• 1979

Company Description

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe is a private equity investment firm investing in information, business and healthcare services companies.

WELSH, CARSON, ANDERSON & STOWE (“WCAS”) is one of the largest and most successful private equity investment firms in the United States. Since our founding in 1979, we have organized 15 limited partnerships with total capital of over $20 billion. We are currently investing an equity fund, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XI, L.P. (“WCAS XI”), and WCAS Capital Partners IV, L.P., a dedicated subordinated debt fund. One of the private equity industry's leading publications, Private Equity International, named Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe the “Mid-Market Firm of the Year” in North America for 2008.