Buyout PE
Butterfly Equity
Butterfly Equity acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Beverly Hills, United States. It states a focus on food & beverage and consumer & retail.
Stated investment criteria
What Butterfly Equity says it buys
Read from Butterfly 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.
Sources
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Regulatory record
How Butterfly Equity is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $7.1bn |
| Employees | 36 |
| Private funds advised | 19 · $7.8bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 284667 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Butterfly Equity lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actus Nutrition | — | — | — |
| Bolthouse Fresh Foods | — | — | — |
| Butterfly Equity Investments Generous Brands | — | — | — |
| Butterfly Equity – Custom Flavors | — | — | — |
| Butterfly Equity – Investments – Orgain | — | — | — |
| Butterfly Equity – MaryRuth Organics | — | — | — |
| Butterfly Equity – Pete and Gerry | — | — | — |
| Chosen Foods | — | — | — |
| Custom Flavors | — | — | — |
| Duckhorn Portfolio | — | — | — |
| Generous Brands | — | — | — |
| MaryRuth Organics | — | — | — |
| Milk Specialties Global | Butterfly Equity | — | — | — |
| Orgain | — | — | — |
| Pacifico Aquaculture | — | — | — |
| Pete & Gerry's Organics | — | — | — |
| Qdoba | — | — | — |
| Rise Baking | — | — | — |
| Rise Baking Company | Butterfly Equity | — | — | — |
| Target Flavors | — | — | — |
| The Duckhorn Portfolio | Butterfly Equity | — | — | — |
| ePac | — | — | — |
Compiled from Butterfly Equity’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Butterfly Equity is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded acquisition.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolthouse Farms | Bought | Campbell's | 2019 | $510m |
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 Food & Beverage
What companies have actually sold for in food & beverage, across 386 recorded transactions.
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