Tailwind Capital
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Tailwind Capital is a private equity firm that makes control investments in middle market companies in the infrastructure services, supply chain, and IT services sectors. The firm focuses on North American companies and employs an operationally intensive approach to drive growth.
Tailwind Capital is a private equity firm headquartered in New York, United States. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in infrastructure Services, supply Chain and IT Services. Its stated cheque size is $25-200M+ Equity Investments. $6.0B of Committed Capital under management and 50 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Tailwind is focused on control investments in high quality, middle market companies in three core sub-sectors.”
— Tailwind Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Invests in
- North America
- Cheque size
- $25-200M+ Equity Investments
- Assets under management
- $6.0B of Committed Capital
- Portfolio
- 50 companies
Team, as Tailwind Capital publishes it
- Jeffrey Calhoun Managing Partner
- Lawrence Sorrel Managing Partner
- James Hoch Vice Chairman
- Frank Sica Vice Chairman
- Michael Bertisch Partner, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
- Syed Mohsin Partner & Chief Financial Officer
- Juliana Anderson Partner – Capital Markets
- Nicholas Cincotta Partner
- William Fleder Partner
- David Gorton Partner
- Andrew Mayer Partner
- Lindsay Helfman Managing Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on tailwind.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. 171 co-investors found.
- 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
- AE Industrial Partners, LP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AIF Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alchemy Special Opportunities LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alcuin Capital Partners LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
and 161 more — the graph.
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 → Tailwind Capital Partners II, LP · vintage 2014 · $150,000,000 committed · source
- California Public Employees' Retirement System → Tailwind Capital Partners III, L.P. · vintage 2018 · $200,000,000 committed · source
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Tailwind Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.tailwind.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.tailwind.com/strategy/stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size
- https://www.tailwind.com/people/people
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Record 1437 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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