White Cap Private Equity Management focuses on the following industries:
Telecommunication networks are undergoing a revolutionary transition across every dimension of technology and service delivery. Such networks are being reinvented by the migration to packet-based communication technologies to facilitate internet transmissions. Within the communication services industries, White Cap places significant emphasis on optical networking, voice-over-the-net, high-speed switching, broadband, wireless, communication semiconductors, systems, and software. White Cap believes telecom networks will continue to transform themselves via increased competition, technology, deregulation, and increased workforce mobility. Consequently, substantial investment opportunities continue to exist in products such as components, systems, and software - along with new broadband provisioning services operating on fundamentally new business models. The firm works alongside visionary, industry-leading management teams who not only have a proven ability to execute a successful plan but also the skills to develop innovative products and services that will help reinvent the industry. The combination of our capital market strength and industry contacts with our client's vision, technical talent, and marketing expertise serves as the foundation for a successful partnership for all parties involved.
Innumerable studies point to dramatic growth across all mediums as the e-commerce and internet age stimulate overall media consumption. In light of such competition, White Cap views traditional and emerging media platforms as dramatically expanding online and offline information delivery. With the convergence of content and delivery systems, information providers will elevate the productivity of old and new economy companies. We are interested in various media segments including: television and radio broadcasting, cable, satellite, entertainment, newspaper publishing, consumer book and magazine publishing, professional and educational publishing, business information services, and specialty media. Working with seasoned managers and other professionals, the firm arranges capital to insure not only the growth of existing media but also the evolution of new media platforms.
Natural Resources & Clean Technology is the largest industry segment in the world. These businesses define a vast technology-driven industry that encompasses everything from oil and gas exploration to the final distribution of petroleum products. This multi-trillion dollar, capital intensive industry is comprised of various complex business segments that are constantly in flux due to deregulation and inevitable commodity cycles. As deregulation moves the industry from one comprised of local and regional monopolies to an industry of choice and competition, and as electric and gas utilities are forced to separate generation, distribution, and transmission assets, White Cap sees enormous potential in energy infrastructure, energy manufacturing and services, and energy reserves. This may include power plants and related assets including gas, coal and various renewable energy sources; extraction and production of major energy sources; gathering, processing, storage and transportation of major energy sources; and electric and gas distribution. Furthermore, an enormous amount of technology is under development to create clean sources of energy that are cost competitive and will allow widespread adoption. Within clean energy, the firm is focused on renewable energy, energy efficiency, waste-to-energy, recycling, environmental technologies, waste water treatment, wind, geothermal, biomass, bio gas, solar, fuel cells and wave power.
The advent of client-server computing and internet-based applications enables companies to deploy systems that automate many of their business processes - from manufacturing to marketing. In the applications arena, White Cap foresees exceptional opportunities arising in vertical markets of system development, implementation, and maintenance. The growth, complexity, and proliferation of client-server networks creates management and administration difficulties, generating new prospects for system management solutions vendors. The explosive growth and rapid acceptance of the internet produces opportunities by overturning the client-server paradigm. White Cap also targets software companies who prefer to host their "browser-as-client" architecture offsite and run over the Net as compared to licensed and installed in-house. Furthermore, we seek companies solving mission-critical problems for software-based middleware, tools, applications, and on-line service providers. Fueled by the promise of World Wide Web connectivity and the growth of interactive digital media, White Cap advises software companies whose fundamental technology will create new computer and communication architectures.
As one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the economy, healthcare continues to undergo rapid technological and demographic changes. Scientific advances and technological breakthroughs are delivering unprecedented opportunities to create access to healthcare on a global basis. White Cap assists companies in capitalization efforts across all stages of the product lifecycle from discovery through commercialization. We are driven to improve the lives of millions around the world while rewarding shareholders with extraordinary returns. White Cap pursues biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostic, device, biomaterial, healthcare IT and services, and wellness concerns. To this end, White Cap seeks companies that have alliances with large pharmaceutical companies, the potential for broad clinical application, and command of multiple technologies bearing on a specific large-market opportunity. We focus on health service improvements that streamline communication between providers, payers and patients, automate workflow of healthcare providers, optimize services in traditional settings, and provide quality and cost effective options that empower consumers and physicians to make informed cost/ benefit evaluations. We pursue technology breakthroughs that further the R&D goals of the pharmaceutical industry, provide new products or devices that are characterized by quantifiable cost/ benefit arguments, and serve large unmet market opportunities.
White Cap seeks to partner in the acquisition, expansion, development or redevelopment of real estate assets in the US and Canada including commercial, residential, recreational, and hospitality properties. By partnering with proven and successful local real estate operators who have specific knowledge and insight into regional real estate markets or asset classes, White Cap can participate in complex transactions including direct equity investments in real property, debt investments secured by real estate, privately placed real estate securities, and joint ventures with, or outright acquisitions of, real estate operating companies. Clients may include developers, corporations, pension and endowment funds, and/ or institutional investors that have specialized expertise in the real estate industry.
The Consumer Products & Retail segment is comprised of niche consumer goods and services: sports and recreation and specialty retail. Although interested in various niche consumer goods and services, White Cap is highly focused on the advent of new technologies and therapies within life sciences and healthcare that spawn new consumer products. As consumers become more health conscious, their underlying demands create new markets including the convergence of luxury and value brands as well as heightened interest in fitness and recreation. These industry segments support long-term fundamental trends in consumer demographics such as an aging population, rising disposable incomes in various geographic and ethnic markets, and a rise in single households. Within specialty retail, White Cap is seeking to combine established concepts that provide customers with perceived value and service with short, new-store payback periods where growth can be achieved at virtually all stages of an economic cycle. In addition, the firm views branding as something which is reflected in every aspect and at every level of a company. Branding enables companies to make specific promises and deliver on them in a way that meets or exceeds consumer expectations. Brands are always relevant. They succeed because people need and want what they represent. Moreover, White Cap looks to supporting technologies for consumer companies such as marketing software and services, internet-based technologies, retail oriented information services, and analytics.
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