Driehaus Capital Management

The firm employs a momentum-based growth strategy that seeks companies with accelerating earnings and positive price trends. It emphasizes early identification of growth inflection points and maintains a strict sell discipline driven by relative strength deterioration rather than traditional valuation thresholds. This behavioral approach was pioneered by founder Richard Driehaus and remains the firm's core framework across all strategies.

Investment decisions are made by named portfolio managers operating within Driehaus's committee-based structure. K.C. Nelson leads the Micro Cap Growth strategy, Jeff James manages Small Cap Growth, and the firm historically employed dedicated managers for its Mid Cap Growth and Emerging Markets Growth strategies. Following founder Richard Driehaus's death in 2021, the firm continues under this multi-manager model.

Driehaus Capital Management operates primarily as a long-only public equities manager. The firm's strategies span micro-cap to large-cap US growth stocks and emerging markets equities. There is no public record of significant expansion into private equity, venture capital, or private credit strategies.

Investors gain exposure through separately managed accounts for institutional clients and via the Driehaus Mutual Funds, a family of no-load mutual funds mirroring the firm's core strategies. Institutional client types include corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, and sub-advisory mandates.

Richard Driehaus was a prominent Chicago philanthropist whose name appears on the Driehaus Museum and the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. These entities are legally separate from Driehaus Capital Management. His estate planning and philanthropic structures were not publicly interwoven with the asset management firm's operations.