Private Debt/Credit
Nexus Capital Management
Nexus Capital Management lends to companies rather than buying equity, from United States. It states a focus on business & professional services, consumer & retail, education and food & beverage.
Stated investment criteria
What Nexus Capital Management says it buys
Read from Nexus Capital Management’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.
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Regulatory record
How Nexus Capital Management 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 | $5.1bn |
| Employees | 29 |
| Private funds advised | 15 · $4.1bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 168618 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Nexus Capital Management lists on its own website. No investment years are published. 1 has a recorded transaction against it in the deal archive.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACT | — | — | — |
| Acosta | — | — | — |
| CK Snacks will serve as a platform | — | — | — |
| Careismatic Brands | — | — | — |
| Cherokee | — | — | — |
| Dickies | — | — | — |
| Dollar Shave Club | — | — | — |
| Encapsys LLC | — | — | $208m 2015 |
| Encoura | — | — | — |
| FTD | — | — | — |
| FTD and ProFlowers | — | — | — |
| HDT | — | — | — |
| Healing Hands and Med Couture | — | — | — |
| IPS Corporation | — | — | — |
| Infinity | — | — | — |
| Lamps Plus | — | — | — |
| MAV Beauty | — | — | — |
| MediaLab | — | — | — |
| Natural Balance | — | — | — |
| Resident | — | — | — |
| Savvas | — | — | — |
| Sky Organics | — | — | — |
| Sperber Landscape Companies | — | — | — |
| Sugarbear | — | — | — |
| TOMS | — | — | — |
| Tricam | — | — | — |
| TruRoots | — | — | — |
| U.S | — | — | — |
Compiled from Nexus Capital Management’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 Nexus Capital Management is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 3 recorded acquisitions.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.M. Smucker - Natural Beverage and Grains Businesses | Bought | J. M. Smucker | 2021 | $110m |
| FTD | Bought | — | 2019 | $95m |
| Savvas Learning | Bought | Pearson | 2019 | $250m |
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 Business & Professional Services
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