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What does Ares Management invest in?
Ares Management invests most often at Debt and Venture (70% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Health Care, Training and Commercial Real Estate.
Ares Management highlights
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23 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Debt and Venture: 70% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 23 rounds, median $268M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
The homepage only shows a country selection prompt and investor login links; no description of activities.From their own website
- Type
- Growth equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- DebtGrowthSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Health CareTrainingCommercial Real Estate
- Based in
- Simsbury, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first68 appearances
- 2026
18 rounds
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- Jun
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- May
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- Feb
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- 2025
16 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
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- Jul
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- Jun
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- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
6 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 37 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.
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in Ares Management's funds
- Committed
- $2.0B
- Funds
- 8
- Vintages
- 2008 to 2025
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)3 funds$1.1B
Fund Vintage Committed Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund VI 2021 $250M Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund V 2017 $425M Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund III 2008 $400M - California State Teachers Retirement System6 funds$950M
Fund Vintage Committed Ares Special Opportunities III 2025 $150M Ares Special Opportunities Fund II 2022 $100M Ares Corporate Opportunities VI 2020 $200M Ares Special Opportunities Fund 2020 $50M Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund V 2017 $300M Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund IV 2012 $150M
Funds they back
1 fund commitment on record
- Managers
- 1
Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
Van Hook Gathering System$185MNov 2015
Farrow & BallUndisclosedDec 2014
Energy Investors FundUndisclosedOct 2014
National Veterinary AssociatesUndisclosedJul 2014
BlackBrushUndisclosedJun 2014
Ob Hospitalist GroupUndisclosedOct 2013
BFMA Holding CorporationUndisclosedNov 2004
Maidenform$215MMar 2004