GI Partners

GI Partners was founded in 2001 by Rick Magnuson and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm operates with a team of over 100 employees across multiple U.S. offices, including New York, Chicago, Greenwich, and Scottsdale. As of 2024, the firm has raised more than $29 billion in capital from global institutional investors.

The firm's investment approach is divided into three primary strategies: private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure. The private equity team focuses on middle market companies within healthcare, IT infrastructure, services, and software. The real estate and data infrastructure teams target technology-related properties, life sciences facilities, and hard asset infrastructure that supports the digital economy.

GI Partners has been active in acquiring and scaling technology and service-oriented businesses. Notable recent activity includes the acquisition of cloud software provider GTY Technology Holdings and the digital infrastructure firm DQE Communications. The firm frequently engages in majority recapitalizations and platform investments within its core industry verticals.