Avante Capital Partners LP
avantecap.com Direct investor
Avante Capital Partners is a private credit firm focused exclusively on the lower middle market, providing flexible financing solutions such as unitranche, mezzanine, and equity co-investments to sponsor-backed and independent companies. The firm partners with exceptional sponsors and management teams to support growth, acquisitions, and recapitalizations.
Avante Capital Partners LP is an investor headquartered in Los Angeles, United States, founded in 2009. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in lower middle market, private credit, business services and healthcare. $1.6B under management and 150 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We partner with exceptional sponsors and management teams to finance growth—delivering deep market expertise and comprehensive resources built for the lower middle market.”
— Avante Capital Partners LP, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- lower middle market, private credit, business services, healthcare, specialty manufacturing, consumer, education, entertainment
- Founded
- 2009
- Assets under management
- $1.6B
- Portfolio
- 150 companies
Team, as Avante Capital Partners LP publishes it
- Jeri Harman Founder & Chairman
- Ivelisse Rodriguez Simon Managing Partner
- Paul Hayama Chief Investment Officer
- Richard Strait Investment Committee Partner
- Chaz Cocuzza Managing Director
- Omar Abou-Sayed Managing Director, Origination
- Gladys Cordova Chief Financial Officer
- Amanda Kim Managing Director
- David Ng Managing Director
- Omar Simmons Senior Advisor
- John Ritter Senior Advisor
- Chelsea Celistan Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on avantecap.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. 20 co-investors found.
- Shoreview Industries V, LLC 4 shared companies: justcallburton.com, cornerstonefoodservicegroup.com, corprelo.com, golocalinteractive.com
- Inverness Graham Investments, INC. 3 shared companies: foodchainid.com, noblesworldwide.com, te.com
- Leeds Equity Partners 3 shared companies: cruciallearning.com, erepublic.com, geniussis.com
- Global Brain 1 shared company: channel.io
- IMM Investment 1 shared company: channel.io
- Leonard Green & Partners 1 shared company: mindpath.com
- Berkshire Partners 1 shared company: foodchainid.com
- LFE Capital 1 shared company: foodchainid.com
- Escalate Capital Partners 1 shared company: quest.com
- Francisco Partners 1 shared company: quest.com
and 10 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Avante Capital Partners LP publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://avantecap.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://avantecap.com/team/people
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