HarbourVest Partners

HarbourVest Partners, formerly known as Hancock Venture Partners, is a private equity investment firm specializing in global private markets investment for institutional clients. The firm was founded in 1982 by Brooks Zug and Ed Kane and is headquartered in Boston with offices in Beijing, Bogotá, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and Toronto.

HarbourVest Partners’ platform offers clients investment opportunities in private equity, private credit, and real assets through primary fund investments, secondary investments, and direct co-investments, in commingled funds or separately managed accounts. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage, growth-stage, later-stage, and mezzanine companies through buyouts in business products, business services, consumer products, consumer services, information technology, healthcare, financial services, materials, SaaS, manufacturing, e-commerce, industrials, machinery, 3D printing, payments processing, and technology-based sectors in the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. In 2021, HarbourVest Partners had $86 billion in assets. The firm has committed more than $48 billion to newly-formed funds, completed over $29 billion in secondary purchases, and invested over $23 billion directly in operating companies.

HarbourVest Partners has invested in ShareChat, Cequence, Samdesk, Centivo, Varo Money, PartnerStack, MemryX, SolarWinds, Airspace, TEAM Services Group, SevOne, VIX, ABILITY Network, and tyntec. Notable exits of HarbourVest include Salesloft, Lucid, monday.com, Outbrain, SolarWinds, Wave, Fivestars, Wayfair, Lytx, and Intelex.