HarbourVest seeks to invest in premier primary partnerships, secondary interests, and operating companies.
We seek investment opportunities in venture capital, buyout, mezzanine, distressed debt, and diversified private equity. By focusing on these areas and across stages, we develop and apply broader industry knowledge, leverage industry-wide relationships, and enhance the flow of potential deals.
HarbourVest searches for exceptional investments, evaluates them carefully, and selects those opportunities with the strongest potential for superior returns. This proactive approach is designed to result in diversified investments that include the best opportunities from all areas of global private equity.
Our overlapping knowledge and experience in these three areas provides unique insight and enhances the investment decision-making process.
Primary Partnerships
When investing in new partnerships, we draw upon our extensive knowledge of private equity, access to exclusive partnerships, and strong connections within the private equity community. We carefully search for and select high-quality partnership investments, looking for experienced fund managers with the potential to generate superior rates of return. More >
Secondary Investments
HarbourVest is well positioned to buy secondary interests in existing partnerships and direct investment portfolios through our ability to quickly identify attractive or undervalued assets that offer new opportunities to our clients. We can evaluate and execute transactions efficiently and create tailor-made solutions for complex transactions, thanks to our extensive experience and deep relationships in the private equity community. More >
Direct Investments
Our strong relationships provide us access to direct investments in established and growing companies. HarbourVest has a wide-range knowledge of key industries, from industrial products to information technology, which we leverage to help our portfolio companies expand their businesses and establish category leadership. More >