What does Cerberus Capital Management invest in?
Cerberus Capital Management invests most often at Growth and Debt (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise Software, Manufacturing and Financial Services.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed May 2025. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.
QuietPrivate equity
6 rounds on record
Mostly Growth and Debt: 50% of its rounds
Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $164M
Cerberus is an established alternative investment advisor with approximately $70 billion in assets across complementary credit, private equity, and real estate platforms.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first6 appearances
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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.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration8 named
We also hold 179 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.
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Funds on its Form ADV
203 private funds, $98B in gross assets · filed Dec 2024
Hedge 169Securitised assets 21Private equity 13
And 193 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Cerberus CAL Strategic Partners | 2025 | $102M |
| Cerberus CAL IV Partners | 2025 | $50M |
| Cerberus Ventures One | 2025 | $50M |
| Cerberus Supply Chain Fund | 2023 | $200M |
| Cerberus CAL III Partners | 2019 | $500M |
| Cerberus CAL II Partners | 2017 | $500M |
| Cerberus CP Partners | 2013 | $570M |
| Cerberus Institutional Partners V | 2012 | $400M |
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Cerberus Institutional (INTL) Series 1 | 2008 | $151M |
| Cerberus Institutional (Series Four) | 2007 | $500M |
Acquisitions by the firm itself
The latest companies Cerberus Capital Management put money into.
Episodes that name Cerberus Capital Management in their description, not their title.

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Cerberus Capital Management invests most often at Growth and Debt (50% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise Software, Manufacturing and Financial Services.
6 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in May 2025.
Its most recent investments on record: Avicena (Series B, May 2025) and AvicenaTech Corp. (Series A, Sept 2022).
The median round it joins is $45M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 6 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (100%).
No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in May 2025.
Cerberus Capital Management is a private equity firm based in Minneapolis, United States.
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