Private Equity Firms in Massachusetts

68 private equity firms headquartered in Massachusetts with tracked acquisition activity, ranked by deal count.

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    158 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    TA is a leading global growth private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies. Since 1968, it has invested in more than 560 companies a...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    140 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Bain Capital Private Equity is the private equity platform within Bain Capital, investing globally through a dedicated private equity team to support growth ...

  • PSG

    Boston, Massachusetts

    132 tracked deals
    Software

    PSG is a growth equity firm that partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to help them navigate transformational growth, capitalize o...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    127 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Headquartered in Boston, with offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Hong Kong, Audax Private Equity is a private equity platform focused on investin...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    72 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Middle-market private investment firm based in Boston and New York, investing thematically across business and consumer services, healthcare, industrials, an...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    61 tracked deals
    Business Services

    Abry Partners is a private equity firm founded in 1989 focused on media, communications, business and information services, investing in high-quality compani...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    61 tracked deals
    Healthcare

    Founded in 1988, Ampersand is a middle-market private equity firm with about $3 billion in assets under management dedicated to growth-oriented investments i...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    56 tracked deals
    Other

    Advent is a leading global private equity investor committed to working in partnership with management teams, entrepreneurs, and founders to help transform b...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    50 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    100% employee-owned, multi-sector specialist investor in private and public equity, focused on North American-based, middle-market companies across services,...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    50 tracked deals
    Other

    Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm focused on growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities, investing across technology,...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    43 tracked deals
    Business Services

    Fort Point Capital is a private equity firm focused on the lower middle market in the U.S. and Canada. It specializes in buyouts with enterprise value up to ...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    35 tracked deals
    Software

    Battery invests in potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    34 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Founded in 1998, Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm targeting investments of $100 million to $750 million in high-growth companies across software,...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    33 tracked deals
    Industrial Services

    Union Park Capital is a private equity investment firm focused solely on lower middle-market industrial technology companies. It partners with management tea...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    32 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    WestView Capital Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on lower middle market companies. It manages approximately $2.7 billion a...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    31 tracked deals
    Business Services

    Sector-focused private equity firm investing in tech-enabled business services, software, and IT services.

  • Wakefield, Massachusetts

    29 tracked deals
    Business Services

    424 Capital makes control equity investments in lower middle market companies within B2B Tech-Enabled Services. The firm partners with founders and managemen...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    27 tracked deals
    Other

    Boston-based growth equity firm founded in 2015. Partners with founders and entrepreneurs to build enduring technology and healthcare businesses, typically i...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    25 tracked deals
    Other

    M/C Partners is a private equity firm focused on small and mid-size businesses in the digital infrastructure and technology services sectors. The firm invest...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    25 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Sverica Capital Management LP is a growth-oriented lower middle-market private equity firm following a “business builder” approach. Sverica invests in Techno...

  • Wellesley, Massachusetts

    24 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Founded in 1993, Gemini Investors is a Massachusetts-based investor in smaller middle-market private companies. Since inception, it has invested more than $7...

  • Essex, Massachusetts

    22 tracked deals
    Other

    Invests in lower middle-market private companies and partners with management teams to accelerate growth organically and through acquisitions.

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    21 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Copley Equity Partners is a private investment firm based in Boston, MA, and Denver, CO. The firm invests in established small and lower middle-market busine...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    21 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    New Heritage Capital, LLC ("Heritage") is a private equity firm dedicated to equity recapitalizations of private, founder-owned businesses. It invests in mat...

  • Waltham, Massachusetts

    21 tracked deals
    Healthcare

    Webster Equity Partners (founded 2003) is a private equity firm that helps companies unlock their potential. Webster focuses on purpose-driven, patient-centr...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    20 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Global credit specialist investing across the capital structure with private lending and credit solutions for companies across private and public markets.

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    19 tracked deals
    Business Services

    At Wincove, we elevate private equity through a blend of tradition and innovation. Our approach is characterized by long-term vision, specialized investments...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    18 tracked deals
    Other

    Artemis Capital Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and growing differentiated industrial technology companies, partnering wi...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    17 tracked deals
    Software

    Founded in 1994, Spectrum Equity is a leading growth equity firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and London. For over 30 years, it has partnered with ...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    16 tracked deals
    Other

    THL Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies across Financial Technology & Services, Healthcare, and Techno...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    15 tracked deals
    Software

    M33 Growth is a venture and growth-stage investment firm that partners with founders and CEOs to rapidly scale their companies and build industry leaders, fo...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    15 tracked deals
    Business Services

    Nonantum Capital Partners is a private equity firm led by experienced private equity and management executives. Founded in 2018 as a spin-out from Charlesban...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    15 tracked deals
    Consumer

    Palladin Consumer Retail Partners (previously known as Palladin Capital Group) is a Boston-based private equity firm focused on consumer and retail products ...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    14 tracked deals
    Industrial Services

    Lower middle-market private equity firm (founded in 2004) investing first institutional capital in North American founder-led industrial and business service...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    13 tracked deals
    Consumer

    Digital Fuel Capital invests in exceptional e-commerce companies, empowering them with opportunities to collaborate, access best-in-class resources, and impl...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    13 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Independent global private markets firm providing access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructu...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    13 tracked deals
    Healthcare

    Specialist healthcare fund manager investing across stages, geographic regions, and sectors, with expertise spanning biotechnology, dementia therapeutics, he...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    12 tracked deals
    Industrial Services

    Building Industry Partners (“BIP”) is a private equity investment firm focused on the U.S. building industry. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, BI...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    11 tracked deals
    Software

    Clearhaven Partners is a lower middle-market enterprise software investor focused on growth-oriented software and technology companies. The firm manages appr...

  • Danvers, Massachusetts

    11 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Seacoast Capital is a private investment firm that makes non-control investments, providing debt and equity capital to management teams for growth, recapital...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    10 tracked deals
    Energy

    ArcLight is a leading infrastructure investor investing in critical electrification infrastructure (including power, hydro, solar, wind, battery storage, ele...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    10 tracked deals
    Other

    Pacific Lake partners with search entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs through acquisition, providing capital and support on their path to entrepreneurship throug...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    9 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Cove Hill Partners is a private equity firm focused on partnering with management teams to build market-leading technology and consumer companies. The firm m...

  • Waltham, Massachusetts

    8 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Prospect Hill Growth Partners is a Boston-area private equity firm making control equity investments (typically $25 million to $100 million) in North America...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    8 tracked deals
    Consumer

    Yellow Wood Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm that invests exclusively in the consumer industry, acquiring and building branded consumer products.

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    7 tracked deals
    Healthcare

    Bain Capital Life Sciences is the life-sciences investment arm of Bain Capital, investing in biopharma, medical devices, and other life-sciences companies.

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    7 tracked deals
    Business Services

    Cohere Capital is a growth-focused private equity firm that invests in leading middle-market businesses. The firm supports growth plans and sustainable, long...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    6 tracked deals
    Software

    Tech Opportunities is Bain Capital’s growth investment platform focused on helping growing technology companies scale, with a value-added approach alongside ...

  • 6 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Provides mezzanine capital, long-term debt, and late-stage venture capital to Massachusetts-based businesses. Partners with entrepreneurs, management teams, ...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms. It invests across private equity, growth & venture, capital solutions, credit & capital ...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Insurance investing unit of Bain Capital focused on deploying capital and building platforms across the insurance value chain.

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Global private investment firm specializing in special situations investing, including private equity and credit strategies, focused on complex and stressed ...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Business Services

    For over a century, Gordon Brothers maximized liquidity through realizable asset value by providing the people, expertise and capital to solve business chall...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Manufacturing

    JMC Capital Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm founded in 1999. It executes an operationally focused platform investment strategy in the “lower l...

  • Waltham, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Healthcare

    MedEquity Capital is a private equity firm that invests in small and lower-middle-market healthcare businesses. It targets profitable companies with strong c...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    5 tracked deals
    Manufacturing

    Sky Peak Capital partners with local business owners as a hands-on, dedicated investment partner—providing capital support, operational enhancements, and str...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    4 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Century Equity Partners focuses exclusively on making private equity investments in lower middle-market financial services companies, leveraging its network ...

  • Hopedale, Massachusetts

    4 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    DelCam Capital, LLC is a private investment partnership focused on strategically acquiring and scaling operating businesses. The firm emphasizes patient priv...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    4 tracked deals
    Business Services

    Everlane Equity Partners is a private capital provider focused on equity investments in high-quality companies positioned for future growth. It utilizes a fu...

  • Dedham, Massachusetts

    4 tracked deals
    Consumer

    Consumer-oriented private equity firm focused on multi-unit and franchise businesses. Partners with lower middle market companies at a strategic inflection p...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    4 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Growth equity firm that partners with technology and tech-enabled services companies, providing flexible capital and operational support to growth-stage busi...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    4 tracked deals
    Software

    Wavecrest Growth Partners is a growth equity firm focused on investing in and partnering with leading B2B software and technology-enabled services companies....

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    3 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Abrams Capital is a Boston-based investment firm founded in 1999. The firm follows an opportunistic, value-oriented approach with a long-term time horizon, t...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    3 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Founded in 1987, Capital Resource Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm that provides growth, acquisition and buyout financing to lower middle marke...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    3 tracked deals
    Financial Services

    Lineage Capital is a Boston-based private equity firm investing exclusively in owner-managed businesses using a partnership investment model that separates e...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    3 tracked deals
    Software

    Polaris Growth Fund (PGF) is a software-focused, specialized affiliate fund of Polaris Partners. It invests in founder-owned/bootstrapped software and tech-e...

  • Boston, Massachusetts

    3 tracked deals
    Consumer

    Stride Consumer is a private equity firm that specializes in partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to build next-generation consumer ...

  • North Andover, Massachusetts

    3 tracked deals
    Industrial Services

    National surface science technology platform providing metal surface treatment, high-purity and precision cleaning, fabrication, and repair services for miss...

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