Odeon
Capital Partners
Growth Capital Investments
Odeon Capital I
Odeon Capital Partners
I, L.P., is a $115 million private equity fund. Odeon Capital I's investment
focus was on
enterprise and supply chain software, information technolgy, business services and Internet-centric industries.
The fund realized several successful exits and continues to manage the remaining investments.
Odeon Capital II
Odeon Capital Partners II,
L.P., is a $250 million private equity fund. Odeon Capital II seeks to invest
vale-added growth capital in established private companies
and select under-followed and under-valued public companies.
Our mission is to
seek investments in established, attractively valued companies poised
for rapid revenue expansion through broadening product or service offerings,
expanding sales and distribution, or acquiring strategic targets.
Our investment focus
is on companies that possess valuable underlying business franchises,
especially competitive market positioning, broad-based acceptance of
their products and services, seasoned management teams, established
operations and recognizable brands.
While the companies
we seek will have achieved inital levels of success, they will be operating
under constarints that hamper their growth. These constraints may include,
for example, lack of adequate capital for expansion and growth, limitations
on managerial or operating resources, excessive financial leverage or
poor capital sturctures, or neglect from parent companies that no longer
deem the enterprise important.
The fund's goal
is to identify these constraints, mitigate them, and fund the opportunity
to unlock its latent value. Thus, the essence of the fund's stratgey
is to take an already "good" company, limited by financial
or operational constraints, and make it a "great" company.
The fund will concentrate
on growth companies in four sectors: enterprise software, outsourced
business services, healthcare services, and rapidly growing manufacturing and distribution
companies with a proprietary or technological edge. The fund also has
an interest in companies operating in the energy, healthcare, financial
services, consumers, and clean technology verticals.
Odeon's Management
Team consists of Matthew Smith, Jeffrey Finkle, Marc
Aronstein and Qayyum Hafeez. Management follows a team approach and brings unique perspective
from diverse backgrounds in corporate marketing and sales, corporate
development, product management, IT industry research and market analysis,
start-ups, private equity and portfolio management. Respective former
affiliations include Wheatley Partners, TL Ventures, Computer Associates International,
Cheyenne Software, Digital Equipment Corp., Bear Stearns,
Merrill Lynch and Priceline.com.