Ara Partners
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Ara Partners is a private equity firm focused on decarbonization, investing in companies and infrastructure that reduce emissions in the industrial economy. It operates strategies in private equity, infrastructure, and energy.
Ara Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Houston, United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in industrial decarbonization, chemicals and materials, food and agriculture and energy efficiency.
“We invest in technologies that are displacing existing, polluting industrial processes, as well as the businesses that provide products and services to decarbonization platforms.”
— Ara Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Houston, United States
- Invests in
- North America, Europe
- Sectors
- industrial decarbonization, chemicals and materials, food and agriculture, energy efficiency, green fuels, low-carbon molecules, waste-to-X, power generation, biofuels, distribution
- Founded
- 2017
Team, as Ara Partners publishes it
- Charles Cherington Managing Partner
- Troy Thacker Managing Partner
- Shameek Konar Partner, Head of Energy
- Chris Picotte Partner, CIO of Private Equity
- Teresa O’Flynn Partner, Co-Head of Infrastructure
- Cory Steffek Partner, Private Equity
- Churchill George Yong Partner, Co-Head of Infrastructure
- James Chiu Partner, Energy
- David Sims Managing Director, Energy
- David Touhey Managing Director, Head of APEX
- Irina Markina Managing Director, Chief Decarbonization Officer
- Peter Saldarriaga Managing Director, Private Equity
Names and roles exactly as listed on arapartners.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 34 co-investors found.
- ADV Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- BC Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Berkshire Partners 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Black Sea Fund 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Cairngorm Capital 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Cemex Ventures 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Cleantech Bulgaria 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Collin Crowdfund 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Companyon Ventures 1 shared company: wordpress.org
- Denver Ventures 1 shared company: wordpress.org
and 24 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Ara Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.arapartners.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.arapartners.com/our-firm/our-team/hq_country, hq_city, founded, people
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Record 5032 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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