Boston · Series A–Late Stage · 61 people tracked
Also known as ADVENT GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES MANAGEMENT LLC
Investment thesis
Advent International invests globally in businesses across sectors such as industrials/energy, technology and software, healthcare, financial services, consumer, and retail. It specializes in complex corporate carve-outs, take-privates, and business building, working hand-in-hand with management teams and leveraging its Portfolio Support Group to drive operational transformation and value creation. The firm emphasizes deep sector expertise, long-term perspective, and on-the-ground regional presence across markets including Europe, the US, Brazil, India, and China. Advent takes a hands-on ownership approach, supporting M&A, product development, digital initiatives, and governance improvements to scale portfolio companies into domestic and international champions.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 61 people
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Founder mafia
The Advent International mafia →9 people who came through Advent International went on to found or lead other companies.
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What they invest in
from 27 of 45 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8Enterprise Software ×6SaaS ×6Consumer ×5Defense Tech ×5Fintech ×4Hardware ×4Cleantech ×3
HQs:United States×12India×4Germany×3Australia×1Italy×1Poland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 5 portfolio companiesWhere their founders worked beforefrom 10 founders with career history
8VC ×2Twitter ×2
Investments · 45 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 22022 · 12020 · 14 dated
HEATEN builds industrial heat pumps that recover waste heat from industrial processes such as steelmaking and convert it into clean power and heat.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyRemscheid, DE
Bernd Loeser(CEO)
Co-investorsNysnø Climate InvestmentsShell VenturesAzolla Ventures
Mangopay provides flexible wallet infrastructure and payment solutions for online platforms and marketplaces to manage global money movement.
FintechMarketplacesSaaS
Co-investorsExpeditionsNAP
Merama acquires substantial minority stakes in e-commerce brands across Latin America and provides working capital, operational expertise, and proprietary technology to grow them.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceSpring, US
Sujay Tyle(Founder)inFelipe David Delgado Jr.(Director)Felipe Delgado(Founder)in
BoardMarcelo Lima(Director)Daniel Waterhouse(Director)inAlex Szapiro(Director)
Co-investorsSoftBank GroupBalderton CapitalBroadLight CapitalD4 VenturesInvariantes FundMONASHEES+8 more
Xplor Education provides Office, a cloud-based CRM platform designed for Australian childcare services to automate enrolments, attendance tracking, government subsidy submissions, and payment processing.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSMelbourne and Auckland, AU
Mark Woodland
Co-investorsPartners for GrowthPartners for Growth (PFG)
Sapala Organics is a contract research and manufacturing organization (CRO/CDMO) specializing in nucleic acid chemistry, oligonucleotide synthesis, and medicinal chemistry for the pharmaceutical industry.
BiotechDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical Devices
Dr. P.Y. Reddy(Founder)Dr. Yogesh Sanghvi
Co-investorsVenturEast
slice is an Indian full-stack small finance bank (India's first fintech-turned-bank after merging with North East Small Finance Bank) offering consumer banking products such as savings accounts, fixed deposits, UPI, a UPI credit card, and credit/borrowing services.
ConsumerFintechSaaSBangalore, IN
Rajan Bajaj(Founder, MD & CEO)in
Co-investorsBlume VenturesInsight PartnersTiger Global Management8i VenturesBetter CapitalDG Daiwa Ventures+7 more
slice offers digital banking and lending products in India, including savings accounts, UPI payments, credit cards, deposits, and a range of loans for individuals, MSMEs, and merchants.
ConsumerFintechSaaSBangalore, IN
Rajan Bajaj(Founder, MD & CEO)
Co-investorsInsight PartnersBlume VenturesTiger Global ManagementTracxn labs
A housing finance company in India.
Aditya Birla Capital Limited is a listed non-banking financial company providing loans, investments, insurance, and payment solutions across India.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTech
Premium multi-brand mattress and sleep products platform in China.
Indian pharmaceutical company focused on women's health and fertility products.
India-based serums and vaccines company.
Vertical market software platform serving the auto collision repair industry using data and AI.
Global consumer drinking water services and filtration company.
Cyware provides a cybersecurity platform that enriches, correlates, and operationalizes cyber threat intelligence across an organization's tools and teams, using AI to enable faster, automated, and collaborative threat responses.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareWest Orange, US
Anuj Goel(CEO)inAkshat Jain(Founder)in
Co-investorsEmerald Development ManagersTen Eleven
Brazilian fintech investment platform (now NuInvest) offering fee-free equity trading.
Genoa Healthcare operates full-service pharmacies located inside mental health and community clinics, offering medication management for people with complex needs.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsAsset Management CompanyBPOCShumway CapitalWonder VenturesiSeed VenturesRock Health+1 more
Brazilian grocery retailer acquired from Walmart; later sold to Carrefour Brazil.
HYPR provides phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication for enterprise security teams using device-bound passkeys and public key cryptography.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Roman Kadinsky(Founder)
Co-investors.406 VenturesComcast VenturesRTP GlobalRRE Ventures
InPost operates an out-of-home e-commerce delivery network of automated parcel machines (APMs) and pick-up/drop-off points, alongside to-door courier and fulfillment services for e-commerce merchants.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply Chain
Rafal Brzoska(Founder & CEO)
A leading exporter of frozen potato products.
Iscon Balaji Foods, founded in 2012 as a collaboration between Balaji Wafers and the Iscon Group, processes potatoes into frozen and packaged potato food products for chefs and consumers.
AgTechFoodTech
A leading beauty and personal care company.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sam Altman(Co-founder & CEO)Elon Musk(Co-founder & former Co-chair / board member)Greg Brockman(Co-founder & President)inIlya Sutskever(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)inWojciech Zaremba(Co-founder)inJohn Schulman(Co-founder (departed 2024))
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesA'Z AngelsAlpha Wave GlobalAndreessen HorowitzAntiBedrock+54 more
Helping organizations build and deploy AI systems.
Quantum Systems designs and manufactures electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) unmanned aerial systems for military, defense, and commercial customers to collect aerial intelligence and real-time mission-critical data.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense TechHardware
Tobias Kloss(Founder)inArmin Busse(Founder)Florian Seibel(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)inSven Kruck(Co-CEO)inDave Sharpin(CEO at Quantum Systems Inc.)in
Co-investorsBalderton CapitalBayern KapitalHV CapitalNotion CapitalAirbus VenturesIn-Q-Tel+6 more
A leading premium body care brand.
Salt & Stone manufactures aluminum-free, natural deodorants formulated for extended odor protection with botanical ingredients.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceWellness & Fitness
Saronic builds autonomous surface vessels — including the 180-foot, long-range Marauder — along with Echelon, a command-and-control software layer for planning, simulating and operating single vessels or fleets.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechHardwareRoboticsAustin, US
Dino Mavrookas(Co-Founder and CEO)inRob Lehman(Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer)inVibhav Altekar(Co-Founder and CTO)inDoug Lambert(Co-Founder and COO)inPatrick DePriest(Chief Financial Officer)inSoo Cho(Chief People Officer)in
Co-investors1Flourish Capital8VCAlpha PartnersAndreessen HorowitzAntiBessemer Venture Partners+21 more
Seedtag provides contextual advertising technology, running full-funnel ad campaigns that target audiences based on interest, emotion, and intent rather than personal data.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing TechNew York City, US
Jorge Poyatos(Founder)Albert Nieto Riera(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcurio VenturesManta Ray VenturesAdara VenturesOakley
Shield AI develops AI pilot systems for military applications including aircraft, drones, ships, satellites, and submarines.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechSan Diego, US
Brandon Tseng(President & Co-Founder)inRyan Tseng(President, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)inAndrew Reiter(Co-Founder)inKingsley Afemikhe(Executive Officer)inGary Steele(Chief Executive Officer)in
BoardKeith Dunleavy(Director)
Co-investors645 VenturesAdvaita CapitalAlpha PartnersAltra VentureAndreessen HorowitzBeyond Capital+34 more
Skyone offers a multi-cloud platform that integrates ERPs and legacy systems into a unified data lake to build custom AI agents and automate business processes, along with public cloud infrastructure and 24×7 cybersecurity.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity
Co-investorsInvest TechBewater Ventures
Austin, US
Olivier Gaudin(Director)Eyal Ben David(Chief Legal Officer)Jean Campeau(Chief Financial Officer)Tariq Shaukat(Chief Executive Officer and Director)
BoardRichard Wells(Director)Alexander Ferro(Director)
Co-investorsGeneral CatalystInsight Partners
European defence company delivering unmanned systems for Europe and NATO.
Co-investorsBlueYard CapitalSequoia Capital
Stark Defence describes itself as a defense company emphasizing speed of assembly and investing over 45% of its expenditure into R&D to convert innovation into capability.
Deep TechDefense TechBerlin, DE
Johannes Schaback(Founder)
Co-investorsAir Street CapitalProject A Ventures
Walpole, US
Joshua Silberstein(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Carlos Cashman(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Daniel Boockvar(Executive Officer)inTodd Zipper(Director)Tom Szkutak(Director)Joe Falcao(Executive Officer)
TKElevator (TKE) designs and manufactures elevators for buildings, with a focus on high-rise mobility systems that use embedded AI, chip technology and cloud connectivity for traffic management and predictive maintenance.
HardwareIoTPropTech
Urban mobility (elevator technology) business carved out of thyssenkrupp AG in 2020.
Co-investorsCinven
Zenoti provides cloud-based software for managing operations at salons, spas, medspas, and fitness businesses in the beauty and wellness industry.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSaaSWellness & FitnessBellevue, US
Sudheer Koneru(Founder & CEO)inDheeraj Koneru(Co-founder)inAnand Arvind(Co-founder & Chief Product Officer)inNeal Singh(Chief Operating Officer)inAmita Tomkoria(Head of Global Finance)inSunil Koneru(Head of Professional Services & Customer Experience)in
Co-investorsAccelAvataar Venture PartnersNorwest Venture PartnersTiger Global ManagementTPG
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCyware · job-boards.greenhouse.io · Aug 19, 2026
OpenAI · techcrunch.com · Aug 12, 2026
Avio · simplywall.st · Jul 31, 2026
Atwell · retailtimes.co.uk · Jul 27, 2026
Saronic · pulse2.com · Jul 17, 2026
Shield AI · intelligence360.news · Jul 17, 2026
Skyone · latamrepublic.com · Jan 22, 2026
Fund performance · per public LP disclosures · 35
as of Dec 2025| Fund | Vintage | Committed | Net IRR | TVPI | DPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advent International GPE XLPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Washington State Investment Board, Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System +15 more | 2022 | — | 16.5% | 1.34x | 0.02x |
| Advent International GPE X Limited Corporate FinanceLPs: Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho | 2022 | — | 13.2% | 1.20x | — |
| Advent Global Technology IILPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, California State Teachers' Retirement System +3 more | 2021 | — | 14.2% | 1.36x | 0.00x |
| Advent Global Technology IIrLPs: Orange County Employees Retirement System | 2021 | — | 14.2% | 1.40x | — |
| Advent LatAm PE Fund VII SCSPLPs: California State Teachers' Retirement System | 2021 | — | 7.4% | 1.19x | 0.22x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund VII SCSpLPs: Washington State Investment Board, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, District of Columbia Retirement Board | 2021 | — | 7.3% | 1.20x | 0.22x |
| Advent Global TechnologyLPs: California State Teachers' Retirement System, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, Orange County Employees Retirement System +2 more | 2019 | — | 8.9% | 1.45x | 0.14x |
| Advent International GPE IXLPs: Washington State Investment Board, California Public Employees' Retirement System, Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System +16 more | 2019 | — | 12.9% | 1.64x | 0.38x |
| Advent International GPE IX-A SCSPLPs: Northern LGPS | 2019 | — | — | 0.89x | — |
| Advent International GPE VIIILPs: Maine Public Employees Retirement System, Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island | 2016 | — | 15.6% | 2.07x | 1.41x |
| Advent International GPE VIII B SMALPs: Orange County Employees Retirement System | 2016 | — | 15.4% | 2.10x | 1.44x |
| Advent International GPE VIII B-2LPs: Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System | 2016 | — | 15.8% | 2.09x | 1.41x |
| Advent International GPE VIII-B, L.P.LPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Washington State Investment Board, Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System +5 more | 2016 | — | 15.3% | 2.06x | 1.44x |
| Advent International GPE VIII-D LPLPs: Florida State Board of Administration, California State Teachers' Retirement System | 2016 | — | 15.8% | 2.09x | 1.41x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund VILPs: Michigan Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System, District of Columbia Retirement Board | 2015 | — | 12.2% | 1.72x | 1.19x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund VI CLPs: Oregon Public Employees Retirement System | 2015 | — | 12.2% | 1.78x | 1.04x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund VI-H, L.P.LPs: Washington State Investment Board | 2015 | — | 12.2% | 1.80x | 1.04x |
| Advent Latin America PE Fund VILPs: Maine Public Employees Retirement System, Bush Foundation | 2014 | — | 12.2% | 1.72x | 1.04x |
| Advent International GPE VIILPs: Minnesota State Board of Investment, Maine Public Employees Retirement System, Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island +1 more | 2012 | — | 13.1% | 1.67x | 1.60x |
| Advent International GPE VII BLPs: Washington State Investment Board, The Regents of the University of California, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System +4 more | 2012 | — | 13.1% | 1.80x | 1.73x |
| Advent International GPE VII CLPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Florida State Board of Administration, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System +1 more | 2012 | — | 13.2% | 1.81x | 1.73x |
| Advent International GPE VII-D LPLPs: Florida State Board of Administration | 2012 | — | 13.7% | 1.87x | 1.87x |
| Advent Latin America Private Equity Fund V-H L.P.LPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System | 2010 | — | 1.4% | 1.08x | 0.58x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund V, L.P.LPs: Washington State Investment Board, Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System | 2010 | — | 1.5% | 1.10x | 0.90x |
| Advent Central & Eastern Europe IV LPLPs: California State Teachers' Retirement System | 2008 | — | -9.5% | 0.64x | 0.64x |
| Advent International GPE VI ALPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, Minnesota State Board of Investment +6 more | 2008 | — | 16.3% | 2.09x | 2.01x |
| Advent International GPE VI L.P.LPs: California State Teachers' Retirement System, Washington State Investment Board, Florida State Board of Administration +1 more | 2008 | — | 15.4% | 2.00x | 1.91x |
| Advent International GPE VI-D LPLPs: Florida State Board of Administration | 2008 | — | 16.6% | 2.09x | 2.09x |
| Advent Latin America Private Equity Fund IV-D, L.P.LPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System | 2007 | — | 9.1% | 1.51x | 1.43x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund IV, L.P.LPs: Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System, Washington State Investment Board | 2007 | — | 8.7% | 1.50x | 1.42x |
| Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund III-D L.P.LPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System | 2006 | — | 9.8% | 1.48x | 1.44x |
| Advent International GPE V-D, L.P.LPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Hawaii Employees' Retirement System, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System | 2005 | — | 42.7% | 2.42x | 2.42x |
| Advent Global Private Equity IV-A, L.P.LPs: California Public Employees' Retirement System | 2002 | — | 52.0% | 3.25x | 3.25x |
| Advent International Global Private Equity VIII-DLPs: Florida State Board of Administration | 2001 | — | 24.5% | 2.18x | 0.77x |
| Advent International GPE VIIIBLPs: Maine Public Employees Retirement System, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, Pension Reserves Investment Management Board | — | — | 15.8% | 1.94x | 1.37x |
Source: public limited-partner disclosures (CalPERS, CalSTRS). Net IRR / TVPI / DPI as reported by the limited partner; a fund's early-year IRR is an interim estimate (J-curve).
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Advent International made?
- Advent International has 30 tracked investments.
- What stage does Advent International invest at?
- Advent International invests at the Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What is Advent International's typical check size?
- Advent International typically writes checks of $1.1B.
- What sectors does Advent International focus on?
- Advent International focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, E-commerce, EdTech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, FoodTech, Hardware, Healthtech, Logistics & Supply Chain, Media & Entertainment, Medical Devices, Mobility & Transportation, New Materials, Retail Tech, SaaS.
- Where is Advent International located?
- Advent International is headquartered in Boston, US.
- Does Advent International lead rounds?
- Yes, Advent International leads investment rounds.
- Who does Advent International co-invest with?
- Advent International most often shares deals with Project A Ventures, 8VC, Andreessen Horowitz, among 36 tracked co-investors.
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