Kelso & Company

Private Equity
46investments
6exits
544open roles in its portfolio
200+people

Overview

Kelso & Company is a private equity firm that makes control and partnership investments in middle market businesses. It invests across sectors including business and financial services, healthcare, industrials, consumer and energy, often partnering with management through buyouts and recapitalizations. The firm traces its origins to 1971, when it was founded by Louis Kelso, the economist who pioneered the employee stock ownership plan, and is based in New York City.

Investor profile

Private equity
Investments
46
4 of them startups
Hiring now
15
544 open roles
Exits
6
Focusshare of its companies
Financial Services 32%Manufacturing 16%Information Technology 16%Health Care 16%Transportation & Logistics 8%Commerce 8%Food & Beverages 8%Professional Services 8%
Where its companies are
United States 22%Canada 4%
Stage of its companies
Pre-seed & seed 100%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 46 investments
ReSource ProVenture round $1M · 5 yr ago · 14 roles Brown & Brown228 roles J.S. Held57 roles Piper Sandler51 roles CDW39 roles Bridge Next26 roles 4Refuel25 roles SiriusPoint Ltd.24 roles Inovar Packaging Group22 roles Pathstone22 roles Inter for16 roles Eagle Foods8 roles
544 open roles at 15 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Brown & Brown83 new roles in 30 days CDW37 new roles in 30 days Piper Sandler23 new roles in 30 days Bridge Next22 new roles in 30 days J.S. Held16 new roles in 30 days ReSource Pro13 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Stone Point Capital 3 shared Harvest Partners 2 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
New Mountain Capital Stone Point Capital Genstar Capital-Private Equity for Middle Market Companies Abry Partners Warburg Pincus Harvest Partners Leonard Green & Partners IA Capital Group
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3

Visa sponsorship

United StatesUS 0
0
H-1B filings in 12 months
0
Open roles in United States
In the register as Kelso & Company, L.P., New York, NY
Other sponsors in the same field
Blackstone 102 filingsMIO Partners Inc. 15 filingsIFM Investors 11 filingsWarburg Pincus 11 filings
Alert me
US Department of Labor · latest filing Sep 6, 2024 · Visa details by country

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Loading the map
Headquarters Builds here Office with open vacancies No open vacancies right now Tap a pin for the office
New York United States
HQ
Kelso United States
Regional office
Kelso & Company
299 Park Avenue, 30th Floor, New York, NY 10171
company site