Meghan Federico
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- Full Name
- Meghan Federico (now Meghan Federico Carter)
- Title
- Vice President, Business Development (current) — formerly Associate at Norwest Equity Partners
- Firm
- Audax Private Equity (current); previously Norwest Equity Partners ("NEP")
- Firm Type
- Middle-market private equity (not angel/seed — the stub's "Angel Investors / Seed Round" classification appears to be aggregator error; NEP and Audax are institutional buyout/growth-equity firms)
- Investment Stage
- Middle-market buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth financing (control/institutional equity)
- Check Size
- At NEP, typically $75–$175 million of equity per investment
- Target Company Profile
- Profitable middle-market companies with enterprise values of roughly $50–$500 million
- Sector Focus
- Business services, consumer, and industrials (NEP)
- Geographic Focus
- United States (national)
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts (current, at Audax)
Background
Meghan Federico is a private-equity professional whose email address ([hidden]) ties her to Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), the Minneapolis- and West Palm Beach–based middle-market firm where she worked as an Associate. Bloomberg lists her profile as an Investment Associate at Norwest Equity Partners. Her career has centered on investing and business development within institutional private equity rather than angel or seed-stage investing, so the "Angel Investors / Seed Round" label attached to the stub data does not match her actual work.
She earned a BA in Economics and Finance from Canisius University (Buffalo, NY). She began her career in investment banking at Raymond James, then moved into private equity, spending time at Norwest Equity Partners before joining ABRY Partners (a Boston media/communications-focused PE firm), where she rose to Vice President.
In 2024, now going by Meghan Carter, she joined Audax Private Equity in Boston as a Vice President on the Business Development team, where she sources and evaluates new platform and add-on acquisition opportunities for the firm's middle-market buyout funds. Because of the name change, her more recent public footprint appears under "Meghan Carter" (Audax team page) while older records — including the NEP email and ABRY listings — appear under "Meghan Federico."
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Institutional middle-market PE, not angel/seed. Her work is at control-oriented buyout firms; the seed-stage framing in the stub is not supported by any source.
- At Norwest Equity Partners, the mandate is to invest in *"growing and profitable middle-market companies"* across business services, consumer, and industrials, typically writing $75–$175M equity checks into businesses valued $50–$500M.
- NEP funds are used for management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth financing, and the firm looks for *"fragmented markets that favor execution and platform scale,"* *"operationally-embedded demand with wear-based replacement cycles,"* and *"capital-efficient models with technical or process differentiation."*
- In her current Business Development role at Audax, her focus is deal sourcing — identifying platform and add-on acquisition targets — rather than being the final decision-maker on investments.
Notable Investments
- No individually attributed deals for Meghan Federico could be verified from public sources. As an Associate (NEP) and a Business Development professional (Audax), her contributions are to firm-level portfolios rather than personally credited investments. To avoid fabrication, no specific portfolio companies are attributed to her here.
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