Scott Berger

Kitchen Fund is the leading source of capital for emerging restaurants trying to change the way we eat.

Kitchen Fund is the leading source of capital for emerging restaurants trying to change the way we eat.

RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm that builds high-growth companies with strategic capital solutions to founders and entrepreneurs. The firm currently manages approximately $10 billion in assets on behalf of a global group of blue chip institutional and family office investors. Founded in 2014 by Gerry Cardinale, RedBird integrates sophisticated private equity investing with a hands-on business building mandate that focuses on three core industry verticals – Sports, Media & Entertainment, and Financial Services. Throughout his 30-year investment career, Cardinale has partnered with founders and entrepreneurs to build some of the most iconic growth companies in their respective industries. For more information, please go to www.redbirdcap.com.

THL Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm investing in middle-market growth companies in three industry groups: Financial Technology & Services, Healthcare, and Technology & Business Solutions. We partner with management teams to build great companies of lasting value and strive to generate superior returns for our investors. We couple our deep domain expertise with dedicated internal operating resources to transform and build great companies of lasting value in partnership with management. Our team has managed or deployed $50 billion of equity capital, worked with over 175 partner companies around the world and fueled more than 700 add-on acquisitions representing an aggregate enterprise value of over $260 billion.