StepStone Group

StepStone Group Inc. is an investment firm specializing in direct, fund of funds, secondary direct, and secondary indirect investments. For direct investment, it seeks to invest in venture debt, incubation, mezzanine, distressed/vulture, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, later stage, turnaround, growth capital, industry consolidation, recapitalization, and buyout investments in mature and middle market companies. It prefers to invest in natural resources, technology, healthcare, services, materials, manufacturing, consumer durables, apparel, hotels, restaurants and leisure, media, retailing, consumer staples, financials, telecommunication services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and real asset. The firm invests globally with a focus on United States, North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, New Zealand, China, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia region. It typically invests between $15 million and $200 million in firms with enterprise value between $150 million and $25000 million. The firm invests between 5% and 40% in emerging markets. For fund of fund investment, it seeks to invest in private equity funds, venture capital funds, Special situation funds, Real estate funds, Infrastructure funds, mezzanine funds, and turnaround/distressed funds. It considers investments in both domestic and international funds. It also seeks to make co-investments and follow-on investments and considers partial interests in funds. StepStone Group Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices across North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

STEPSTONE WANTS TO BE THE JOB MARKET OF CHOICE FOR CUSTOMERS AND CANDIDATES. Talent is the key factor in our customers’ success – the right people in the right place at the right time at the right cost. We enable our customers to find the best possible matches for their recruitment needs. In doing so, our aim is to help organisations achieve better talent success than any other job marketplace, in the areas where we operate.

Our vision is to be the world’s premier private markets investment and asset management firm.

StepStone Group has been recognized for its impactful work in the private markets space, including winning a “2020 Private Equity Firm of the Year” award from Preqin, as well as excellence recognition from Institutional Investor, Pensions&Investments and Asset Management & Investment Diversity awards.