Top Private Equity Firms in Miami and Florida: 2025 Overview

Florida’s private-equity map is led by ten firms with a combined AUM north of $450 billion. 2025 activity ranges from Thoma Bravo’s $34.4 billion fundraise to RedBird’s £500 million Telegraph deal. Altss augments this landscape with live OSINT signals, semantic LP search, and forthcoming deal-discovery tools—helping PE teams time outreach and surface opportunities faster than traditional data platforms.

1. Thoma Bravo — $184 B AUM

Latest moves – Completed a record $34.4 billion three-fund raise (Flagship XVI, Discover V, Europe I) in March 2025. In April Boeing agreed to sell its Digital Aviation/ForeFlight unit to Thoma Bravo for $10.55 billion — the firm’s first major aerospace software platform.
Strategy – Enterprise-software control buyouts and mid-market “Discover” deals, with a parallel credit platform for non-control debt solutions.

2. Starwood Capital Group — $115 B AUM

Latest moves – Closed $2.9 billion across new private-credit vehicles to ramp real-estate lending as rates peak, giving the firm dry powder for bridge and mezzanine loans.
Strategy – Opportunistic real-estate investing across equity and credit, shifting between hotels, residential, single-family rentals and infrastructure depending on cycle dynamics.

3. H.I.G. Capital — $70 B AUM

Latest moves – Bought UK aseptic-pharmacy specialist ITH Group in June 2025 to expand its European healthcare platform, and earlier in the year acquired revenue-cycle firm GetixHealth (Houston) for its healthcare‐services vertical.
Strategy – Middle-market buyouts, credit, special-situations, distressed real estate and infrastructure, always paired with hands-on operating resources.

4. Polen Capital — $66 B AUM

Latest moves – Teamed with iM Global Partner to launch a European High-Yield strategy, broadening beyond growth equity into leveraged credit.
Strategy – High-conviction growth-equity portfolios and leveraged credit products for global institutional clients, managed from Boca Raton.

5. I Squared Capital — $40 B+ AUM

Latest moves – Signed two memoranda with Saudi PIF and Arab Energy Fund in May 2025 to seed a Middle-East sustainable-infrastructure fund targeting energy-transition assets.
Strategy – Equity and credit investments in energy, utilities, transport and digital infrastructure, emphasizing decarbonization and data-center power demand.

6. Rialto Capital Management — $15.9 B AUM

Latest moves – Its special-servicing arm is in the spotlight after a Nevada judge allowed Carl Icahn’s lawsuit over a $67 million CMBS loan to proceed, underscoring Rialto’s outsized role in distressed retail real estate.
Strategy – Distressed and value-add commercial real-estate loans, CMBS workouts and direct property acquisitions, backed by an in-house servicing platform.

7. RedBird Capital Partners — $10 B AUM

Latest moves – Agreed to acquire Telegraph Media Group for £500 million in May 2025, adding a storied UK publisher to its media portfolio. Earlier in the year it bought a 30-40 % stake in Wasserman Media Group, deepening its sports-agency footprint.
Strategy – Build-and-scale partnerships in sports, media, entertainment and financial services alongside iconic founders and IP owners.

8. PennantPark Investments — $9.4 B AUM

Latest moves – Formed an unconsolidated joint venture in April 2025 giving $850 million of additional capital to deploy into floating-rate senior loans at attractive spreads.
Strategy – “One-stop” middle-market credit: senior, unitranche, mezzanine and equity co-investments, largely via public BDC vehicles.

9. Trivest Partners — $6.1 B AUM

Latest moves – Exited HighGround Restoration Group to Knox Lane in May 2025, marking the second realization from Discovery Fund I and validating its founder-focused model.
Strategy – Control and non-control stakes in founder-led businesses under $15 million EBITDA, with a disciplined “Just Say No” checklist to vet opportunities.

10. Hidden Harbor Capital Partners — $1.9 B AUM

Latest moves – Acquired Illinois-based Coast to Coast Logistics in February 2025 to anchor a national 3PL platform, its fourth deal in logistics this cycle.
Strategy – Operational turnarounds in lower-middle-market industrials, distribution and business-services companies, often via buy-and-build roll-ups.

Why OSINT Matters & How Altss Delivers

Florida’s PE market is crowded; winning allocations or proprietary deals depends on seeing signals first. Altss layers real-time OSINT—reg-filings, press wires, trade media, patent grants, hiring bursts—onto its verified LP and deal database:

• Instant LP shifts – Know when a Boca family office pivots from real estate to infra credit.
• Semantic search – Ask, “LPs attending Miami SuperReturn allocating to software buyouts,” and get live targets.
• Contextual outreach – Profiles show latest co-invests, board seats, and conference calendars for personalized pitches.
• Q4 2025 – Deal-discovery dashboards will map active sell-side mandates and co-invest invitations across the Southeast.

Ready to amplify your fundraising and dealflow? Book an Altss demo and see how OSINT-powered intelligence brings Florida’s private-equity market into sharp focus.