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Blue Point Capital Partners Company History
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F rom 1990 to 2000, the Blue Point professionals conducted private equity buyout activities on behalf of KeyCorp, as Key Equity Capital. Established in 1990 with a single office in Cleveland, we grew to be the prominent private equity firm in the Midwest region of the United States. Our strategy of becoming the dominant private equity group within a region has enhanced the quantity of investment opportunities reviewed and the quality of the investment opportunities that we have realized over the last decade.

This strategy has been successfully replicated in the Pacific Northwest (1996) and Southeast (1998), where Blue Point has become one of the largest sources of resident private equity capital in each of these regions. Our approach has been validated through experience, since many regional middle market companies are often overlooked by money center-based investment firms.

In 2000, the entire investment team of Key Equity Capital formed Blue Point Capital Partners, with the support and investment of KeyCorp. Blue Point Capital Partners Fund, L.P. was closed in mid-2002 with $415 million of investment capital. Investors in Blue Point include leading U.S. endowments, pension funds, family offices, financial institutions and several prominent foreign investment funds.

In 2004, Blue Point Capital established a liaison office in Shanghai, China as a resource to assist its existing and future North American based portfolio companies in evaluating and executing Asian strategies. Today, the Blue Point team has more than 125 years of investment experience among its team of more than 20 professionals across four offices.