Firms and Funds

NorthSands was founded in late 2023 by former Blackstone Senior Managing Director Bruce McEvoy.

Neuberger Berman was the lead investor.

Chicago-based Circana is a consumer behavior advisor.

Headquartered in New York, FalconPoint will launch with greater than $500 million in assets under management.

The partnership will focus on investing and growing a mission-critical technology provider for the federal government across civilian, defense, healthcare, and national security agencies.

Palm Peak will be focused on making majority investments in North America-based middle-market industrial manufacturing and business services companies.

Currently, Lydian owns nine projects representing 1.75 GW of solar and battery storage capacity located in Texas and New Mexico.

Based in the Washington, D.C. area, SMX is a provider of next-generation mission support and digital transformation solutions.

ACA is pursuing targets throughout the Southern and Western U.S.

Josh Bilmes, a former principal at Boyne Capital, is leading Oceans Equity as managing partner.