services investment management founded 2004 headquarters new york new york united states products private equity total assets 4 billion number of employees 30 website www.crestview.com crestview partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout growth capital and distressed for control investments in companies across a range of industries . crestview focuses on companies in four sectors financial services media cable healthcare and energy . the firm which is based in new york city was founded in 2004 . the crestview team which includes barry volpert thomas murphy and bob hurst had all previously worked together at goldman sachs . 1 the firm has raised approximately 4 billion since inception across two funds . crestview completed fundraising for its first fund in 2005 with approximately 1.5 billion in investor commitments . that fund was invested in 11 companies from 2004 through 2007 . the firm began raising its second fund in november 2007 and raised approximately 2.4 billion in commitments . among the firm s most notable investments are the following companies cumulus media 2 3 fbr capital markets corporation 4 good sam enterprises insight communications 5 key safety systems 6 onelink communications samson resources 7 select energy services 8 symbion healthcare 9 capital bank financial corporation nep group inc. references edit the goldman sachs diaspora . new york times may 16 2011 cumulus media and crestview form venture . new york times april 8 2010 crestview just keeps buying cumulus media shares . radio business report december 6 2011 fbr to sell stake in investment bank brokerage washington business journal june 23 2006 crestview and midocean lead deal for insight stake . new york times april 5 2010 crestview partners buys key safety systems . altassets march 9 2007 group led by k.k.r. to buy samson for 7.2 billion . new york times november 23 2011 pe firm crestview buys into select energy services . dallas business journal may 17 2010 symbion healthcare . altassets april 25 2007 external links edit crestview partners company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title crestview partners & oldid 674264364 categories private equity firms of the united statescompanies established in 2004companies based in new york cityunited states private equity firm stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 august 2015 at 19 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view