William Round
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- Full Name
- William Round
- Title
- Senior Vice President, H.I.G. Capital (formerly Associate, Wellspring Capital Management)
- Firm
- H.I.G. Capital — previously Wellspring Capital Management (rebranded Revelar Capital)
- Firm Type
- Middle-market private equity (control buyouts) — *not* an angel investor
- Investment Stage
- Middle-market / control buyouts and control equity — *not* seed
- Check Size
- Firm-level (not individually attributed) — Wellspring historically wrote equity checks of roughly $100M–$500M on enterprise values of ~$200M–$1B; H.I.G. invests across the lower-middle and middle market
- Target Company Profile
- Established, cash-flow-positive middle-market companies (Wellspring targeted revenues of ~$100M–$1B)
- Sector Focus
- Business services, healthcare services, and specialty/niche industrial manufacturing (Wellspring/Revelar mandate); H.I.G. is a generalist across sectors
- Geographic Focus
- North America
- Location
- New York, NY
Background
William Round is a private equity investor based in New York City. He graduated from Brown University, where he studied from 2010 to 2014. He began his finance career at UBS, the type of investment-banking analyst role that commonly feeds into private equity.
He subsequently moved into private equity as an Associate at Wellspring Capital Management, a New York middle-market buyout firm founded in 1995 that has managed roughly $2–3 billion of private equity capital. Wellspring focuses on control acquisitions of established, cash-flow-positive middle-market companies in business services, healthcare services, and specialty/niche industrial manufacturing. (In October 2025, Wellspring Capital Management rebranded as Revelar Capital, continuing to invest in those same three verticals.) It is his Wellspring-era email address ([hidden]) that anchors the original stub record.
After Wellspring, Round worked at The Beekman Group, LLC, another New York private equity firm, before moving to H.I.G. Capital, a large global alternative-assets manager, where he is currently a Senior Vice President. His listed skill set — corporate finance, financial modeling, financial accounting, and capital markets — is consistent with a career spent originating, underwriting, and managing control-buyout transactions in the middle market.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Operates as a buyout/control-equity investor in the middle market, not as an angel or seed investor.
- Sector orientation (from his Wellspring/Revelar background): business services, healthcare services, and specialty/niche industrial manufacturing — durable, cash-flow-positive businesses rather than early-stage startups.
- At H.I.G. Capital, his current platform, the firm invests across the lower-middle and middle market with a generalist, value-oriented approach spanning private equity, growth equity, credit, and real assets.
- Target companies are typically established and profitable (Wellspring's historical sweet spot was ~$100M–$1B in revenue with enterprise values of ~$200M–$1B), acquired via control transactions in partnership with management teams.
- *No individually authored investment thesis, blog, or public quotes from William Round were found in this research; the above reflects his firms' documented mandates.*
Notable Investments
- *No portfolio companies or deals are publicly attributed to William Round personally in available sources.* As a private-equity professional at Wellspring, The Beekman Group, and H.I.G. Capital, he would have worked on control-buyout transactions within those firms' portfolios, but specific deals tied to his name are not documented in public records, so none are listed here rather than fabricated.
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