BlackRock Private Equity Partners

BlackRock Private Equity Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, with additional offices in New York, Durham, Hong Kong, and London. The firm specializes in direct investments and fund of funds investments, encompassing a diverse range of sectors including technology, healthcare, energy, and consumer services. It focuses on mezzanine, early-stage, and later-stage investments, as well as special situations and turnarounds. Additionally, BlackRock Private Equity Partners engages in direct co-investments and invests in various private equity funds worldwide, particularly in the United States, Europe, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. As an operating subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc., the firm serves a broad array of clients, including institutions and individual investors, while also emphasizing innovative financial technology solutions.

Joseph Acevedo

Managing Director

Raja Hussain

Director

Robert S. Kapito

President and Director

Persefoni Noulika

Director

Paul Taylor

Venture Partner

Martin Torres

Managing Director and Head of the Americas for the Renewable Power Group

Yan Yang

Managing Director

Past deals in Networking

Flō Networks

Private Equity Round in 2025
Flō Networks offers business connectivity, cloud, security, and encryption solutions. They also provide secure cloud connectivity, enterprise WAN, private network, voice for business, and managed firewall solutions. They communicated through their solutions and customer service.

Flō Networks

Debt Financing in 2025
Flō Networks offers business connectivity, cloud, security, and encryption solutions. They also provide secure cloud connectivity, enterprise WAN, private network, voice for business, and managed firewall solutions. They communicated through their solutions and customer service.

Versa Networks

Private Equity Round in 2022
Versa Networks, Inc. is a company specializing in software-defined networking (SDN) solutions with a focus on virtualized network functions and services. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Versa aims to secure and simplify modern networks for enterprises and service providers. Their offerings include Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which integrates security and advanced networking capabilities, alongside a full-featured software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). Versa's platform supports multitenancy and sophisticated analytics, allowing deployment across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments. This versatility helps organizations reduce costs associated with wide area networks and branch infrastructure. Thousands of customers globally rely on Versa to manage their networking and security needs.

Prosimo

Series B in 2022
Prosimo provides a comprehensive multi-cloud infrastructure designed to enhance application experiences for enterprises. The company's platform integrates cloud networking, performance management, security, observability, and cost management, facilitating a streamlined approach to cloud adoption. By addressing both user-to-application and application-to-application needs, Prosimo prevents fragmented cloud initiatives and ensures secure access and optimized application performance. It empowers businesses with real-time insights and actionable recommendations, allowing for improved operational efficiency and flexibility for remote workforces and business partners.

Credo Semiconductor

Series D in 2020
Credo Semiconductor, Inc. specializes in mixed-signal semiconductor solutions targeting data centers, enterprise networking, and high-performance computing markets. The company offers Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) intellectual property and interconnect solutions designed to scale bandwidth and ensure signal integrity for next-generation platforms, supporting connectivity rates of 25G, 50G, and 100G. Additionally, Credo provides line card solutions, including retimers and gearboxes, as well as optical DSP solutions for high-capacity optical interconnects in cloud-scale and hyperscale data center expansions, with a focus on 50G to 400G PAM4 optical modules. The company also develops HiWire active electrical cables for data center applications and SerDes IP and chiplets suitable for custom switch fabric, artificial intelligence, or high-performance computing ASIC applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Credo has expanded its presence with offices in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Japan.

SmartSky Networks

Debt Financing in 2019
SmartSky Networks, LLC is a provider of air-to-ground broadband connectivity solutions for business and commercial aviation. The company develops innovative communication systems that utilize a 4G LTE network, combined with elements of 5G technology, to deliver high-performance connectivity for aircraft. With 60 MHz of spectrum, SmartSky's network offers real-time, low-latency, bidirectional data transmission, enabling an in-flight experience comparable to ground-based connectivity. This capability supports a wide range of applications and services for passengers and crew. Founded in 2011 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, SmartSky Networks was previously known as Jetpool Ventures, LLC, and has established a strategic partnership with Avidyne Corporation to enhance its offerings in the aviation sector.
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