Element Partners
Element Management LP is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions financings, secondary sales, and later stage, mature, lower middle market, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, growth capital, recapitalization, corporate divestitures or spin-outs, emerging growth, industry consolidation or roll-ups, take-private transactions capital for shareholder liquidity, and PIPEs. The firm does not invest in healthcare and pharma sector. It seeks to invest in technologies and services with a focus on the software, industrial, energy, power, clean energy and environmental sectors. Within energy sector, the firm invests in energy, information technology, energy storage, demand response (DR) and demand side management (DSM), power electronics, transportation fuels and motive power, E & P, alternative/ renewable energy and other oil and gas technologies. Within the industrials sector, it invests in industrial components and capital equipment, industrial maintenance, infrastructure technology, process control, plastics and packaging, distribution automation, and supply chain management, chemicals, advanced materials, agricultural technologies, petrochemical replacements, industrial biotechnology, and specialty chemicals. Within the environmental sector, it invests in water management and conservation, water desalination, produced water, effluent monitoring, emissions control, and materials reuse and recycling. It also invest in food and agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, mobility and logistics, waste water, systems integration, engineered products, information technology, industrial automation and water utilities. It invests in North America, Europe, and Caribbean. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $50 million per transaction in companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $250 million, sales value between $10 million and $200 million, and EBITDA between $1 million and $25 million. It prefers to act as a lead investor and seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies. The firm takes control equity, majority as well as minority stakes in its portfolio companies. It operates as a subsidiary of Element Venture Partners Llc. Element Management LP was founded in December 2005 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.