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What does Escalate Capital invest in?
Escalate Capital invests most often at Venture and Debt (64% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology, Software and Services.
Escalate Capital highlights
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12 rounds on record
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Mostly Venture and Debt: 64% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 1 rounds, median $13M
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3 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Escalate Capital Partners is a leading private credit and growth equity investment firm that targets rapidly growing later-stage companies within the technology, software, services, and healthcare sectors.From their own website
- Type
- Private credit
- Cheque size
- $5.0M – $30M as they say
- Stages
- Series BGrowth
- Sectors
- TechnologySoftwareServices
- Based in
- Austin, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first12 appearances
- 2023
1 round
- Aug
- 2020
1 round
- Sept
- 2019
1 round
- Jul
- 2015
1 round
- Jul
- 2014
1 round
- Oct
- 2013
1 round
- Apr
- 2012
3 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Mar
- 2011
1 round
- Sept
- 2010
1 round
- Dec
- 2009
1 round
- Oct
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
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration13 named
BSBrendan ScherMember, Escalate Capital GP IV, LLCiForm ADV
CMChristopher Michael JulichMember and Manager, Escalate Sbic Capital Management III, LLCiForm ADV
CTChristopher Thomas HallMember, Escalate Sbic Capital Management III, LLCiForm ADV
JRJ Ross CockrellPrincipaliFiling they signed
JTJames Thomas Ross CockrellShareholder and Managing Director, Ec Management Services, LLCiForm ADV
JCJoseph Charles AragonaMember, Escalate Sbic Capital Management, LLCiForm ADV
KPKenneth Paul DeangelisMember, Escalate Sbic Capital Management, LLCiForm ADV
KMKokilapriya Muthukumar LozanoMember, Escalate Capital GP IV, LLCiForm ADV
LRLawrence Ryan BradshawChief Operating Officer, Ec Management Services, LLCiForm ADV
LALewis A LeavittMember, Escalate Sbic Capital Management III, LLCiForm ADV
SPSimon Patrick JamesMember, Escalate Sbic Capital Management, LLCiForm ADV
TWTravis WoodMember, Escalate Capital GP IV, LLCiForm ADV
WAWilliam Anthony SchellShareholder and Managing Director, Ec Management Services, LLCiForm ADV
We also hold 20 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
$481Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- EC Management Services, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 159891
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
60 of 60 we have independently watched raise
AbacusinsightsAccoladeAerosafeglobalArcadiasolutionsArmorArtezaBennieBlackducksoftwareBookerBoundlessBrokergeniusCallminerCertonaChairishCivitaslearningCloudabilityCoalfireCompstakControlscanDonutsDstilleryDtexsystemsEfolderEnboarderEverydayhealthFishbowlHealthplanoneHomeawayIngomoneyInsureonInvisionappJhilburnKareoKyribaLiveintentMadeincookwareMaestrohealthMixlabMotionsoftMovableinkMovistaNewscredNomissolutionsOjoOutboundengineOwneriqPackbackParkwhizPaysimplePeerlessnetworkPhreesiaPrimerevenueResilincRevionicsRiahealthRollbarSilverpopSmashflySolovisSoundstripeand 47 more
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.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
SilverpopBought by IBM (International Business Machines)UndisclosedApr 2014
Mobixell NetworksBought by Flash Networks$15MJan 2014
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.