Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus sits between venture capital and buyout private equity. Its mandate lets it take majority or minority stakes and write early-stage financings, growth equity, management buyouts and corporate spin-outs out of the same funds. The firm says more than two-thirds of its current technology companies are growing fast, at about 50 percent a year on average. That growth tilt is why the firm appears in venture databases, but its scale, fund structure and deal types are those of a large private equity manager.

The firm's roots go back to E.M. Warburg & Co., founded by Eric Warburg in 1939, which merged with Lionel I. Pincus & Co. in 1966. Pincus served as chairman, and John Vogelstein, a former Lazard Freres partner, joined in 1967; the two led the firm until 2002.

Warburg Pincus has more than 225 companies in its active portfolio and more than 15 offices, including New York, San Francisco, Houston, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Luxembourg, São Paulo, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. It invests across private equity, real estate and capital solutions, with sector teams in technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and energy transition.