Eric Levine
Bio
Eric Levine is a Vice President on the Apax Digital team. He joined Apax Digital in 2025 and is currently based in New York.
Prior to joining Apax, Eric was a Vice President at BuildGroup, an operations-oriented growth equity firm focused on applied AI. His work centered on how AI is embedded into mission-critical workflows—combining proprietary data assets, deterministic systems, and machine learning to deliver customer value while creating defensible moats. Eric invested in and worked with portfolio companies across logistics tech, martech, cybersecurity skills development, embedded finance, conversational AI, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). He previously worked in large-cap private equity at Hellman & Friedman in San Francisco, and began his career in consulting at Bain & Company in New York.
Eric holds a BA in Economics and Global Affairs from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Eric's Story
Eric has been fascinated by how new technologies reshape businesses since he left consulting for his first tech investing role in 2016, during the industry’s transition from on-premise software to the cloud. In 2020, he joined a fund focused on helping companies embed AI into their products to create new customer value. He’s passionate about platform shifts that move the “tectonic plates” of markets and create opportunities for new winners, and he was drawn to Apax’s hands-on support for portfolio companies navigating these transitions. What resonated most was how closely Apax’s culture matched the values he learned growing up in Pittsburgh (yes, the Paris of Appalachia): a team-first mindset, choosing right over easy, and a humble commitment to improve every day.