About Brightstar Capital Partners
Brightstar Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in closely held family, founder, and entrepreneur-led businesses in the United States. The firm concentrates on four core sectors — industrials, business services, government services, and consumer — managing approximately $5 billion in assets across companies where it believes it can drive significant value through management, operations, and strategic direction. Transaction types include leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, secondary buyouts, growth capital investments, and stake purchases, with majority control as the standard ownership structure; the firm is also expanding into smaller, high-potential control investments through a dedicated lower middle-market team. Brightstar applies an operationally intensive partnership model it calls the "Us & Us" approach, in which its investment team works directly alongside portfolio company management to drive growth, operational improvement, and strategic add-on acquisitions, supplemented by the disciplined use of artificial intelligence to enhance execution and decision-making. Founded in 2015 by Andrew Weinberg, the firm is headquartered in New York, New York, United States, with an additional office in West Palm Beach, Florida.