General Atlantic, founded in 1980, is a prominent global growth equity investment firm with offices in New York City, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Mumbai, Dusseldorf, Hong Kong, London, and Palo Alto, and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The firm invests between $50 million and $500 million per company, in eight to twelve companies per year on average, and manages over $15 billion in capital. General Atlantic boasts an impressive international footprint, with portfolio companies on six continents in twelve different nations. The firm’s seventy-five investment professionals and operations experts provide portfolio companies with not only growth capital, but knowledge, skills, and management experience needed to optimize processes and strategies for building value.
General Atlantic invests in a broad group of sectors, including Financial Services, Healthcare, Media and Consumer, Business Services and Technology, and Energy and Resources. General Atlantic utilizes customized “evergreen” capital structures to promote long-term partnerships with portfolio company management teams.
The General Atlantic roster of portfolio companies includes such businesses as Network Solutions, personal computer manufacturer Lenovo, WebLoyalty.com, software engineering firm Altair, and Zagat, the well-known consumer-based dining and leisure information service.
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