Capricorn Holdings

Capricorn Holdings is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded in 1987. The firm specializes in investing in under-performing middle-market companies through various financial strategies, including turnarounds, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations. Capricorn focuses on transactions valued between $50 million and $500 million, aiming for high internal rates of return over a four-to-eight-year horizon. It prefers to take a lead or co-lead role in its investments and seeks exclusive, negotiated opportunities rather than participating in auctions. With a strategy centered on financial and operational restructuring, Capricorn aims to enhance short-term performance and create long-term value through internal growth and acquisitions. The firm manages capital for a diverse range of investors, including endowments, financial institutions, and family offices.

Herbert Winokur

Managing General Partner

6 past transactions

TrueCar

Series E in 2009
TrueCar is an information and technology platform that enables its users to communicate with TrueCar certified dealers. TrueCar is the authority on new-car pricing. It aggregates multiple data sources to show car buyers and dealers how much people actually paid for a particular car in their geographic area. True Car helps dealers gain real-time, unbiased information about marketplace pricing, helping them know how to price their cars to sell more and gain market share from other dealers. It was by automotive and technology pioneers Scott Painter and Tom Taira.

TrueCar

Series B in 2008
TrueCar is an information and technology platform that enables its users to communicate with TrueCar certified dealers. TrueCar is the authority on new-car pricing. It aggregates multiple data sources to show car buyers and dealers how much people actually paid for a particular car in their geographic area. True Car helps dealers gain real-time, unbiased information about marketplace pricing, helping them know how to price their cars to sell more and gain market share from other dealers. It was by automotive and technology pioneers Scott Painter and Tom Taira.

Imperium Renewables

Series B in 2007
Imperium Renewables, Inc., together with its subsidiary, produces and markets biodiesel in the United States. The company produces biodiesel from feedstock oils; and glycerin, a by-product of biodiesel. Its biodiesel is used as alternative fuel in cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes. The company markets its products through a network of distributors. Imperium Renewables, Inc. was formerly known as Seattle Biodiesel, LLC and changed its name to Imperium Renewables, Inc. in May 2005. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Seattle, Washington. It has production facilities in Hoquiam, Washington; and Oahu, Hawaii.

Targeted Growth

Series D in 2007
Targeted Growth is a crop-biotech company developing yield-enhanced and quality-improved products for the agriculture and energy industries. TGI's crop biotechnology increases the yields in multiple crops and it focuses on those crops such as corn, soy, and canola that produce the raw material that enables farmers to use them for the production of renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.

Oberon Media

Venture Round in 2006
Oberon Media is the world's leading multi-platform casual-games company, with expertise in the PC, online, mobile and interactive TV categories. The Oberon Game Center platform is the industry standard and has been adopted by some of the world's innovative corporations including Microsoft, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, Electronic Arts, France Telecom and NHN. The platform combines casual-game content, merchandizing and features to fulfill each partner's specific needs. Oberon Media is unique because they create integrated casual gaming solutions to support brand and users. Oberon Media's flagship online property is [I-play Games](http://www.iplay.com)

Nanosolar

Series C in 2006
Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company to utilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing.
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