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Advent International Private equity

Boston, US · founded 1984 · AUM $95B · checks $100M–3B+ deals · website

Founded in 1984 in Boston by Peter Brooke, a pioneer of the U.S. and European venture and buyout industries. Advent built one of the earliest truly global private equity franchises, with deep teams in Europe and Latin America. It focuses on sector-specialist buyouts and growth deals.

Strategy

Sector-focused buyouts and growth investments, especially in business/financial services, technology, healthcare, and industrials, with strong international reach.

Sector focus

diversified

Notable investments

Lululemon (early), Worldpay, Nielsen, Thomson Reuters' F&R unit (Refinitiv), McAfee, Aimbridge, Walmart Brazil

Notable exits

Worldpay IPO and sale, Lululemon, Equiniti

Fun fact

Advent founder Peter Brooke is often called a founding father of the European and Latin American private equity industries.

At a glance

16 portfolio companies
20 rounds
13 led
$8.3B total

Portfolio

CompanyRoundsInvested
Saronic
Robotics
1 round$1.8B
Shield AI
Robotics
1 round, 1 led$1.5B
Thrasio
E-Commerce
1 round$1B
Creditas
Fintech
2 rounds$515M
Seedtag
Media
2 rounds, 2 led$502M
EBANX
Fintech
1 round, 1 led$430M
Global Processing Services
Fintech
1 round$400M
KreditBee
Fintech
3 rounds, 1 led$389.4M
SonarSource
DevTools
1 round, 1 led$388M
Grupo Tigre
Other
1 round, 1 led$260M
Merama
E-Commerce
1 round, 1 led$225M
Shift
Logistics
1 round, 1 led$220M
Shift Technology
InsurTech
1 round, 1 led$220M
Zenoti
SaaS B2B
1 round, 1 led$160M
Tekion
SaaS B2B
1 round, 1 led$150M
Coralogix
DevTools
1 round, 1 led$142M

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