Top Air Freight & Logistics Independent Sponsors with Recent Private M&A Activity

968

Active Firms

25,166

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$15M

Core Revenue Range

$600K-$3M

Core EBITDA Range

Top States by Activity

Florida 13%

Texas 12%

California 10%

New York 7%

New Jersey 4%

Key Attributes

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Deal-By-Deal Financing | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

Kairos Capital Group

5 Total Closed Deals

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About:Kairos Companies is a firm established in 2018 dedicated to owning and operating family-owned businesses across the United States. At Kairos, we take pride in providing creative solutions for business owners in need of a transition. Beyond the initial transaction, Kairos constantly strives to provide the best home for our businesses. With an indefinite investment horizon, Kairos acts as a family for our companies: nurturing growth, mentoring managers, and maintaining the outstanding legacy of the founding family.The Greeks had two words for time: “chronos” and…

Recent Transactions

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Aug 2019 Acquired Clements Environmental Services
Jun 2019 Acquired A-1 Saw & Tool
May 2019 Acquired Farr's Custom Carbide
Mar 2019 Acquired Daily Saw Service

Circe Capital

5 Total Closed Deals

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Circe Capital is a Boston-based holding company focused small to medium sized service-oriented businesses. We partner with founders and owner-operators, and care deeply about the companies they have built.

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Apr 2023 Acquired Cruise Travel Accessories Company
Feb 2023 Acquired Children's Book Publisher
Sep 2022 Acquired Car Care & Detailing Products Company
Jun 2022 Acquired Nursery and Baby Accessory Company

DeNovo Partners

5 Total Closed Deals

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At DeNovo Partners, we are stewards of great businesses. This is our passion and our singular pursuit. We do so through a steadfast commitment to partnership, patience, quality, and long-term planning.DeNovo Partner is vertical-agnostic but has particular strength in disrupting mature industries through innovation. We feel that technological advances particularly in data analytics, automation and predictive modeling create an innovation opportunity in any industry whereas they have universal application. Furthermore, the social-media-driven evolution of the consumer mindset and empowerment…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Saucy Chicken
Aug 2023 Acquired Cuatro Communications
Aug 2023 Acquired Mama Gaia
Aug 2023 Acquired Experiencia

RTC Partners

4 Total Closed Deals

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RTC Partners is a private investment firm that specializes in building middle market growth platforms. Together with management partners, we build market-leading companies through a combination of acquisitive and organic growth, while establishing highly professionalized corporate infrastructures that are capable of scaling organizations to the next level. Our strategies focus on high-growth niches of professional, business, and healthcare services industries.

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Aug 2023 Acquired Verdantas
Aug 2023 Acquired Anser Advisory
Aug 2023 Acquired Lumina Vision Partners
Feb 2023 Acquired The Ardurra Group

Exonas Capital

4 Total Closed Deals

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Exonas Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in high-quality businesses that have reached strategic, operational, or financial inflection points and stand to benefit from our proven value creation playbook irrespective of the prevailing economic environment. We are focused on four key sectors, including the niche consumer, business services (including SaaS and DaaS), industrials, and non-reimbursement-based healthcare services sectors. Our mandate is flexible and we can invest in a wide variety of transactions, including founder and family-owned companies, corporate…

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Jun 2025 Acquired VFG Advisory
Nov 2021 Acquired TeleGeography
Jan 2021 Acquired Seybert's Billiards Supply
May 2020 Acquired Apartment Guardian

F2H Capital

4 Total Closed Deals

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F2H Capital Group operates a diverse portfolio that includes four distinct businesses: two pharmacies, a real estate development company, and a mortgage company. In addition to these business ventures, the group has a significant presence in the real estate sector, owning $135 million worth of multifamily and mixed-use properties in New York and Texas.F2H Capital Group is seeking to acquire the following companies:Business Characteristics· Founder-owned, entrepreneurial, growth-oriented business· Meaningful management team…

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Apr 2023 Acquired Clear Rate Mortgage
Apr 2019 Acquired Hasanov Capital
Sep 2016 Acquired Clear Pharmacy
Feb 2013 Acquired Crystal Pharmacy

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Bearing Partners

4 Total Closed Deals

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Bearing Partners is an independent financial sponsor that invests in lower middle-market companies. We seek to invest in businesses $1M to $8M of EBITDA with a strong management team and the potential for significant growth. We prefer to partner with the management team or founder(s) in control investments in industries including consumer products and services, business services, oil & gas, technology, industrial & manufacturing, etc. We have a low leverage approach in structuring transactions and no required hold period which allows for flexibility for each specific situation.

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Oct 2024 Invested in Blue Frog, LLC
Nov 2023 Acquired 7-2-11
Nov 2022 Acquired JR's Country Stores
Nov 2021 Acquired Newton Crouch Company, LLC

Hemingway Capital

3 Total Closed Deals

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Hemingway Capital is an operationally oriented investment firm that specializes in growing lower middle-market industrial companies. We offer creative, flexible capital and deep operating experience to optimize and grow our partner companies. We invest in fundamentally sound businesses possessing a competitive advantage, recurring demand for products or services, and favorable macro trends. We stand beside management teams, family businesses, and business owners as a preferred investor in lower middle market industrial businesses that adds value beyond capital.

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Feb 2022 Acquired GTA Containers, Inc.
Mar 2021 Acquired Vege Labs, LLC
Oct 2019 Acquired Maid O' Mist

Chelsea Square Partners

3 Total Closed Deals

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We are a fundless sponsor based out of New York City that invests in services, distribution and manufacturing businesses below $10 million in transaction value. We are open to owner operator transactions, partnership deals, or deals requiring full management replacements (which we accomplish by placing operators from our proprietary network). To date, we have closed 4 transactions and look to close 2-3 a year going forward. Our main talents are institutionalizing people, processes and systems and focusing on areas for longer term growth as we look to build out solid organizations to scale.

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Jan 2025 Acquired Rescue Cesspool & Drain
Jan 2023 Acquired US Restoration
Jan 2022 Acquired Peliguard

Scooter Partners LLC

3 Total Closed Deals

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Founded in 2022, Scooter Partners LLC (SCOOTER) is an investment and advisory firm primarily focused on helping U.S. based start-ups and lower middle market companies succeed and grow. SCOOTER has the experience, expertise, creativity, and resources to provide sound guidance, help solve problems, and furnish smart solutions for opportunities that other investors may deem unappealing due to their smaller size, complexity, or difficulty. We are flexible in our approach to making an investment, providing advice, or helping raise capital so that it best fits the needs of all parties involved.

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Jan 2025 Acquired Mid-Michigan Canvas & Awning
Dec 2024 Acquired Royal Oak Birmingham Awning Company
May 2024 Acquired Belle Isle Awning Company

Rockaway Securities

3 Total Closed Deals

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Rockaway Securities is a privately-held boutique investment company. We aim to invest in both public and private securities, such as the investment in quality stocks, the acquisition of small-businesses, financing startup companies, leading commercial real estate ventures, and more. Rockaway will raise the investment capital, and in some cases, the debt financing, to acquire ownership stakes in private security offerings. Rockaway seeks to find valuable investment opportunities that their investors will see great returns and meaningful asset value over the ownership term of the…

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Nov 2022 Acquired Winslow Storage
Jul 2022 Invested in Bulwark Risk Management
Feb 2018 Acquired Express Waste Removal

West Allen Capital

3 Total Closed Deals

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West Allen Capital is a private equity firm supported by family office capital that makes control equity investments in family owned businesses in the lower middle market between $2 and $5mm of EBITDA. We seek to partner with strong management teams to generate systematic growth for our portfolio companies and create value for our investors.

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Aug 2023 Acquired Ruscoe
Aug 2023 Acquired Stealth Manufacturing Inc.
Oct 2018 Acquired M&RR

Monroe Street Partners

3 Total Closed Deals

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Based in Chicago, IL, MSP is an operationally focused investment firm formed to acquire family and founder-runbusinesses across the business services, niche manufacturing, and industrial sectors with EBITDAbetween $2MM-$10MM. Since its inception in 2022, MSP has completed seven acquisitions (three platforms and fouradd-on investments) across various of our target industries.

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Jun 2024 Acquired American Roadway Logistics
Aug 2023 Acquired Brandito
Feb 2023 Acquired Vigilnet

Dark Alpha Capital LLC

3 Total Closed Deals

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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,…

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May 2021 Acquired Confidential Company
Nov 2020 Acquired Confidential Company
May 2020 Acquired Blackbox Systems and Technologies LLC

Bridgefield Capital

3 Total Closed Deals

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Bridgefield provides simplified, one-stop shop capital solutions to middle market companies. Through both debt and equity capital solutions, we help entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams accomplish their goals—whether their goals are to achieve liquidity, to diversify their personal wealth, facilitate management buyouts and/or pursue growth and acquisition financing.Since 2006, we are proud to have facilitated more than 100 transactions (credit and equity) representing more than $1 billion in transaction value across industries including manufacturing, technology, consumer…

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Aug 2022 Acquired Avaloq Outline
Mar 2022 Acquired SPS
Feb 2020 Acquired QDQ Group

Tushar

3 Total Closed Deals

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TM Holdings is a private investment firm that seeks investment opportunities alongside great management teams. Our goal is to invest in companies with competitive dynamics that drive long-term value.While markets change and the universe of investment opportunities continually evolves, our investment criteria remains the same. We target equity investments in privately-held businesses that are ripe for disruption. We prefer to invest alongside management teams who want to maintain an active role, or who are open to a succession plan. While every investment requires a significant amount of…

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Dec 2022 Invested in Mirakl
Nov 2021 Invested in Savage X Fenty
Jun 2021 Acquired Harbor Family Orthodontics

Thoroughbred

3 Total Closed Deals

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Thoroughbred is a Denver-based private equity sponsor providing capital and creativity to support relentlessly driven management teams. We partner with lower middle market companies, offering operational expertise, strategic insight, and valuable relationships to build enduring businesses. We leverage our experience as both operators and investors to be effective partners, knowing when to step up and when to step back, empowering management to create exceptional value.

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Aug 2022 Invested in Oxbow Crush
Sep 2020 Invested in Redeux Energy
Aug 2020 Invested in Willow Glen Terminal

Fox River Capital LLC

2 Total Closed Deals

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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…

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Aug 2025 Acquired Dehumidifier Corporation of America
Dec 2024 Acquired Becker Boiler

Fourth Exit

2 Total Closed Deals

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After spending 15 years in enabling small to medium sizes businesses in revenue generation, Fourth Exit is now venturing into SaaS enterprise acquisitions. Looking to acquire a SaaS business with $1M-$5M acquisition cost.

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Jul 2021 Advised Afterpay in its sale to Block
Jun 2018 Advised Magento in its sale to Adobe Systems Inc.

21 Hilton Holdings Inc

2 Total Closed Deals

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Real estate operator and developer that has expanded into the home services and property services industry. Acquired a residential garage door servicing and installation company generating $1M EBITDA. Also looking at home restoration (water) and asphalt repair/maintenance.

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Aug 2023 Acquired AUSTIN SFR & LAND PORTFOLIO
Aug 2023 Acquired DURHAM 10-ACRE DEVELOPMENT SITE

Firms in the Air Freight & Logistics Independent Sponsors directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Air Freight & Logistics Independent Sponsors is $3M-$15M, with a core EBITDA range of $600K-$3M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

Relevant Industrials experience can be an important consideration when evaluating a firm. Familiarity with the sector can provide a stronger understanding of its business models, market dynamics, valuation considerations, and transaction environment. The 968 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Industrials.

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Air Freight & Logistics Independent Sponsors directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Industrials, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

When comparing Independent Sponsors with experience in Industrials, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 968 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

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