Founded in 2008, Excel Partners is a New York City, New York-based investment banking firm catering to the needs of middle-market companies within the healthcare, business services, and technology industries. The firm offers a wide range of investment banking and financial advisory services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity and private debt capital raising, valuations, fairness opinions, divestitures, buy-outs, add-on acquisitions, buy-and-builds, mergers of equals, strategic sales, recapitalization, acquisition financing, liquidity events, review of strategic alternatives, and shareholder disputes. The firm's client base includes public companies, entrepreneur-owned private companies, venture, and private equity-backed companies, and private equity and venture capital funds.