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Catalyst Investors

Catalyst Investors takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from New York, United States. It states a focus on software & internet and business & professional services.

Capital raised$769macross 6 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2024filing since 2014
HeadquartersNew York, United States
Largest single fund$419m

Stated investment criteria

What Catalyst Investors says it buys

Read from Catalyst Investors’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.

Minimum revenue it states$5m1
Transaction typesGrowth2
Founded19992
People listed on its team page133

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. 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 Catalyst Investors to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Catalyst Investors 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 filed6
Total capital raised$769m
Largest single vehicle$419m
Filing history2014 to 2024
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromNEW YORK

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 Catalyst Investors is registered

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

Adviser statusExempt reporting adviser
Regulatory assets under managementNot reported by an ERA
Private funds advised9 · $762m gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 156947

An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Catalyst Investors is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2018.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
ConductorSoldWeWork2018$114m

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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