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Ares Management

2000 Avenue of the Stars, 12th Floor, Los Angeles, CA, 90067, United States

Overview

Ares Management is a publicly-traded global alternative asset manager with approximately $144 billion of assets under management. It believes each of its distinct but complementary investment groups in credit, private equity, and real estate is a market leader based on assets under management and investment performance.

Total investments
44
Lead investments
22
Investments · 12mo
11
Active investors
14

Sector focus

  • Asset Management
  • Business Development
  • Credit
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Insurance
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Investment portfolio

  • Premier Lacrosse League

    Led · Series E · Jun 2026

    The Premier Lacrosse League is a men’s professional lacrosse league composed of eight teams in North America, founded and led by Paul and Mike Rabil. The league has an existing media-rights partnership with ESPN, which will also be a minority equity investor following the $100 million financing. Leadership says the funds will be used to build infrastructure to support growth through elite competition, broader distribution, increased youth participation, and a stronger professional ecosystem. The PLL is coordinating with the Women’s Lacrosse League on shared initiatives and plans to establish teams in Texas, with Glen Powell joining as a Creative Advisor to help those efforts. The league is positioning itself ahead of lacrosse’s return to the Olympics and has 2026 seasons slated to air on ESPN platforms and ABC.

  • Silicon Box

    Participated · Debt Financing · Jun 2026

    Silicon Box focuses on large-scale chiplet packaging that combines multiple smaller chips into single high-performance packages. The company emerged from stealth in 2021 and was founded by BJ Han, Sehat Sutardja, and Weili Dai, claiming unicorn status in late 2023. It has completed multiple financing rounds, including a $200 million Series B in January 2024, a $150 million Series B2, and $208 million across seed, Series A, and SAFE rounds. In 2024, Silicon Box reported $1.87 million in revenue in the first year of production at its Singapore factory from pre-qualified customers and R&D investments. The company says it intends to scale manufacturing capacity to meet rising customer demand and support customers across AI, high-performance computing, mobile devices, IoT, robotics, and space technology. Its recent S$100 million debt facility is intended to bolster the capital base while limiting shareholder dilution as it expands production.

  • Kodiak Robotics

    Led · Debt Financing · May 2026

    Kodiak Robotics develops autonomous driving systems and integrated heavy vehicles for long-haul trucking. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and conducts a large portion of its on-road operations and testing in Texas. Leadership includes founder and CEO Don Burnette. Kodiak plans to expand its vehicle development laboratories, assembly lines, and on-highway test routes, and to increase hiring of software engineers. The company aims to scale commercial fleets and accelerate procurement and integration of sensors and compute hardware such as radar, lidar and cameras. Kodiak competes with other autonomous trucking firms like Aurora Innovation and is pursuing commercial adoption by large shippers and carriers.

  • Convene

    Participated · Equity · Apr 2026

    Convene Hospitality Group operates a house of hospitality brands—including Convene, etc.venues, and NeueHouse—offering dedicated meetings, events, and boutique hospitality spaces with design-forward venues, production capabilities, and chef-driven cuisine. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in Manhattan, the company positions itself as the largest provider of dedicated meetings and event venues in the U.S. and UK. Convene emphasizes human-centered service, performance-focused operations, and advanced production and design capabilities. With the new $230 million financing, Convene plans to accelerate global expansion through new development, technology and production investment, and selective acquisitions. The company has slated New York City openings in 2026, including a Convene in the Scholastic Building in SoHo and immersive venues The Aperture and The Mallory.

  • Create Music Group

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Founded in 2015, Los Angeles-based Create Music Group operates as an owner-operator and strategic partner to culturally influential independent labels, catalogs and creative businesses. The company rolls up specialist music assets such as broke., Monstercat, !K7 Music, Cr2 Records and Mau5trap onto a unified platform that provides technology, data, marketing and capital. Create deploys significant capital—over $500 million in the last 12 months alone—for acquisitions, advances and growth initiatives, most recently investing more than $300 million to take a stake in Nettwerk Music Group. Its platform preserves each label’s creative autonomy while leveraging centralized scale and analytics to drive global reach. Management positions the business as the definitive platform for music and media entrepreneurs in an era of rapid change in consumption channels. The newly raised funds will accelerate further M&A, technology development and international expansion. The company was valued at $2.2 billion in its latest round and remains majority-owned by its founders.

Team

  • Michael Arougheti

    Director, Co-Founder, and CEO

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  • David Kaplan

    Co-Founder, Director, and Partner

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  • Bennett Rosenthal

    Co-Founder, Co-Head, Senior Partner and Director

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  • Tony Ressler

    Co-Founder, Director and Executive Chairman

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