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McKinsey & Company

3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY, 10007, United States

Overview

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. McKinsey & Company provides solutions for issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. It provides advisory services to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. It also provides industry practice solutions and functional practice solutions. Its industry practice solutions include advanced electronics, chemicals, metal and mining, electrical power, consumer goods, and more. Its functional practice solutions include business technology, corporate finance and sales, operations, and other related areas. McKinsey & Company was established in 1926 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It operates additional offices on each continent. When James O. McKinsey founded McKinsey in 1926, he could not have imagined the reach his small firm would eventually have. Eighty-seven years later, the firm has grown into a global partnership serving two-thirds of the Fortune 1000.

Total investments
7
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Consulting
  • Management Consulting
  • Professional Services
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Investment portfolio

  • The Deployment Company

    Participated · Equity · May 2026

    The Deployment Company is a joint venture controlled by OpenAI and backed by 19 investors including major private equity firms and strategic partners. It is structured to combine OpenAI’s software with the distribution and portfolio access of private equity participants to accelerate enterprise AI deployment. The joint venture was valued at $10.0 billion before the new investment and raised over $4.0 billion in the reported transaction. Named investors include TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Advent, Bain Capital, Dragoneer and SoftBank, alongside several consultancies. The firm aims to leverage the investors’ access to more than 2,000 companies to drive adoption of OpenAI’s tools. The raise follows significant recent financings involving OpenAI and comes as competitors such as Anthropic pursue similar partnerships.

  • Performativ

    Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

    Performativ delivers a cloud-native SaaS operating system that consolidates portfolio management, analytics, client reporting, compliance, multi-custodian data aggregation and trading into a single platform supporting front, middle and back office workflows. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Albert Geisler Fox, the company has established traction across Europe with small and mid-sized wealth and asset managers and is scaling into the enterprise segment to serve private banks and larger financial institutions. It positions itself to help clients navigate regulatory complexity and evolving client expectations through scalable technology. The recent $14M Series A will fund accelerated European expansion and a deeper push into larger institutional customers. The company’s investor base now includes strategic and financial backers such as Deutsche Börse Group, Rabo Investments, McKinsey and Company, Jacob Dahl, FinTech Collective and EIFO.

  • Shiprocket

    Led · Series E · Oct 2023

    Shiprocket operates as a horizontal e-commerce enablement platform serving merchants and large retailers, with operations split into Core Business and Emerging Business segments. Its Core Business includes domestic shipping and shipping applications, while Emerging Businesses comprise cargo and fulfillment, cross-border shipping, advertising and marketing solutions, capital solutions, and hyperlocal deliveries. According to a Redseer Report cited by the company, Shiprocket was the largest new-age, end-to-end horizontal e-commerce enablement platform in India by revenue from operations for fiscal 2026. The company is pursuing growth through both organic expansion of its shipping and fulfillment offerings and by building out adjacent services such as advertising, capital solutions, and cross-border logistics. As part of its IPO, Shiprocket has signaled plans to invest in marketing and technology infrastructure, repay or prepay certain borrowings, and consider potential acquisitions using proceeds from the fresh issue. Current public disclosures around revenue, users, or founding year were not provided in the article.

  • Univest

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2023

    Univest operates an AI-driven investment platform (Univest Elite) that presents users with low-risk, fixed-high return plans—advertising up to 12% returns per annum—and tools for informed decision-making. The platform helps users time exits from underperforming stocks, generates investment ideas tailored to preferred investment styles, and provides access to opportunities across multiple asset classes. Univest says it identifies issues in users' current portfolios and guides them toward higher ROI opportunities. The company has partnered with Faircent to introduce inaugural low-risk, high-yield investment products on its platform. Raised seed funding will be used to strengthen the company's financial product distribution business and to scale up talent. The business was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Gurugram, India.

  • Praetorian

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2020

    Praetorian is a cybersecurity company that helps leading organizations solve complex security problems across their critical enterprise assets and product portfolios. The firm emphasizes security architecture and engineering and aims to bring together global security expertise to secure the next wave of innovation. Praetorian operated for eight years as a bootstrapped business and achieved profitability and positive cash flow before taking outside capital. It has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years and was named an Inc. Best Workplace in 2018 and 2019. The company has entered a strategic partnership with McKinsey & Company to help clients solve complex cybersecurity challenges and embed security into business strategy. The new capital and partnership are positioned to extend Praetorian’s capabilities while maintaining a client-centered, long-term approach to growth.

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