Leon Chen

Managing Partner, Growth Equity

Portfolio Manager, Kayne Partners Funds

Current member of Kayne’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council

Leon Chen is a managing partner for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors’ growth private equity strategies, where he is responsible for identifying and analyzing investment opportunities, monitoring of portfolio companies, and deal execution.

Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2012, Chen was the director of business development at Relativity Media, a film financing and production company based in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he held positions at Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based middle market private equity firm and at Citigroup in the investment banking division in New York. While at Clarity Partners and Citigroup, Chen focused on transactions in the media, telecommunications, and business services industries.

Chen earned a B.B.A in Finance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Current Investments

Cloudbreak Health

Cloudbreak – Telehealth Language Interpretation Service

Founded in 2003, Cloudbreak Health revolutionized patient and provider communication with the introduction of video remote interpreting (VRI), establishing Cloudbreak as a pioneer in telehealth technology. Cloudbreak Health continues to innovate with Cloudbreak Telehealth Solutions, including telepsychiatry, telestroke, tele-quarantine, remote patient monitoring and other specialties. Committed to overcoming healthcare disparities and bringing language access to the point of care, Cloudbreak Health seamlessly integrates their language access solution, Martti, into a host of platforms, including Epic, Zoom, and Caregility. Through its expansive reach, Cloudbreak Telehealth simplifies how providers care for patients, putting a full care continuum at their fingertips 24/7.

Status: Active
Location: Columbus, OH
Initial Investment: 2015
Industry: Healthcare
Website: https://www.cloudbreak.us
KPF Board Member: Nate Locke
Board Observer: Leon Chen
Decisiv

Decisiv – Service Relationship Management Application

Founded in 2001, Decisiv provides a centralized platform that integrates previously siloed asset data from in-house, point and horizontal solutions in a single platform. API driven integration and a flexible framework allow rapid additions and integrations with existing customer systems and third-party data feeds, enabling comprehensive visibility of relevant data for key stakeholders across the ecosystem. Through Decisiv’s SRM platform, different customers and participants in the service event are able to track service requests, receive updates, understand delays, route vehicles more efficienty to repair shops, and provide estimates of costs and warranty coverage associated with the repair. As a result, customers are able to improve asset performance and utilization, decrease warranty costs, and increase customer satisfaction.

Status: Active
Location: Reston, VA
Initial Investment: 2018
Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Website: https://www.decisiv.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Dejero

Dejero – IP Blending Technology for Video Transport and Internet Connectivity

Founded in 2008, Dejero provides video and data transmission technology enabling broadcast television customers to reliably transfer high quality video signals across multiple cellular networks including satellite, cell, fiber and Wi-Fi, reducing the need for expensive satellite equipment.

Status: Active
Location: Waterloo, ON
Initial Investment: 2017
Industry: Media & Telecom
Website: https://www.dejero.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Rob Shilton
Elevate

Elevate – Outsourced Legal Services

Founded in 2011, Elevate is an alternative legal services provider that offers outsourced legal services for Global 2000 legal departments and AM 200 law firms (top 200 U.S. law firms by revenue). Elevate has built a comprehensive platform to meet all needs of a corporate legal department including: litigation support, due diligence, contract management, medical claims & litigation, compliance, bill review, back office/IT support, staffing, spend management, technology and strategy consulting.

Status: Active
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Initial Investment: 2019
Industry: Business Process Automation
Website: https://elevateservices.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Rob Shilton

Fully Managed

Fully Managed – Outsourced IT Services for SMBs and Senior Care Facilities

Founded in 2006, Fully Managed (formerly CareWorx) offers outsourced IT services to customers that lack resources to fully manage their IT internally. Many organizations have mission-critical IT needs, both internally (server upgrades, network monitoring & management, software/hardware maintenance) and customer-facing (helpdesk support, such as password & printing assitance), but lack resources due to the high cost of IT personnel and complexity of evolving IT demands. With Fully Managed’s IT services, organizations can supplement their existing IT staff, or outsource all of their IT needs, freeing up resources for more strategic operations.

Status: Active
Location: Ottawa, ON
Initial Investment: 2018
Industry: Business Process Automation
Website: https://www.fullymanaged.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Rob Shilton
Natural Partners Fullscript

Natural Partners Fullscript – Online Supplement Dispensary Platform

Natural Partners is the result of a merger that occurred in June 2018 between a wholesale and distribution network and an online nutraceutical dispensing and prescription management technology platform. The combined company provides online nutraceutical dispensary management, convenient patient fullfillment, and patient adherence tools, and other functionalities. NPFS’ solution provides practitioners with a user-friendly platform that helps streamline the creation of nutraceutical prescriptions, providing access to over 280+ professional-grade brands, decision-support at the point of care, and visibility into and improvement of patient-protocol adherence rates, all while providing an important revenue stream and a unique ability to capture refill revenue. Patients can also receive convenient electronic prescriptions, receive trusted and top-quality products, order practitioner-recommended products at the point of care, receive adherence support, and conveniently refill their prescriptions.

Status: Active
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Initial Investment: 2019
Industry: Security & Compliance
Website: https://naturalpartnersfullscript.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Bryan Boudreaux
rfXcel

Rfxcel – Product Serialisation, Traceability and Compliance Software

Founded in 2003, rfxcel provides leading-edge software solutions to help companies manage every aspect of their supply chains, lower costs, and protect their products and brand reputations. Blue-chip organizations in the life sciences (pharmaceuticals and medical devices), food and beverage, worldwide government, and consumer goods industries trust rfxcel’s signature Traceability System (rTS) to power end-to-end supply chain solutions in key areas such as traceability, environmental monitoring, regulatory compliance, serialization, and visibility.

Status: Active
Location: Reno, NV
Initial Investment: 2017
Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Website: https://rfxcel.com
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Sabrina Chaudhury
Search Optics

Search Optics – Automotive Digital Marketing

Founded in 1998, Search Optics provides an integrated digital marketing platform for the North American automotive industry, including leading manufacturers such as Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Honda, Nissan and Toyota. The Company provides a bundled digital marketing subscription package consisting of (a) managed media spend, including managed paid search and display advertising, and (b) software-based services, including desktop and mobile website development, search engine optimization, local search, social media and reputation management and email marketing.

Status: Active
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Initial Investment: 2013
Industry: Media & Telecom
Website: https://www.searchoptics.com
KPF Board Member: David Walsh
Board Observer: Nate Locke

Past Investments

Parktoria
Starmount (exited: Infor)

StarMount – Mobile POS and Back-End Software

Founded in 2006, Starmount provides mobile point-of-sale solutions for large brick and mortar retailers. Since inception, Starmount has been focused primarily on professional service engagements revolving around the implementation of Oracle POS solutions into brick and mortar retail stores. These engagements have reduced inefficiencies created by the use of disparate back office retail locations.

Status: Exited
Location: Austin, TX
Initial Investment: 2013
Industry: Supply Chain & Logistics
Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: David Walsh
KPF Board Member: Nishita Cummings
Board Observer: Rob Shilton

You.i (exited: AT&T - WarnerMedia)

You.i – User Interface Software

Founded in 2008, You.i is a technology company whose patented engine allows a single universal codebase to run multi-screen video applications across media devices with the same user interface, such as mobile phones, tablets, game consoles, amert TVs, and set-top boxes. You.i targets blue chip media companies looking to launch over-the-top offerings competitive to Netflix.

Status: Exited
Location: Ottawa, ON
Initial Investment: 2015
Industry: Media & Telecom

Exit Press Release
KPF Board Member: Leon Chen
Board Observer: Andrew Deyoung