Variant Equity Advisors, LLC
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Variant Equity Advisors is a private equity firm founded in 2017, based in Los Angeles, focusing on corporate divestitures and control equity investments in North America and Europe. The firm targets investments up to $100 million in industrials and business services, with a portfolio of companies across payments, IT services, logistics, media, and consumer sectors.
Variant Equity Advisors, LLC is a private equity firm headquartered in Los Angeles, United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, at buyout, in industrials and business Services. Its stated cheque size is Up to $100 Million. 7 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We focus on a select number of investments where we can be fully engaged with our partners, ensuring each company benefits from meaningful attention, continued and consistent involvement, and the full skillset of our senior team.”
— Variant Equity Advisors, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Buyout
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, United States
- Invests in
- North America, Europe
- Sectors
- Industrials, Business Services
- Cheque size
- Up to $100 Million
- Founded
- 2017
- Portfolio
- 7 companies
Team, as Variant Equity Advisors, LLC publishes it
- Farhaad Wadia Managing Partner
- Matt Murphy Vice President
- Doug McCarthy Analyst
- Missy Bochatey Administrative Business Partner
- Mike Sharp Operating Partner
- Brian Vargo Operating Partner
- Cory Willis Operating Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on variantequity.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. 14 co-investors found.
- Camford Capital Management, LLC 1 shared company: fireflyon.com
- Multiplier Capital, LLC 1 shared company: fireflyon.com
- STV 1 shared company: fireflyon.com
- ACON Investments 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
- American Industrial Partners 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
- Arable Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
- Gryphon Investors 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
- JLL Partners 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
- Levine Leichtman Capital Partners 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
- Pacific Avenue Capital Partners Management Company LLC 1 shared company: dariengroup.com
and 4 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Variant Equity Advisors, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://variantequity.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status
- https://variantequity.com/portfolio/portfolio_count
- https://variantequity.com/our-team/people
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Record 5009 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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