Top Independent Sponsors in Bridgeport - Axial

About Q-Bank GroupQ-Bank is an independent private equity sponsor focused on acquiring lower-middle market companies. We collaborate with management to increase valuation through a combination of M&A and technology-enabled business improvements.What we doOur approach involves identifying entrepreneurial companies with unique business propositions, but lacking the capital, operational, or other resources to fully exploit the opportunity. We then deploy the necessary capital and collaborate with management and our ecosystem of technologists, financial, and operational resources to help our…

Verdian is not a private equity firm. Verdian seeks to invest its own capital, along with those of the family offices of some of the most sophisticated private equity investors in the world. We prefer to own our businesses over the long-term, either as public or private entities. Verdian leverages its extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible capital to ensure companies reach their full potential in the healthcare, government, industrial and other business service sectors. The Verdian team is led by Jim Lindstrom, a former Chairman, CEO and CFO and…

Lighthouse Equity Partners is a venture founded by Penn alum and ex-Bridgewater Associates operating executive George Nanos. George brings 20 years of expertise in technology, product development, financial services, and capital markets along with deep venture capital, private equity, and debt networks. Currently targeting industries where technology can differentiate product or optimize operations, Lighthouse Equity Partners is seeking to source and close on a deal in the next 9-12 months.

Exonas Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in high-quality businesses that have reached strategic, operational, or financial inflection points and stand to benefit from our proven value creation playbook irrespective of the prevailing economic environment. We are focused on four key sectors, including the niche consumer, business services (including SaaS and DaaS), industrials, and non-reimbursement-based healthcare services sectors. Our mandate is flexible and we can invest in a wide variety of transactions, including founder and family-owned companies, corporate…

Lantern Capital Partners works with its investors and partners to identify and acquire attractive businesses operating in engineering intensive industry verticals. Our associates have extensive international experience in business development, operations management, strategy, lean processes, M&A and organizational change. Our value creation strategies may include prudent cost and expense management, product development, international expansion, and buy-and-build.

About DoubleBlueIn 2015 Tomas Arlia founded DoubleBlue Capital Management with a mission to create an enduring alternatives platform, distinguished by best-in-class returns, processes, people and culture. We invest long-term capital into private investments, opportunistic special situations and multimanager hedge funds, continuing what Tomas did while managing GE Pension’s $3bn hedge fund portfolio and another $1.5bn in private equity investments. We bring to bear our experience across the capital structure in public and private markets to deliver differentiated investment ideas with…

Post Road Holdings is an emerging, independent sponsor focused on lower middle-market opportunities in the northeastern United States. Post Road strives to acquire, invest in, build, and partner with best-in-class businesses.  Post Road has a flexible investment mandate and brings a creative and collaborate approach to transactions. While Post Road typically seeks control investments, it is willing to participate in partnerships and to acquire non-controlling interests. Post Road is a generalist investor, but it avoids overly complex and speculative businesses. The firm derives its…

Good Ground was founded in 2013 to source, acquire, develop and consult on multifamily, mixed-use, hospitality, industrial and out of home media assets, often partnering with and investing alongside select sponsors with local and asset-specific expertise. We bring strong data science tools, underwriting, project management and capital raising abilities to each of our projects and partnerships.We also actively invest in, advise and provide consulting services to early stage technology companies, with a focus on proptech. Over the years, we have been lucky enough to build strong relationships…

Based in Stamford, Connecticut, Hildene was founded in 2008 and focuses on distressed and event-driven opportunities within credit. Hildene manages over $13 billion for its investors.Hildene’s core competency is opportunistic investing. Hildene’s senior investment team has a long and established track record of investing across a number of credit and distressed cycles, leveraging their experience and expertise in managing complex assets. We aim to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns over the long-term via a disciplined investment approach while aligning our interests with those of…

Sound Development Group, LLC is a independent sponsor focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We partner with exceptional companies seeking the next stage of growth. Post acquisition, we work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.

Compass Partners Capital (www.compasspartners.com) is a private investment firm focused on helping companies seize 21st century opportunities. Compass invests in high-priority aerospace, defense, and industrial platforms to create value for investors through active management. The Compass team’s multi-disciplinary backgrounds of deep investment and industry experience, complements a core ethos centered on trust and collaboration, passion for excellence, and an enduring belief in humility and adaptability. As patriotic investors, Compass partners with owners, investors, and management teams…

Annapurna Capital Management, LLC invests in middle market and lower middle market private companies as well as public markets strategies including global macro and relative value. Annapurna's current portfolio includes Cimarron Acid & Frac LLC, an Oklahoma based pressure pumping company. This deal closed in September 2013.Acquisition targets are generally characterized by EBITDA between $2 million and $10 million on a trailing twelve month basis. Industries in which we have invested or pursued a transaction include energy services (both onshore and offshore), transportation,…

Founded in 1985 by Tom Foley, NTC Group has a long history of successful investments and long term business operation. NTC is a majority control investor who actively engages in the management and value improvement of its portfolio companies. We are long term investors with no mandatory time frame for selling a portfolio company. We approach our investments as operators with a focus on top line growth rather than cost-cutting. We are best at negotiated sales with sellers for whom flexibility, confidentiality and integrity of the buyer is important

Dreadnought Capital Management Corporation (“Dreadnought”) is an SEC‐registered investment advisor located in Stamford, CT, and provides investment management and advisory services focused on securities containing complex credits or structures. Dreadnought’s team has blue chip investment bank experience (JPMorgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns) with over 60 years of collective experience and has managed more than $40 billion in transactions over the past 30 years. Dreadnought was founded in 2009, and since inception has invested or advised on investments in over $600 million of…

Birkdale Partners is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.

We invest in and actively manage the transformation of middle market companies. Our strategy is to "buy and build" privately held companies in highly fragmented industry segments where we've experienced prior success. Our investors like our unique structure and more friendly terms. Investors provide capital on a deal by deal basis making investments into BoldPointe Partners GP/LP Special Purpose Vehicles ("SPV"). These SPVs are industry segment specific and are the holding company for initial platform investments and bolt-on acquisitions.