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What does Lime Rock Partners invest in?
Lime Rock Partners invests most often at Growth and Venture (67% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Photovoltaic, Gas and Grid.
Lime Rock Partners highlights
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10 rounds on record
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Mostly Growth and Venture: 67% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 4 rounds, median $23M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Creative Private Equity Investment PartnerFrom their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $50M – $150M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- PhotovoltaicGasGrid
- Based in
- Houston, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first10 appearances
- 2014
4 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Mar
- Jan
- 2011
1 round
- Jul
- 2010
1 round
- Mar
- 2005
2 rounds
- Oct
- Feb
- 2003
2 rounds
- Jul
- 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
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration13 named
ARAnuragh Raj MehtaChief Compliance Officer/ General CounseliForm ADV
CTC. Tim MillerMr. Miller is the Executive Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating OfficeriFiling they signed
CACharles AdcockMr. Adcock is a member and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of the General Partner of the Issuer and Co-Chief Executive OfficeriFiling they signed
CTClarence Tim MillerPresident and Chief Operating Officer of Lime Rock ResourcesiForm ADV
EDEric Dwayne MullinsMr. Mullins is a member and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of the General Partner of the Issuer and Co-Chief Executive OfficeriFiling they signed
JMJason Michael MclaneLimited PartneriForm ADV
JBJeffrey Bennett ScofieldMember of the general partner of the GPiFiling they signed
JTJohn Thomas ReynoldsMr. Reynolds is a director and member of the general partner of the General Partner of the Issuer and the co-founder and managing director of the ManageriFiling they signed
JCJonathan Clark FarberMr. Farber is a director and member of the general partner of the General Partner of the Issuer and the co-founder and managing director of the ManageriFiling they signed
MAMark Adrian MccallSecretary and CFO of LRP GP VI, Inc., the GP of Lime Rock Partners GP VI, L.P., the GPiFiling they signed
MTMorrow Tim EvansMr. Evans is Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial OfficeriFiling they signed
SMSusan M. OswaldChief Financial Officer, Secretary and an authorized signatory of the general partner of the GPiFiling they signed
SMSusan Marie BellantoniChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 23 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
$5.5Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- LIME ROCK Management LP
- SEC number
- CRD 157127
Funds on its Form ADV
26 private funds, $12B in gross assets · filed Sept 2024
Private equity 21Hedge 5
- Lime Rock Partners IV AF, L.P.Private equity173 investors$6.4B
- Lime Rock Partners VIII, L.P.Private equity64 investors$694M
- Lime Rock Resources IV-A, L.P.Hedge21 investors$557M
- Lime Rock Partners VII, L.P.Private equity49 investors$534M
- Lime Rock Resources V-A, L.P.Hedge11 investors$492M
- LR-Crownrock Minerals Coinvestment II, L.P.Private equity23 investors$442M
- LR-Crownrock Minerals Coinvestment, L.P.Private equity28 investors$433M
- Lime Rock Resources IV-C, L.P.Hedge30 investors$406M
- Lime Rock Resources III-A, L.P.Hedge25 investors$355M
- Lime Rock Resources III-C, L.P.Hedge39 investors$312M
And 16 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in Lime Rock Partners's funds
- Committed
- $73M
- Funds
- 2
- Vintages
- 2006 to 2012
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)1 fund$43M
Fund Vintage Committed Lime Rock Partners IV 2006 $43M 
Regents of the University of California1 fund$30MFund Vintage Committed Lime Rock Partners VI 2012 $30M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Limerockresources
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 listed1 in all
SmartSynchBought by Itron$100MFeb 2012
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.