Aarti Kapoor
We All Have Different Chapters That Get Bounded Together to Create a Unique Story.
My Career Highlights
- 18 years of transaction experience in the consumer & retail sector, across private equity investing and advisory on M&A and capital markets transactions, with specific expertise in the multi-unit consumer services and pet categories
- Most recently a Partner at consumer & retail private equity fund VMG Partners, and CEO of VMG-affiliated special purpose acquisition company, VMG Consumer Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:VMGA)
- 15 years of prior investment banking experience at Goldman Sachs, Moelis & Citi, with recognition from Forbes, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, and other industry publications
My Personal Interests
- I am a health and wellness enthusiast – in my free time, you will almost certainly find me on a bike at SoulCycle, on a reformer at Form50, playing tennis, or getting in my 20K steps in Central Park (listening to Audible or an industry podcast while I’m at it)
- I’m also a foodie – in a place like New York City, with one of the most elevated and prolific dining scenes in the world, seeking out new restaurant experiences is a never-ending adventure and truly a “hobby”
- I have a deep passion for international travel and learning languages – everyone jokes that the second I have a free moment, I’m probably back on a plane to Europe. I love Spain and was lucky enough to study Spanish for a decade and earn a Spanish language citation at Harvard – and I absolutely love the Swiss and Austrian Alps, so much that I started learning German a few years ago (still a work in progress…)
My Expertise
I have 18 years of consumer & retail transaction experience across growth equity investing as well as advisory on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising, both in the private and public markets. With a deep passion for my core consumer & retail verticals, I have developed robust relationships with companies, founders and management teams, which are complemented by my deep, wide-ranging relationships across the financial sponsor community.
Within consumer & retail, I specifically focus on multi-unit, service-oriented businesses (such as restaurants as well as fitness, wellness, aesthetic and pet services), with further specialization in pet products.
My transaction experience has been highly diversified across deal sizes, stages and financial products, with my clients spanning emerging growth, family/founder-owned businesses all the way to scaled, large-cap public companies (announced transactions over the course of my career have ranged from $50MM to $42BN in transaction value).