Firm

At Warburg Pincus, private equity is the firm’s only business. Established over 55 years ago, Warburg Pincus has invested more than $116 billion in more than 1,000 companies globally.

Warburg Pincus’ globally integrated, private partnership ensures that all of the firm’s resources are committed to the success of each portfolio company. Warburg Pincus has a long history of partnering with entrepreneurs in all stages of development across industries and geographies and helping them scale.

Warburg Pincus traces its roots to E.M. Warburg & Co., an investment banking and private investment consulting firm, founded in New York in 1939 by Eric Warburg. In 1966, the firm was acquired by Lionel I. Pincus & Co., a venture capital and financial consulting firm. John L. Vogelstein joined Lionel I. Pincus in early 1967 and together they transformed the firm and, in doing so, helped create the private equity industry. Today Warburg Pincus is a globally-integrated private partnership focused solely on private equity.

The firm’s strategy combines deep industry and local market experience; the flexibility to support all stages of a company’s development; a long-term investment horizon; and fully aligned interests among our portfolio company management teams, limited partners, and the firm’s professionals. Warburg Pincus works with its management partners to form strategy, create appropriate capital structures, analyze merger candidates, evaluate and recruit talent, and implement digital innovations.

Warburg Pincus takes a long-term perspective and invests in businesses at all stages of development, from founding start-ups and supporting growth in new and developing companies, to leading complex recapitalizations or large-scale buy-outs of more mature businesses. This long-term approach also applies to expectations of accountability, the firm’s commitment to ethical business conduct and acting as a responsible investor and member of the local communities in which it operates.

Warburg Pincus’ social commitment is further demonstrated by the firm’s charitable giving program (funded by the Warburg Pincus Foundation), community outreach and volunteer programs.