ClearLight Partners
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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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 13 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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