Growth Equity
Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from New York, United States. It states a focus on media & communications and education.
Stated investment criteria
What Providence Equity Partners says it buys
Read from Providence Equity Partners’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.
| Maximum enterprise value it states | $1.5bn1 |
| Transaction types | Add-on2 |
| Founded | 19892 |
| Offices | New York4 |
| People listed on its team page | 223 |
Sources
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SEC filings
What Providence Equity Partners 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 filed | 10 |
| Total capital raised | $8.3bn |
| Largest single vehicle | $2.8bn |
| Filing history | 2017 to 2025 |
| Smallest accepted commitment | None stated |
| Filed from | RHODE ISLAND |
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 Providence Equity Partners 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 | $24bn |
| Employees | 135 |
| Private funds advised | 39 · $24bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 155678 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Providence Equity Partners lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 365 Retail Markets | — | — | — |
| A2MAC1 | — | — | — |
| Accelerate Learning | — | — | — |
| Airties | — | — | — |
| Alphatax | — | — | — |
| Brandt | — | — | — |
| Callaway | — | — | — |
| DoubleVerify | — | — | — |
| Everway | — | — | — |
| Globeducate | — | — | — |
| Groupe La Centrale | — | — | — |
| Hyve | — | — | — |
| La Centrale | — | — | — |
| Marlink | — | — | — |
| Mediawan | — | — | — |
| Modern Campus | — | — | — |
| Node4 | — | — | — |
| Outfront Media | — | — | — |
| Populous | — | — | — |
| Rock-It | — | — | — |
| Seesaw | — | — | — |
| Smartly | — | — | — |
| Superstruct Entertainment | — | — | — |
| Sweetwater | — | — | — |
| THE·TEAM | — | — | — |
| Tempo Music | — | — | — |
| Tenstreet | — | — | — |
| Vistage | — | — | — |
| VivaGym | — | — | — |
Compiled from Providence Equity Partners’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 Providence Equity Partners is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 6 recorded exits, most recently in 2021. 3 recorded acquisitions.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RentPath | Sold | Redfin | 2021 | $608m |
| DivvyCloud | Sold | Rapid7 | 2020 | $145m |
| YourCause LLC | Sold | Blackbaud | 2019 | $157m |
| Starman | Sold | Elisa | 2016 | $170m |
| Starman | Bought | Eastnine | 2016 | $91m |
| Chime | Bought | — | 2015 | $576m |
| Ironman | Sold | Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd. | 2015 | $650m |
| Virtual Radiologic Corp. | Sold | Pediatrix | 2015 | $500m |
| Clarion Events | Bought | VSS Capital Partners | 2015 | $308m |
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.
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