erseus, L.L.C. is a merchant bank and private equity fund management company headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an office in New York and associated advisory executives in Munich. Perseus has invested in numerous growth equity, buyout, and distressed transactions in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Perseus manages seven private equity funds. Since its inception in 1995, Perseus has made investments in more than 60 portfolio companies in a wide variety of industries in which Perseus and its principals have expertise, including healthcare, energy, environmental, and engineering technologies, and branded consumer products. Perseus has $1.5 billion in funds under management. Perseus also co-manages a $449 million fund that invests exclusively in life sciences companies.

• Perseus 1996
• Perseus Capital, L.L.C.
• Perseus Acquisition/Recapitalization Fund, L.L.C.
• Perseus 2000, L.L.C.
• Perseus Market Opportunity Fund, L.P.
• Perseus 2000 Expansion, L.L.C.
• Perseus Partners VII, L.P.
• Perseus-Soros BioPharmaceutical Fund, LP

For detailed descriptions of these entities see the current
Perseus Funds.

In the late medieval representation, Perseus appears as an armored knight astride a winged unicorn. The demure pose of Andromeda is more akin to that of a praying donor in a medieval altarpiece than to the terrified woman chained to a rock in the classical story.