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What does Riverwood Capital invest in?
Riverwood Capital invests most often at Series B and Growth (48% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology.
Riverwood Capital highlights
- 01
3 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Growth: 48% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 13 rounds, median $30M
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4 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Riverwood Capital is a private equity firm focused on high growth technology and related companies in need of capital and expertise to scale on a global basis.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $25M – $125M as they say
- Stages
- Series ASeries B
- Sectors
- Technology
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first53 appearances
- 2026
3 rounds
- Jun
- Mar
- Feb
- 2025
3 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Jan
- 2024
1 round
- Jul
- 2021
1 round
- May
- 2019
8 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Mar
- 2018
3 rounds
- Oct
- Jul
- Feb
- 2017
1 round
- Mar
- 2016
4 rounds
- Dec
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- 2015
6 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Mar
- Feb
- 2014
9 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2013
2 rounds
- Sept
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 registration10 named
CEChistopher E. VarelasOf the General Partner of the GP and member of the GPiFiling they signed
CEChristopher E. VarelasOf the General Partner of the GP and limited partner of the GP.iFiling they signed
FAFrancisco Alvarez DemaldeLimited PartneriForm ADV
FJFrancisco J. Alvarez-DemaldeDirector and Managing Partner of the general partner of the GPiFiling they signed
JTJeffrey Thomas ParksDirector and Managing Partner of the General Partner of the GPiFiling they signed
KLKeith Lawrence JanoskyChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
LLLisa L WongChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
MEMichael E. MarksChief Executive Officer and Director of the General Partner of the GPiFiling they signed
NJNicholas J. BrathwaiteManaging Director of the General Partner of the GPiFiling they signed
TJThomas J. SmachDirector, Managing Partner, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the General Partner of the GPiFiling they signed
We also hold 45 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
$6.2Bassets it managesOct 2026
4+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Riverwood Capital Management L.P.
- SEC number
- CRD 158267
Funds on its Form ADV
14 private funds, $6.0B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Riverwood Capital Partners II L.P.Private equity113 investors$1.5B
- Riverwood Capital Partners III L.P.Private equity119 investors$1.1B
- Riverwood Capital Partners IV L.P.Private equity72 investors$778M
- Riverwood Capital Partners IV (Parallel - A) L.P.Private equity80 investors$563M
- Riverwood Capital Partners II (Parallel - B) L.P.Private equity2 investors$383M
- Riverwood Capital Partners III (Parallel - B) L.P.Private equity2 investors$366M
- Riverwood Capital Partners IV (Parallel - B) L.P.Private equity2 investors$318M
- Riverwood Capital Partners Latam II L.P.Private equity40 investors$304M
- Riverwood Capital Partners Latam L.P.Private equity29 investors$260M
- Riverwood Capital Partners III (Parallel - A) L.P.Private equity3 investors$220M
And 4 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Riverwood Capital's funds
- Committed
- $225M
- Funds
- 2
- Vintages
- 2020 to 2023
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 System2 funds$225M
Fund Vintage Committed Riverwood Capital Partners IV 2023 $125M Riverwood Capital Partners III 2020 $100M
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed4 in all
TicketflyBought by Pandora Media$450MOct 2015
YellowsmithBought by ETSUndisclosedJan 2014
CalixListedUndisclosedMar 2010
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.