United States · What does Variant Equity invest in?
Variant Equity says it invests in Industrials and Business Services.
What they do
Variant is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused primarily on corporate divestiture transactions.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Up to $100M as they say
- Stages
- BuyoutGrowth
- Sectors
- IndustrialsBusiness Services
- Based in
- Los Angeles, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
No rounds observed yet. That is a limit of the sources we read, not a finding about the firm. If it has invested, a round will put it here. Know a round it was in? Tell us.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration1 named
FDFarhaad Dossu ChanduwadiaManaging Member and Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 3 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
$338Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Variant Equity Advisors, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 297046
Funds on its Form ADV
2 private funds, $408M in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Variant Equity II, L.P.Private equity4 investors$228M
- Variant Equity I, L.P.Private equity4 investors$180M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 8 we have independently watched raise
NutrisystemCertegyCompucomConectiv-scsDarien GroupFireflyonGocurbSds
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.