Olympus Partners
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- Industrial manufacturing and services
- Healthcare manufacturing and services
- Financial services
- Consumer and restaurants
The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with 23 employees.[3] Among the firm's most notable current and prior investments are PAI Pharma, Accelevation, Soliant, Tank Holdings, Excel Fitness, IWG, MEI, Rise Baking, Foodware Group, IXS, and Liqui-Box. Since its inception, Olympus has made primary investments in 95 companies and has completed 198 add-on acquisitions.
History
Olympus Partners was founded in 1988 and has nine General Partners.[4] The General Partners average over 24 years of experience at Olympus, and over 27 years of experience within private equity.
Since its inception in 1988, Olympus has raised eight institutional private equity funds, with total investor commitments in excess of $12.0 billion:[5]
- 1990 - Olympus Private Placement Fund - $101 million[2]
- 1994 – Olympus Growth Fund II - $268 million
- 1998 – Olympus Growth Fund III - $505 million
- 2003 – Olympus Growth Fund IV - $758 million[6]
- 2007 – Olympus Growth Fund V - $1.53 billion[7][8]
- 2013 – Olympus Growth Fund VI - $2.3 billion[9]
- 2019 – Olympus Growth Fund VII - $3.0 billion[10]
- 2025 – Olympus Growth Fund VIII - $3.5 billion[11]
Olympus is also well known for its blog on investments in private equity.
Performance
Olympus Partners has been recognized by Preqin Ltd., a provider of alternative asset research and data, as one of the most consistent Private Equity managers in the world, with four of its five fully invested buyout funds ranked in the top quartile.
Olympus was included in the top decile of Global Large Buyout Firms by the 2023 HEC Paris-Dow Jones Performance Ranking.[12]
In 2024, Olympus was also ranked #14 out of over 649 global private equity firms by the 2024 HEC Paris-Dow Jones Performance Ranking.[13]
References
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External links
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- Recent Olympus News
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