OceanSound (the “Firm”) is a private equity firm organized as a limited partnership under the laws
of the State of Delaware. OceanSound was founded in 2018 and is led by Joe Benavides, its
Managing Partner, who is OceanSound’s controlling shareholder. The Managing Partner, together
with Ted Coons and Jeff Kelly (collectively with the Managing Partner, the “Partners”), along with
other OceanSound investment professionals, lead the investment activities of OceanSound and
comprise OceanSound’s investment committee. A number of other investment professionals work
with the Partners to execute OceanSound’s investment strategy
OceanSound serves as an investment manager and provides discretionary advisory services to
collective investment vehicles, including private investment partnerships and co-investment
vehicles (together with their respective parallel funds, special purpose and/or subsidiary investment
vehicles, each, a “Fund” or collectively the “Funds”). Each Fund structure is controlled by a general
partner that is in turn controlled by the Managing Partner (the “General Partner(s)”). Unless and
only to the extent that the context otherwise requires, references to OceanSound or the Adviser
include the General Partner(s).
The Funds make control-oriented private equity investments in US-based technology and tech-
enabled services companies operating in commercial and government end-markets which
OceanSound believes present multiple strategic and tactical value creation opportunities. This
represents a continuation and evolution of the Partners’ decades of experience sourcing and
investing in businesses in this sector. As of December 31, 2023, the Adviser managed
approximately $2,650,000,000 in regulatory assets under management on a discretionary basis on
behalf of the Funds.
In providing services
to the Funds, OceanSound formulates each Fund’s investment objectives,
directs and manages the investment and reinvestment of each Fund’s assets, and provides reports
to investors. Investment advice is provided directly to the Funds and not individually to the limited
partners or shareholders of the Funds (the “Investors” or “Limited Partners”). OceanSound
manages the assets of the Funds in accordance with the terms of each Fund’s confidential offering
and/or private placement memoranda, limited partnership or shareholder agreements and other
governing documents applicable to each Fund (the “Governing Fund Documents”). All terms are
generally established at the time of the formation of a Fund and are only terminable once the
applicable Fund is dissolved, wound up, and terminated. The Investors may not restrict investments
by the Funds in any capacity, and except in limited circumstances, Limited Partners are not
permitted to withdraw from a Fund prior to the Fund’s dissolution.
Shares or limited partnership interests in the Funds are not registered under the U.S. Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Funds are not registered under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). Accordingly,
interests or shares in the Funds are offered and sold exclusively to investors satisfying the
applicable eligibility and suitability requirements in private transactions within the United States.
For the avoidance of doubt, all information discussed above regarding the investment advisory
services provided by OceanSound to the Funds is qualified in its entirety by reference to the
relevant Fund’s Governing Fund Documents. Investors are encouraged to review the Governing
Fund Documents for a more detailed description of OceanSound’s advisory business.