CVC

CVC started out as a subsidiary of Citigroup under the name Citicorp Venture Capital. In 1993 the management team purchased the division and spun out to form CVC Capital Partners, a global private equity and investment advisory firm with a network of offices across Europe, the Americas, and the APAC regions. CVC’s alternatives platform comprises seven strategies: Europe & the Americas; Asia; Catalyst (previously Growth); Strategic Opportunities; Credit; Secondaries under CVC Secondary Partners (created following the acquisition of Glendower in 2022); and Infrastructure under CVC DIF (created following CVC's acquisition of DIF Capital in 2024). The Europe & Americas strategy seeks to invest in cash-generative businesses located across the Americas and Europe that occupy defensible market positions, generate predictable cash flows, and possess a diversified customer base. The Asia-focused strategy makes control, co-control, and structured minority investments in businesses that benefit from the local rising middle class and other demographic and secular trends in the region. The Catalyst strategy was created in 2025 as an evolution of CVC's previous Growth strategy, which focused on high-growth companies operating in the software and tech-enabled business services sectors. CVC Catalyst primarily targets European investments across CVC's primary sectors, including Technology, Healthcare, Sports, Media & Entertainment, Financial and Business Services, Consumer, and Education. CVC's Strategic Opportunities platform targets North American and European businesses that may not suit a traditional private equity mandate. CVC Credit is a debt manager whose service combines industry practice across origination, investment and credit evaluation, portfolio management, and trading. It manages private debt and special situations funds, as well as hedge funds. In 2022, CVC entered into a merger and strategic partnership with London-headquartered secondary fund manager Glendower Capital, creating its Secondaries strategy. AUM for CVC's Secondaries strategy is counted under CVC Secondary Partners’ firm profile (previously Glendower Capital’s profile), and has been deducted from the AUM figures on CVC’s profile. In 2024, CVC acquired a majority stake in DIF Capital Partners, creating CVC DIF. The infrastructure manager focuses on core, build-to-core, and core-plus funds.Read more ⏷