Exit Future Standard
765 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
Future Standard is an investment firm focused on the middle market, providing exposure to privately held mid-sized companies across industries such as manufacturing, information technology, healthcare, materials, and communication services. It positions middle market private equity as a source of income, growth, and diversification for investors.
Also known as FS · Future Standard
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Future Standard is an investment firm concentrating on the U.S. middle market, offering investment solutions built around private markets expertise and sponsor and borrower relationships. Its stated approach is to identify less obvious opportunities and design customized strategies intended to address complex client portfolio needs.
The firm organizes its business into five platforms. The private equity platform focuses on the middle market and provides a single access point to direct, secondary and primary investments spanning buyout, venture capital, growth equity and special situations, with partnerships across leading and emerging sponsors. The credit platform provides financing to private U.S. middle market companies across the capital structure, with strategies covering senior, junior, opportunistic and liquid credit as well as credit secondaries. The commercial real estate platform supplies debt and equity capital to sponsors and borrowers. The infrastructure platform provides flexible capital to U.S. middle market companies that build, manage and secure digital infrastructure, partnering with operators in sectors with long-term secular demand. The multi-asset platform invests across alternative strategies in equities, credit, commodities and currencies, including direct and hedge fund strategies.
Business model
The firm raises and manages capital from investors and deploys it across private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure and multi-asset strategies. Named offerings include the FS MVP Private Markets Fund, FS Credit Income Fund, FS Credit Opportunities Corp., FS KKR Capital Corp., FS Credit Real Estate Income Trust and the FS Multi-Strategy Alternatives Fund.
Latest developments
Published a 2026 Midyear Private Markets Outlook (August 2026) reviewing trends across private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure, alongside reports on private equity's opportunity in the AI cycle (March 2026) and on crowding in private credit (March 2026).
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Market position
Positions itself as a specialist in the U.S. middle market across private markets, reporting $94 billion of assets under management as of 6/30/2026, more than 30 years of experience and 14 offices globally.
Emphasizes specialized middle market expertise, sponsor and borrower relationships, and a multi-platform structure that allows access to direct, secondary and primary investments through a single entry point.
Go-to-market
Distributes capabilities through named investment vehicles and funds, and publishes research such as private markets outlooks and topical reports on private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure.
Investors seeking exposure to private markets, together with middle market companies, sponsors and borrowers that require equity, debt and structured capital solutions.
Geography
Focused on the U.S. middle market, operating from 14 offices globally.
Compiled by commissioned research from 3 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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primary sources listed
- Exit Future Standardfuturestandard.com · web
3 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Exit Future Standard do?
- Future Standard is a U.S. middle market-focused private markets investment firm spanning private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure.
- Who are Exit Future Standard's investors?
- Exit Future Standard's investors include BLN Capital, FS Investments.