Craig Cogut

Craig Cogut founded Pegasus Capital in 1996 with a vision to integrate social and environmental factors into private. See sector focus and contact routes.

About Craig Cogut

Craig Cogut founded Pegasus Capital in 1996 with a vision to integrate social and environmental factors into private equity investing. For nearly 30 years, Pegasus has focused its investment strategies on sustainability and health, resulting in numerous award-winning portfolio companies. Pegasus Capital is also the first U.S. private equity investment firm to obtain accreditation from the Green Climate Fund, continuing its efforts to create value beyond returns through new initiatives.

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Angel Investor
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Cos Cob, CT, United States
Investor type
Individual/Angel
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Mr. Craig Cogut Founding Partner and serves as Chairman and President at Pegasus Capital Advisors. He also serves as Co-Chairman at ReCommunity. He has spent a career building successful investment businesses. Mr. Cogut founded Pegasus, a private equity fund, in 1996 and serves as its Chairman and President. Through Mr. Cogut's leadership, Pegasus has focused increasingly on areas influenced by global resource scarcity and the need for resource efficiency, as well as on the growth in demands for human wellness. In 1990 Mr. Cogut co-founded and was one of the original partners at Apollo Advisors L.P., a position he held for five years preceding the creation of Pegasus. Mr. Cogut is an active philanthropist in the fields of improving education, building civil society and championing environmental and health issues. Mr. Cogut serves as Chairman of The Polyphony Foundation, an organization that he co-founded to provide equal opportunity music education for Arab and Jewish Israeli youth. In

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Craig Cogut is based in Cos Cob, CT, United States.

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