Audax Private Equity, established in 1999, is a premier source of equity capital for small cap and lower-middle market companies. The Audax team of 110 people includes more than 80 investment professionals. We currently are investing out of our third private equity fund, which has over $1 billion of capital provided by our limited partners and our investment professionals.

Our deal team members are supported by senior professionals in several key functional areas including legal, procurement, financing, sourcing, training and business development. Our model allows our deal teams to focus our energy and resources on what matters most - building companies and building equity value for our investors.

Audax’ 80 investment professionals invest across a broad spectrum of industries ranging from security services to industrial manufacturing to business intelligence software. We have acquired service companies, distribution companies as well as a number of niche manufacturing firms.

Our portfolio spans 5 continents and includes investments in 21 different countries. Within the US, we have operations in 36 different states. We currently have 33 platform investments, representing more than $3.7 billion in global revenues (86% US, 14% ROW) and employing more than 24,500 people around the world (88% US, 12% ROW).

At Audax, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative ways to get deals done. We’ve been successful in buying companies from corporations, private sellers and other private equity firms. We’ve acquired companies through proprietary introductions as well as through broad auctions. Irrespective of the transaction dynamics, we jealously guard our reputation as high quality, high integrity, and high value-added investment partners for each of our portfolio companies and management teams.