DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
DigitalBridge Group is an investment manager focused on digital infrastructure assets and businesses, including data centers, cell towers, fiber networks, small cells and edge infrastructure. It raises capital from institutional investors and deploys it through private equity, core equity, credit and liquid strategies across the digital ecosystem.
Fiscal year 2025 · change from previous year
Development 2020–2025
Business
Share of revenueCommingled funds that invest in and build businesses across digital infrastructure.
Stabilized digital infrastructure assets with long-duration cash flow and current yield.
Private credit and financing products for digital infrastructure borrowers globally.
Long-only, long-short and market-neutral public equity strategies tied to digital infrastructure and adjacent sectors.
Mid-market infrastructure and digital-adjacent investing, including energy and logistics exposure.
Products
Reported · share of revenue- Management Service99.8 %
- Management Service Other0.2 %
Source: 10-K FY2025, revenue the company reports per product line (SEC XBRL). Shares are of the lines shown and add up to 100 %.
Customers
DigitalBridge sells primarily to institutional investors that allocate capital to alternative assets, including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, asset managers and endowments. Its underlying portfolio companies and borrowers are digital infrastructure operators that need equity capital, acquisition financing, refinancing or structured credit to expand networks and platforms.
Pensions, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, endowments and asset managers that commit capital to DBP and related funds for digital infrastructure exposure.
Data center, tower, fiber, small cell and edge infrastructure businesses that receive equity or credit capital to grow, refinance or acquire assets.
Companies seeking first-lien, second-lien, mezzanine or preferred-equity financing through DigitalBridge Credit.
Investors in liquid strategies that seek exposure to undervalued digital infrastructure, real estate and technology-media-telecom names.
Strategy
DigitalBridge is building a multi-strategy platform around digital infrastructure, using its fund franchise to raise capital, expand fee-earning assets and deepen relationships with operators and institutional allocators. The firm also emphasizes proprietary deal sourcing, balance-sheet structuring and capital solutions across the capital stack, which helps it compete for transactions and support portfolio growth.
Higher fund commitments increase management fees and support platform scale.
Diversification reduces reliance on any single fund cycle and widens the addressable investor base.
Proprietary access can improve entry pricing and reduce auction competition.
Optimized leverage and financing can improve returns and resilience for underlying assets.
Geography
The company is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, with key offices in New York, London, Luxembourg and Singapore, which supports sourcing and fundraising across North America, Europe and Asia. Its investment activity is global, but the core equity strategy emphasizes more developed geographies while credit and value-add funds can invest across regions where digital infrastructure demand is growing.
Risks
Results are highly sensitive to fundraising, asset valuations and carried interest, which can swing sharply with market conditions and portfolio marks. The company also faces execution risk from its pending SoftBank acquisition, cybersecurity exposure, and the usual risks of managing illiquid, levered infrastructure assets across multiple jurisdictions.
- Merger with SoftBank may fail or be delayedImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
The transaction is subject to stockholder approval and customary closing conditions, so completion is not guaranteed.
Exposure: Corporate transaction and strategic uncertainty
- Volatility in unrealized carried interestImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Revenue includes mark-to-market carried interest that can reverse when portfolio values change.
Exposure: Earnings and reported revenue
- Cybersecurity and third-party systems riskImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
The business relies on internal and outsourced IT systems and processes sensitive investor and portfolio data.
Exposure - Fundraising and capital deployment riskImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Management fees depend on capital raised and fee-earning AUM, so slower fundraising can pressure growth.
Exposure: Fee revenue and platform scale
- Valuation and leverage risk in portfolio companiesImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Digital infrastructure assets often use leverage and fair-value marks, which can magnify downside in weaker markets.
Exposure: Fund returns and carried interest
Accounting
Judgemental itemsThis is the main driver of revenue volatility and can reverse when portfolio marks change.
Impact: Reported revenue and operating income can swing sharply between periods
Management fees are tied to FEEUM and fundraising timing, including catch-up fees.
Impact: Fee revenue growth depends on capital raises and fee basis changes
Illiquid digital infrastructure holdings require judgmental valuation inputs.
Impact: Affects realized/unrealized investment income and carried interest
The company presents results net of amounts attributed to noncontrolling interests in certain cases.
Impact: Can materially affect reported fee revenue, DE and FRE presentation
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Last updated: 24/09/2026