Transformational Capital for Industrial CompaniesAbout GatespanGatespan Capital Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused exclusively on the lower middle market industrial sector. We invest in North American headquartered manufacturing, services and distribution businesses serving industr…
Transformational Capital for Industrial Companies
About Gatespan
Gatespan Capital Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused exclusively on the lower middle market industrial sector. We invest in North American headquartered manufacturing, services and distribution businesses serving industrial end markets.
Founders John Malloy and Tim Heston bring more than 40 years of combined industrial investing experience from well-established middle market private equity firms including Industrial Growth Partners, Bertram Capital and The Edgewater Funds. Over our careers, we have collectively invested more than $2 billion of equity across 60+ transactions, spanning markets such as aerospace & defense, electrical infrastructure, flow control & filtration, industrial technology, and critical industrial services. Having worked together for nearly a decade prior to founding Gatespan, we pair the relationships and institutional acumen of a top-tier firm with the speed, flexibility, and direct principal engagement that business owners and their advisors rarely find at traditional PE firms.
Investment Strategy
We have a shared passion for helping lower middle market industrial businesses achieve transformational growth and value creation. We have spent our careers working alongside entrepreneurs and executives, and we deeply value the culture, teams, and businesses they have built. We pursue a buy-and-build strategy, acquiring well-positioned companies with differentiated capabilities in attractive, fragmented markets. We accelerate growth through add-on acquisitions, commercial expansion, operational improvement, and technology & AI deployment, alongside the management teams and cultures that made these businesses successful.
Investment Criteria
Target Size: Sales $10-$50M and EBITDA $2-$10M, with flexibility on size for addons
Transaction Structure: Preference for majority control investments, with seller rollover encouraged
Ownership Transitions: Founder, family and privately-owned businesses seeking liquidity, management transition, or strategic capital to drive transformational growth
Geography: United States and Canada
Investment Process - Certainty and Speed
Gatespan funds its transactions through established relationships with family offices and institutional capital partners. With two decision-making principals involved in each deal process, significant prior sector expertise in the opportunities that we pursue, and a disciplined, streamlined diligence process, we move quickly, engage directly, and stand behind the terms we agree to. We value our standing in the intermediary community and treat every process and every confidential situation with the utmost care, attention and integrity.
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Sectors Gatespan Capital Partners serves:
Manufacturing
Industrials
Materials
Business Services
Consumer Goods
Distribution
Technology
Energy & Utilities
Health Care
Retail
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