ClearLight Partners
clearlightpartners.com Direct investor
ClearLight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in established, profitable middle-market companies with significant growth potential. It has raised $900 million in capital across three funds and invested in over 20 platform companies.
ClearLight Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Newport Beach, United States. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in business Services, consumer Products, consumer Services and education / Training. $900 million under management and 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“ClearLight Partners is a private equity firm in Newport Beach, California that invests in established, profitable middle-market companies with significant growth potential.”
— ClearLight Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Newport Beach, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Business Services, Consumer Products, Consumer Services, Education / Training, Franchising, Healthcare, IT Services, Manufacturing, Transportation / Logistics
- Assets under management
- $900 million
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as ClearLight Partners publishes it
- Michael Kaye Founder and Managing Partner
- Kyle Burke Partner
- Jeff Manassero Partner
- Dustin Byer Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on clearlightpartners.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. 13 co-investors found.
- Five Points Capital LLC 1 shared company: planetfitness.com
- Freeman Spogli 1 shared company: planetfitness.com
- Monogram Capital Partners 1 shared company: planetfitness.com
- St. Cloud Capital 1 shared company: planetfitness.com
- TowerBrook Capital Partners 1 shared company: planetfitness.com
- TSG Consumer Partners 1 shared company: planetfitness.com
- Lightbank 1 shared company: sproutsocial.com
- York IE 1 shared company: sproutsocial.com
- Atlanta Ventures 1 shared company: getgenea.com
- Nolan Management LLC 1 shared company: getgenea.com
and 3 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page ClearLight Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.clearlightpartners.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, sectors, description, aum, portfolio_count, people
- https://www.clearlightpartners.com/feed/hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people, status
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Record 4412 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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