Coalesce Capital – Ones to Watch 2023: Private Equity’s 20 Standout Debuts and Stellar Stories
Executive Summary
Standing out is fundamental to the private equity (PE) value proposition, even more so at a time when the fight for risk-averse investor capital is fiercer than ever. The 20 firms featured in the first section of this report have all managed to catch the eye in a challenging market – either owing to the illustrious pedigree or diverse background of their founders, their sectorspecialisms or their unique and clearly delineated investment strategies.
Our list is not a ranking – it’s editorially compiled – but it does feature a number of outperformers, and offers intriguing insight into key sectoral and regional trends in the contemporary PE market. It also provides hope that emerging managers can perform strongly despite a flight to established and proven track records.
Coalesce Capital
Specialism: Tech-enabled services
Headquarters: NYC, New York
Founder: Stephanie Geveda
Pedigree: Warburg Pincus
Stephanie Geveda, most recently a Warburg Pincus Partner and head deal maker in business services, ventured out during one of the most testing fundraising environments. Her $30bn deal track record, served her and the team well making a final close on a $500 million inaugural fund less than a year after announcing the firm’s launch. The team is looking to take controlling stakes in asset-light and mid-sized human capital and technologyenabled business services companies. Targets will generate at least $5 million of EBITDA and $25 million of revenue.