Carlyle

Carlyle opened its doors in 1987 as a Washington-based buy-out boutique and has evolved into a global investment firm stewarding roughly $453 billion across private-equity, credit and investment-solutions platforms. Full-year 2024 revenue climbed to $5.3 billion, more than double the prior period, while fee revenues advanced twenty-two percent—evidence that the franchise now leans on a broad, predictable earnings base alongside carried interest. (carlyle.com, carlyle.com, finance.yahoo.com)

That breadth is delivered by 2 300 people in twenty-nine offices who source deals on four continents and channel them into sector teams spanning aerospace-defence, consumer, healthcare, technology and infrastructure. Flagship U.S. Buyout Fund VIII, for example, is already seventy percent deployed and tracking a net IRR near twenty percent, putting it comfortably in top-quartile terrain for its vintage. (privateequityinternational.com)  Carlyle’s operations group adds punch: former Fortune 500 executives embed with portfolio companies to lift pricing discipline, working-capital turns and digital-sales funnels—tactics that have helped Booz Allen, PPD and Axalta become public-market leaders after Carlyle ownership.

Innovation threads through the current pipeline. Recent capital has funded modular data-centre platforms, renewable natural-gas infrastructure, zero-trust cyber-security roll-ups and Japan’s next wave of generational business successions. The firm’s AlpInvest arm is simultaneously raising its eighth secondaries flagship, extending liquidity options across the private-markets stack. (secondariesinvestor.com)  Sustainability sits beside these themes rather than beneath them: Carlyle reports to SASB standards, has set science-based climate targets and links a share of carry to portfolio-level ESG progress. (carlyle.com)

For CatalyX, a commitment to the next Carlyle vintage offers three quiet advantages. First, it inserts an all-weather manager with a thirty-year record of cycling capital through geopolitical upheaval and credit crunches, smoothing portfolio volatility for smaller tickets. Second, it adds genuine asset-class diversification—buy-out, credit, secondaries and infrastructure—within a single, professionally managed line item. Finally, Carlyle’s disciplined approach to impact, supply-chain transparency and workforce development dovetails with our own conviction that responsible practices and superior returns need not be mutually exclusive.

In short, Carlyle’s scale, operational depth and cycle-tested performance make it a natural cornerstone for the coming CatalyX fund, giving individual investors a direct bridge into global value creation that was once the exclusive province of sovereigns and pensions.