Private equity firm focused on middle market management buyouts and later stage venture capital deals

Private equity, late stage, financial services, business services, healthcare, software, information technology, consumer, consumer products, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Bain, Merrill Lynch, Tuck, Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford Business School, Georgetown, Duke, Columbia Business School, Stanford

http://www.olympuspartners.com

Olympus manages over $3.1 billion on behalf of corporate pension plans, public retirement systems, university endowment funds, and executives of Olympus' portfolio companies. The majority of its limited partners have been investors in Olympus funds for over 10 years. The firm is currently investing capital from its fourth fund, Olympus Growth Fund IV, a $757.5 million fund formed in July 2003. Olympus focuses on management execution, and limits the number of yearly investments to five or six. It prefers investment sizes from $10 million (venture capital deals) to $150+ million (buyouts). The firm is involved in the business services, healthcare manufacturing and services, financial services, consumer products and services, software and IT services sectors.

Portfolio companies include: AMN Healthcare, Client Distribution Services, Club Staffing Inc., GlobalLink Logistics, Meridian Rail Services, Nebraska Book Company, Prime Advantage, Professional Service Industries, Shemin Nurseries, Symmetry Medical, Travel Centers of America, and Woodcraft Industries, Inc.

McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Bain, Merrill Lynch, Tuck, Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Stanford Business School, Georgetown, Duke, Columbia Business School, Stanford