Ampersand Ventures

Ampersand, a middle market private equity firm focused on investments in two core sectors: Healthcare and industrial. The firm targets middle market, growth equity opportunities where it is the first institutional investor. Ampersand's investment team consists of almost 20 professionals managing more than $600 million from the firm's offices in Wellesley, MA. Ampersand originated in 1969 as an internal, technology-focused venture capital investment activity at PaineWebber. Ampersand was then founded in 1988 as a spinoff from PaineWebber, focused on the specialty materials and chemicals (SMC) industry. Over the past two decades Ampersand has managed $1 billion in private equity partnerships.