Golub Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager. We specialize in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. Our sponsor finance expertise also forms the foundation of our Broadly Syndicated Loan and Credit Opportunitiesinvestment programs. We nurture long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from private equity sponsors and investors.As of July 1, 2025, Golub Capital had over 1,000 employees and over $80 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
- Fund size:
- $2B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Golub Capital invests in
Stages Golub Capital invests in
Countries Golub Capital invests in
Contacts
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Gregory Cashman
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Craig Benton
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Dan Kaminski
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (33%)
- SaaS 15 (29%)
- Information Technology 9 (18%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (12%)
- Medical 5 (10%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 17 (33%)
- Funding Round 8 (16%)
- Series B 4 (8%)
- Private Equity 4 (8%)
- Series C 3 (6%)
Country
- United States 33 (65%)
- Canada 2 (4%)
- Australia 2 (4%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Switzerland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Gregory Cashman
Co-Head of the Firm’s Direct Lending business
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Co-Head of the Firm’s Direct Lending business | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Andrea Picard
Co-Head of Global Institutional Sales
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Co-Head of Global Institutional Sales | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Craig Benton
Senior Managing Director and Head of Structured Products
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Senior Managing Director and Head of Structured Products | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Dan Kaminski
Managing Director and Investor Partners Group
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Managing Director and Investor Partners Group | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David B. Golub
President
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President | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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CAIS
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CAIS is a financial technology platform, providing independent financial advisors with access to top-tier managers of specialized investment products in the multi-trillion-dollar independent wealth channel.The company offers streamlined execution for an expanding list of alternative investment funds and products. Financial advisors use theplatform to access funds and products, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, structured notes, and digital assets. CAIS complements its fund offerings with independent due diligence provided by Mercer. CAIS is an NFA member with securities offered through CAIS Capital LLC, member FINRA, SIPC.Jeremy Norton and Matt Brown co-founded CAIS in New York, New York in 2009. | $170M / Series D / Jul 29, 2026 | |
Church’s Texas Chicken
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"Church’s Texas Chicken is an American chain of fast-food restaurants specializing in fried chicken, also trading outside North America as Texas Chicken or Church’s Texas Chicken. The chain was founded as Church's Fried Chicken To Go by George W. Church Sr., on April 17, 1952, in San Antonio, Texas, across the street from The Alamo." | Private Equity / Jul 28, 2026 | |
Solace
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Solace helps large enterprises become modern and real-time by giving them everything they need to make their business operations and customer interactions event-driven. With PubSub+, the market’s first and only event management platform, the company provides a comprehensive way to create, document, discover and stream events from where they areproduced to where they need to be consumed – securely, reliably, quickly, and guaranteed. Behind Solace technology is the world’s leading group of data movement experts, with nearly 20 years of experience helping global enterprises solve some of the most demanding challenges in a variety of industries – from capital markets, retail, and gaming to space, aviation, and automotive. Established enterprises such as SAP, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Canada, multinational automobile manufacturers such as Renault and Groupe PSA, and industry disruptors such as Jio use Solace’s advanced event broker technologies to modernize legacy applications, deploy modern microservices, and build an event mesh to support their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and IoT architectures. Learn more at solace.com. | $790M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 05, 2026 | |
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Solace
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Solace helps large enterprises become modern and real-time by giving them everything they need to make their business operations and customer interactions event-driven. With PubSub+, the market’s first and only event management platform, the company provides a comprehensive way to create, document, discover and stream events from where they areproduced to where they need to be consumed – securely, reliably, quickly, and guaranteed. Behind Solace technology is the world’s leading group of data movement experts, with nearly 20 years of experience helping global enterprises solve some of the most demanding challenges in a variety of industries – from capital markets, retail, and gaming to space, aviation, and automotive. Established enterprises such as SAP, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Canada, multinational automobile manufacturers such as Renault and Groupe PSA, and industry disruptors such as Jio use Solace’s advanced event broker technologies to modernize legacy applications, deploy modern microservices, and build an event mesh to support their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and IoT architectures. Learn more at solace.com. | $790M / Secondary Market / May 05, 2026 | |
Strickland Brothers 10 Minute Oil Change
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Strickland Brothers offers 10 minute, drive-thru, pressure-free oil changes, state inspections, and maintenance services. Their mission is to exceed the expectations of every customer by setting and meeting service standards that are innovative and centered | $270M / Debt Financing / Jan 22, 2026 | |
Crunch Fitness
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Crunch was founded in a basement level aerobics studio in New York City’s East Village in 1989 by Doug Levine. With the collaboration of exercise instructors the group fitness programming was started at Crunch. Today there are more than 500,000 gym members across the US and operations recently extended to Australia. | Debt Financing / Oct 22, 2025 | |
73 Strings
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73 Strings provides financial advisory services using artificial intelligence and technology solutions. | $55M / Series B / Feb 18, 2025 | |
Optimizely
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Optimizely provides customer experience optimization, allowing businesses to dramatically drive up the value of their digital products, commerce, and campaigns through its best-in-class experimentation software platform. By replacing digital guesswork with evidence-based results, Optimizely enables product and marketing professionals to accelerateinnovation, lower the risk of new features, and drive up the return on investment from digital by up to 10X. Over 26 of the Fortune 100 companies choose Optimizely to power their global digital experiences. Optimizely’s impressive customer list includes eBay, FOX, IBM, The New York Times, and many more global enterprises.Optimizely was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.1B / Debt Financing / Dec 05, 2024 | |
LogicMonitor
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LogicMonitor®’s SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform helps ITOps, developers, MSPs and business leaders gain visibility into and predictability across the technologies that modern organizations depend on to deliver extraordinary employee and customer experiences. LogicMonitor seamlessly monitors everything fromnetworks to applications to the cloud, empowering companies to focus less on troubleshooting and more on innovation. For more information, visit www.logicmonitor.com or watch this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmrauqmno0. | $800M / Private Equity / Nov 20, 2024 | |
Smartsheet
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Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others. | $3.2B / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 24, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Golub Capital invest in?
Golub Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Debt Financing and Funding Round stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Golub Capital?
The team at Golub Capital includes Gregory Cashman (Co-Head of the Firm’s Direct Lending business), Andrea Picard (Co-Head of Global Institutional Sales) and Craig Benton (Senior Managing Director and Head of Structured Products), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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