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…
Bluestar Holdings, LLC (“Bluestar”) is a private investment firm founded to identify and invest in private lower middle-market growth-oriented companies and real estate assets. We seek to partner with privately held companies to address capital requirements, succession plans, and liquidity/diversification needs. Our goal is to bring our experience as operators and investment professionals to management teams and provide executive guidance to realize a combined vision. Our founding members have over 70 years of combined management, ownership, and private equity experience.
Paisley Capital is a private investment partnership between two experienced operating and finance professionals. Paisley invests in small- to medium-sized businesses located in the upper Midwest.
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…
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.
Wherewithal Partners Inc. is a private investment firm focused on niche cash-generative businesses in out-of-favour, mis-understood and under-appreciated industries / sectors with a primary focus on opportunities in Canada, in addition to opportunities in the United States.
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.
Fox River Capital is led by Jason Salisbury, Managing Partner and a seasoned business leader with a proven track record of success in engineering sales, industrial services, and business ownership. Jason’s extensive experience includes founding, growing, and successfully exiting a company, as well as managing operations and sales for high-performing industrial businesses. His hands-on approach and strategic vision drive Fox River Capital’s mission to create lasting value for all stakeholders.Backed by a group of established business leaders who own and manage substantial companies, we…
Mayfair is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We plan to work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders. Â
Grady Bay Capital (GBC) is a founder-friendly family office making investments in middle-market companies. We partner with founders, entrepreneurs, families and management teams to build and accelerate lasting value with shareholders and stakeholders alike. Our goal is to win together, and to help you achieve near-term liquidity as well as create a significant second bite of the apple. We focus on igniting profitable growth, making accretive acquisitions and further professionalizing the business making it “investment grade” vs a “lifestyle” business. We position for a second bite…
Greywing Capital is an independent sponsor firm focused on making a select few acquisitions in a narrow set of consumer sectors. We're targeting EBITDA of $2-$15M and taking a hypothesis-first approach.Greywing is founded by Neil Houghton, Jr. Neil was formerly a partner at Boston Consulting Group in the consumer practice, and also an Associate at Bain Capital in the consumer LBO group.
Occur Capital is an investment firm led by entrepreneurs focused on acquiring, operating and continuing the legacy of SMBs with up to $10M in annual revenue
Blue Sky Finance is a US-based corporation representing the interests of a foreign conglomerate with over 30 years of experience and success in a wide variety of industries, ranging from cashmere fashionwear to real estate development, construction, mining, banking, snack food&beverage import/export, and tourism. As such, we are able to capitalize on full access to industry specialists, including consultants, managers, and directors who are able to provide and deliver expertise and knowledge in the industries we seek to serve. We are committed to seeking out investment opportunities,…
We are a team of serial entrepreneurs with a refreshing perspective on business. We ditched the suits and ties and prefer to think outside the box. Expect board meetings to be replaced with chairlift meetings and mundane TPS reports with creative executive collaboration.
Mossbridge Capital Partners strategically invests in a wide variety of alternative investments. From direct acquisitions, strategic partnerships and growth capital for operating companies, to financing third party needs and creative debt structures, Mossbridge Capital’s specialized expertise and opportunistic approach combined with their ability to source opportunities through an extensive network of industry professionals provide it with unrivaled opportunity within the Southeast.
Golden East Investors (GEI) is a real estate investment firm that invests capital on behalf of its own account and on behalf of institutional partners.The GEI team has decades of experience sourcing, acquiring, asset managing and realizing real estate investments throughout the continental United States. We pride ourselves on identifying value where others can't and solving for complex capital structures.
SMG Partners seeks to acquire a platform company having evaluated several businesses across food & beverage, wellness, commercial services, and home services industries. We lean on our prior experience in private equity and as an operating partners to bring capital into small businesses.Â
