West Elk Partners is an independent sponsor based in Denver, Colorado. Our firm takes wholistic approach to life and business – one that doesn’t make you choose between what you value and the value you deserve. Our investment criteria helps us focus our efforts on what we do best: investing in people and stewarding extraordinary businesses:Investment typesRecapitalizationFamily successionFull buyoutAreas of focusFood and beverageLight / specialty manufacturingValue added DistributionConsumer productsService businesses
Learner Ltd is a private investment firm 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. While we prefer opportunities in South Central USA, we do have a global mandate. Our principals are successful entrepreneurs who have founded and sold businesses valued at over $100m.Wole Oluwole-Rotimi is an investment banking professional with a progressive career across equity capital markets, M&A, and leveraged…
The Kimberton Group is an independent sponsor focused on acquiring businesses with $0.5k-5M of EBITDA. The Kimberton Group's investors include family offices and a number of high net worth investors who have started, bought, and built highly successful businesses across the United States.
Black Sands is an investment firm that partners with small and medium-sized businesses in legacy industries with significant potential. We seek to drive growth through technology and aim to build high-performing and high-integrity teams with strong organizational cultures.
777 Partners is an investment firm focused on a broad spectrum of specialty finance businesses, asset originators and financial technology and services providers. The firm harnesses the acute insight and extensive experience of its people to identify and execute upon opportunities in esoteric and undercapitlized markets. Our overarching thesis is to incubate new ventures and to make control investments in businesses with scalable profiles and ambitious management teams operating in attractive markets. The value proposition we provide investors and stakeholders is 777’s ingenuity in…
Lavelle Investments is a family investment firm that supports businesses transitioning to the next phase of growth.We understand the importance of maintaining a company's reputation and culture, and we focus on preserving the family-feel that has been instrumental in building customer satisfaction and employee support over the years.With experience as both operators and investors, we bring robust analytical support to help the team drive sustainable, long-term growth and continued success.
Stallion Finance ("Horses not Unicorns") is a private equity firm that invests in and acquires small businesses with the goal of growing them through predefined strategic improvement initiatives. Our team of professional entrepreneurs utilize both private equity investment and hands-on operating expertise, to design and implement our proven operating playbook. We target tenured (no start-ups) companies generating between $0.5mm to $5mm of EBITDA. While we are industry agnostic, we have a particular focus on internet based, software or technology companies that are generating…
At Dark Alpha, our investment strategy revolves around acquiring and enhancing cash-generating companies within select sectors. As a nascent entity, we prioritize industries with significant growth potential including manufacturing, business services, health care, aerospace & defense, and industrial services.Thesis-Driven Investment StrategyOur in-house industry advisors identify industries poised for disruptive growth by studying macroeconomic factors, technological advancements, and regulatory changes. The selected thesis is further substantiated by examining industry reports,…
Loyal Companies is a PE company. We focus on strategic partnerships, acquisitions and opportunities. We help founders unlock the growth potential of their companies. We focus on providing a strong management team, and operation expertise that help our companies reach untapped potential. With our deep technology experience, we are able to provide and help with the ideal customer experience, product management and the people with in the business.
True Vines is helping finance businesses positively impacting the world in the midst of what we consider a massive shift. Our focus is particularly on businesses empowering the global digital transformation. We have mandates in the US and Africa with public and private sector stakeholders.
Nima Asset Management LLC was formed in 2008 to identify and purse direct special situation investments. The Founder of Nima has extensive experience across a range of industries and financing types. We have several active projects underway. We actively seek value added co-investors.
608 Partners represents the majority owner of Blooma Tree Experts, a residential-focused tree services company in Seattle, Washington. The President & team of 608 Partners & Blooma Tree Experts is always open to acquiring well-run tree services businesses with great quality standards, clean safety record, and an established history.
Newgate Capital Holdings is a diversified financial services platform. We provide funding, advisory and investment banking services to small and medium sized clients. Our finance unit provides consumer, commercial and real estate lending products. Our advisory unit offers banking, acquisition, restructuring and asset management consulting services. We provide a full suite of services for buy-side and sell-side investment banking needs as well.
Digital Foundry Ventures, LLC is a NY based venture, growth and buyout equity firm that focuses on investing in great businesses that are on the cusp of accelerated growth. Our objective is to create exponential value by establishing digital leaders in sector that benefit disproportionately from advanced technology. We look beyond transactional investing and focus on transformational investing.
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…
Rainmaker provides transaction due diligence services including outsourced underwriting reviews and the performance of project feasibility studies for issuers, business planning and plan development, offering disclosures and marketing program strategies and consulting.
ETFx Investment Partners offers investment and professional services based on our research of themes rooted in the confluence of long-term forces interlinking population, energy, food and water.
Operating principal of equity backed investment and management group. We are searching for our next acquisition to own and manage. Preference is Texas or Southwestern U.S. and Colorado. However, we would investigate an acquisition candidate elsewhere in the Lower 48 U.S. states given the right scaable opportunity.
Mont & Co. is a lower middle market sponsor that looks for profitable companies or brands valued between $10 million and $100 million with readily available opportunities to improve ESG health scores. We try and answer the following four questions in applying ESG principles to our investments: 1. Is the company measuring it’s ESG health in the following areas: water consumption, carbon footprint, diversity and inclusion of management and employee base? 2. Is the company disclosing the information by reporting and publishing the data? 3. Is the…
Autokatalyst is a New York-based digital transformation and technology enablement firm, focused on making control investments in digitally-native businesses (SaaS, tech-enabled services, business process automation firms) and businesses in traditionally non-digital industries where it has identified opportunities for specialized process automation technologies to generate significant value creation and growth acceleration.Uniquely situated as value-add investors, we combine capital investment with a bottom-up approach of applying transformative technologies across a firm. Our experience spans…
