrock Midstream
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
EnCap Flatrock Midstream invests in North America’s oil and gas industry and is a venture capital firm based in San Antonio, Texas.
Natural Gas Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Natural Gas Partners is a private equity firm that makes investments in oil and gas production, and oilfield service companies.
ward.ventures
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
ward.ventures is a private investment firm that invests in venture capital, private equity, managed funds and partnerships.
Carnelian Energy Capital Management
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Carnelian Energy Capital is a energy private equity firm.
Pelican Energy Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Pelican Energy Partners is a highly specialized private equity fund.
Cresco Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Cresco Capital Partners, LLC is a United States private equity investment firm focused on the legalized Cannabis space
Genesis Park
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Genesis Park is a private equity firm focusing on buyouts, partnering strategies with public corporations, and growth financing.
Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Yellowstone Capital is a Houston-based private equity firm that offers acquisition and investment services.
Capstar Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Capstar Partners participates in small and middle-market buyouts, real estate development, and public investing.
Perot Investments
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Perot Investments provides information technology startups with early stage venture investments and is based in Texas.
Align Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Align Capital is a private equity firm based in Austin, Texas.
Acacia Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Acacia Partners is a Texas based private investment firm that invests in lower-middle-market companies seeking capital ranging from $10
Texas Ventures
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Texas Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm with expertise in structured finance, capital markets and technology.
Brazos Private Equity Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Brazos Private Equity Partners is a Dallas-based private equity investment firm.
Clovis Point Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Clovis Point Capital seeks to invest in the lower end of growth equity investments.
Five Point Energy
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Five Point Energy is a private equity firm focused on investments in the energy infrastructure sector.
Transition Capital Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Transition Capital Partners is a Dallas based private equity firm. With over 20 years of proven experience investing in and building
Highland Capital Management, LP.
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Highland Capital Management is an investment adviser specializing in credit and alternative investment strategies.
Virgo Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Virgo Capital is a private equity firm that makes investments in established software and technology-enabled services companies.
Watershed Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Watershed Capital is a private equity firm that invests in companies of all stages of development.
Goff Capital
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Investor Type: Family Investment Office, Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Goff Capital, Inc. is the Family Office of John C. Goff.
Sunland Capital
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Sunland Capital is a privately-owned holding company that offers investment strategy services.
Platform Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Platform Partners is a private investment company based in Houston, Texas.
Quest Capital Management, Inc .
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Quest Capital Management provides its users with wealth management and financial planning services.
White Deer Energy
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
White Deer Energy specializes in ventures in middle market energy companies.
Longview Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage:
Longview Partners is a specialist asset management firm
Rocktop Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Rocktop Partners is an alternative investment manager in the Credit space utilizing a robust technology and data-driven approach.
Equus Total Return,Inc.
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Equus Total Return (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company.
Griffin Partners
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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital
Investment Stage:
Griffin Partners operates as a commercial real estate development, management, and leasing company.
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