SDC Capital Partners

Todd Aaron and Doug Kaden serve as Founder/Managing Partner and Managing Partner, respectively, and lead the firm. A deep bench of named partners — including Matt Baker, Joshua Barenbaum, Todd Clapp, Qazi Fazal, David Fiedler, Clinton Karcher, and Vladislava Rebeiz as Partner and General Counsel — collectively drive deal origination and execution. The firm does not publicly segment roles beyond the partner list displayed on its website.

SDC Capital Partners is a registered investment adviser and asset manager, not a family office. It manages approximately $12.0 billion of institutional capital across pooled funds and separately managed accounts, targeting digital-infrastructure investments globally.

SDC’s website does not disclose a specific co-investment program, but the firm’s flexible mandate — spanning control and non-control positions, common equity, preferred equity and structured debt — suggests co-investment and club-deal capacity. It has not published named co-investors in public materials.

No. The firm states its focus is exclusively digital infrastructure: data centers, network fiber, wireless infrastructure, and cloud and IT services. It does not pursue consumer-tech, healthcare, fintech or other non-infrastructure sectors.

SDC credits its in-house engineering and construction specialists — a Shared Services Provider group of roughly 20 development, design and data-center professionals — with generating proprietary opportunities. The firm can underwrite and develop assets operationally, which often surfaces off-market transactions in the hyperscale and metro-fiber segments.

SDC deploys common equity, preferred equity and structured debt, targeting single-asset and platform acquisitions, growth- and development-capital injections, select shareholder liquidity solutions, and carve-outs. It can take controlling or minority stakes, with check sizes ranging from $50 million to over $1 billion.

SDC reports investments across eight countries. It operates offices in New York, Charleston and London, and has delivered data-center and fiber projects in multiple regions, though it does not break out exposure by country.