Birch Hill Equity Partners
birchhillequity.com Direct investor
Birch Hill is a Canadian private equity firm focused on mid-market companies in Canada and the United States. It manages over $6 billion in assets and has invested in 74 portfolio companies since 1994.
Birch Hill Equity Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada, founded in 1994. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in manufacturing, software, distribution and retail. Over $6 billion under management and 74 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Birch Hill is a Canadian mid-market private equity firm, with a long history of driving growth in our portfolio companies and delivering returns to our investors.”
— Birch Hill Equity Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Invests in
- Canada, United States
- Sectors
- manufacturing, software, distribution, retail, outsourced services, healthcare, energy services, environmental services, business services, telecommunications
- Founded
- 1994
- Assets under management
- over $6 billion
- Portfolio
- 74 companies
Team, as Birch Hill Equity Partners publishes it
- Nicholas Bigelow Partner
- Stephen J. Dent Partner
- Patrick G. Duncan Partner
- Matthew B. Kunica Partner
- Melissa Li Partner, Capital Markets
- Sean Makins Partner
- Neil C. McCarron Partner
- Michael J. Salamon Partner
- David G. Samuel Partner
- Pierre J. Schuurmans Partner and COO
- Chris Voorpostel Partner
- Anna Wu Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on birchhillequity.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. 3 co-investors found.
- Betaworks 1 shared company: software.inc
- Silver Lake 1 shared company: software.inc
- Anzu Partners 1 shared company: ai-media.tv
Limited partners that disclose a commitment
From the LP's own published fund list — the LP is the source, not the manager.
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Birch Hill Equity Partners (US) III, LP · vintage 2005 · $126,411,444 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Birch Hill Equity Partners (US) IV, LP · vintage 2011 · $136,738,592 committed · source
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Birch Hill Equity Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.birchhillequity.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.birchhillequity.com/portfolio-companies/sectors
- https://www.birchhillequity.com/meet-our-team/people
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