Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm headquartered in New York City. Established in 1869, it provides a wide range of financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals. The firm operates through several segments, including Investment Banking, which offers financial advisory services related to mergers and acquisitions, and underwriting services for public and private offerings. Its Institutional Client Services segment facilitates client transactions across various asset classes and provides services like securities lending. The Investing & Lending segment focuses on long-term loans and investments in debt and equity securities, while the Investment Management segment offers portfolio management and wealth advisory services. Additionally, Goldman Sachs engages in private equity investments across multiple sectors and geographies, reinforcing its position as a leading investor in both public and private markets.

Raanan A. Agus

MD, Co-Head of the GSIS Portfolio Management Team and Portfolio Manager

Julian Allen

Chief Operating Officer of Infrastructure Investment Group

Jeffrey A. Barclay

MD

Merrick M. Elfman

Pharmacy Operations

J. Brent Humphries

Director

Luisa Leyenaar

Managing Director

Robert Magnuson

MD, Head of High Yield Strategies & Portfolio Manager

David Solomon

President and Chief Operating Officer

Suwabe C.M.A., Ph.D., Takashi

MD & Portfolio Manager

Past deals in Texas

Varagon Capital Partners

Private Equity Round in 2022
Varagon Capital Partners is an asset manager specializing in direct lending to mid-sized companies primarily in the United States, focusing on those with EBITDA ranging from $10 million to $75 million. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Fort Worth, Texas, the firm offers flexible financing solutions and emphasizes building strong relationships with borrowers and private equity firms. Varagon provides investors direct access to quality middle-market loans, delivering investment, risk management, analytics, and reporting services tailored to the commercial, industrial, healthcare, and energy sectors. The experienced team at Varagon is committed to providing transparency, flexibility, and exceptional service to meet the needs of sophisticated investors.

Data.world

Series C in 2022
Data.world, Inc. operates an open data platform designed to facilitate the discovery, understanding, and sharing of data across various sectors, including finance, education, environment, and politics. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform enables users to access and utilize a wide array of data by minimizing data wrangling and simplifying data transformation processes. It fosters collaboration through a large community, allowing users to engage in projects that range from data journalism to social bot detection. Data.world emphasizes the importance of ethical data practices and has co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, which promotes effective teamwork in data-related endeavors. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.world is committed to balancing its mission of enhancing data accessibility and collaboration with the pursuit of shareholder value.

symplr

Private Equity Round in 2022
symplr is a provider of healthcare Governance, Risk, and Compliance solutions and services. We help organizations execute a strategy that ensures high quality patient care, streamlined processes and a healthy bottom line by providing the technology, support, and resources needed to successfully navigate workforce management, credentialing, privileging, and compliance.

Visual Comfort & Co.

Venture Round in 2021
Visual Comfort Corporation of America designs and manufactures lighting solutions. It offers retro and industrial style, architectural, antique and vintage, traditional and contemporary style, and outdoor lighting and accessories. The company was incorporated in 1982 and is based in Houston, Texas.

QuVa Pharma

Debt Financing in 2021
QuVa Pharma will be the industry’s leading 503B platform and the partner of choice for compliance-oriented healthcare facilities looking to ensure quality, safe and consistent supply of medications. QuVa Pharma will achieve this through its commitment to innovation, by operating from superior facilities under stringent cGMP adherence, and by attracting individuals absolutely committed to quality and who bring deep sterile injectable manufacturing expertise.

Sabre Corporation

Post in 2020
Sabre Corporation is a technology solutions provider for the global travel and tourism industry, headquartered in Southlake, Texas. Founded in 1960, it offers a wide range of services, including data-driven business intelligence, mobile solutions, and Software-as-a-Service products. Its operations are divided into three main segments: Travel Network, Airline Solutions, and Hospitality Solutions. The Travel Network segment serves as a business-to-business marketplace, providing travel content from various suppliers to travel agencies and management companies. Airline Solutions offers software technology products that enhance airlines' sales, planning, and operational capabilities. Meanwhile, Hospitality Solutions delivers tools for hoteliers, including property management and central reservation systems. Sabre’s technology processed over $100 billion in travel spending in 2013 and continues to innovate within the industry. The company maintains a presence in approximately 60 countries and partners with organizations like Google to develop advanced technology platforms.

Rabbet

Series A in 2019
Rabbet is the construction finance platform that parses documents and connects information for frictionless transactions. Their mission is to fuel the connected construction economy. Through intelligent automation of the construction draw process, their platform eases administrative burden while connecting everyone with accurate information faster.

BigCommerce

Series F in 2018
BigCommerce Pty. Ltd. offers a comprehensive e-commerce platform designed to support retailers in launching, promoting, and managing online stores. The platform includes features for storefront design, product configuration, order processing, inventory management, and shipping, all accessible through a central control panel. BigCommerce also provides tools for social media marketing, email marketing, promotions, search engine optimization, and e-commerce analytics, catering to a diverse clientele ranging from startups to established brands. The company serves over 60,000 businesses globally, including more than 2,000 mid-market firms and several Fortune 1000 companies. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Ultimo, Australia, with additional offices in Sydney, Austin, and San Francisco, BigCommerce operates as a subsidiary of Bigcommerce Inc. Its mission is to facilitate online sales growth for merchants at every stage of their business journey.

Sunnova

Debt Financing in 2016
Sunnova Energy International Inc. is a Houston-based company that provides residential solar power and battery storage services across the United States. Founded in 2012, Sunnova serves approximately 80,000 customers through a network of local installation partners. The company offers a range of services, including operations and maintenance, monitoring, repairs, equipment upgrades, and on-site power optimization. With a fleet of residential solar energy systems generating around 572 megawatts, Sunnova aims to deliver reliable and cost-effective solar solutions to homeowners. By maintaining solar service agreements, Sunnova ensures that customers receive ongoing support and worry-free electricity for years to come.

Honest Dollar

Acquisition in 2016
Honest Dollar, Inc. is an online platform focused on providing transparency and information related to finances and retirement planning. Founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, the company aims to simplify the process of saving for retirement. As a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management, Honest Dollar leverages the expertise of its parent company to enhance its offerings and support investors in their financial journeys.

Vapor

Series A in 2015
Vapor IO develops a collection of edge colocation and interconnection facilities colocated with the wireless network. Serving wireless carriers, cloud providers, web-scale companies, and other innovative enterprises, the company’s Kinetic Edge combines multi-tenant colocation with software-defined interconnection and high-speed networking. The Kinetic Edge delivers a flexible, highly-distributed edge infrastructure at the edge of the wireless network. The company has deployed its Kinetic Edge in Chicago, IL and has plans to have projects underway in the top 20 markets with 100+ sites by 2020. Vapor IO was founded in 2015 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Ryan

Debt Financing in 2015
Ryan is a prominent global tax services firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, recognized for its extensive expertise in business taxes. It boasts the largest indirect tax practice in North America and ranks among the top corporate tax practices in the United States. The firm offers a wide array of tax advisory and consulting services, including audit defense, tax recovery, compliance, and strategic planning, addressing the needs of clients across various jurisdictions. With a workforce of over 2,500 professionals, Ryan serves more than 14,000 clients globally, including many leading Global 5000 companies. The firm has earned multiple accolades for its commitment to exceptional client service, reflecting its innovative approach and dedication to improving tax processes through technology and advocacy.

Oscar Health

Series C in 2015
Oscar Health is a health insurance company that provides individual and family plans, Medicare Advantage, and small group products. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Oscar Health operates in several states, including New York, Texas, California, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee. The company aims to enhance the healthcare experience by utilizing technology, design, and data to create user-friendly services. Its platform includes a software application that helps users find doctors based on location and ratings. Oscar Health primarily serves individuals and families who do not receive health insurance from their employers.

Antuit

Series A in 2015
Antuit is an AI solutions provider that specializes in the Retail, Consumer Goods, and Manufacturing sectors. Founded in 2013 and backed by Goldman Sachs, Antuit focuses on helping multinational and high-growth companies predict and meet demand effectively. By leveraging machine learning and proprietary technologies, the company aims to enhance revenue and margin growth, improve supply chain efficiency, and elevate customer experiences. Antuit combines various forecasting methodologies, including direct-to-consumer and e-commerce forecasting, to generate actionable insights from supply, finance, sales, and marketing data. Through its innovative approach, Antuit is reshaping how consumer products and retail organizations utilize AI to address their business challenges.
Regency Energy Partners LP (the Partnership) is engaged in the gathering and processing, contract compression, treating and transportation of natural gas and the transportation, fractionation and storage of natural gas liquids (NGLs). The Partnership operates in five business segments: Gathering and Processing, Joint Ventures, Contract Compression, Contract Treating, and Corporate and Others. Its assets are primarily located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia and the mid-continent region of the United States, which includes Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. In March 2014, the Company acquired PVR Partners, L.P.

Spiceworks

Series E in 2014
Spiceworks is the marketplace that connects the IT industry to help tech buyers and sellers get their jobs done, every day. The company helps people in the world’s businesses find, adopt, and manage the latest technologies while also helping IT brands build, market, and support better products and services. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks empowers people to use technology to make their organizations, their communities, and the world better.

PetroEdge Energy

Private Equity Round in 2013
PetroEdge Energy III, LLC, an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional natural gas and crude oil properties. Its activities are focused on the lower Eagleford in Brazos and Burleson Counties, Texas. The company is also developing an inventory of opportunities in the Cretaceous Shelf Margin. PetroEdge Energy III, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Imaging Advantage

Venture Round in 2012
Imaging Advantage is the leading provider of evidence-based, end-to-end technology enhanced radiology solutions to hospitals across the country. IA’s footprint includes major healthcare systems in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon and Texas, as well as other major metropolitan areas across the U.S.

Imaging Advantage

Venture Round in 2012
Imaging Advantage is the leading provider of evidence-based, end-to-end technology enhanced radiology solutions to hospitals across the country. IA’s footprint includes major healthcare systems in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon and Texas, as well as other major metropolitan areas across the U.S.

Renal Ventures Management

Venture Round in 2011
Renal Ventures Management, LLC specializes in providing dialysis care and support services for individuals with chronic kidney disease in the United States. Founded in 1997 and based in Lakewood, Colorado, the company operates multiple dialysis centers across various states, including Arkansas, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, and West Virginia. In addition to direct dialysis services, Renal Ventures Management offers comprehensive support, including insurance and managed care contract negotiation, vendor pricing optimization, accounts receivable management, information technology support, and ongoing education for healthcare professionals. The company focuses on collaboration with nephrologists to ensure high-quality, patient-centered care in a comfortable clinic environment. As of May 2017, Renal Ventures Management operates as a subsidiary of DaVita Kidney Care.

NEOS GeoSolutions

Private Equity Round in 2011
NEOS GeoSolutions, Inc. is a geosciences company specializing in multi-measurement subsurface interpretation solutions. It combines various geological and geophysical data, including seismic, gravity, magnetic, electromagnetic, radiometric, and hyperspectral data, within a proprietary data management system. This integration aids geoscientists in the onshore oil and gas, and mining industries, facilitating informed decisions regarding exploration, leasing, and drilling activities. NEOS offers several key solutions: neoSCAN for interpreting diverse investigation areas, neoBASIN for enhanced resolution and insights, neoPROSPECTOR for identifying potential drillable prospects, and Eco-Assurance, which provides additional insights into surface and subsurface conditions for exploration programs. The company serves a wide range of clients, including energy ministries, national oil companies, international mining and oil firms, junior operators, and governmental agencies across the United States and internationally. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, NEOS also has locations in California, Colorado, Argentina, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates.

Imaging Advantage

Venture Round in 2010
Imaging Advantage is the leading provider of evidence-based, end-to-end technology enhanced radiology solutions to hospitals across the country. IA’s footprint includes major healthcare systems in Arizona, California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon and Texas, as well as other major metropolitan areas across the U.S.

Intrinsity

Series E in 2008
Intrinsity provides the tools, technologies, and expertise to efficiently and predictably produce higher speeds for digital logic for the mobile core. Their proprietary Fast14® technology provides circuit speeds up to and beyond 3 GHz as well as the means to manage speed, power, and area to achieve the optimal solution for customer design targets.

BTIG

Seed Round in 2007
BTIG provides institutional brokerage and fund services. It is specialized in global trading and fund services for hedge funds, separate accounts, mutual funds, and family offices. The company operates in various areas, including equity trading, fixed income, future trading, convertible securities, equity derivatives, prime brokerage, outsource trading, direct market access, capital markets, equity research, and corporate access as well as international trading, commission management services, portfolio analytics, and market intelligence. In addition, the company provides trading solutions to investment managers. It serves institutional clients worldwide. BTIG was founded in 2002 and is based in San Francisco, California. It has additional offices in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, Chicago, Greenwich, Red Bank, Norwalk, Orinda, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. It operates as a subsidiary of Condor Trading LP.

Accelergy

Series B in 2006
Accelergy is a global leader in producing a direct replacement, low carbon, synthetic distillate liquids, and transportation fuels at a lower cost to both the environment and to the consumer. Accelergy uses domestic, carbon-based resources such as natural gas and biomass to produce cost-competitive liquids with a reduced CO2 footprint compared to traditional petroleum-based products. They do this without the expensive infrastructure required by many other alternative synthetics technologies. The company was founded in 2003 and headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Surgient

Series C in 2006
Surgient, Inc. offers self-service virtualization automation and lab management solutions. The company offers Virtual Automation Platform, a software automation and management platform that helps enterprise IT organizations to provide self-service computing resources to users. Its virtualization solutions are used for software QA/test, training, sales, and marketing applications. The company’s Surgient Cloud Express combines cloud computing technology and implementation services to help organizations deploy on-premise clouds. Surgient also provides services, such as solution design and architecture, capacity and infrastructure planning, image and lab configuration planning, software installation and configuration, setup of initial images and lab configurations, software customization and integration, training for administrators and end-users, and custom reporting and analytics. The company serves hotels/hospitality, pharmaceutical, aerospace, insurance, software, financial services, healthcare, telecom, and hardware markets. Surgient, Inc. was formerly known as Surgient Networks, Inc. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

eVentures Group

Venture Round in 2000
eVentures Group operates and invests in internet communications companies.

Telscape International

Private Equity Round in 2000
Telscape International, Inc. is a turn-key and value added telecommunications company strategically positioned to tap the growing and emerging markets of Latin America, with a particular emphasis on Mexico. TSCP supplies U.S.-originated international long distance services on a wholesale and retail basis, via switched and dedicated networks, with an emphasis on Latin America. TSCP also provides a range of systems integration and value-added services in Mexico. For the nine months ended 9/30/98, revenues totalled $102.3 million, up from $22.1 million. Net income fell 4% to $1.4 million. Results reflect acquisitions, offset by a $1.5 million tax expense vs. a $246 thousand tax benefit.

Network International

Series B in 2000
Network International is a global online marketplace that connects buyers of oil and gas assets with sellers from energy companies. The company provides a marketplace experience that helps buyers grow their businesses and sellers maximize recovery for surplus assets. Network International works ensures a fair and reliable experience for both buyers and sellers.

ChemConnect

Private Equity Round in 2000
ChemConnect, Inc. functions as an electronic exchange specializing in the trading of midstream energy, feedstocks, chemicals, and related products. Established in 1995 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company provides a platform for the trading of natural gas liquids, refined fuels, aromatics, olefins, and commodity polymers. In addition to its exchange services, ChemConnect offers auction services, bulletin-board functionality, back-end fulfillment solutions, and market information resources. The company also delivers supply chain solutions, which include negotiation tools and collaboration hubs, facilitating efficient transactions for its clients. ChemConnect has operational reach in North America, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.

CompuBank

Series A in 2000
CompuBank brings together a wide range of banking and financial services for consumers and businesses.

Agillion, Inc.

Venture Round in 1999
Agillion enables companies to provide customers with a level of service they've never encountered online—or anywhere else. By creating Agillion CustomerPagesSM—custom, password-protected Web sites that are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—you can: Let your customers place and check on the status of orders, alert you to problems, retrieve documents you're collaborating on together, write you a note, download a product catalog, etc. Capture customer information in real-time and securely store it in a central database that your Team can access from any web browser. Focus on your top customers by receiving reminders and important alerts about their activity.