BluWave is inviting nominations for the 2026 Top Private Equity Innovator Awards. Leading PE firms will be selected through a rigorous assessment in consultation with leading limited partners, investment bankers, and other thought leaders in the private equity ecosystem. This assessment evaluates firms based on the following criteria:

Top PE Innovator Award

Proactive Due Diligence Practices

Transformative Value Creation

Corporate Citizenship

Modern Private Equity Firm Operations

BluWave partners with hundreds of leading private equity firms and has a one-of-a-kind perspective that enables us to uniquely understand best practices and innovation in private equity. In conjunction with our internal PE data and insights, we are looking for nominations for firms that have displayed excellence in these four criteria. If you would like to nominate a PE firm to be awarded, please fill out the form with additional details below:

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Innovative PE firms look at prospective investments with an eye toward not only "trusting by verifying," but with a preemptive lens into informing future value creation opportunities.

Once PE firms make investments, leading PE firms partner with their portfolio company management teams to purposefully create value that didn't or couldn't exist before.

Innovative PE firms treat the business of private equity like a business - utilizing best-in-class internal and external resources to enable insightful opportunity assessments and unique levels of value creation.

Top PE firms know that doing things that are good for the world and doing things that are good for business are not mutually exclusive.

Nominations due Oct. 31, 2025

Winners to be announced late Q1 2026