Birch Hill Equity Partners
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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, at 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
- Stage
- Buyout
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.birchhillequity.com/meet-our-team/people
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