It is focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital and PIPE investments in small cap and middle-market companies.

Prior to founding his eponymous firm, Richard C. Blum worked at Sutro & Co., an investment management and brokerage company.

[3] While working at Sutro & Co., he led a partnership that acquired the struggling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1967, for $8 million.

[7] Significant investments for Blum Capital have come from Fair Isaac,[8] Lenovo,[9] DHL Airways,[10] and CB Richard Ellis.

Its investment into CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE)—into which Blum Capital had invested over the previous 30 years, helping to take the company public—decreased by about 37% amid "global economic concerns that impacted real estate markets".