Our strategy is to build a portfolio of leading businesses using a long-term buy and build approach. We provide our portfolio companies with professional management expertise, financial resources, and high potential human capital to accelerate their growth
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…
Hemingway Capital is an operationally oriented investment firm that specializes in growing lower middle-market industrial companies. We offer creative, flexible capital and deep operating experience to optimize and grow our partner companies. We invest in fundamentally sound businesses possessing a competitive advantage, recurring demand for products or services, and favorable macro trends. We stand beside management teams, family businesses, and business owners as a preferred investor in lower middle market industrial businesses that adds value beyond capital.
IntroductionMeru Venture Partners is an independent sponsor-led private equity firm operating in the lower middle market. We invest in profitable companies generating anywhere between $5 million to $50 million in revenue and $1 million to $10 million in EBITDA. We focus on companies with a history of positive cash flow, a strong balance sheet, and significant growth potential. We provide growth capital, operating expertise, and industry experience to significantly enhance the long-term value of our investments.
We are a Pledge Fund (backed by family offices) that invests in scalable and purpose-driven companies in the United States.The founding partners have each over ten years of private equity experience. Our team, operating partners, and pledge fund investors have substantial experience in investing, creating, growing, operating, and selling businesses.We invest in proven businesses with strong management teams within our core sectors: (i) financial services, (ii) business services, and (iii) specialized services and products.We make, both controlling and non-controlling stakes, investments in…
Forge Equity Partners is a private investment firm founded by two experienced executives who share a common vision for growing companies and complimentary experience investing in and operating businesses. Forge pursues platform investments in companies that range in size from $2-6M of EBITDA, and draws on the partners' operational and leadership experience to grow businesses through investment in people, processes, technology, systems, expanded operations, and strategic acquisitions. Forge takes a long-term view in building businesses with the intent to hold and grow businesses for 10+…
Third Arch is a Philadelphia-based private investment firm making long-term investments in high quality small businessesLocally-focused and collaborative, we partner with strong management teams to help businesses continue their success, enhance profitability, and drive scalable, sustainable growth
Steinbeck is fully committed to heroically protecting past legacies and accelerating new growth for the companies in which we invest. Strong legacies are springboards to the future, and it’s from there that we jointly build even bigger and better companies.SIC is pioneering the intersection of private equity investing and operating involvement; and we’re revolutionizing the collaborative partnership of the Executive, Investor and Operator. We embrace the perfect combination of capability, character, chemistry and commitment. We espouse strong collaborative partnerships and together…
Navaid Equity Partners is a private equity firm founded to provide companies, executives, employees and their stakeholders navigational support through turbulent financial and operational headwinds created by economic, industry, and technology disruptions.We take an entrepreneurial and flexible investment approach We look to invest in complex and special situations We provide both financial and intellectual capital to support companies We focus on investments in small to medium sized companies with revenue up to $500 million and EBITDA from unprofitable, nominal, and positive but not…
Blue Line Ventures is an operating company first, and an investment company second.Our team's passion and background rests in helping small business owners and investors achieve their goals through sales or acquisition. We do this across industries and help our clients focus on team design, process optimization, and systems development.We make direct investments in businesses that fit our personal investment thesis and that align with our specific industry focus. We are skilled in creating flexible finance solutions and are backed by a leadership team with a proven history of business…
Plainview Capital LLC is a private investment firm based in the Philadelphia area that acquires and grows lower middle market businesses headquartered in the Eastern U.S. We invest the capital of our principals and a small group of private investors in high-potential companies that can benefit from our principals' diverse experiences as business operators, financial executives and strategic consultants. We are particularly interested in light manufacturing, consumer goods, business service and value-added distribution investment opportunities. We look for businesses with histories of sales…
Minerva Equity is a boutique acquisition firm focusing on the lower mid-market.We acquire controlling stakes in companies that we believe to be well run, have a talented management team in place and ownership that is departing.We pride ourselves in having a "people first approach" to business.
Panther Equity Group is a private equity sponsor providing capital, strategic support and resources to healthy & well positioned companies in the lower middle market. We strive to take a hands-on approach with Operating resources, strategic planning, additional M&A and industry knowledge.While we remain agile in criteria, Panther typically focuses on companies with the following characteristics:Industries: IT Services, Tech-Enabled Services and B2B ServicesSize: EBITDA $2 million - $12 millionGeography: U.S. HeadquartersInvestment Type: Majority, significant minority, and structured…
Tempus Partners seeks to buy and operate defensible and profitable small businesses in the consumer retail and manufacturing categories. We are committed to nurturing the long term success of our acquisitions and operating to generate consistent long-term cash flow. We are open to both growth partnerships, in which the existing team maintains some ownership and involvement going forward, or full buyouts. Our deep industry expertise in retail and manufacturing businesses allows us to take an active role and immediately pursue strong, low capital, low risk strategies to grow sales and…
NorthEnd Associates was founded as a boutique private investment firm. We are a values-first family-style office with a collective 50+ years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. We focus on long-term relationships and value creation, enabling us to be good investment stewards and outperform market returns on a risk-adjusted basis. Our investment criteria are focused on specialty and niche services businesses in nationwide marketplaces across real estate, light industrial, and recreational adjacent markets.
Forward Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on acquiring and growing lower-middle market companies. The Forward team has extensive experience building and growing companies in diverse industries. We are looking for scalable businesses that display the opportunity for innovation and growth.
At Factor89, we specialize in achieving record levels of profitable growth, and return on investment. We employ proven proprietary methodologies, invest in long term relationships at every level, and deliberately enrich the lives of all involved.We can speak definitively to every point above, with data and case studies. We welcome the opportunity to hear your story, tell our story, and explore a partnership with you.
Our essence extends beyond the individual—it’s a celebration of ‘we.’ Our culture places humanity at the forefront, embodying a profound people-centric philosophy. We believe in the collective strength of individuals who not only share our core principles but also exude a shared passion for championing small businesses. This commitment is rooted in humility, accountability, and a clear understanding of both who we are and, perhaps more significantly, who we are not.Our unwavering dedication, relentless drive, and fervent work ethic form the bedrock of our support for business owners,…
Trusspoint is a Toronto, Ontario, Canada based independent sponsor investing in Canadian SMEs with >$2m EBITDA. We invest in and partner with privately held Canadian companies seeking shareholder liquidity and/or ownership succession. Our combined 50+ years experience operating, advising and investing in small, entrepreneurial businesses allows us to uniquely support the teams we invest in. Our mandate is to ensure the foundation of what has been built is not only reinforced but strengthened to stand the test of time.
Hudson Glade is a private investment firm focused on Consumer, Industrial and Services companies with demonstrated and defensible growth characteristics that operate in the lower end of the middle market. We desire to partner with talented management teams to accelerate value.
