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New Mountain Capital

Investor type

PE

Founded

1999

AUM

$55 000 M

Location

New York City, New York, United States

Investment Ticket

$0-1 m

Investment Stage

Seed Series B Series A

Region of investment

North America Europe
Investor profile last updated: 29 April, 2025

Profile

New Mountain Capital (“New Mountain”) is an alternative investment manager with private equity, credit and net lease strategies. New Mountain’s aggregate assets under management total ~$50 billion across all investment strategies.* Since inception, New Mountain has raised over $27 billion of committed capital across six private equity funds. New Mountain was founded in 1999 by Steven B. Klinsky and today has ~245 employees, ~145 of which are investment professionals.

New Mountain’s efforts emphasize intensive fundamental research and a focus on growth and investor “value added,” rather than reliance on excessive risk, as the best path to high and consistent long-term returns. New Mountain has proactively developed particular research and operational expertise in carefully selected “defensive growth” niches of healthcare, health tech, life science supplies/biomanufacturing, “must have” information and data, digital marketing & transformation, infrastructure services/field services, specialized software, defensive growth consumer/products, financial services / technologies and technology-enabled business services. New Mountain Capital works systematically to establish expertise in additional sectors over time.

* Includes asset valuations and remaining commitments (if applicable) as of December 31, 2023 and undrawn capital as of December 31, 2023. Pro forma for capital committed as of April 1, 2024)

Industry

Fashion/Beauty Financial Services Fintech Food and Beverage Foodtech Healthcare Services Marketing and Advertising Other Real Estate Security Software Sports/SportsTech Energy LegalTech HealthTech Business Services (B2B) Consumer Services (B2C) Education Technology Infrastructure SaaS Consumer Products

New Mountain Capital Funds

Name Type
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Industry
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Stage
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Region
Size AUM Launch date
New Mountain Partners V, L.P.
Private Equity (PE)
Business Services (B2B)
Consumer Services (B2C)
Education
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Software
Technology
Infrastructure
Energy
Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
North America
$5-10 m
$6200 M
September 2017
New Mountain Net Lease Partners
Fund of funds
Business Services (B2B)
Consumer Services (B2C)
Education
Financial Services
Healthcare Services
Software
Technology
Energy
Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
North America
$5-10 m
$533 M
April 2019
New Mountain Capital Guardian III
Private Equity (PE)
Business Services (B2B)
Consumer Services (B2C)
Education
Financial Services
Healthcare Services
SaaS
Software
Technology
Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
North America
$5-10 m
$1200 M
October 2019
New Mountain Partners VII, L.P.
Private Equity (PE)
Business Services (B2B)
Consumer Products
Consumer Services (B2C)
Education
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Technology
Energy
Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
North America
$5-10 m
$15400 M
October 2021

Contacts

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Phil Mentesana Director Of Technology
Director Of Technology
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Andre Moura Managing Director
Managing Director
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FAQs about New Mountain Capital

New Mountain Capital is a private equity firm. It backs companies at Seed, Series B and Series A, writing tickets of $0-1 m.
New Mountain Capital is located in New York City, New York, United States.
New Mountain Capital was founded in 1999.
New Mountain Capital invests in companies and startups in Fashion/Beauty, Financial Services, Fintech, Food and Beverage, Foodtech, Healthcare Services, Marketing and Advertising, Other, Real Estate, Security, Software, Sports/SportsTech, Energy, LegalTech, HealthTech, Business Services (B2B), Consumer Services (B2C), Education, Technology, Infrastructure, SaaS, Consumer Products.
New Mountain Capital invests in companies and startups in North America, Europe.
New Mountain Capital invests in companies and startups at Seed, Series B, Series A.
New Mountain Capital usually invests $0-1 m on average.
New Mountain Capital has around $55 000m assets under management.
New Mountain Capital last fund was created/launched in 2021-10-19
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