Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Energy and Oil and Gas. Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., founded in 1984, is a leading independent alternative investment management firm focused on niche investing in upstream oil and gas companies, energy infrastructure, specialized real estate, middle market credit, growth private equity and distressed municipal opportunities. Kayne’s investment philosophy is topursue niches, with an emphasis on cash flow, where our knowledge and sourcing advantages enable us to deliver above average, risk-adjusted investment returns. Kayne manages approximately $28 billion in assets (as of 5/31/2014) for institutional investors, family offices, high net worth and retail clients and employs nearly 250 professionals in eight offices across the United States.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors invests in
Stages Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors invests in
Countries Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors invests in
Contacts
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Albert Rabil
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Daniel Weingeist
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J.C. Frey
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Nishita Cummings
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Paul Blank
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 13 (43%)
- Oil and Gas 10 (33%)
- Manufacturing 4 (13%)
- Renewable Energy 4 (13%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
Stage
- Private Equity 15 (50%)
- Debt Financing 3 (10%)
- Series A 2 (7%)
- Funding Round 2 (7%)
- Post-IPO Equity 2 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Albert Rabil
Managing Partner, CEO
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Managing Partner, CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Daniel Weingeist
Managing Partner, Energy Funds
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Managing Partner, Energy Funds | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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J.C. Frey
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Nishita Cummings
Managing Partner, Co-Head of Growth Private Equity Group
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Managing Partner, Co-Head of Growth Private Equity Group | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
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Paul Blank
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kraken Oil & Gas
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Kraken Oil & Gas is a private equity-backed exploration and production company formed in 2012 to focus on drilling and development opportunities in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, primarily in the prolific Bakken formation. | $200M / Private Equity / May 11, 2026 | |
Terra Energy Partners
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Terra is an independent U.S onshore oil and gas exploration and production company growing through mergers and acquisitions to create value.Headquartered in Houston, Terra pursues the acquisition and development of legacy producing oil and gas assets in North America. The team is led by Michael Land, an experienced E&P operations andcommercial manager, and funded through Kayne Private Energy Income Fund, L.P. | $300M / Private Equity / Jun 03, 2025 | |
South Wind Exploration & Production
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South Wind Exploration & Production is an organization that deals with oil and gas. | $400M / Private Equity / Apr 29, 2025 | |
Huddle Up
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DotCom Therapy specializes in providing speech therapy, occupational therapy, and mental health services via computer, tablet, or smartphone. They hand-match students, patients, and clients with our therapists who provide the highest quality therapy in a live, online, face-to-face setting. It offers speech, occupational and mental health therapy,educational audiology, case management, and literacy services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. | Series C / Apr 10, 2024 | |
Sapience Analytics
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Sapience Analytics solutions, in use by Fortune 1000 companies worldwide, provide an unprecedented level of operational visibility around enterprise resource investments in people, processes, and technology. Based on Sapience’s 11 years’ experience in working with medium to large global enterprises, Sapience Vue is an advanced analytics platformpowered by business intelligence and machine learning that proves a fully automated and real-time multifaceted view of Enterprise Effort. Sapience Vue aggregates thousands of data points from every corner of the enterprise. These insights are translated into prescriptive reports providing the WHAT, WHEN, and WHERE to optimize operations for data-driven digital transformation. Sapience drives better decision making for better organizational outcomes: Improved employee engagement, collaboration, workload balancing, and team utilization More control and confidence in managing the in-office and remote workforce The clarity to drive better decision making globally Understanding of training and coaching needs and policy and procedure compliance Identification of process inefficiencies, gaps, and enterprise risk vectors Improved technology utilization Today, Sapience is used by more than 90 companies in 18 countries worldwide, with over 1 trillion work hours analyzed to date. Sapience is fundamentally changing the way companies operate, enabling businesses to build a better version of their organization every day for ultimate agility and competitive advantage. | Private Equity / Feb 13, 2024 | |
Gulf Pacific Rice
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Gulf Pacific is a premier rice processor and merchandiser the broad product line is marketing experience for more retail, hotels, restaurants, and food services. There is a supplier of rice products. They are provided with the best total value in products and services. To manufacture conventional rice products a intriguing new rice ingredients foremerging markets, they plants use the most contemporary and technologically advanced processing equipment available. They dedication to the customers is demonstrated by our constant focus on innovation, quality, and food safety. | Debt Financing / Dec 06, 2022 | |
Shipfusion
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Shipfusion is committed to providing retailers with a unique fulfillment solution, supported by powerful software and top-level customer support. | $40M / Private Equity / Apr 13, 2022 | |
PosiGen
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PosiGen is a provider of residential renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. We are a Third Party Ownership company (TPO), which allows us to offer renewable energy systems and energy efficiency retrofits to the people who need it most: Low- to moderate-income homeowners. Our mission is to help these low- to moderate-income individuals,families, and businesses achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence by lowering their utility bills.At its core, PosiGen is a young social enterprise with an enormous ambition: To increase the financial autonomy of low- to moderate-income homeowners nationwide, by decreasing their dependence on utility-provided energy. | $27M / Series D / Apr 28, 2021 | |
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Kraken Oil & Gas
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Kraken Oil & Gas is a private equity-backed exploration and production company formed in 2012 to focus on drilling and development opportunities in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, primarily in the prolific Bakken formation. | Private Equity / Dec 17, 2020 | |
FreightWaves
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FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $30M / Private Equity / Jul 24, 2020 | |
| See all 30 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
NewRoad Capital Partners
3 deals together
Energy & Minerals Group
2 deals together
Kayne Anderson Growth Capital
2 deals together
Stonepeak
2 deals together
Activate Capital
1 deal together
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors invest in?
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors invests primarily in Energy, Oil and Gas and Manufacturing startups, most often at Private Equity and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 30 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 Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors?
The team at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors includes Albert Rabil (Managing Partner, CEO), Daniel Weingeist (Managing Partner, Energy Funds) and J.C. Frey (Managing Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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