Apogem Capital LLC
Buyout firm, running Private Credit, Secondaries, based in New York, NY.
Composed from this firm's filed classification and location. It has no published description on record.
- Regulatory AUM
- $44B
- PE fund assets
- $14B
- PE funds
- 98
- Deals, last 12 months
- 0
53 additional team members, 40 additional counterparties and placement agents, 135 additional funds, deals and LP commitments
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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What matters now
- Form Dnew offering
Filed a Form D on Oct 30, 2026, the first public sign that a vehicle is taking commitments.
A vehicle in market is when LPs and placement agents can still get in.
- 1 deal180 days
1 deal since Aug 11, 2026: bought AJR Filtration (add-on, Aug 11).
What it is buying now is the best guide to what it will buy next.
- +7funds on Form ADV
Private equity funds on its Form ADV went from 91 to 98 (+7).
New vehicles are a new flagship's feeders, parallels and co-invest sleeves being stood up: capacity arriving before the capital is announced.
People to know
View all 42 people- PresidentWhy: Runs the firm (chief executive or president)No route on file yet
- Chief Executive OfficerWhy: Runs the firm (chief executive or president)No route on file yet
Capital path
who backs this record, through what, into what; each name opens its own path- Apogem Senior Direct Lending Fund LPvintage 2025
- Apogem Heritage Fund VI, LPvintage 2024
Apogem Capital LLC- Nylife Distributors LLCplacement agent, 42 shared
- Equus Financial Consulting LLCplacement agent, 9 shared
- Morgan Stanleyplacement agent, 6 shared
Relationship network
264 connected entities12 observed deals4 repeat counterparties3 dated deals shown here, 2026
From announced deals and their parties, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the private equity graph. Dollar figures appear only where a source disclosed one.
Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.
Click any name or line for the deals and sources behind it. Line weight is deals together; dashed lines are inferred.
- Company
- Service provider
- Fund or vehicle
- Person
›How strength and recency are read
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Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.
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Classification, Form ADV and stated criteria
Classification, Form ADV and stated criteria
How this organization is classified, and on what basisBuyout firm · 2 in historyShowHide
- Class
- Buyout firmconfirmed, confidence 85%
- Basis
- 122 of 142 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 105 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
- Size band
- Upper middle marketdefined by: proxy: $13.87bn Private Equity Fund GAV on the Form ADV filed 2026-09-14
- Strategies
- Private credit, secondaries
Classification history (2)
- Sep 23, 2026Buyout firm (confirmed, 85%)122 of 142 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 105 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
- Sep 13, 2026Buyout firm (confirmed, 85%)108 of 123 distinct vehicles are sworn Private Equity Funds; 94 reported gross assets on a filing in 2022 or later
Regulatory footprint (Form ADV)RAUM $44B · 98 PE funds · filed Oct 16, 2026ShowHide
- Adviser type
- Registered investment adviser
- Form ADV filings
- May 4, 2020 to Oct 16, 2026
- RAUM
- $44Bregulatory assets under management of the adviser; not dry powder, not a fund size
- PE funds, latest filing
- 98
- PE fund GAV, latest filing
- $14Breported gross assets (Form ADV), not fund size
- All private fund GAV
- $18Bevery private fund type, latest filing
- 2024 PE fund GAV
- $14Bsum over funds typed Private Equity Fund with a 2024 or later as-of date
- PE share of funds, lifetime
- 86%
- Fund type mix
- Private equity fund: 98 funds, $14B reported gross assets, 122 ever reported
- Securitized asset fund: 14 funds, $3.9B reported gross assets
- Hedge fund: 1 fund, $281M reported gross assets, 5 ever reported
- Other private fund: 1 fund, $99.3M reported gross assets
- Employees
- 252
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
Stated criteria beside observed behaviour4 of 8 criteria stated · 1 observed dealsShowHide
- Sectors
- Healthcare, technology, software, financial services
- Geography
- not stated or not yet read
- Revenue
- not stated or not yet read
- EBITDA
- from $3.5M
- Enterprise value
- not stated or not yet read
- Equity check
- not stated or not yet read
- Control
- Minority
- Thesis
- We seek managers focused on business building who invest in established, specialized lower middle market and middle market companies, often as the first institutional capital into founder or family-owned businesses.
- On record
- 1 company, 1 transaction
- Period
- 2022 (1 dated observation)
- Most deals
- Industrial manufacturing (1 of 1, e.g. Four Seasons Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.)
- Subsectors
- Machinery manufacturing (1 of 1)
- Where
- Il (1 of 1)
- By year
- 2022: 1 other deal
1 company on the graph (1 transaction); most in industrial manufacturing (1); observed 2022 to 2022
Funds
How vehicles are groupedFeeders, parallels, executive funds, alternative investment vehicles and lettered sleeves are folded under the fund they belong to, read from the vehicle names. Deal-by-deal co-investment vehicles are pooled. Current funds come first: families are ordered by vintage, newest first, among those holding at least a twentieth of the largest family’s assets, then by size. The figure is the sum of each vehicle’s latest reported gross assets on Form ADV, not a fund size.Apogem Senior Direct Lending Fund · 2 vehicles · vintage 2025$182M
- Apogem Senior Direct Lending Fund Credit fund$178M
- Apogem Senior Direct Lending Master Fund (o) Credit fund · 2025$3.6M
Apogem Heritage Fund VI · 1 vehicle · vintage 2024$774M
- Apogem Heritage Fund VI Buyout or unlabelled · 2024$774M
People
Where the people come fromEach row names its source in short; hover the source for its full description. Sources on this list: SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B, 1.I websites). A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once, with both sources.- Christopher R. Stringer · PresidentWhy this person: Runs the firm (chief executive or president); Named with investment responsibility
- Joshua Niedner · Chief Executive OfficerWhy this person: Runs the firm (chief executive or president); Named with investment responsibility
Who else at this firm · 1 person, grouped by function
- Naim Abou-Jaoude · Board Member, ChairWhy this person: Board member; Named with investment responsibility
Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.
Deals
How deals are mergedOne row per deal. A portfolio relationship and a transaction that describe the same deal (the same transaction, or the same company on the same date) are printed once, with the columns of both. 0 portfolio relationships and 12 transactions are on this record.| Date | Company | Deal | This firm’s role | Status | Partner | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2026 | AJR Filtration | Add-on acquisition | Lender (confirmed) | not in the portfolio read | unknown | prnewswire.com |
| Apr 8, 2026 | NANUK Gear Protection Inc. | Platform acquisition | Lender (confirmed) | not in the portfolio read | unknown | mpepartners.com |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Functional Devices, Inc. | Platform acquisition | Lender (confirmed) | not in the portfolio read | unknown | lsquaredcap.com |
This is a preview of the 3 newest deals. DFX holds 12 announced transactions naming this firm, dated 2022 to 2026; the rest of the history is not shown here. Private Equity Intelligence opens the rest of this record's rows.
Placement agents, lenders, advisers and co-investors
- Nylife Distributors LLC 42 shared · very strong · last Dec 5, 2025
- Equus Financial Consulting LLC 9 shared · very strong · last Feb 9, 2022
- Morgan Stanley 6 shared · very strong · last Jan 1, 2020
LP commitments
How LPs are totalledOne line per LP, largest disclosed total first. A commitment that the same LP reports again in a later document is counted once in its total; both documents stay in the full list. Rows repeated line for line from one document are shown once.Events
- Jul 31, 2026Apogem Capital LLC: Private Equity Funds on Form ADV 91 (2024 extract) -> 98 (roster 2026-09-01)
- Nov 18, 2022Apogem Capital LLC was capital provider on Cortec Group Fund VII, L.P.'s recapitalization of Four Seasons Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.
- May 4, 2020Apogem Capital LLC first filed Form ADV in the extract (IA)
Apogem Capital LLC is the same institution as 4 records in Allocators, Independent Sponsors, Private Credit and RIA and Wealth.
DFX found 4 relationships across 4 datasets
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Connected records
Portfolio companies
- AJR Filtration (since 2026)
- NANUK Gear Protection Inc. (since 2026)
- Functional Devices, Inc. (since 2026)
9 more on this record
Funds
- Apogem Senior Direct Lending Master Fund (o) Scsp (vintage 2025)
- Apogem Heritage Fund VI, LP (vintage 2024)
- Apogem Senior Direct Lending Fund LP
126 more on this record
Apogem Capital LLC sits on 2 traced paths of capital across the graphs.
DFX traced 2 paths of capital through this record
Every record on each path, what it committed or lent, and as of when.
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Record history
- PE fund count changed2026-07-31source on record
- PE capital in a sponsor deal2022-11-18source on record
- Adviser first ADV filing2020-05-04source on record
The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.
Not yet on record: companies held now.