Michael Kosty
Partner @ Bregal Sagemount
New York, United States
Michael Kosty is a Partner and Co-Founder at Bregal Sagemount, where he is focused on originating and underwriting investments in the software, digital infrastructure, financial technology, business services, and consumer services sectors. Previously, Michael worked as an investment professional in Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Americas SpecialSituations Group. Michael received a BSBA in Finance and Accounting with honors from Georgetown University.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 93%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Kosty invests in
Stages Michael Kosty invests in
Countries Michael Kosty invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 5 (36%)
- Information Services 4 (29%)
- Security 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Cyber Security 3 (21%)
Stage
- Private Equity 10 (71%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
- Debt Financing 1 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 11 (79%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Bradford Airport Logistics
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Bradford Airport Logistics is exclusively focused on airport logistics within the global aviation industry. | Private Equity / Sep 12, 2023 | |
Conductor
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Conductor is the world's leading organic marketing company. Our content intelligence platform, Conductor Searchlight, generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Conductor's technology enables marketers to understand their prospective customers' intent byrevealing the trends and topics they are searching for at every phase of purchase process. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to continuously measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts. Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global brands like Citibank and FedEx, emerging leaders like Birchbox and JustFab, and leading agencies like iProspect and Acronym. In December 2019, Conductor spun out of WeWork and is now an independent company. | $150M / Private Equity / Nov 16, 2021 | |
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Conductor
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Conductor is the world's leading organic marketing company. Our content intelligence platform, Conductor Searchlight, generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Conductor's technology enables marketers to understand their prospective customers' intent byrevealing the trends and topics they are searching for at every phase of purchase process. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to continuously measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts. Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global brands like Citibank and FedEx, emerging leaders like Birchbox and JustFab, and leading agencies like iProspect and Acronym. In December 2019, Conductor spun out of WeWork and is now an independent company. | $150M / Series A / Nov 16, 2021 | |
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Conductor
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Conductor is the world's leading organic marketing company. Our content intelligence platform, Conductor Searchlight, generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI. Conductor's technology enables marketers to understand their prospective customers' intent byrevealing the trends and topics they are searching for at every phase of purchase process. Customizable dashboards and workflows guide marketers through the content creation process, empowering them to continuously measure, refine, and demonstrate the effectiveness of their SEO and content marketing efforts. Conductor's forward-thinking customers include global brands like Citibank and FedEx, emerging leaders like Birchbox and JustFab, and leading agencies like iProspect and Acronym. In December 2019, Conductor spun out of WeWork and is now an independent company. | $150M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 16, 2021 | |
Kiteworks
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Kiteworks protects privacy and ensures compliance of all sensitive, mission-critical, and confidential content sent via email, file share, automated file transfer, APIs, and web forms—with one platform. | $120M / Private Equity / Apr 07, 2020 | |
Kiteworks
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Kiteworks is a cybersecurity company that provides secure communication and file-sharing solutions for businesses and organizations. The company focuses on protecting sensitive information by offering a secure platform that enables safe and compliant sharing of files, emails, and other forms of communication. Kiteworks offers a comprehensiveplatform that integrates a variety of communication and file-sharing tools designed to ensure the security and compliance of data exchanges. The platform allows users to securely share files both internally and externally, adhering to various data protection regulations. It provides end-to-end email encryption, safeguarding sensitive information during transmission. Additionally, Kiteworks facilitates secure managed file transfer (MFT), enabling the transfer of large files and sensitive data with detailed audit trails and compliance features. Organizations can also leverage secure APIs to embed file sharing, email, and communication functions directly into their existing applications. Furthermore, Kiteworks aids in meeting regulatory requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and FedRAMP by offering robust compliance and reporting features, ensuring comprehensive audit trails and adherence to industry standards. | $120M / Private Equity / Apr 07, 2020 | |
Critical Start
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Critical Start is a network security consulting company focused on helping customers improve security capability. It is a fastest-growing cybersecurity integrator in North America with a mission to protect customer's brand and reduce business risk. They help organizations of all sizes determine their security readiness condition using itsframework, the Defendable Network. Critical Start delivers managed security services, incident response, professional services, and product fulfillment. | $40M / Private Equity / Jun 12, 2019 | |
GPS Insight
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GPS Insight is the leading technology provider of GPS fleet tracking software for fleet-based companies. They utilize high quality GPS hardware and add the customization and enhancements which fleet-based companies demand. Using the GPS Insight solution, companies realize a significant increase in efficiency, and gain insight into all aspects oftheir fleet operations. GPS Insight provides a highly flexible solution, which includes a wide range of customized reports, alerts, and other innovative features that can be tailored to meet specific customer requirements and ensure maximum return on investment. | Private Equity / May 30, 2018 | |
Options Technology
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Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure products. They enable their clients to deliver a dual mandate: operating world-class financial technology infrastructure today, while supporting business scalability and new technology for tomorrow.Founded in 1993, the company began life as a hedge fundtechnology services provider. More than a decade ago, the company made a strategic decision to become the first provider to offer cloud services to the financial sector. Over 200 firms globally now leverage the Options platform, including the leading global investment banks, hedge funds, funds of funds, proprietary trading firms, private equity houses and exchanges.Options’ global client presence currently spans over 20 countries worldwide with seven offices covering these regions. They have a global team and global infrastructure, allowing their customers with global operations to work with one single vendor. The feature-rich global platform, built to exacting investment bank standards, is further bolstered by industry-leading transparency around their pricing, a 24×7, high touch support model and unrivalled account management and customer engagement. | $102.1M / Private Equity / Aug 16, 2017 | |
Connectria Hosting
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Connectria provides award-winning cloud hosting, cloud managed services, cloud security, and cloud management software. | Private Equity / May 22, 2017 | |
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About Bregal Sagemount
Bregal Sagemount, a private capital firm, provides capital and strategic assistance to growth companies.Bregal Sagemount is a private capital firm that provides flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors of transaction situations. Targeted sectors include software, digital infrastructure,healthcare IT services, business and consumer services, and financial technology/specialty finance. Adam Fuller, Daniel Kim, Gene Yoon, Michael Kosty, and Phil Yates co-founded it in 2012. Its headquarters is located in New York, New York.
Bregal Sagemount Contacts
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Connor Pams
Senior Associate
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David Greenbaum
Vice President
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Harrison Brunelli
Vice President
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Jordan Walton
Vice President
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Michael Kosty
Partner
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FAQ
What does Michael Kosty invest in?
Michael Kosty invests primarily in Information Technology, Information Services and Security startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Michael Kosty last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Kosty closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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