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What does Vestar Capital Partners invest in?
Vestar Capital Partners invests most often at Venture (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Sustainable, Underserved and Sustainable Development Goals.
Vestar Capital Partners highlights
- 01
3 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Venture: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $3.0M
What they do
Vestar Capital Partners is a leading private equity firm focusing on leveraged buyout transactions in middle-market companies.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- SustainableUnderservedSustainable Development Goals
- Based in
- New York, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first3 appearances
- 2015
2 rounds
- Aug
- Mar
- 2004
1 round
- 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 registration24 named
AJAndrew J. CavannaExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
APAnil P. ShrivastavaExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BJBrendan Joseph SpillaneExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BJBrian J. ModesittExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BKBrian K. RatzanExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BPBrian P. O'ConnorExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BPBrian Paul SchwartzExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
BJBryan J. CareyExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
CAChris A. DurbinExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
DSDaniel S. O'ConnellExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
DSDaniel Stephen OconnellChief Executive OfficeriForm ADV
EAEvan A. MarksExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JLJames L. Elrod, Jr.Executive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JPJames P. KelleyExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JLJean-Francois L. FelixExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JJJens J. TonnExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JBJohn B. StephensExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
JRJohn R. WoodardExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KJKenneth John O'KeefeExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KAKevin A. MundtExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KMKristian M. WhalenExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
MDMichelle Duncan BergmanExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
NDNikhil D. BhatExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
NWNorman W. AlpertExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
We also hold 70 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
$2.6Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Vestar Capital Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 155953
Funds on its Form ADV
34 private funds, $4.4B in gross assets · filed Jul 2024
- Vestar Capital Partners Rainforest, L.P.Private equity99 investors$1.2B
- Vestar Capital Partners VII, L.P.Private equity52 investors$972M
- Vestar IRI-NPD Co-Invest Aggregator, L.P.Private equity40 investors$776M
- Vestar Capital Partners VI, L.P.Private equity32 investors$392M
- Purposeful Foods Investor L.P.Private equity19 investors$312M
- V-Sky Co-Invest Aggregator II, L.P.Private equity14 investors$137M
- Vestar Capital Partners VII-A, L.P.Private equity20 investors$121M
- IRI Co-Invest Aggregator, L.P.Private equity29 investors$109M
- VCP TECH24 Co-Invest Aggregator L.P.Private equity26 investors$93M
- VCP Boston Co-Invest, L.P.Private equity31 investors$71M
And 24 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
4 LPs on record in Vestar Capital Partners's funds
- Committed
- $1.2B
- Funds
- 5
- Vintages
- 1997 to 2018
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2026.
Washington State Investment Board5 funds$534MFund Vintage Committed Vestar Capital Partners VII 2018 $200M Vestar Capital Partners VI 2012 $159M Vestar Capital Partners V 2005 $100M Vestar Capital Partners IV 1999 $55M Vestar Capital Partners III 1997 $20M 
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund4 funds$300MFund Vintage Committed Vestar Capital Partners VI 2012 $75M Vestar Capital Partners V 2005 $100M Vestar Capital Partners IV 1999 $100M Vestar Capital Partners III 1997 $25M 
Minnesota State Board of Investments2 funds$250MFund Vintage Committed Vestar Capital Partners VII 2017 $150M Vestar Capital Partners VI 2011 $100M - California State Teachers Retirement System1 fund$150M
Fund Vintage Committed Vestar Capital Partners V 2005 $150M
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
WoodstreamUndisclosedApr 2015
Institutional Shareholder Services$367MApr 2014
Cesare FiorucciUndisclosedJan 2005
Sab WabcoUndisclosedJul 2002