Odeon Capital Partners

Odeon Capital Partners is a principal investment firm specializing in investment in growth capital for business expansion, transition, and financial restructuring. It seeks to invest in both private and select public growth and expansion stage companies that have never taken institutional money before and are now looking for growth capital; companies with strong core products but high debt loads, or orphaned subsidiaries or divisions of a parent company; companies that have built an initial franchise but have lacked financial, managerial, or other resources to maximize growth; quality businesses being spun out of larger corporations that have never received sufficient attention or resources; companies with positive operating results but whose initial backers lack the funds to continue to support the business; high-quality business units that can be removed from a financially troubled parent; and publicly traded companies with market capitalizations significantly less than their intrinsic values. The firm typically invests in rapidly growing companies in the enterprise software, outsourced business services, healthcare services, and select manufacturing business and distribution sectors. Within the enterprise software sector, it prefers to invest in infrastructure software which includes network and system management software; storage management software; and security software and services, supply chain management software, and business application software. Within the outsourced business services sector, the firm seeks to invest in business process outsourcing. It invests between $10 million and $15 million per company with annual revenue between $25 million and $100 million. The firm prefers to acquire control or significant minority stake and also prefers to take board seat in its portfolio companies. Odeon Capital Partners was founded in 1999 and is based in New York, New York.