Inverness Graham, a Philadelphia-based buyout firm focused on acquiring innovative, high-growth companies where technology is transforming traditional industry, today announced that Aliya Khaydarova has been named to GrowthCap’s 2026 Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing. Aliya has played a pivotal role in more than 30 of Inverness Graham’s 104 buyout transactions, as well as several platform exits, across the firm’s Healthcare, Advanced Manufacturing, and Tech-Enabled Services and Software focus areas. She has developed particular expertise in Healthcare.
Across all her investments, Aliya partners with founders and management teams on organic growth and transformative M&A as part of Inverness Graham’s Strategic Platform Build approach. Aliya’s contributions have bolstered Inverness Graham’s strong investment performance and low loss ratio since the firm’s inception. Aliya was on the investment teams of many of the firm’s most successful exits to date: RacoWireless, AdvancedCath, and Danville Materials. Today, she serves as investment lead and board member at Innovia Medical, Treat Planet, and VitalPath.
Ken Graham, Founder & Chairman of Inverness Graham, stated: “Aliya reflects everything we set out to build at Inverness Graham. She is a disciplined investor, a trusted partner to the founders and management teams we back, and a leader who has helped shape the firm since inception. I’m thrilled to see her recognized among the industry’s top women in growth investing and look forward to her continued accomplishments.”
“It’s an honor to be recognized by GrowthCap alongside other women who are shaping the future of the industry,” said Aliya Khaydarova. “I’m proud of what we’ve built at Inverness Graham. As a lower middle market firm more than twenty years into its journey, we continue to actively enhance our operational value-add capabilities and innovative mindset to accelerate growth across our portfolio—and we’re just getting started.”
About Inverness Graham
Inverness Graham is a Philadelphia-based operationally focused buyout platform that partners with founder-owned and founder-led innovative, high-growth businesses where technology is transforming traditional industry. With more than $1.8 billion in assets under management, Inverness Graham brings institutional-scale capabilities to the North American lower middle market while maintaining a focused partnership approach with founder-owners and management teams. The firm’s Flagship strategy targets high-growth businesses in Healthcare, Tech-Enabled Services and Software, and Advanced Manufacturing, while the Green Light strategy targets tech-enabled businesses where Sustainability is a key driver of accelerated growth.
Across its strategies, Inverness Graham combines deep sector expertise with an operationally intensive value creation playbook, leveraging robust dedicated resources across deal sourcing, operational enhancements, transformative M&A, and AI enablement. Founded by senior executives of the Graham Group, the firm builds on a more than 60-year legacy of operational excellence and entrepreneurial leadership.
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