United States · What does Leeds Illuminate invest in?
Leeds Illuminate invests most often at Series F (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Education and Workforce Development.
Leeds Illuminate highlights
- 01
1 rounds on record
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Mostly Series F: 100% of its rounds
What they do
the Leeds Illuminate team focuses on investment opportunities in companies seeking growth capital for scaling and strategic developmentFrom their own website
- Type
- Growth equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Growth
- Sectors
- EducationWorkforce Development
- Based in
- Chapel Hill, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2024
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 registration6 named
ASAnnie ShickChief Financial Officer/Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
ECElizabeth ChouExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JLJeffrey LeedsExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
PLPeter LyonsExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
SNStephanie NiemanExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
SCSusan CatesExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
We also hold 2 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
$6.7Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Leeds Equity Advisors LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 161956
Funds on its Form ADV
31 private funds, $5.1B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Leeds Equity Partners VII, L.P.Private equity90 investors$956M
- Leeds Equity Partners VII-A, L.P.Private equity64 investors$955M
- LEP Opportunities II, L.P.Private equity54 investors$758M
- Leeds Equity Partners VI, L.P.Private equity116 investors$575M
- LEP Opportunities I, L.P.Private equity11 investors$284M
- Leeds VI Fined Feeder, L.P.Private equity63 investors$178M
- Leeds Illuminate I, L.P.Private equity12 investors$170M
- Leeds Illuminate I-A, L.P.Private equity4 investors$161M
- Leeds Illuminate Global Fund I, L.P.Private equity21 investors$161M
- Leeds VI Fined AIV, L.P.Private equity55 investors$119M
And 21 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
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.