United States · What does Ara Partners invest in?
Ara Partners says it invests in Oil, Utilities and Batteries.
What they do
Ara is a global private equity firm that is decarbonizing the industrial economy.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Series ASeries B
- Sectors
- OilUtilitiesBatteries
- Based in
- Houston, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
No rounds observed yet. That is a limit of the sources we read, not a finding about the firm. If it has invested, a round will put it here. Know a round it was in? Tell us.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
CRCharles Reed CheringtonExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KNKarthik NarasimhanChief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
TWTroy William ThackerExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
We also hold 24 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$7.7Bassets it manages, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- ARA GC Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 298845
Funds on its Form ADV
30 private funds, $7.2B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Ara Fund III-A, SCSPPrivate equity33 investors$1.5B
- Ara Fund III, L.P.Private equity26 investors$1.0B
- Ara Fund II, L.P.Private equity34 investors$567M
- Ara Fund II-A, SCSPPrivate equity31 investors$547M
- Ara Fund I, L.P.Private equity18 investors$547M
- Ara VAC Co-Investment, L.P.Private equity12 investors$306M
- Ara Fund I Feeder, L.P.Private equity9 investors$305M
- Ara Fund II Divert Co-Invest, L.P.Private equity2 investors$296M
- Ara Fund III-C, SCSPPrivate equity5 investors$290M
- Ara Fund II-B, L.P.Private equity3 investors$254M
And 20 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Ara Partners's funds
- Committed
- $200M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 2023
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
Washington State Investment Board1 fund$200MFund Vintage Committed Ara Fund III 2023 $200M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
7 of 32 we have independently watched raise
AnescoBluewhalematerialsCirculusPetainerSedronUtilityglobalWattstorAloxeBioveritasCentricfiberCf-pathwaysContinuumpowdersCycle0DivertincFluitronGeneraincGidara-energyInvestorsLincolnenergysolutionsMicrotecdhusNaturalworldproductsParatusltdPathenviroPolarpmPrioritypowerPuraglobePxlimitedRepeats-groupSoanematerialsTransformmaterialsUsdcleanfuelsVacuumschmelze
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.