Top Aerospace & Defense Private Equity Funds

Northern Lakes Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Northern Lakes Capital makes control equity investments in leading family owned private companies with revenues typically ranging from $15 million to $150 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) between $3 million and $20 million. We will look at smaller companies as add-on acquisitions.

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• Apr 2026 Acquired Gary O’Brien Property Services
• Apr 2026 Acquired Collins Brothers Towing of St. Cloud
• Mar 2026 Acquired True Access Security
• Jan 2026 Acquired Cones & Barrells

Martis Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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With offices in Palo Alto, CA, and Washington, DC, CHSO is a private investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare and wellness industry. We target middle-market companies and growth situations in North America where our team has an edge in understanding the opportunity, performing due diligence and adding value post close. Our investment team possesses over 50 years of combined investment and medical experience, and leverages an extensive network of relationships with healthcare executives, clinicians, scientists and regulators. We provide flexible, patient capital in partnership…

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• Oct 2022 Invested in Alcanza Clinical Research
• Nov 2021 Invested in Lighthouse Lab Services
• Sep 2021 Acquired Community Based Care
• Nov 2020 Acquired DCN Dx

Mangrove Equity Partners

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Mangrove Equity Partners' founding principals enjoy a national reputation as uncommonly effective, fair, flexible and honorable partners to company owners and managers. We have the captive financial resources (including bridge capabilities) and deal experience to efficiently close transactions. We also have substantial operating experience and a collaborative approach to building value at the companies with whom we partner. Mangrove's three person internal operating team affords our fund the ability to help owner/operators maximize the value of their retained ownership, and allows Mangrove to…

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• Oct 2022 Invested in Atlas Greenhouse
• Feb 2022 Acquired STCR
• Dec 2021 Invested in Vintage Air
• Jan 2021 Invested in Seaside Waste Services

Silver Oak Services Partners, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Silver Oak Services Partners is a lower-middle market private equity firm focused exclusively on service businesses. We seek to partner with exceptional management teams to build industry leading business, consumer and healthcare service companies.Silver Oak utilizes a proactive, research-led investment process to identify attractive services sectors and seek out the best potential management teams and investment opportunities. We bring extensive services industry expertise and relationships to our investments and work closely with our management teams to drive long-term value creation.Silver…

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• Aug 2023 Acquired VASA Fitness
• Dec 2022 Acquired Vecta Environmental Services
• Dec 2020 Acquired Geriatric Medical
• Nov 2020 Acquired Launch Family Entertainment

Rockbridge Growth Equity

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Rockbridge Growth Equity is a Detroit-based private equity firm with a commitment to helping exceptional companies accelerate growth and build long-term, sustainable value for its stakeholders.Since 2007, Rockbridge has built a track record of success helping both burgeoning entrepreneurs and established businesses successfully navigate their next stage of growth. We believe in a relationship-based investment perspective that builds lasting strategic partnerships focused on long-term results.

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• Oct 2010 Acquired Protect America, Inc.
• Oct 2010 Acquired Quicken Loans Inc.
• Oct 2010 Acquired Ready Financial Group, Inc.
• Oct 2010 Acquired Rock Companies, LLC

Capitala Financial Advisors, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Capitala Group is an asset management firm that has been providing private credit and private equity capital to lower- and middle-market businesses throughout North America for over twenty years. Since our inception in 1998, Capitala has invested over $2.2 billion into small businesses and strives to make an impact through responsible investing and a unified mission to support social impact initiatives. We seek to partner with strong management teams to create value and support growth through strategic partnerships, operational expertise, and a shared vision for success.

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• Jan 2025 Provided debt financing to Newbury Franklin Industrials
• Dec 2024 Provided debt financing to The Stonewall Group
• Oct 2024 Invested in Stueve Construction, LLC
• Sep 2024 Acquired Better Car People

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Eureka Equity Partners, L.P.

25 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Eureka Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in and building niche-market leaders at the lower end of the middle market. Eureka’s core focus is partnering with exceptional management teams to acquire businesses with up to $100 million in revenue across industry segments in which Eureka brings significant experience and operating resources, including business services, health care services, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Eureka leads buyouts that bring significant ownership to the operators driving the success of the business. With this core principle…

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• Nov 2014 Acquired Jansy Packaging, LLC
• Feb 2013 Acquired West Academic Publishing
• Dec 2012 Invested in Creative Co-Op
• May 2011 Invested in Project Leadership Associates

Tonka Bay Equity Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Tonka Bay Equity Partners acquires and invests in small and midsized companies that are pursuing the next level of success. Our patient, personalized and collaborative approach has yielded superior returns for investors and management partners alike.Since 1998, Tonka Bay has raised more than $550 million of capital in four funds, composed of contributions from institutional investors, endowments, pensions, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. We seek to partner with and support management teams in established, profitable businesses that serve a specific niche. We do not consider…

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• Jan 2023 Acquired Corporate Technologies
• Jan 2022 Acquired Standard Locknut
• Jan 2021 Acquired Professional
• Jan 2021 Acquired Orange Tree

Harren Equity Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Harren Equity Partners is a Charlottesville, Virginia and Fort Lauderdale, Florida based private investment firmand leading provider of equity for middle market acquisitions, recapitalizations and growth capital financings. Harren professionals work with each portfolio company to develop and/or implement a strategic business plan, and we support management by providing the operational, financial and human resources necessary to manage the increasingly complicated decisions associated with growing a business. Harren's approach to private investment is significantly differentiated from the…

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• Apr 2022 Acquired Core States Group
• Jan 2022 Acquired A & A Transfer
• Aug 2021 Invested in Health Connect America
• Jun 2021 Acquired Alliance Ground International

Century Park Capital Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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CENTURY PARK CAPITAL PARTNERS is a middle market private equity investment group with capabilities to provide equity capital for growth, shareholder liquidiity or both. We typically invest $10 million to $40 million in profitable, growing middle-market companies with revenues ranging from $20 million to $100 million. We can make larger investments with the participation of our institutional limited partners. We are relationship-driven, long-term investors, partnering with owners and management to build industry-leading companies. We do not intrude in day to day operations, but rather seek to…

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Packaging Plus LLC
• Aug 2023 Acquired Becker Underwood Inc.
• Aug 2023 Acquired Hi-Tech Rubber Inc.
• Aug 2023 Acquired Aqua-Flo LLC

Ronin Equity Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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About Ronin Equity PartnersBased in New York City, Ronin Equity Partners represents a new type of investment firm, powered by an operationally-focused value creation strategy. Ronin makes control equity investments exclusively in the Industrial and Consumer sectors, where the team has prior investment and operating expertise. The group invests in market leaders with highly defensible market positions, strong demonstrated cash flows, and in situations where Ronin’s operating playbook can add value through enhanced systems, processes, and talent recruitment. The Ronin team embeds into each…

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• Sep 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Jun 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Sep 2023 Acquired North Country Packaging
• Apr 2023 Acquired Brewmation

Heartwood Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Heartwood Partners (formerly Capital Partner, Inc.) was formed in 1982. Since then, its principals have invested in more than seventy five companies. We believe in doing what we say we will do and being patient and disciplined investors who support exceptional management teams as they develop their businesses. On average, we have held our investments for over five years and have supported management through the acquisition of complimentary businesses. As supportive capital partners to exceptional management teams, together we have created substantial value.In January of 2014, we raised our…

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• Sep 2020 Acquired Patten Seed
• May 2020 Acquired MicroCare, LLC.
• Oct 2019 Acquired Allentown, Inc.
• Apr 2019 Acquired Universal Woods

Granite Creek Capital Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Granite Creek manages SBIC funds providing flexible debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies. Target check sizes are $15mm to $25mm (with flexibility to scale to $50mm+ with partners) with a focus on targets with $4mm to $12mm of EBITDA. We partner with management teams to help grow their businesses and be their institutional capital partner, even when we are in a minority position. We also partner with independent sponsors. Our capital is flexible and we can invest in a wide variety of debt (senior, subordinated, mezzanine) and equity securities (preferred, common, other) to…

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• Jan 2026 Invested in Confidential Company
• Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Nov 2024 Acquired Ritchie Industries
• Sep 2024 Acquired Global Animal Products

Kainos Capital

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Kainos Capital, a middle market private equity firm focused on the food and consumer sector, was recently formed by Andrew Rosen, Robert Sperry and Sarah Ashmore Bradley. The Kainos Partners have invested and collaborated together in the food and consumer space over the past 20 years and their deep industry knowledge is complimented by an experienced team of investment professionals.The Kainos Team has extensive investment and operating experience in the industry, having invested more than $2 billion of equity in more than 52 transactions in the food and consumer sector with a total…

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Good2Grow
• Feb 2023 Invested in CellCore
• Jan 2023 Acquired Evriholder
• Aug 2021 Acquired Muenster Milling Company

GenNx360 Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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GenNx360 is a private equity firm driving value through Operational Engagement and Investment Excellence.We invest exclusively in North America-based business-to-business middle market industrial services and manufacturing companies in fragmented markets having structural tailwinds and sustainable competitive advantages in sectors we know well. We provide the talent and expertise of our in-house operational talent and the expertise and transaction experience of our investment team. Together, we accelerate value creation.

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• Oct 2020 Acquired B2B Industrial Packaging
• Dec 2019 Acquired AeroRepair Corp.
• Sep 2019 Acquired Schneider Packaging Equipment
• Mar 2019 Acquired Miller Environmental Group

Artemis Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Artemis is a highly specialized private equity firm focused on partnering with differentiated Industrial Tech companies that contribute to a healthier, safer, and more productive world. Focusing exclusively on manufacturers of highly engineered products with mission-critical applications, Artemis' vision is to buy and build deeply impactful Industrial Tech businesses that enhance global health, security, and productivity.These products enable some of the most important technologies to serve the most pressing human demands: Diagnostic lab equipment enabling health &…

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• Nov 2025 Acquired Antenna Associates, Inc.
• Sep 2025 Acquired Millrock Technology
• Mar 2025 Acquired Athena AI
• Jan 2025 Acquired Richland Glass

ScaleCo Capital

21 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Investors Scaling Companies LocallyScaleCo Capital is a Cleveland-based lower middle market private equity firm that focuses on control-oriented leveraged buyout and growth equity investments in fast-growing companies based primarily in the Great Lakes region. ScaleCo partners with companies in the verticals of business services, tech-enabled services, value added distribution and assembly, and training, compliance, and education, bringing operational expertise and strategic resources to scale their growth potential and build long-term value.ScaleCo is the Proud Capital Investment Partner of…

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• Mar 2023 Acquired Safety Controls Technology
• Oct 2022 Acquired TPI Efficiency
• Apr 2021 Acquired InnoPlast
• Feb 2021 Acquired PSP Metrics

Excellere Partners

21 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Excellere Partners is a Denver-based private equity investment firm, specializing in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams - building enduring value with a spirit of partnership and excellence. With $2.3 billion of committed capital across its four funds, Excellere Partners employs a proven research-driven, top-down investment strategy, and supports its entrepreneurs and management teams with a proprietary value creation process designed to enhance corporate and operational infrastructure for scalability and growth. Excellere's investments are focused on emerging companies…

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• Feb 2019 Invested in SePRO
• Jan 2019 Invested in Concord TECHNOLOGIES
• Aug 2017 Invested in BioCare Medical
• Jun 2017 Invested in Medlogix

Montage Partners

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Montage Partners is a lower-middle-market private equity firm investing in established U.S. and Canadian companies with $1.5M–$7M of EBITDA.Since 2004, we have completed 20 platform investments (14 successfully exited, 6 current) across four core sectors: Industrial Products & Services, Technology & Professional Services, Consumer, and Healthcare. Our portfolio companies collectively represent more than 1,700 employees and $400M+ in combined revenue.Montage Partners manages $80M of capital with committed capital available to deploy in 2026. We specialize in founder liquidity and…

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• Aug 2024 Acquired Military Fasteners
• Jun 2022 Acquired RDD Associates
• Oct 2021 Acquired Solly Baby
• Apr 2020 Acquired United Right-Of-Way

Arcapita Group

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Arcapita is a global investment firm focused on middle-market private equity and real estate transactions, with offices in Atlanta, Bahrain, London, and Singapore.Over the past 20 years, Arcapita has completed over 70 investments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.Our flexible investment mandate and hold period allow for creative structuring solutions and the ability to partner with founders, executives, family offices, fundless sponsors, and institutional investors.

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• Jul 2025 Acquired C&K Paving
• Apr 2025 Acquired Trustpoint.One
• Jan 2022 Acquired Nationwide Property & Appraisal Services
• Dec 2019 Acquired Waste Harmonics