We’re Built to Build Businesses

Partners in Growing Leading Companies

Collaborative Partnerships

We build relationships based on integrity, respect, and a shared vision.

Proven Experience

Our team has over 20 years of investing experience, working together to build more than 140 leading middle market companies.

Transformational Growth

Our Buy & Build approach accelerates growth, delivering resources and expertise to help companies scale organically, and through acquisitions.

Market Leadership

Our focused, disciplined strategy makes us the partner of choice in the middle market.

Collaborative Partnerships

Relationships come first. We invest behind management teams, with clearly aligned interests and commitment. A supportive, collegial, and transparent culture fuels our collective focus on accelerating results. And we believe in what we do - our team is the largest investor in Audax Private Equity, investing alongside our management partners with over $875 million of our capital committed to our current private equity fund.

Portfolio Company Employees

~51K

Management Teams Investing Alongside Audax

100%

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Audax’ expertise and resources were instrumental in acquiring and integrating 14 acquisitions, which transformed Laborie into a global leader in urinary incontinence and gastrointestinal devices and consumables.

Brian Ellacott

CEO, Laborie

The Audax Private Equity team took the time to understand our business. They understood our vision and were able to accelerate growth and build value. They were very good at identifying companies and making transactions happen quickly. It was a pleasure to have them as part of the team.

Jody Groce

CEO, WheelPros

Audax has been a valuable partner in helping us grow Imperial Dade into a leading national distributor. We look forward to capitalizing on the significant growth opportunity in front of us by leveraging our acquisition strategy, operational expertise, and scalable platform to better serve our customer base.

Bob & Jason Tillis

CEO & President, Imperial Dade

We are grateful for the resources, support, and stewardship Audax provided over the last five years in helping us transform Numotion into what it is today. We are now well positioned to accelerate our growth trajectory and advance our mission of improving the lives of people with disabilities. We look forward to continuing that work, and driving positive outcomes for our customers, the industry, our employees, and our shareholders.

Mike Swinford

CEO, Numotion

Audax was instrumental in helping us to grow Data Intensity over the last five years. Together we have successfully diversified our service offering, invested in our customer support infrastructure, and expanded to international markets. The business is well positioned to capitalize on the shift to hybrid cloud and we look forward to the next phase of Data Intensity’s growth.

Kirk Arnold

CEO, Data Intensity

Proven Experience

Since 1999, we have been a leader in investing in, and scaling, middle market companies. For two decades, across more than 140 platform investments and over 1000 add-on acquisitions, we have worked together to provide consistency and breadth of expertise. We have extensive resources and experience to accelerate growth and scale market leaders.

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Managing Director Average Tenure (Years)

90+

Realized Platform Investments

100+

Audax Private Equity Investment Professionals

Transformational Growth

Our Buy & Build approach is the cornerstone of our model. We focus on equity investments in market-leading middle market companies that are poised for growth, then partner with management to drive value creation, build winning teams, and accelerate results. We contribute extensive capabilities and experience in organic revenue acceleration, operational improvements, and capital market efficiencies.

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Average Add-Ons Per Platform

~100

Average Portfolio Add-Ons Per Year

1.5K+

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Market Leadership

With over $7 billion invested, we are a leading private equity firm ranked in the top decile based on investment returns by the 2020 HEC-DowJones Private Equity Performance Ranking. We've maintained our original thesis, approach, and middle market focus while continuously growing our fund size. We are currently investing from our $3.5 billion Fund VI, the sixth in a series of successively larger funds.