Madison Dearborn Partners
mdcp.com Direct investor
Madison Dearborn Partners is a private equity firm based in Chicago that invests in middle and upper-middle market companies in the United States, focusing on financial services, healthcare, and technology & government sectors.
Madison Dearborn Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 1992. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in financial Services, healthcare and technology & Government. $36 billion under management and 160 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“MDP pursues investments in established middle and upper-middle market companies located primarily in the United States.”
— Madison Dearborn Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology & Government
- Founded
- 1992
- Assets under management
- $36 billion
- Portfolio
- 160 companies
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 212 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Asia Alternatives Capital Partners 2 shared companies: goo.gl, sungarddx.com
- Great Range Capital 2 shared companies: goo.gl, sungarddx.com
- Pamlico Capital 2 shared companies: goo.gl, wearefine.com
- Versant Ventures 2 shared companies: sungarddx.com, wearefine.com
- Abac Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Abingworth 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AC Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Acrewood Holdings 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adara Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adit Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared company: goo.gl
and 202 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Madison Dearborn Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.mdcp.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, description, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.mdcp.com/aboutlayer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, founded
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Record 1404 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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