David Krainert is Chairman & CEO of KVLR Capital, which he founded in New York in 2019 and has grown to approximately $430 million in assets under management. He leads the firm’s partnerships with founder-led companies in healthcare, critical infrastructure and technologies with social impact.

David built KVLR around a Management Services Organization (MSO) model and structures deals so that physicians and founders keep control of clinical and day-to-day decisions while KVLR supports the nonclinical side of the business. He also founded The Krainert Group, a real estate private equity firm with $650 million in assets under management and offices in New York and London, and has worked with institutional clients, the Big Four, large banks and leading law firms nationwide.

David is the author of the forthcoming book The Art of Private Equity and hosts a podcast of the same name, built around his view that in healthcare, the regulation is the alpha.

Before private equity, David served as an FBI Special Agent, and he was a nominee for the New York State Senate. He holds a BS in Law Studies from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (2010) and an MS in Accounting from Brooklyn College (2014). He is a devoted father of three.