Frontenac Company was founded in 1971 with the belief that people are the driving factor behind successful businesses. Nearly 20 years ago we developed a “CEO1ST Investing” strategy to partner with outstanding business leaders and together identify, acquire and build leading businesses. Our CEO1ST partners are leaders in their fields and provide strategic and operational insight to our portfolio companies.Together with our CEO1ST partners, we provide the capital, network and resources to enable our portfolio companies to respond to opportunities, grow and succeed.We focus on lower…
Founded in 2003, Kinderhook Industries is a private equity firm that manages $1.25 billion of committed capital. The firm was established to capitalize on the principals' expertise acquiring middle market companies. Kinderhook primarily makes control investments in companies with transaction values of $25-$100 million where the firm can achieve significant financial, operational and growth improvements. The firm targets orphaned non-core subsidiaries of corporate parents, existing small capitalization public companies lacking institutional support and management-led recapitalizations of…
WELLSPRING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, founded in 1995, is a middle-market private equity firm that has approximately $3 billion of private equity capital under management. The firm’s objective is to bring partnership, experience and value creation to each investment. By teaming up with strong management, Wellspring is able to unlock underlying value and pursue new growth opportunities through strategic initiatives, operating improvements and add-on acquisitions. The firm functions as a strategic rather than tactical partner, providing management teams with top-line support, M&A experience and…
BelHealth Investment Partners (“BelHealth”), based in New York, is a healthcare private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies. BelHealth has a unique combination of investing, executive management and entrepreneurial experience. BelHealth acquires majority positions in entrepreneur-owned companies that it believes would benefit from its extensive operating and private equity investment expertise. The firm typically invests $20-40 million per platform company across three healthcare segments: Services, Products and Distribution. Collectively, the BelHealth Team, consisting…
Typical Equity Check Size: $10M - $50M Trident Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm investing in Software, Services and Internet. Trident focuses on companies addressing the major technology challenges facing today's enterprise, including IT security, Healthcare IT, Cloud computing, and online and mobile customer interaction. The firm targets growth equity investments up to $50 million in rapidly growing companies, often as the first institutional investor. Trident also leads select venture investments based on its unique sector insight and expertise, founder and network…
Azalea Capital partners with entrepreneurs, management teams, and family-owned companies with revenues of at least $10 million. We provide growth capital, operating expertise, and industry experience to significantly enhance the long-term value of our investments. Azalea is a pro-active investor with a defined value creation strategy. In every investment, we partner with a proven industry executive to enhance our operationally focused approach. We invest in manufacturing, distribution, and business services companies in a variety of industries with a particular interest in the following…
Lafayette Mittelstand Capital is a privately held investment firm backed by its Partners and Institutions. Lafayette looks to make majority investments in companies in turnaround, restructuring and other special situations.We focus on companies with industry-leading market positions, strong brands or other unique, differentiating factors. Lafayette engages with private and family-owned businesses, subsidiaries of larger corporates and publicly listed companies. We like to look into acquiring companies with the following criteria - Sales between EUR 10 - 150m - Headquartered in Germany,…
We are business builders. We are dedicated to, and passionate about, finding differentiated companies and fundamentally improving them. We back this strategy with our own personal capital.Our approach starts with seeking opportunities to improve selected businesses within the lower middle market. It includes a willingness and ability to offer flexible and creative solutions to business owners looking for liquidity.Our process continues with due diligence focused on crafting tailored strategies to build winning businesses with strong growth prospects. We begin with an end in mind and exit when…
Montage Partners invests in established companies with EBITDA between $1.5 million and $7 million. Since inception in 2004, Montage Partners has invested in 19 companies across our five core sectors of focus: business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology. These 19 companies represent more than 1,700 employees and total greater than $395 million of combined revenue.We provide liquidity to those who have spent years of their life building great companies, we protect those companies through a transition of ownership and we support the next generation of a company’s…
Corridor Capital is a committed fund providing more than just investment capital to US-based lower middle market companies. We believe we are the most actively engaged lower middle market private equity partner across strategy, operations and finance. Corridor is able to provide an exceptional level of support for our portfolio companies through the combined efforts of our seasoned investment and dedicated in-house operations teams.Through our collaborative, highly active approach, we work alongside management to build the infrastructure and processes necessary to ensure sustainable scalable…
SAMSON INVESTMENT GROUP LLC is a Private Equity Firm specializing in early stage development and funding of a broad range of asset categories, including energy, technology, domestic and international real estate. Through an extensive network of strategic relationships developed over the past decade, Samson is able to facilitate a broad range of projects utilizing innovative investment strategies and transaction structures in order to prudently leverage our assets. Our management team of seasoned professionals represent over 100 years of experience in real estate, merchant banking, brokerage…
Balmoral is experienced in pursuing investment opportunities involving complex operational or financial challenges. We understand the significant commitment of time, resources, and professional turnaround experience required to unlock value within non-core, under-performing or distressed businesses. Accordingly, Balmoral helps creditors, workout groups, corporations with non-core assets, management teams seeking to buy businesses, ESOP trustees, receivers, company advisors and business-owners by providing equity infusions, acquiring non-core or challenged businesses, and/or recapitalizing…
Warren Equity Partners ("WEP") is a private equity firm that invests in small and middle market operating companies primarily in North America. WEP invests in established companies where additional capital and operating resources can accelerate growth. We are primarily targeting products and services companies in the infrastructure, industrial, and building sectors. WEP invests in the form of buyouts, growth equity, and recapitalizations. We are value-added investors with a strong emphasis on partnering with seasoned managers and operating executives. Importantly, we seek to generate return…
CapitalWorks is a family-focused private equity firm that encourages knowledgeable investors to partner with us in finding, vetting and owning companies. We acquire lower middle-market companies with earnings of $3 - $9 million in EBITDA and are east of the Rockies. Our investors are primarily successful entrepreneurs and executives who want to contribute to our investment process.
Mason Wells is a highly experienced and active private equity investor in companies with revenues of $25 million to $300 million. Since 1982, we have invested in over 50 companies in four specific industry sectors: engineered products and services; outsourced business services; packaging materials and converting; and consumer packaged goods.Mason Wells focuses on two key aspects of every transaction: 1) the management team and 2) opportunities to build and improve a business. We work in partnership with experienced, entrepreneurial management teams to implement our disciplined and proven…
Stone-Goff Partners invests in lower middle market service companies* EBITDA of $3-10 million* Founder owned businesses and corporate carve outs* First institutional capital in a companyStone-Goff is investing out of Stone-Goff Partners III, LP and has completed two initial platform investments out of the fund
Drum Capital is a specialized private equity firm focused on providing diversified and unsyndicated exposure to the North American lower middle markets, through primary fund investments, co-investments and direct investments.
Regal Healthcare Capital Partners is a NY-based private equity fund focused on investing in lower middle market healthcare providers, practices, and service providers. Our goal is to work with management to rapidly grow and scale their business. Our team at Regal brings a wealth of experience on both the finance (acquisitions, structuring deals, raising capital, exit planning) and healthcare operations side (growth and strategy, systems, processes, building out teams, contracting, revenue cycle).Regal was founded by Dr. David Kim and Jon Santemma. Dr. Kim has co-founded three different…
Lion Equity is a private investment firm focused on acquiring small to middle market businesses. Our investment strategy is centered on creating value in our portfolio companies through a combination of organic growth and add-on acquisitions. In addition to providing capital, Lion Equity's Principals and investors will leverage their strategic and operational expertise to build businesses that will create long-term value for all stakeholders. As a transaction partner, Lion Equity commits to:Completing due diligence in an efficient and non-disruptive mannerProviding sellers with a high…
Long Point Capital is a private equity fund with offices in Michigan and New York. With $315 million of capital under management, we focus on partnering with successful entrepreneurs of middle market businesses to help them achieve their financial goals, such as achieving liquidity, accessing growth capital, or accommodating generational change. Our leading investor is Masco Corporation, a publicly traded, Fortune 300 Company. Our strategic relationship with Masco differentiates us from other private equity investors in that our portfolio companies have access to certain Masco corporate…
