Kainos Capital
TOP 50 PE Winner
2022
Firm Inception: 2012
Number of Active Portfolio Investments: 5
Number of Realized Investments: 12
Investment Range: $50 -$300M
Current Fund: Fund II
Current Fund Size: $895M
Transactions completed since October 2020, including acquisitions, add-ons, and divestments:
Acquisitions include: Nutrisystem, Adaptive Health, and Muenster Milling Company. Add-ons include: Cremosa Foods, T&R Wholesale and Legacy Foods. Divestments include: JTM Foods, Ferraro Foods, Olde Thompson, and good2grow.
Leadership:
Andrew Rosen, Managing Partner
Bob Sperry, Partner
Kevin Elliott, Partner
Dan Hopkin, Partner
Jay Desai, Partner
Team Members: 32
Primary Address: 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1600, Dallas, Texas 75201
Website: www.kainoscapital.com
Phone Number: 214.740.7300
Which best describes the firm? Traditional | LP Funded
Industry focus: Food and Consumer Products
Attributes: Firm History, Deal Volume, Firm Growth, Unique Firm Strategy, Operations Management, Deal Execution, Team Building, Industry Leadership and Contributions, Private Equity Innovation
Overview
Kainos Capital is a middle-market private equity firm with an exclusive focus on the North American food and consumer products sectors. The Kainos team has extensive investment and operating experience in the industry, having invested approximately $3 billion of equity in more than 80 transactions with a total transaction value in excess of $12 billion over their careers together. The firm's strategy is to build a diversified portfolio of growing and strategically relevant food and consumer businesses. Kainos utilizes a Change Capital approach to its investments in an effort to drive transformational growth and create strategically relevant businesses.