Long Ridge Equity Partners

Founder and Managing Partner Jim Brown leads the investment committee alongside fellow Partner Kevin Bhatt. Both have prior growth-equity and technology-investing backgrounds at top-tier firms, which shapes the firm's concentrated, board-level engagement model.

No. Long Ridge intentionally writes $40M to $100M checks, a bracket that falls below the radar of mega-funds but above what most venture firms can deploy. This sizing allows the firm to take meaningful minority or control positions without entering broadly auctioned large-cap processes.

Long Ridge does not invest in healthcare, consumer internet, hard tech, or pure-play SaaS lacking domain-specific moats. The firm has maintained this deliberate exclusion since inception in 2007, concentrating instead on fintech, data analytics, and business-process technology.

Sourcing is almost entirely relationship-driven through the partners' decades of experience in financial-services technology. The firm relies on founder referrals, proprietary relationships with management teams, and repeat engagements with industry operators rather than auction processes or broad intermediary networks.

Long Ridge makes direct investments and does not operate as a fund-of-funds or LP in other managers' vehicles. The firm's structure is a single, co-mingled growth-equity fund model with the General Partner committing personal capital alongside institutional limited partners.