DigitalBridge

What DigitalBridge does

DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG) is a publicly traded alternative asset manager dedicated to digital infrastructure, founded in 2013 (in its current form from a 2019 merger of Colony Capital and Digital Bridge Holdings), headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, with 251-500 employees and approximately $119 billion in assets under management. The firm invests across five digital infrastructure verticals — data centers, macro cell towers, fiber networks, small cells, and edge infrastructure — through a platform of 45+ portfolio companies that includes Vantage Data Centers, DataBank, Yondr Group, Switch, Scala Data Centers, Zayo, Vertical Bridge, GD Towers, JTOWER, EdgePoint Infrastructure, AtlasEdge, Boingo Wireless, and AIMS. It is also the subject of a definitive agreement to be acquired by SoftBank Group Corp. for approximately $4 billion at $16.00 per share, approved by 96% of voting stockholders on April 23, 2026, with closing expected in H2 2026.

Name

DigitalBridge

Legal name

DigitalBridge Group, Inc.

Website

https://www.digitalbridge.com/

Company type

Public

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

DigitalBridge is a publicly traded alternative asset manager (NYSE: DBRG) investing across digital infrastructure—data centers, towers, fiber, small cells, and edge—with $119B AUM, 45+ portfolio companies, and a pending acquisition by SoftBank.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Infrastructure Investment Management

NAICS

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Infrastructure Funds (Data Centers, Fiber, Towers) (FSANAEAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Infrastructure Debt Funds (FSANAEAL)

Keywords

• Digital infrastructure investment
• Alternative asset management
• Infrastructure equity funds
• Digital infrastructure credit
• Data center investment

Headquarters

HQ city

Boca Raton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices9 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Fee-based management fees: Recurring management fees on assets under management. Q1 2025 fee revenue grew ~24% YoY and ~80% in fee-related earnings; Q2 2025 fee revenue $85M (+8% YoY), fee-related earnings $32M (+23% YoY); Q3 2025 fee revenue +22% YoY, fee-related earnings +43% YoY; FY2025 fee-based revenue cited at US$120.7M with 77.2% profit margin.
2. Incentive fees and carried interest: Performance-based fees and carried interest from managed infrastructure funds and co-investment vehicles; FY2025 net income $141.87M.
3. Liquid Strategies public equity fees: Fees earned on long-only and long-short public equity strategies (e.g., DigitalBridge Concentrated Alpha Fund) focused on TMT and digital infrastructure; generates capital formation revenue and management fees on AUM.
4. Digital Credit private credit interest and fees: Origination and management of private credit loans (first lien, unitranche, mezzanine, preferred equity) to digital infrastructure borrowers; originated through DigitalBridge Credit platform.
5. Realized and unrealized investment income: Balance sheet co-investment gains/losses on portfolio company investments; Q2 2025 included a $40M realized loss on an InfraBridge fund investment. FY2025 full-year revenue contracted to US$93.96M from US$607.03M reflecting business model shift to fee-focused revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Core offering

DigitalBridge is a publicly traded alternative asset manager that invests, operates, and develops digital infrastructure assets across data centers, macro cell towers, fiber networks, small cells, and edge infrastructure globally. The firm deploys institutional capital through dedicated investment strategies including equity (Value Add and Core Plus), private credit, public equity (Liquid Strategies), and growth-stage InfraTech venture investments across 45+ portfolio companies and approximately $119B in AUM.

Product overview

DigitalBridge is a single platform (NYSE: DBRG) organized around a platform-plus-modules architecture comprising four primary strategies: Digital Equity (split into Value Add Equity and Core Plus), Digital Credit, Liquid Strategies, and DigitalBridge Ventures. These modules share the firm's digital-infrastructure specialization across the five key verticals (data centers, macro cell towers, fiber networks, small cells, and edge infrastructure) and operate against a portfolio of more than 45 active portfolio companies. The Digital Equity Value Add and Core Plus modules hold branded portfolio companies such as Vantage Data Centers (North America, EMEA, APAC, and SDC), DataBank, Yondr Group, Scala Data Centers, Switch, and Zayo Group Holdings on the data-center side, and Vertical Bridge, GD Towers, JTOWER, EdgePoint Infrastructure, Mexico Telecom Partners, Andean Telecom Partners, Boingo Wireless, AtlasEdge, and FreshWave across towers, fiber, small cells, and edge. Digital Credit delivers private credit financing products (first lien, unitranche, second lien, mezzanine, holdco notes, preferred and minority equity), Liquid Strategies runs public equity long-only and long-short funds such as the DigitalBridge Concentrated Alpha Fund, and DigitalBridge Ventures invests in InfraTech software across 5G & Networking, Cloud & Edge Platforms, Data & AI Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity (portfolio includes Articul8, Celona, Connectbase, and Liqid).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DigitalBridge Credit: Private credit investment platform led by Dean T. Criares, financing digital infrastructure through first lien term loans, construction/delay-draw loans, unitranche, second lien, mezzanine debt, holdco notes, preferred equity, and minority equity.
• DigitalBridge Ventures
• Liquid Strategies
• InfraBridge
• DigitalBridge Partners III
• Takanock

Products and services

• Digital Equity (Value Add Equity) Flagship infrastructure equity strategy investing globally to build businesses across the digital infrastructure ecosystem, encompassing Value Add Equity and Core Plus approaches in data centers, macro cell towers, fiber networks, small cells, and edge infrastructure.
• Digital Equity (Core Plus) Core Plus strategy centered around investing in stabilized, high-quality digital infrastructure platforms that offer consistent and predictable current yields, focusing on macro sites (large incumbent tower portfolios), hyperscale data centers, and dark fiber networks.
• Digital Credit Credit platform led by a dedicated team of investment professionals delivering private credit financing products focused on the global digital infrastructure industry. Capabilities include first lien term loans, construction/delay-draw loans, unitranche, second lien term loans, mezzanine debt, holdco notes, preferred equity, and minority equity.
• Liquid Strategies Fundamental long-only and long-short public equity strategies with well-defined mandates, building concentrated portfolios of high quality, undervalued businesses across the digital infrastructure, real estate, and Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) universes, including the DigitalBridge Concentrated Alpha Fund.
• DigitalBridge Ventures (InfraTech) Investment program focused on emerging software-centric infrastructure technologies (InfraTech) at the interface between the application layer and physical digital infrastructure, including 5G & Networking, Cloud & Edge Platforms, Data & AI Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity. Seeks principally Series B and Series C investments in development-stage companies.
• DigitalBridge Partners III DigitalBridge's flagship data center-focused fund; closed $7.2B in fund commitments with $11.7B total in fund and LP co-investment commitments as of November 2025.

Quantifiable outcome

• $118.98B in AUM as of March 31, 2026
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), Brookfield, IFM, KKR (Stack Infrastructure bidders)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026DigitalBridge is among bidders expressing interest in Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data center assets alongside AI Infrastructure Partnership (BlackRock-backed), Brookfield Asset Management, IFM Investors, and KKR; formal sale process could begin as soon as July 2026.
• Liberty GlobalflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2026Liberty Global co-owns AtlasEdge, a pan-European data center platform formed in 2021 with DigitalBridge; AtlasEdge secured over 1.2 billion euros in financing (738M euro refinancing + 500M euro uncommitted bank funding from Goldman Sachs, ING and UniCredit) and operates edge data center sites across Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Lisbon, Manchester, Stuttgart and Vienna. Liberty Global also co-owns the nexfibre joint venture with InfraVia and Telefónica that acquired Substantial Group (Netomnia parent) for £2 billion.
• ArcLight Capital PartnersflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 May 2026DigitalBridge agreed to acquire ArcLight Capital Partners for up to $1.05 billion ($650M base + up to $400M contingent) to form a leading alternative asset manager at the convergence of power, AI, and digital infrastructure; combined AUM exceeds $150B including ArcLight's 70 GW of power generation assets and 48,000 miles of transmission infrastructure. ArcLight founder Daniel Revers joins as Vice Chairman. Deal contingent on closing of SoftBank's acquisition of DigitalBridge.
• Aberdeen InvestmentscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 May 2026Aberdeen Investments and a DigitalBridge-controlled vehicle jointly acquired Equans Infra & Mobility's asset-based e-mobility activities in the Netherlands; the new entity, Velian, specializes in scalable and sustainable e-mobility charging infrastructure across public, real estate, and logistics sectors.
• Equans (Velian acquisition counterparty)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 May 2026DigitalBridge and Aberdeen Investments acquired Equans' asset-based e-mobility activities in the Netherlands; the business operates under the new name Velian as a focused e-mobility charging infrastructure platform.
• Articul8, Celona, Connectbase, Liqid (InfraTech portfolio)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 April 2026DigitalBridge Ventures portfolio of InfraTech companies operating in software-defined infrastructure: Articul8 (GenAI enterprise software platform), Celona (5G LAN/private 5G infrastructure), Connectbase (network buying/selling location intelligence), Liqid (composable infrastructure platform for data centers). Growth-stage Series B/C investments under DigitalBridge Ventures strategy.
• JEXI (Japan Extensive Infrastructure)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 March 2026DigitalBridge and JEXI completed the acquisition of selected data center assets from NEC Corporation in Japan's Greater Tokyo and Kansai regions; the assets will operate as a new standalone platform with NEC remaining as the anchor customer. This is DigitalBridge's second Japanese acquisition following the take-private of JTOWER Inc.
• nexfibre (InfraVia, Liberty Global, Telefónica JV)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 February 2026DigitalBridge, along with co-shareholders Advencap and Soho Square Capital, agreed to sell Substantial Group (parent of UK fibre operator Netomnia) to nexfibre (JV between InfraVia, Liberty Global, and Telefónica) for an enterprise value of £2 billion. Netomnia serves 3 million premises and 460,000 customers across the UK; closing expected Q3 2026.
• White & Case LLPminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 2 February 2026White & Case LLP advised Cathexis Holdings L.P. on the $5.8 billion sale of Yondr Group to DigitalBridge and La Caisse; awarded 'Europe Data Center Deal of the Year—M&A' at TMT Finance Awards EMEA 2026.
• OpenAI / Oracle / MGX (Stargate consortium)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 January 2026DigitalBridge is positioned within SoftBank's broader AI infrastructure strategy that includes the $500 billion Stargate project with OpenAI, Oracle, and UAE's MGX. Vantage Data Centers (DBRG portfolio company) announced a Stargate data center site in Wisconsin (October 2025) and a $25B 'Frontier' mega-campus in Texas (August 2025). SoftBank's $4B acquisition of DigitalBridge provides indirect exposure to data center assets for the Stargate initiative.
• Crestview PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 December 2025DigitalBridge and Crestview Partners completed take-private acquisition of WideOpenWest (WOW!) in December 2025 for approximately $1.5 billion; WOW! serves 19 broadband markets across the Midwestern and Southeastern US and is transitioning customers to YouTube TV as part of broader broadband/streaming strategy.
• KT CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 November 2025DigitalBridge signed a strategic MOU with KT Corporation (November 2025) to develop next-generation AI data centers in Korea; partnership expands DBRG's footprint in APAC alongside AIMS, Vantage APAC, Scala, and other regional assets.

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Direct peers

• KKR & Co. KKR has scaled infrastructure and digital infrastructure platforms (KKR Global Infrastructure Investors, KKR Real Estate) and is a direct competitor and co-investor with DigitalBridge (the $1.5B Vertical Bridge preferred equity investment). KKR is also a bidder for Stack Infrastructure APAC alongside DigitalBridge.
• Brookfield Asset Management: Brookfield is one of the largest alternative asset managers globally and a direct peer in digital infrastructure, with a $1T+ AUM platform that has been actively acquiring data centers, towers, fiber, and renewable power assets (e.g., $4.5B Compass Datacenters, American National Group tower deals). Competes head-to-head with DigitalBridge for hyperscale data center platforms and LP capital in digital infrastructure.
• I Squared Capital: I Squared Capital is a global infrastructure manager that has been an active acquirer in digital infrastructure (Global Tower, GTT, Consolidated Communications, Cologix stake). It competes with DigitalBridge for the same digital infrastructure platforms and institutional LPs.
• IFM Investors: IFM is a global infrastructure investor that partnered with DigitalBridge on the $11B Switch acquisition and is currently a co-bidder for Stack Infrastructure APAC. As an Australian super-fund-owned manager, it is a peer in large digital infrastructure platform deals.
• Blackstone (BX) Infrastructure: Blackstone Infrastructure Partners is a scaled infrastructure platform with significant data center and digital infrastructure exposure (including QTS Realty, AirTrunk, Phoenix Tower, Hotwire). Competes with DigitalBridge for the same LP capital and the same hyperscale data center M&A pipeline, and was DigitalBridge's counterparty on the CoreWeave $7.5B debt facility.
• Global Infrastructure Partners (BlackRock): Now part of BlackRock following the 2024 acquisition, GIP is a major direct competitor in digital infrastructure, with platforms in towers, data centers, fiber, and energy transition. Competes with DigitalBridge in large platform M&A and LP capital raises (e.g., GIP V $25B+ fund).
• Macquarie Asset Management: Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is one of the world's largest infrastructure managers and the historical training ground for much of DigitalBridge's senior team (Liam Stewart, Kevin Smithen, Tom Yanagi, Leslie Golden). It is a direct peer in towers, data centers, and digital infrastructure equity and credit, with a similar global capital formation footprint.
• Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners: Stonepeak is a pure-play infrastructure manager with significant digital infrastructure exposure (Cologix, Astound Broadband, GTT, Cologix) and competes with DigitalBridge in towers, fiber, and data center equity. Headcount and AUM scale are smaller than DigitalBridge but the strategy and LP overlap are nearly identical.
• EQT AB (Infrastructure): EQT is a major European-headquartered alternative asset manager with a dedicated Infrastructure strategy that competes for global digital infrastructure deals (fiber, data centers, towers). EQT acquired major data center platform Zettagrid and is actively deploying across the same LP pool as DigitalBridge.

Others

• CyrusOne / GDS Holdings: CyrusOne and GDS Holdings are publicly traded hyperscale data center operators. While not direct asset manager peers, they compete with DigitalBridge's portfolio companies (Vantage, Switch, Yondr, DataBank) for hyperscale customer relationships and provide public-market comps for valuation of the data center platforms inside DigitalBridge's portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries37 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A16 records

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