We are long-term, patient investors searching for exceptional small- and mid-sized businesses throughout North America. We work with existing management teams to confidently transition the business while pursuing significant further growth. We also work with business owners to build and execute a plan to transition towards retirement, while maintaining the long-term success and legacy of the business.We focus on businesses with EBITDA of $500K - $5MM, with a preference towards the B2B services, light manufacturing, healthcare, and software industries.
Our strategy is to partner with exceptional management teams and create long-term value for our investors through a combination of operational improvements, internal growth initiatives, and strategic acquisitions. We are particularly interested in businesses whose management team members and / or selling shareholders wish to have a meaningful ownership stake in the newly acquired enterprise.
BSP is a firm owned and operated by partners with decades of experience in analyzing, acquiring and operating businesses. As a private investment partnership, we seek to acquire small to mid-sized companies and invest using primarily our own capital. We aim to be the partner of choice for the thoughtful business owner looking to sell by being flexible, structuring win-win outcomes and following through on our word.
Headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, HH Capital is a self-funded venture ready to make a full equity purchase of a small middle-market business with cash on hand. We are interested in companies in the Midwest with consistent annual pre-tax net earnings between $1 million and $3 million. HH Capital can offer a flexible liquidity event. Open to all types of ownership structures. Your business will be owned and operated for its long-term value to benefit owners, shareholders, employees and community.We have general industries of interest, but prefer to evaluate each company from the bottom-up…
Tower Arch Capital is a lower-middle market private equity fund with $722 million in assets under management and we're investing from a recently raised $450 million committed fund. We focus on partnering with and growing high-quality family and entrepreneur-owned companies to deliver long-term value for our management teams and investors. Tower Arch brings operational, consulting, and financial expertise to small companies to give them the tools they need to achieve their full potential. We create value in a range of industries and work with companies across the United States. Target…
Ninth Street Capital Partners is a private investment partnership that specializes in acquiring, developing and managing established businesses. With a focus on executing deals with the highest degree of integrity, we make long-term controlling investments in growth-oriented, privately held businesses with revenues ranging from $5 to $50 million. Our flexible approach allows us to tailor our investments to help entrepreneurs and business owners achieve their personal and financial goals.
Founded in 1993, Gemini Investors is a Massachusetts-based private equity firm that provides capital and strategic resources to lower middle market companies. Since its inception, we have invested approximately $600 million in more than 100 companies throughout the U.S., typically investing $3 – $8 million per transaction in either control or minority positions. Gemini offers a flexible investment approach. We provide a wide range of financing structures, which include subordinated debt with warrants, preferred stock, and common equity. We have extensive experience leading transactions, as…
BW Forsyth Partners is a private investment firm located in St. Louis, Missouri. Our approach differs from those typically utilized by other investment or private equity firms in that Forsyth Partners is a long-term investor (we do not exit our investments) looking to build strong companies through operational focus, an active acquisition effort and, most importantly, a focus on the best interests of all stakeholders of its portfolio companies. Forsyth partners directly with businesses in an effort to develop sustainable performance over the long-term, promote a people-centric culture, and…
Industrial Opportunity Partners, LLC ("IOP"), based in Evanston, IL, is a private equity investment firm. With $910 million of committed capital since its inception, IOP is focused on acquiring and managing middle-market manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses. Utilizing its operations-focused approach and dedicated Board of Operating Principals, IOP has a track record of stabilizing, growing and enhancing the value of its acquired businesses having invested in over 20 platform companies.
Founded in 1982, The Sterling Group is a private equity investment firm defined by its focused expertise, depth of experience, operational strategy, and approach to partnering with management.Focused expertiseWe specialize in what we know best: acquiring and increasing the value of middle-market operating businesses in the fields of basic manufacturing, industrial services, and distribution.Depth of experienceOur Partners have a combined 90 years at Sterling. Their business experience encompasses management, operations, public accounting, commercial and investment banking, and securities…
Founded in 2005, KLH Capital is a private equity firm serving management teams of lower middle-market companies in the specialty services, value-added distribution, and niche manufacturing industries. The firm makes majority and minority equity investments in U.S.-based businesses to support the company’s growth plans, provide ownership opportunities for key managers, and allow owners to harvest the value in their businesses. Our commitment goes beyond financial support as we believe in establishing a collaborative team of peers, all of whom have a hand in the company’s progress.…
Founded in 1990, Argosy Capital invests entrepreneurial capital with experienced business partners in two asset classes, lower middle market operating companies and real estate. Our focus is on creating value with our business partners by investing in inefficient markets where creativity, hard work and disciplined risk taking can generate exceptional returns for the benefit of all stakeholders. As partners with our investors, co-investors, operating company management teams and real estate operating partners, we are dedicated to creating value by building upon the strengths of the people,…
Fulham & co. has been investing in manufacturing companies since 1984. We seek to partner with companies that sell highly engineered products into industrial and commercial end markets. Most of the members of our firm have 20+ years of operating experience in a variety of manufacturing businesses. We work collaboratively with management teams, offering tools and advice to help our companies achieve their goals. Our firm has generated successful investment results across dozens of deals with entrepreneurial owner-managers since our first acquisition in 1984. Investment criteria: highly…
Graylight Partners, LLC provides capital and support to emerging middle-market companies for the purpose of creating long-term value. We are approachable and collaborative investment partners with a different perspective. Our goal is to achieve growth through business model refinement and sustainable value creation, not financial engineering.As such, we seek out opportunities in unique business niches to find companies that are doing things differently. We look for innovators and groundbreakers that need a true partner to take their business to the next level. We then work closely with these…
Highview Capital is a family-office backed private equity fund in Los Angeles with an evergreen fund structure (patient capital with ability to hold longer) and flexible, opportunistic investment mandate that has deployed nearly $700mm of equity capital through 2024.We look for companies poised to undergo a transformation. We drive value through a strategic and operational approach coupled with patient capital and an extremely flexible mandate.We invest in middle market businesses that are facing a critical inflection point and are ready for transformation, whether that is executing…
Eureka Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in and building niche-market leaders at the lower end of the middle market. Eureka’s core focus is partnering with exceptional management teams to acquire businesses with up to $100 million in revenue across industry segments in which Eureka brings significant experience and operating resources, including business services, health care services, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Eureka leads buyouts that bring significant ownership to the operators driving the success of the business. With this core principle…
Tonka Bay Equity Partners acquires and invests in small and midsized companies that are pursuing the next level of success. Our patient, personalized and collaborative approach has yielded superior returns for investors and management partners alike.Since 1998, Tonka Bay has raised more than $550 million of capital in four funds, composed of contributions from institutional investors, endowments, pensions, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. We seek to partner with and support management teams in established, profitable businesses that serve a specific niche. We do not consider…
Strength Capital Partners (SCP) is a Birmingham, Michigan-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring traditional businesses, primarily throughout the greater Midwest and Central United States.We seek to invest in businesses with $4 million to $20 million in EBITDA. We pursue investments in a wide range of industries, including consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, industrial and financial services, energy, transportation, and infrastructure. We are particularly interested in "buy and build" opportunities, where we can grow and diversify our platform companies through a…
Heartwood Partners (formerly Capital Partner, Inc.) was formed in 1982. Since then, its principals have invested in more than seventy five companies. We believe in doing what we say we will do and being patient and disciplined investors who support exceptional management teams as they develop their businesses. On average, we have held our investments for over five years and have supported management through the acquisition of complimentary businesses. As supportive capital partners to exceptional management teams, together we have created substantial value.In January of 2014, we raised our…
GenNx360 is a private equity firm driving value through Operational Engagement and Investment Excellence.We invest exclusively in North America-based business-to-business middle market industrial services and manufacturing companies in fragmented markets having structural tailwinds and sustainable competitive advantages in sectors we know well. We provide the talent and expertise of our in-house operational talent and the expertise and transaction experience of our investment team. Together, we accelerate value creation.
