Buyout PE
The Edgewater Funds
The Edgewater Funds acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Chicago, United States. It states a focus on business & professional services, healthcare & life sciences and industrials & manufacturing.
Stated investment criteria
What The Edgewater Funds says it buys
Read from The Edgewater Funds’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.
| EBITDA it states | $3m to $40m1 |
| Transaction types | Growth1 |
| Offices | Chicago3 |
| People listed on its team page | 482 |
Sources
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 Edgewater Funds states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. 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 The Edgewater Funds to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How The Edgewater Funds 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 | $2.8bn |
| Employees | 25 |
| Private funds advised | 34 · $2.8bn gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 159926 |
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which The Edgewater Funds is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2024.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deflecto | Sold | Acacia Research | 2024 | $104m |
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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