Escalate Capital Partners

Escalate Capital Partners is a private credit and growth equity firm based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2005 by Tony Schell and Ross Cockrell, it provides capital to rapidly growing, later-stage companies across technology, software, services and healthcare.

The firm structures investments as private credit and growth equity, with individual investment sizes ranging from $5 million to $30 million. The financing is designed to be stable and flexible and tailored to each company's needs, and is positioned as a means of accelerating growth with less dilution for management and equity holders than conventional equity financing.

Escalate has raised five funds to date, the current one totalling $350 million. In aggregate, the firm has invested $1.3 billion across more than 140 investments. The investment team reports a track record of more than $2 billion invested in over 500 companies, drawn on more than 100 years of combined experience.