Newlight Partners

United States - New York, NY

• 07/08/2023
• Unknown
• Undisclosed Amount

Newlight Partners is a growth-focused middle market private equity firm that builds businesses in partnership with exceptional founders and management teams. The Newlight team has been investing together since 2005, originally as the Strategic Investments Group at Soros Fund Management LLC, and now as Newlight after the team's spin-out in 2018. Newlight’s thematic investment approach focuses on identifying and addressing marketplace opportunities in rapidly growing subsectors. Newlight currently has over $3.5 billion in capital commitments and assets under management.

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Alex FridlyandInvestor

United States - New York, New York

After graduating in 1995 with PhD in Aerospace Engineering founded an Internet startup that was soon merged into what by 2001 (and through three more M&A transactions) became the largest global Data Center company in the world. Had various senior and executive roles in Corporate Development until 2003. Since 2003 a private equity investor.

Career highlights:

1986 - 1988: Soldier

1991 - 1995: Mathematician: Numerical Methods in Turbulence & Chaos Theory

1995 - 2003: Entrepreneur & Executive: Internet and Telecommunications

2003 - current: Investor
* Oil & Gas Exploration and Production
* Insurance and Reinsurance
* Data Centers
* IT Outsourcing and Software Development
* Film FInancing & Film Libraries; and others

2012 - 2018: Visiting lecturer at business school & Startup Academy

2014 - current: Hudson Valley Farmer & Trustee of NYC private school

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/fridlyand/