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What does The Gores Group invest in?
The Gores Group invests most often at Growth (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Diversified.
The Gores Group highlights
- 01
2 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Growth: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 2 rounds, median undisclosed
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We are a global investment firm focused on partnering with differentiated businesses that can benefit from our extensive industry knowledge and decades long experienceFrom their own website
- Type
- Family office (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Diversified
- Based in
- Beverly Hills, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2014
2 rounds
- Apr
- Jan
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 registration4 named
AEAlec Elias GoresChief Executive Officer and Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
EAEdward Anthony JohnsonSr. Managing DirectoriForm ADV
JKJennifer Kwon ChouManaging DirectoriForm ADV
MRMark Ronald StoneSenior Managing DirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 10 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
$287Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- The Gores Group, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 160598
Funds on its Form ADV
4 private funds, $311M in gross assets · filed Jul 2024
- Gores Capital Partners III, L.P.Private equity64 investors$260M
- Gores Small Capitalization Partners, L.P.Private equity20 investors$31M
- Gores Co-Invest Partnership III, L.P.Private equity23 investors$19M
- Gores Small CAP Co-Invest Partnership, L.P.Private equity17 investors$1.5M
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in The Gores Group's funds
- Committed
- $330M
- Funds
- 3
- Vintages
- 2007 to 2012
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Sept 2025.
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund2 funds$200MFund Vintage Committed Gores Capital Partners III 2009 $100M Gores Capital Partners II 2007 $100M - California State Teachers Retirement System2 funds$130M
Fund Vintage Committed Gores Small Capitalization Partners 2012 $30M Gores Capital Partners II 2007 $100M
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
ZmagsBought by The Gores GroupUndisclosedJan 2014
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
US FarathaneUndisclosedJan 2015
ZmagsUndisclosedJan 2014
ASTADIAUndisclosedJan 2012
Somero EnterprisesUndisclosedAug 2005
VeriFoneUndisclosedMay 2001