Recognizing leaders across the private equity industry.
The 2025 Top Private Equity Innovator Awardsrecipients were selected through a rigorous assessment in consultation with leading limited partners, investment bankers, and other thought leaders in the private equity ecosystem. BluWave partners with hundreds of leading private equity firms and has a one-of-a-kind perspective that enables it to uniquely understand best practices and innovation in private equity.
The private equity firms considered for this recognition were assessed across the following criteria*:
Proactive due diligence practices
Transformative value creation
Modern private equity firm operations
Corporate Citizenship
BELOW IS A LIST OF THIS YEAR’S TOP PRIVATE EQUITY INNOVATORS
*BluWave, LP has not received investment capital from and holds no ownership interest in the PE firms evaluated or recognized under the Top Private Equity Innovator awards program. BluWave received no compensation from any of the PE firms in connection with this awards program. However, BluWave may otherwise provide services to the PE firms and/or their portfolio companies, but BluWave confirms that its assessment of the PE firms was independent of any such service arrangements. Top 2% in the PE industry is based on BluWave’s review of the more than 6,000 PE firms in the U.S. and Canada from which the 103 PE firms were selected as award recipients.
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