BluWave Recognizes Top 2% of North America’s Most Innovative Private Equity Firms With Second Annual Top PE Innovator Awards
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BluWave, the business builders’ network for private equity grade due diligence and value creation needs, announced today the recipients of its second annual 2023 Top Private Equity Innovator Awards. The awards recognize private equity firms for exemplary innovation and leadership. Recipients of the BluWave 2023 Top Private Equity Innovator Awards represent the top 2% in the private equity industry for due diligence, value creation, ESG, and PE firm operations*.
The BluWave 2023 Top Private Equity Innovator Award recipients were selected based upon a rigorous assessment in consultation with leading limited partners, investment bankers, service providers and other thought leaders in the private equity ecosystem. BluWave partners with more than 500 leading private equity firms and has a one-of-a-kind perspective that enables it to uniquely understand best practices and innovation in private equity.
Private equity firms were assessed across the following criteria:
Proactive due diligence practices
Transformative value creation
Embracement of ESG
Modern private equity firm operations
“The Top Private Equity Innovators have demonstrated an ability to stay ahead of changing environments, engage in transformative due diligence and value creation, and embrace the strategic value of ESG,” says Sean Mooney, Founder and CEO, BluWave. “They are leaders in creating economic opportunities and building businesses that provide jobs, and we commend them on their innovation and success.”
Chicago’s ParkerGale was selected as the Private Equity Innovator of the Year. They invest in profitable, founder-owned technology companies where the firm’s operating resources can have a meaningful impact on the outcome. ParkerGale was selected for its forward-thinking approach to due diligence, value creation, ESG and PE firm operations.
The complete list of BluWave 2023 Top Private Equity Innovator Award recipients includes the following firms:
Accel-KKR
Access Holdings
Align Capital Partners
Altamont Capital Partners
Aterian Investment Partners
Avance
Bain Capital Private Equity
Boyne Capital
Brighton Park Capital
Broad Sky Partners
Clairvest Group
Compass Group Equity Partners
Cortec Group
Council Capital
Cressey & Company
Crest Rock Partners
Diversis Capital
Encore Consumer Capital
Five Elms Capital
Francisco Partners
Frontenac
Gemspring Capital
Genstar Capital
Great Hill Partners
Great Range Capital
GreyLion
GrowthCurve Capital
GTCR
HCI Equity Partners
Heartwood Partners
Hidden Harbor Capital Partners
Housatonic Partners
Huron Capital
ICV Partners
Incline Equity Partners
Industrial Opportunity Partners
Inverness Graham
Kinzie Capital Partners
Livingbridge
LLR Partners
Long Ridge Equity Partners
Lovell Minnick Partners
Main Post Partners
MiddleGround Capital
MidOcean Partners
New Harbor Capital
New Mountain Capital
New State Capital Partners
Norwest Equity Partners
OpenGate Capital
Pamlico Capital
ParkerGale Capital
Periscope Equity
Platform Partners
Platte River Equity
Prairie Capital
Quad-C Management
Resurgens Technology Partners
Serent Capital
Shore Capital Partners
Shoreline Equity Partners
Sixth Street
Sumeru Equity Partners
The Halifax Group
The Riverside Company
Trinity Hunt Partners
Trive Capital
Trivest Partners
Warburg Pincus
For further information on the BluWave 2023 Top Private Equity Innovator Awards, including the selection process, selection criteria, and recipients, please visit https://www.bluwave.net/awards/.
About BluWave
BluWave is the business builders’ network for private equity grade service provider needs. The company’s platform combines concierge-like consultative support with technology, data, and AI to expertly connect businesses with proven providers across due diligence, value creation, and prep for sale. The BluWave Vetted™ network is an invite-only ecosystem of top tier individuals and service providing groups. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, BluWave ranks as one of America’s fastest growing companies and today serves more than 500 leading private equity firms and thousands of proactive businesses. Visit BluWave.net to learn more.
*BluWave, LP has not received investment capital from and holds no ownership interest in the PE firms evaluated or recognized under the PE Innovator awards program. BluWave received no compensation from any of the PE firms in connection with this awards program. However, BluWave may otherwise provide services to the PE firms and/or portfolio companies, but BluWave confirms that its assessment of the PE firms was independent of any such service arrangements. Top 2% in the PE industry is based on BluWave’s review of the more than 5,000 PE firms in the U.S. and Canada from which 69 PE firms were selected as award recipients.
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