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Escalate Capital Partners
Escalate Capital Partners is a leading private credit and growth equity investment firm that targets rapidly growing later-stage companies within the...
Escalate Capital Partners
Escalate Capital Partners is a leading private credit and growth equity investment firm that targets rapidly growing later-stage companies within the technology, software, services, and healthcare sectors.
General information
Firm type
Generalist
Year founded
2005
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Austin
Corporate office
Austin, TX, United States
Principals
Ross Cockrell
Co-Founder, Investment Committee
Tony Schell
Co-Founder, Investment Committee
Larry Bradshaw
Portfolio Management & Compliance
Chris Julich
Investment Committee, Originations & Portfolio Management
Janan Ghaddar
Originations & Portfolio Management
Kokila Lozano
Originations & Portfolio Management
Travis Wood
Sourcing & Portfolio Management
Aharon Modlin
Investment Due Diligence & Portfolio Management
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Escalate Capital Partners?
Investment decisions are made by the investment committee, which includes co-founders Ross Cockrell and Tony Schell, along with Chris Julich. The committee oversees originations, structuring, and portfolio management for the firm's private credit and growth equity allocations.
Which industries does Escalate focus on?
Escalate concentrates on technology, software, business services, and healthcare. The investment team's operating and underwriting experience is largely built around these sectors, drawn from prior roles at Austin Ventures, SVB, and Comerica.
How is Escalate Capital Partners' current fund structured?
The firm markets its current fund's size as $350 million (per firm website). It uses the vehicle to write bespoke credit and equity checks, though it does not publicly disclose whether the structure is a single commingled fund or a series of targeted vehicles.
Where does Escalate's team come from?
Senior professionals arrived from Austin Ventures, Comerica, Silicon Valley Bank, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, and PIMCO. Co-founders Ross Cockrell and Tony Schell brought overlapping venture and bank-lending experience, while more recent hires such as Janan Ghaddar (joined 2023) and Aharon Modlin (joined 2025) deepened the firm's credit-analytics and venture-lending capabilities.
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