Anthony Disimone
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- Full Name
- Anthony K. DiSimone
- Title
- Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
- Firm
- Peak Rock Capital
- Firm Type
- Middle-market private investment firm (private equity, corporate credit, and commercial real estate) — *not an angel investor, contrary to the stub data*
- Investment Stage
- Control buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and first-time institutional capital for family/founder-owned businesses (plus credit)
- Check Size
- Up to ~$500 million of equity per transaction
- Target Company Profile
- Established middle-market businesses with roughly $50 million to $1 billion in revenue
- Sector Focus
- Business services, consumer products, distribution, energy services, healthcare, industrials/manufacturing, media, technology, and metals
- Geographic Focus
- North America and Europe (U.S.-headquartered with a London office)
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Background
Anthony DiSimone is the Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director of Peak Rock Capital, an Austin, Texas–based middle-market private investment firm he helped build into a multi-fund platform spanning private equity, corporate credit, and commercial real estate. In this role he oversees the firm's investment strategy and has served on the boards of numerous middle-market portfolio companies, working with management teams to drive accelerated growth and operational/performance improvement.
Before Peak Rock, DiSimone accumulated extensive private equity leadership experience as a Managing Partner and Managing Director at investment funds affiliated with Aurora Capital Group and H.I.G. Capital, respectively. Earlier in his career he was a Manager at Bain & Company, where he led turnaround and performance-improvement, mergers-and-acquisitions, and corporate strategy engagements — a background that informs Peak Rock's hands-on, operationally intensive investment style.
DiSimone completed his undergraduate studies at Boston University and earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Over his career he has completed a broad variety of investments across numerous industries and transaction types.
Under his leadership, Peak Rock has scaled significantly: in September 2025 the firm announced it had raised over $3 billion across its latest vehicles, including Peak Rock Capital Fund IV (closed at its $2.5 billion hard cap, above a $2.0 billion target) and roughly $500 million for Peak Rock Capital Credit Fund III and related hybrid vehicles.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests in middle-market businesses, typically those with $50 million to $1 billion in revenue, writing equity checks of up to ~$500 million per transaction.
- Focuses on situations where the firm can support senior management to drive rapid growth and performance improvement — reflecting DiSimone's operational/turnaround roots at Bain and Aurora.
- Specializes in corporate carve-outs and in partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital.
- Sector-agnostic within its core areas: business services, consumer products, distribution, energy services, healthcare, industrials, manufacturing, media, technology, and metals.
- Operates a multi-strategy platform — private equity, corporate credit, and commercial real estate — giving flexibility in how capital is deployed.
Notable Investments
- Aegis Software — enterprise manufacturing execution system (MES) software provider; acquisition by a Peak Rock Capital affiliate completed August 2025.
- UL Solutions' Employee Health & Safety (EHS) Software Business — a corporate carve-out that a Peak Rock affiliate agreed to acquire (announced early 2026).
- Dalziel Ingredients — food-ingredients distribution business acquired by Peak Rock (2026).
- Peak Rock Capital Fund IV ($2.5 billion, closed 2025) and Credit Fund III (~$500 million) — the flagship vehicles funding these deals.
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