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What does Sterling Partners invest in?
Sterling Partners invests most often at Growth and Series A (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Fitness, Internet and Financial Services.
Sterling Partners highlights
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14 rounds on record
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Mostly Growth and Series A: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 9 rounds, median $30M
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We are an investment Management Platform We invest and manage across strategies and asset classes.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- FitnessInternetFinancial Services
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first14 appearances
- 2016
1 round
- Aug
- 2014
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jun
- 2012
3 rounds
- Jul
- Apr
- Apr
- 2011
3 rounds
- Dec
- Apr
- Apr
- 2008
1 round
- Dec
- 2007
1 round
- Oct
- 2005
1 round
- Sept
- 2004
1 round
- Jun
- 2002
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 registration5 named
DLDouglas Lee BeckerManager and Senior Managing Director of Sterling Fund Management, LLC and Manager of Sterling Fund Management Holdings GiForm ADV
JWJeffrey William ElburnManaging Director of Sterling Fund Management, LLC and Chief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
MAMaury Avram EpsteinManaging Director of Sterling Fund Management, LLC and Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and General CouiForm ADV
RCRudolf Christopher HoehnsaricManager and Senior Managing Director of Sterling Fund Management, LLC and Manager of Sterling Fund Management Holdings GiForm ADV
SMSteven Michael TaslitzManager and Senior Managing Director of Sterling Fund Management, LLC and Manager of Sterling Fund Management Holdings GiForm ADV
We also hold 14 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
$462Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Sterling Fund Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 160338
Funds on its Form ADV
22 private funds, $1.1B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Sterling Small Market Education Fund, L.P.Private equity2 investors$504M
- Laureate Co-Investors I Limited PartnershipPrivate equity1 investor$148M
- Sterling Capital Partners IV, L.P.Private equity86 investors$139M
- Laureate Co-Investors II Limited PartnershipPrivate equity1 investor$75M
- Sterling Partners - Small Market Growth Secondary, L.P.Private equity2 investors$72M
- Sterling Partners - Small Market Growth 2009, L.P.Private equity22 investors$38M
- Sterling Lecturio Fund, LLCPrivate equity23 investors$34M
- ILM Investments Limited PartnershipPrivate equity4 investors$33M
- Avathon Imagine Co-Invest LLCPrivate equity2 investors$15M
- Sterling Lecturio Feeder LLCPrivate equity19 investors$13M
And 12 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 2 we have independently watched raise
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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 listed2 in all
SecureNet Payment SystemsBought by WorldpayUndisclosedNov 2014
eCreditBought by Fidelity VenturesUndisclosedDec 2006
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
Hoffman SouthwestUndisclosedJul 2015
Surgical SolutionsUndisclosedDec 2014
Florida Coastal School of LawUndisclosedJan 2004