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Audax Private Equity

Audax Private Equity acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Boston, MA, USA. It states a focus on software & internet, healthcare & life sciences, financial services and industrials & manufacturing.

Capital raised$5.6bnacross 13 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2025filing since 2015
HeadquartersBoston, MA, USA
Stated cheque sizePlatform companies ~$5M-$80M EBITDA

Stated investment criteria

What Audax Private Equity says it buys

Read from Audax Private Equity’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Enterprise value it states$200m to $1bn1
EBITDA it states$20m to $100m1
Transaction typesAdd-on, Buy-and-build, Platform1
Founded19991
OfficesMenlo Park, San Francisco, New York, London3
People listed on its team page202

A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Audax Private Equity states that it takes majority or outright ownership. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Audax Private Equity to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Audax Private Equity has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed13
Total capital raised$5.6bn
Largest single vehicle$3.3bn
Filing history2015 to 2025
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromMASSACHUSETTS

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Audax Private Equity is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusSEC registered
Regulatory assets under management$20bn
Employees319
Private funds advised38 · $20bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 160483

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Audax Private Equity is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 7 recorded exits, most recently in 2023. 1 recorded acquisition.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
CorEvitasSoldThermo Fisher Scientific2023$913m
LifemarkSoldLoblaw Companies2022$642m
MobileumSoldH.I.G. Private Equity2022$915m
AcuantSoldGB Group2021$736m
Gabriel Performance Products LLCSoldHuntsman2020$250m
Preferred Compounding Corp.SoldHEXPOL2019$232m
Magnitude SoftwareSold3i Private Equity2019$340m
LifemarkBoughtCareRx2016$190m

Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Software & Internet

What companies have actually sold for in software & internet, across 2,672 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$80m
Middle 50%$20m-$250m
Revenue multiple2.2×
EBITDA multiple10.9×

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