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Baird Capital

Baird Capital acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Chicago, IL, USA. It states a focus on software & internet, healthcare & life sciences and industrials & manufacturing.

Disclosed holdings
Earliest stated investment
HeadquartersChicago, IL, USA
Stated fund sizeGlobal Fund III $450M (2026); plus VC platform

Regulatory record

How Baird Capital 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$738m
Employees34
Private funds advised9 · $1.1bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 323309

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Baird Capital is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 2 recorded exits, most recently in 2015.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
Digi-Star LLCSoldTopcon Positioning Systems2015$133m
Ellman InternationalSoldCynosure2014$13m

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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