Madison Dearborn Partners
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Madison Dearborn Partners is a private equity investment firm that focuses on upper-middle-market and middle-market companies.
- Total investments:
- 73
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
- Fund size:
- $1.6B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Madison Dearborn Partners invests in
Stages Madison Dearborn Partners invests in
Countries Madison Dearborn Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (16%)
- Information Technology 10 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 9 (12%)
- Internet 7 (10%)
- Telecommunications 7 (10%)
Stage
- Private Equity 19 (26%)
- Funding Round 15 (21%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (12%)
- Series B 5 (7%)
- Series C 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 50 (68%)
- Canada 3 (4%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- Ireland 1 (1%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Benjamin D. Chereskin
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Mark Tresnowski
Senior Advisor
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Senior Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matthew W. Norton
Managing Director, Head of Business, Government Software and Services
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Managing Director, Head of Business, Government Software and Services | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Annie Terry
Managing Director, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
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Managing Director, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Benjamin Spacapan
Director
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Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols, Cauley & Associates specializes in audit/assurance, enterprise risk management, SALT consulting, accounting and tax services. | Private Equity / Jan 05, 2026 | ||
| Insurance Office of America (IOA) is a full-service insurance agency founded in 1988 and is one of the fastest-growing independent agencies in the United States. IOA is ranked 12th on Insurance Journal’s 2017 Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agencies report. | Private Equity / Oct 07, 2025 | ||
| Harmonia Holdings Group is a computer software company that provides application development services. | Private Equity / Sep 07, 2024 | ||
| Hobbs & Associates is a manufacturing company that presents heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) products and engineering services. | Private Equity / Jul 15, 2024 | ||
| Air Control Concepts is a forward-thinking experts committed to excellence, innovation, and collaboration. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 15, 2024 | ||
| At Omni Federal, We design, build and operate data-rich solutions encompassing data warehouses, big data platforms, data transformation tools, digital dashboard applications, web portals, business intelligence (BI) tools, and real-time analytics and monitoring applications | Private Equity / Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| Zilliant, Inc. provides price optimization and price management software for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. The company’s pricing software enables manufacturers and distributors to adopt an approach to price analysis, optimization, price list management, quoting, and negotiation. It offers ZilliantPrecision Pricing Suite (ZPPS), an enterprise software that combines price segmentation and price optimization science with analytics and process automation software for price management; ZPPS Analytics, which provides segment-specific metrics and KPIs to deliver a view of pricing performance and uncover opportunities to improve; ZPPS Price Optimization that produces price and deal envelope recommendations for various price segment; and ZPPS Price List Manager, which administers price lists and policies, as well as other price instruments, such as discount and markup schedules. The company also provides ZPPS Deal Manager and Deal Manager for Agreements, and ZPPS Price Campaign Manager that provides inline analytics and KPIs for scoring deals against peer group benchmarks and enforces corporate price policies; and ZPPS Pricing Information Manager, which manages product mix and selection in various deals. In addition, Zilliant, Inc. offers deployment strategy and planning, and implementation methodology, as well as Zilliant education services for business and technical users. The company has a strategic alliance with Advanous. Zilliant, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $35M / Private Equity / Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| SpiderOak develops a technology that eliminates entire categories of cyberattacks. It addresses the compliance, security, and usability needs of today’s environments to enable teams to complete their mission without having to make compromises. The company's products leverage a unique combination of Zero-Trust encryption and private Blockchain,delivering solutions with a level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability unavailable until today. | $16.4M / Series C / Jan 12, 2023 | ||
| The Ardonagh Group brings together leading businesses in their fields to create a smart new vision for the insurance industry. | $1B / Private Equity / Dec 15, 2021 | ||
| Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to change, risk, disputes, finance, performance, distress, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 1,700 professionals in more than 35locations globally who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative lateral thinking, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivaled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Value. | Private Equity / Nov 18, 2021 | ||
| See all 73 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Madison Dearborn Partners invest in?
Madison Dearborn Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 73 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 Madison Dearborn Partners?
The team at Madison Dearborn Partners includes Benjamin D. Chereskin (Managing Director), Mark Tresnowski (Senior Advisor) and Matthew W. Norton (Managing Director, Head of Business, Government Software and Services), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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