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What does Nautic Partners invest in?
Nautic Partners invests most often at Growth and Series A (67% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Healthcare, Industrials and Services.
Nautic Partners highlights
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5 rounds on record
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Mostly Growth and Series A: 67% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 4 rounds, median $66M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Nautic Partners is a middle-market private equity firm that seeks to partner with management teams and the businesses that they operate to empower long-term growth.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- HealthcareIndustrialsServices
- Based in
- Providence, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first5 appearances
- 2018
1 round
- Aug
- 2012
1 round
- May
- 2003
2 rounds
- Jun
- Jun
- 2002
1 round
- Dec
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 registration18 named
AMAllan Masumi Borup PetersenManaging Director, Chief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
BVBernard V. Buonanno, IiiExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BVBernard Vincent BuonannoManaging DirectoriForm ADV
BBBradley B. WightmanExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
CRCharles R. BartoliniExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
CAChristopher Alden PierceExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
CFChristopher F. CoreyExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
CJChristopher James CrosbyExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
CLCynthia L. BalascoExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
DCDouglas C. HillExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
HYHabib Youssef GorgiExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JMJames M. LaroweExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JMJohn M.B. MarcosExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JLJohn L. Marcos IiiExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
MCMark Craig PerlbergManaging DirectoriForm ADV
MWMichael W. JoeExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
SJSamantha J. MarreExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
SFScott Fitzgerald HilinskiExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
We also hold 36 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
$14Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Nautic Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 159822
Funds on its Form ADV
20 private funds, $8.0B in gross assets · filed Nov 2024
- Nautic Partners X, L.P.Private equity100 investors$2.0B
- Nautic Partners X-A, L.P.Private equity75 investors$1.6B
- Nautic Partners IX, L.P.Private equity80 investors$1.2B
- Nautic Partners IX-A, L.P.Private equity45 investors$676M
- Nautic Carepathrx Co-Invest, L.P.Private equity50 investors$658M
- Nautic Partners VIII, L.P.Private equity50 investors$640M
- Nautic Partners (Ess), L.P.Private equity20 investors$251M
- Nautic Partners VIII-A, L.P.Private equity20 investors$238M
- Nautic Fund 56, L.P.Private equity23 investors$141M
- Nautic Partners V, L.P.Private equity65 investors$132M
And 10 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Nautic Partners's funds
- Committed
- $200M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 2000
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2025.
- California State Teachers Retirement System1 fund$200M
Fund Vintage Committed Nautic Partners V 2000 $200M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Darien Group
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
Corporate Lodging ConsultantsBought by FleetCor TechnologiesUndisclosedApr 2009
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
Source4TeachersUndisclosedApr 2015
IPS CorporationUndisclosedFeb 2015
All Metro Health CareUndisclosedSept 2014
Custom Window SystemsUndisclosedJul 2014
HB Performance SystemsUndisclosedJul 2005
Flavor and Fragrance Group HoldingsUndisclosedJun 2004