Private Equity Firms Recognized by BluWave’s 2024 Top PE Innovator Awards Point to Growth-Minded Action
BluWave’s third annual awards program recognizes the top 2 percent of North America’s most innovative private equity firms
NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 21, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BluWave, the Business Builders’ Network that connects the private equity industry with best-in-class talent, industry consultants and service providers, today announced the recipients of the third annual Top Private Equity Innovator Awards and the Private Equity Innovator of the Year*.
The Top Private Equity Innovator awards recognize the top 2% of private equity firms that differentially embrace proactive due diligence, transformative value creation, modern private equity firm operations and corporate citizenship practices.
Baltimore-based private equity firm Access Holdings was selected as the 2024 Private Equity Innovator of the Year for its overall innovative practices.
"The 2024 top private equity innovators are providing differential leadership in the world of business," said Sean Mooney, founder and CEO of BluWave. "Their innovative practices are strengthening companies, creating jobs and catalyzing a rebound in our economy."
The Top Private Equity Innovator awardees were selected by a cross-functional committee that assessed candidates in consultation with a broad universe of limited partners, investment bankers, industry thought leaders and service providers in the private equity ecosystem. As part of their selection process, the committee evaluated more than 5,000 private equity firms and utilized more than 75 different factors, incorporating more than 400,000 data points.
The complete list of recipients includes the following firms:
Accel-KKR
Access Holdings
Alpine Investors
Altamont Capital Partners
Aterian Investment Partners
Avance
Bain Capital
Bertram Capital
Blue Sea Capital
Brighton Park Capital
Broad Sky Partners
Charlesbank Capital Partners
Clairvest Group Inc.
Compass Group Equity Partners
Cortec Group
Council Capital
Cressey & Company
Crest Rock Partners
Diversis Capital
FFL Partners
Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout
Frontenac
Gauge Capital
Gemspring Capital
Genstar Capital
Great Hill Partners
Great Range Capital
GreyLion Partners
Gridiron Capital
GrowthCurve Capital
GTCR
HCI Equity Partners
Heartwood Partners
Hidden Harbor Capital Partners
Housatonic Partners
Huron Capital
ICV Partners, LLC
Incline Equity Partners
Industrial Opportunity Partners
Inverness Graham
Kinzie Capital Partners
LFM Capital
Livingbridge
LLR Partners
Long Ridge Equity Partners
Lovell Minnick Partners
Main Post Partners
McNally Capital
MiddleGround Capital
MidOcean Partners
Monomoy Capital Partners
New Harbor Capital
New Heritage Capital
New Mountain Capital
New State Capital Partners
NexPhase Capital
Nordic Capital
Norwest Equity Partners
OpenGate Capital
ParkerGale Capital
Periscope Equity
Permanent Equity
Platform Partners
Platte River Equity
Polaris Growth Fund
Prairie Capital
Quad-C Management, Inc.
Resurgens Technology Partners
RFE Investment Partners
Ronin Equity Partners
Serent Capital
Shore Capital Partners
Shoreline Equity Partners
Sixth Street Partners
Strattam Capital
Sumeru Equity Partners
Summit Partners
The Halifax Group
The Riverside Company
Trinity Hunt Partners
Trive Capital
Trivest Partners
As the go-to connector of private equity-grade resources for the due diligence and value creation needs of the business builders of PE, BluWave has a one-of-a-kind perspective that enables it to uniquely understand best practices and innovation in the private equity industry. BluWave matches private equity firms with top PE-grade service providers across their critical due diligence, value creation and prep-for-sale initiatives. BluWave recently completed its fourth year of sharing key trends across the private equity industry via its Private Equity Insights Report series.
For further information on the BluWave 2024 Top Private Equity Innovator Awards, including the selection process, selection criteria and recipients, please visit bluwave.net/awards.
About BluWave
BluWave is the Business Builders’ Network for private equity-grade service provider needs. The company’s platform combines AI, technology and data with concierge-like consultative support to expertly connect businesses with proven providers across due diligence, value creation and prep for sale. The BluWave Vetted™ network is an invite-only ecosystem of top-tier service-providing groups and individuals. Based in Nashville, Tenn., BluWave ranks as one of America’s fastest-growing companies and today serves hundreds of leading private equity firms and thousands of portfolio companies.
Visit BluWave.net to learn more.
About BluWave PE Industry Insights Report
The BluWave Private Equity Insights report is derived from an analysis of BluWave’s proprietary data involving thousands of projects across due diligence and value creation made by the private equity industry and its dealmakers as they contact BluWave for their third-party resource needs. Given that hundreds of private equity firms and their substantial pool of affiliated portfolio companies leverage BluWave for resource needs at the onset of thousands of due diligence and value creation projects, the proprietary data captured in the BluWave PE Insights report is a market-leading indicator of both dealmaker sentiment and portfolio strategy. When paired with relevant market trends and data, the BluWave PE Insights report is a valuable empirical indication of dealmaker historical and future behavior.
*BluWave, LP has not received investment capital from and holds no ownership interest in the PE firms evaluated or recognized under the PE Innovator awards program. BluWave received no compensation from any of the PE firms in connection with this awards program. However, BluWave may otherwise provide services to the PE firms and/or portfolio companies, but BluWave confirms that its assessment of the PE firms was independent of any such service arrangements. Top 2% in the PE industry is based on BluWave’s review of the more than 5,000 PE firms in the U.S. and Canada from which the 82 PE firms were selected as award recipients.
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